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Falk-Griffin Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $57k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEACH MY PEOPLE | $57,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $12,848 |
| ALLIANCE BIBLE FELLOWSHIP CHURCH | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,796 |
| CALL2DISCIPLE | $5,000 |
| SAMARITANS PURSE | $5,000 |
| BROOKGREEN GARDENS | $4,050 |
| WACCAMAW HIGH SCHOOL WAVE | $2,500 |
| PAWLEYS ISLAND FESTIVE OF MUCIS & ART | $2,500 |
| ETV ENDOWMENT OF SC | $1,500 |
| BIRTHRIGHT OF GEORGETOWN | $1,057 |
| CONNIE MAXWELL CHILDREN'S HOME | $1,000 |
| PALMETTO FAMILY COUNCIL | $1,000 |
| WACCAMAW MIDDLE SCHOOL PTA | $1,000 |
| YMCA OF COASTAL CAROLINA | $528 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- TMTEACH MY PEOPLE6× · 2020–2025 · $232k · revenue +92%
- BGBROOKGREEN GARDENS6× · 2020–2025 · $56k · revenue +65%
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE4× · 2020–2025 · $20k · revenue +106%
Funded once
- FEFLORIDA EXOTIC BIRD SANCTUARY INCone grant, 2021 · $7k · revenue -2%
- WHWaccamaw High School ABCone grant, 2023 · $3k
- LPLowcountry Prep Schoolone grant, 2023 · $2k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
South carolina christian foundation exists to disciple the hearts of individuals toward biblical stewardship and proactive philanthropy in order to transform communities and advance the kingdom of god.
The purpose of wofford college is to function as a liberal arts institution of superior quality. its chief concern is the development of an intellectual, spiritual, and aesthetic atmosphere in which serious and inquiring minds of students…
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
SMC Delivers an exceptional education that fuses the empowerment of the liberal arts with crucial career skills. Our mission is to equip our students with the knowledge, skills, virtues, and mindset needed to thrive personally, create…
The south carolina policy council was founded in 1986 as an independent, private, non-partisan research organization to promote the principles of limited government, free enterprise, and individual liberty and responsibility in the state…
Christian teaching and the spreading of the gospel throughout the beaufort south carolina area.
Southern wesleyan university is a christ-centered, student-focused learning community devoted to transforming lives by challenging students to be dedicated scholars and servant-leaders who impact the world for christ.
Scicu seeks to advance higher education in south carolina through fundraising, scholarships, research, as well as facilitating collaborative activities among the member institutions. scicu also enhances a positive public image and…
To unify christians in south carolina by connecting commerce and community to positively impact our culture for christ.
Carolina college of biblical studies exists to disciple christ-followers, through biblical higher education, for a lifetime of effective servant leadership.
Promoting and protecting the free private and competitive enterprise system through research and education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connie Maxwell Children's Ministries and the most unlike its peers is Students in the Word Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 40 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds TEACH MY PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds BROOKGREEN GARDENS ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds ETV Endowment of South Carolina Inc ↗
- Who funds COASTAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PAWLEYS ISLAND FESTIVAL OF MUSIC AND ART INC ↗
- Who funds Palmetto Family Council ↗
- Who funds Students in the Word Inc ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA EXOTIC BIRD SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds Birthright of Georgetown Inc ↗
- Who funds Connie Maxwell Children's Ministries ↗
- Who funds WACCAMAW INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL PTO ↗
- Who funds SMITH MEDICAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds RESTORE ADDICTION RECOVERY ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds A Father's Place ↗
- Who funds WACCAMAW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SOUTH COAST LACROSSE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF COASTAL CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHAS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Litchfield Beautification Foundation ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Frances P Bunnelle Foundation Coastal Community Foundation of Sc · The K Foundation · South Carolina Christian Foundation · Waccamaw Community Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Central Carolina Community Foundation · The Laura E DuPont Foundation · Georgetown Hospital System · Georgetown Memorial Hospital · First Citizens Foundation Inc Co First · International Paper Company Foundation · American Endowment Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Falk-Griffin Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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