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First Citizens Foundation Inc Co First

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$562k
Granted FY2025still arriving
42
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.5MEducation$1.1MHuman Services$437kHealth$318kPhilanthropy$214kHousing & Shelter$178kCommunity Improvement$165kFood & Nutrition$56kOther$0
02FY2025 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k19 grants · $109k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $352k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
CHARLESTON DAY SCHOOL INC$15,000
BEST NC$15,000
PIEDMONT TECHNICAL COLLEGE FDN$15,000
MCLEOD HEALTH FOUNDATION$12,500
SUMMERVILLE PARKS FOUNDATION$12,500
South Carolina Governors School For$10,000
The Pendleton Foundation for Black Histo$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%YMCA OF GREENVILLE: $13k → 10%Anderson Interfaith Ministries: $10k → 15%FOOTHILLS AREA YMCA: $25k → 17%Anderson Interfaith Ministries: $10k → 15%HOUSE OF HOPE OF THE PEE DEE: $10k → 20%YMCA OF COSTAL CAROLINA: $10k → 13%ANDERSON INTERFAITH MINISTRIES: $10k → 15%CAMP COLE FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 16%TRENT HILL CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIE: $8k → 21%YMCA OF COSTAL CAROLINA: $10k → 13%THE CHAMPIONS CENTER: $5k → 15%Camp Cole Foundation Inc: $25k → 16%THE GREENWOOD PROMISE: $10k → 18%TRENT HILL CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIE: $8k → 21%Berkeley Citizens Inc: $10k → 9%CLIFF'S RESIDENTS OUTREACH: $5k → 10%THE CHAMPIONS CENTER: $5k → 15%CAMP COLE FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 16%THE GREENWOOD PROMISE: $10k → 18%THE CHAMPIONS CENTER: $5k → 15%Home Works Of America: $15k → 16%MIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES INC: $7k → 10%Home Works Of America: $15k → 16%THE GREENWOOD PROMISE: $10k → 18%YMCA OF GREENVILLE: $18k → 10%MIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES INC: $7k → 10%Ymca Of Greenville: $5k → 10%MIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES INC: $7k → 10%Home Works of America Inc: $20k → 16%Home Works of America Inc: $15k → 16%Home Works of America Inc: $10k → 16%WILEY KENNEDY FOUNDATION INC: $20k → 16%FAMILY PROMISE OF THE MIDLANDS INC: $10k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.1M · 51 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
59

Total granted

$3.1M
$920k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+15%

Still filing today

82%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $186k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHealthHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $500k · revenue +72%
  • SF
    SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $155k · revenue +102%
  • University of South Carolina Educational Foundation
    2× · 2023–2025 · $145k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF SC EDUCATIONAL FOUND
    one grant, 2021 · $90k
  • CM
    COLUMBIA MUSEUM OF ARTgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue +44%
  • TL
    THE LANDER FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +116%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Sc Chamber of Commerce

Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.

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2
South Carolina Council On Competitiveness

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…

Community Improvement
3
Greenville College

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.

Education
4
Columbia College

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.

Education
5
South Carolina Council On Economic Education

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.

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6
Communityworks Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
7
South Carolina Network of Children's Advocacy Centers

Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse

Youth Development
8
Foundation for the Carolinas

Inspiring philanthropy and strengthening our region through innovative community initiatives and quality services to donors and constituents.

Philanthropy
9
Foundation for a Greater Greenwood County Inc

Providing leadership to enhance the quality of life in greenwood through strategic long-term vision and collaborative community development initiatives.

Philanthropy
10
Carolina Small Business Development Fund

Our mission is to foster economic development in underserved communities by providing capital, business services, and policy research to support small businesses.

Public Benefit
11
South Carolina Business & Industry Political Education Committee

Promoting and protecting the free private and competitive enterprise system through research and education.

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12
Carolina Family Health Centers Inc

Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The School Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

93 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
93/93
Grantees still filing
51/93
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NC MUSEUM OF ART: $500,000 · OtherNC MUSEUM OF ARTRICHLAND COUNTY SCHOOL: $110,000 · OtherRICHLAND COUNTY SCHOOLUNIVERSITY OF SC EDUCATIONAL FOUND: $90,333 · OtherSOUTH CAROLINA GOVERNOR'S SCHOOL FOR THE: $80,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $66,666 · Other+64 more: $1,032,483 · Other+64 moreNORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION: $500,000 · Arts & CultureNORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM…SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA INC: $155,000 · Arts & CultureSPOLETO FESTIVAL USA …COLUMBIA MUSEUM OF ART: $75,000 · Arts & CultureCOLUMBIA MUSEUM OF AR…GREENVILLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS: $45,000 · Arts & CultureGREENVILLE CENTER FOR…+4 more: $45,000 · Arts & Culture+4 moreUniversity of South Carolina Educational Foundation: $145,167 · EducationUniversity of S…NORTH CAROLINA BUSINESS LEADERS FOR EDUC: $60,000 · EducationNORTH CAROLINA …CHARLESTON DAY SCHOOLINC: $52,500 · EducationCHARLESTON DAY …CLAFLIN UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · EducationCLAFLIN UNIVERS…BENEDICT COLLEGE: $50,000 · EducationBENEDICT COLLEG…Morris College: $35,000 · EducationMorris CollegeCHARLESTON SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY: $30,000 · EducationLIBERTY STEAM CHARTER SCHOOL: $20,000 · EducationFriends and Foundation of Richland Library: $20,000 · EducationTRI-COUNTY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Education+9 more: $93,500 · Education+9 moreThe Camp Cole Foundation Inc: $125,000 · Human ServicesThe Camp Col…HOME WORKS OF AMERICA INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesHOME WORKS O…YMCA OF GREENVILLE: $35,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF GREE…ANDERSON INTERFAITH MINISTRIES: $30,000 · Human ServicesANDERSON INT…THE GREENWOOD PROMISE LLC: $30,000 · Human ServicesTHE GREENWOO…FOOTHILLS AREA YMCA: $25,000 · Human ServicesFOOTHILLS AR…MIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES INC: $20,001 · Human ServicesWILEY KENNEDY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF COASTAL CAROLINA: $20,000 · Human ServicesTrent Hill Center for Children & Families: $16,666 · Human Services+7 more: $70,000 · Human Services+7 moreWELVISTA: $106,000 · HealthMCLEOD HEALTH FOUNDATION: $69,167 · HealthGREENWOOD GENETIC CENTER INC: $40,000 · HealthVISION TO LEARN: $30,000 · HealthFOOTHILLS COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE INC: $25,000 · HealthMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $15,000 · HealthCENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyThe Lancaster County Partners for Youth: $20,000 · PhilanthropyTRIDENT UNITED WAY: $15,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS: $12,000 · PhilanthropyROBERT S AND VIVIAN I JOHNSON FOUND: $10,000 · PhilanthropyTHE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyGREENWOOD COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · Community ImprovementCORNER RENAISSANCE: $20,000 · Community ImprovementTHE CATALYST FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Community ImprovementPink & Green Community Service Foundation Inc: $10,000 · Community ImprovementNORTHSIDE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10,000 · Community ImprovementDillon Community Alliance: $10,000 · Community ImprovementMETANOIA: $7,500 · Community ImprovementDORCHESTER BAY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $7,500 · Community Improvement
Other$1,879,482Arts & Culture$820,000Education$576,167Human Services$466,667Health$285,167Philanthropy$142,000Community Improvement$115,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSPOLETO FESTIVAL USA INC: $155,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetUniversity of South Carolina Educational Foundation: $145,167 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Camp Cole Foundation Inc: $125,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetWELVISTA: $106,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBIA MUSEUM OF ART: $75,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetHOME WORKS OF AMERICA INC: $75,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetMCLEOD HEALTH FOUNDATION: $69,167 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA BUSINESS LEADERS FOR EDUC: $60,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetCHARLESTON DAY SCHOOLINC: $52,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCLAFLIN UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMidlands Housing Alliance Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNortheastern Technical College Foundation: $50,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetCENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBENEDICT COLLEGE: $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREENVILLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS: $45,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetDICKERSON CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $40,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetGREENWOOD GENETIC CENTER INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYMCA OF GREENVILLE: $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBROOKGREEN GARDENS: $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMorris College: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GOVERNOR'S SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetVISION TO LEARN: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetANDERSON INTERFAITH MINISTRIES: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGREENWOOD COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCHARLESTON SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GREENWOOD PROMISE LLC: $30,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LANDER FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA ADVOCATES FOR AGRICULTURE: $25,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetGREENWOOD PATHWAY HOUSE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetSUMMERVILLE PARKS FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetWOFFORD COLLEGE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOTHILLS AREA YMCA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFOOTHILLS COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUnited Way of Midland County: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES INC: $20,001 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLIBERTY STEAM CHARTER SCHOOL: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMIDLANDS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFriends and Foundation of Richland Library: $20,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetTHE CATALYST FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetHomeless No More Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWILEY KENNEDY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetYMCA OF COASTAL CAROLINA: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS UPSTATE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTRI-COUNTY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Lancaster County Partners for Youth: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOUTREACH FARM INC: $20,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Central Carolina Comm…Dominion Energy Chari…Sisters of Charity Fo…Coastal Community Fou…Duke Energy FoundationDavis Family Foundati…Truist Foundation IncMichael J Mungo Found…Td Charitable Foundat…The Leon Levine Found…Spartanburg County Fo…Lipscomb Family Found…
Central Carolina Community FoundationSC63.1× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization First Citizens Foundation Inc Co First funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from First Citizens Foundation Inc Co First. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    35report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to First Citizens Foundation Inc Co First?

    Find your warmest path to First Citizens Foundation Inc Co First through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 134 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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