· Community foundation
Foothills Community Foundation
To nurtue charitable wealth in the community for the perpetual benefit of the people in the surrounding area.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 24 grants below total $488,725 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $798,966 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $310,241 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k10 grants · $66k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $298k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $124k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAKES AND BRIDGES CHARTER SCHOOL | $74,067 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| GREATER ANDERSON MUSICAL ARTS CONSORTIUM | $45,970 |
| LEADERSHIP ANDERSON | $41,950 |
| DOCLINK | $38,962 |
| ANDERSON ART CENTER | $35,215 |
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| ST JOHNS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $21,500 |
| ANMED HEALTH FOUNDATION | $20,167 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $18,600 |
| GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $13,000 |
| CALVARY HOME FOR CHILDERN | $12,500 |
| UGA FOUNDATION | $10,534 |
| BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ST LUKE'S FREE MEDICAL CLINIC | $8,526 |
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 (FY17–18, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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 +33% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (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 FY2018, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $147k 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
- GAGREATER ANDERSON MUSICAL ARTS CONSORTIUM2× · 2017–2018 · $142k · revenue +31% · 57% of their budget
- OSOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $100k · revenue +36%
- BRBLUE RIDGE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA2× · 2017–2018 · $39k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- FOFriends of Lake Keowee Society Inc dba FOLKSone grant, 2017 · $65k · revenue -22% · 34% of their budget
- ACANDERSON COUNTY SCone grant, 2017 · $47k
- AAANDERSON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCEone grant, 2017 · $24k · revenue -14%
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.
Our mission is to partner with christian parents in providing a quality education integrated with a biblical world view that will prepare the students for a life of service to the lord jesus christ.
Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.
To market the upstate sc region to attract business investment. to support economic development efforts of the upstate alliance investors. to build cohesive relationships among the region's private and public sectors.
The chamber is a membership organization, a voluntary partnership of business and professional people working together for the benefit of all, presenting one voice to build a healthy economy and improve the quality of life in henderson…
To unify christians in south carolina by connecting commerce and community to positively impact our culture for christ.
The southern association of colleges and schools commission on colleges is the regional body for the accreditation of degree-granting higher education institutions in the southern states. the commission's mission is the enhancement of…
Convene and connect diverse stakeholders to align and catalyze efforts to improve health and well-being for communities across South Carolina.
To promote and support the educational, medical, scientific, and research purposes of the medical university of south carolina "musc", and university medical associates of the medical university of south carolina "uma", including their…
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…
Outreach endeavors and to maximize private-sector opportunities and support, thereby, empowering the university to provide a margin of excellence beyond what is achievable with state, county, and municipal funds alone.
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 assist members of the corporation in providing electric energy to consumers in the members' service areas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Anderson Interfaith Ministries and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Lake Keowee Society Inc dba Folks. 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 41 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 6% 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 37 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 GREATER ANDERSON MUSICAL ARTS CONSORTIUM ↗
- Who funds Foothills Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAKES AND BRIDGES CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Lake Keowee Society Inc dba FOLKS ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CALVARY HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds ST LUKES FREE MEDICAL CLINIC OF SPARTANBURG INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Baptist Health System Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds RIPPLE OF ONE ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON INTERFAITH MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds University of South Carolina Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds CANCER ASSOCIATION OF ANDERSON ↗
- Who funds OUR UPSTATE SC ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ANDERSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds HART COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SCHA Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP OF SC INC ↗
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.
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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 Foothills Community 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.