· Private foundation
First Citizens Foundation Inc Co First
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k19 grants · $109k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $352k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF SC EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| RICHLAND COUNTY SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $33,333 |
| GREENWOOD GENETIC CENTER | $30,000 |
| COLUMBIA MUSEM OF ART | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| DORCHESTER HERITAGE CENTER | $17,500 |
| UNITED WAY OF ANDERSON COUNTY | $16,500 |
| BEST NC | $15,000 |
| CHARLESTON DAY SCHOOL INC | $15,000 |
| PIEDMONT TECHNICAL COLLEGE FDN | $15,000 |
| SUMMERVILLE PARKS FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| MCLEOD HEALTH FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| THE SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| The Pendleton Foundation for Black Histo | $10,000 |
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, $397k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 82% 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.
51 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 21 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $186k 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
NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $500k · revenue +72%- SFSPOLETO FESTIVAL USA INC5× · 2020–2024 · $155k · revenue +102%
University of South Carolina Educational Foundation2× · 2023–2025 · $145k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF SC EDUCATIONAL FOUNDone grant, 2021 · $90k
- CMCOLUMBIA MUSEUM OF ARTgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue +44%
- FCFOOTHILLS COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +61%
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.
Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.
The south carolina council on competitiveness is a nonpartisan, business-led non-profit organization committed to advancing the long term competitiveness of south carolina through actionable research, support of industry clusters and…
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.
Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.
Sc economics is the only sc non-profit organization exclusively dedicated to improving economic education and financial literacy by preparing teachers and students to be active, successful, and prosperous members of our global economy.
Communityworks is a publicly supported organization and certified community development financial institution that provides funding to promote affordable housing and community development to help stabilize low wealth families and…
Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse
Inspiring philanthropy and strengthening our region through innovative community initiatives and quality services to donors and constituents.
Providing leadership to enhance the quality of life in greenwood through strategic long-term vision and collaborative community development initiatives.
Our mission is to foster economic development in underserved communities by providing capital, business services, and policy research to support small businesses.
Promoting and protecting the free private and competitive enterprise system through research and education.
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The School Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Robert S and Vivian I Johnson Found. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% 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.
93 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. 93 of the 134 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 NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA INC ↗
- Who funds University of South Carolina Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Camp Cole Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds WELVISTA ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds HOME WORKS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds MCLEOD HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA BUSINESS LEADERS FOR EDUC ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON DAY SCHOOLINC ↗
- Who funds BENEDICT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Midlands Housing Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Northeastern Technical College Foundation ↗
- Who funds CLAFLIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS ↗
- Who funds GREENWOOD GENETIC CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DICKERSON CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKGREEN GARDENS ↗
- Who funds Morris College ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF GREENVILLE ↗
- Who funds THE GOVERNOR'S SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREENWOOD COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VISION TO LEARN ↗
- Who funds THE GREENWOOD PROMISE LLC ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON INTERFAITH MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FOOTHILLS COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE INC ↗
- Who funds THE LANDER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREENWOOD PATHWAY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FOOTHILLS AREA YMCA ↗
- Who funds United Way of Midland County ↗
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: Central Carolina Community Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Davis Family Foundation Inc · Truist Foundation Inc · Michael J Mungo Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · Spartanburg County Foundation · Lipscomb Family 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 First Citizens Foundation Inc Co First 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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