· Private foundation
Fred Collins 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $137k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $190k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SALVATION ARMY | $190,300 |
| ARTISPHERE | $35,000 |
| SCGSAH FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CANCER SURVIVORS' PARK ALLIANCE | $25,000 |
| MIKE GALLAGHER SHOW CHARITABLE FD | $25,000 |
| RIPPLE OF ONE | $14,000 |
| MILL VILLAGE MINISTRIES | $13,000 |
| METROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL | $5,000 |
| MIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $200 |
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 (FY21–25, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
20 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 3 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- GAGREENVILLE ARTS FESTIVAL9× · 2017–2025 · $315k · revenue +58%
- PHPrisma Health4× · 2019–2023 · $141k · revenue +203%
- RORIPPLE OF ONE3× · 2021–2025 · $121k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- TMTHE MIKE GALLAGHER SHOW CHARITABLEone grant, 2020 · $50k
- TMTHE MARGARET BYRD RAWSON INSTITUTE INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +78% · 34% of their budget
- SCSOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATREone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +12%
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.
Provide a distinctly Christ-centered, biblical and classical education producing students who glorify God in their thoughts, words and deeds.
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.
The greenville center for creative arts exists to enrich the cultural fabric of the communities we serve by providing a nurturing environment for art-education, appreciation and enjoyment, and by establishing a lasting legacy in the visual…
The mission of green hill center for nc art is to promote the visual arts of north carolina by engaging a broad community of artists, adults and children through dynamic exhibitions and educational programs while providing a platform for…
The mission of engaging creative minds is to inspire the creative and innovative potential of all students to achieve academically and become imaginative, adaptable, and productive adults resulting in stronger communities and an…
The mission of the ymca of greenville, following the example of christ, is to build healthy spirit, mind and body for all. we reach out to accomplish this mission through eight ymca locations: five are family branches, one - judson…
To unify christians in south carolina by connecting commerce and community to positively impact our culture for christ.
Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse
Goucher charter academy's mission is believing in nurturing the whole child through leadership and community service.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greer Community Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is Junior Achievement of Greater South Carolina Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 39 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 GREENVILLE ARTS FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds CANCER SURVIVORS PARK ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Prisma Health ↗
- Who funds RIPPLE OF ONE ↗
- Who funds TRIUNE MERCY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Crime Stoppers Greenville Inc ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds MILL VILLAGE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE MARGARET BYRD RAWSON INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE ↗
- Who funds DABO'S ALL IN TEAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREER COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD CANCER CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds PEACE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COACHES 4 CHARACTER INC ↗
- Who funds BROKEN WING FARM ↗
- Who funds The Chandler School ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER SOUTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP 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.
Open a dossier: Daniel-Mickel Foundation · Charles Timmons Foundation · Dabo's All in Team Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · St Francis Hospital Inc · Jean T and Heyward G Pelham Foundation · Scsymmes Foundation · John I Smith Charities Inc · Prisma Health-Upstate · The Jolley Foundation · Canal Charitable Foundation · Wallace 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 Fred Collins 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.