· Public charity
Furman University
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
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 12 grants below total $306,897 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $92,973,746 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $92,666,849 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $188k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREENVILLE ARENA DISTRICT | $78,000 |
| THE GREENVILLE DRIVE LLC | $60,000 |
| UPCOUNTRY HISTORY MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| GREATER GREENVILLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $35,350 |
| EMPIRE MOCK TRIAL ASSOCIATION INC | $15,000 |
| PRISMA HEALTH - UPSTATE | $13,397 |
| UPSTATE SC ALLIANCE INC | $11,000 |
| GREENVILLE ARTS FESTIVAL | $10,000 |
| OUR UPSTATE SC | $10,000 |
| CITY OF GREENVILLE SC | $10,000 |
| FALL FOR GREENVILLE | $7,500 |
| UNITED MINISTRIES INC | $6,650 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of your 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.
14 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 4 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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 FESTIVAL8× · 2017–2025 · $71k · revenue +58%
- FFFALL FOR GREENVILLE INC8× · 2017–2025 · $53k · revenue +49%
- VCVENTURE CAROLINA2× · 2020–2022 · $35k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- IMINTEGRATED MEDIA PUBLISHINGone grant, 2019 · $15k
- VCVENTURESOUTH CAPITAL LLC2× · 2020–2024 · $15k
- OFORGANIZATION FOR TROPICAL STUDIES INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue +29%
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.
Promoting and protecting the free private and competitive enterprise system through research and education.
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…
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.
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…
Promoting and enhancing the economic growth and development of greenville county south carolina; gadc was formed by greenville county council.
Our mission is to foster economic development in underserved communities by providing capital, business services, and policy research to support small businesses.
To develop, maintain, and promote the game of tennis.
To initiate, advocate and empower our region to advance a prosperous business environment.
To be the leading voice of business in coumbia county providing advocacy, promotion, and benefit solutions to its members.
Our mission is to deliver invaluable information, outstanding services, and impactful advocacy to members by empowering businesses and individuals and contributing to the prosperity of the clemson area.
The research triangle regional partnership is an association of area economic development agencies dedicated to keeping the research triangle region economically strong by collectively marketing the region's competitive advantages and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Upstate Sc Alliance Inc and the most unlike its peers is Upcountry History Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 24 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 UPCOUNTRY HISTORY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER GREENVILLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds EMPIRE MOCK TRIAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE ARTS FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds FALL FOR GREENVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds OUR UPSTATE SC ↗
- Who funds VENTURE CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds UPSTATE SC ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Prisma Health-Upstate ↗
- Who funds UNITED MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds ORGANIZATION FOR TROPICAL STUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE WASHINGTON CENTER FOR INTERNSHIPS & ACADEMIC SEMINARS ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds CLEMSON UNIVERSITY 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: St Francis Hospital Inc · Hayne Hipp Foundation · Charles Timmons Foundation · Hollingsworth Funds Inc · Scsymmes Foundation · Daniel-Mickel Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Furman University 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.