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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.

$93M
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$78k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Arts & Culture$1.3MCommunity Improvement$925kRecreation & Sports$546kCrime & Legal$116kHealth$19kEducation$15kReligion$13kEnvironment$12kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

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
$13,397
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.4B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

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.

show:

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.

area typical 9%UPCOUNTRY HISTORY MUSEUM: $205k → 10%EMPIRE MOCK TRIAL ASSOCIATION INC: $30k → 14%ORGANIZATION FOR TROPICAL STUDIES: $12k → 11%EMPIRE MOCK TRIAL ASSOCIATION INC: $15k → 6%UPCOUNTRY HISTORY MUSEUM: $163k → 10%EMPIRE MOCK TRIAL ASSOCIATION INC: $15k → 14%EMPIRE MOCK TRIAL: $15k → 6%UPCOUNTRY HISTORY MUSEUM: $163k → 10%EMPIRE MOCK TRIAL ASSOCIATION INC: $15k → 14%EMPIRE MOCK TRIAL ASSOCIATION INC: $13k → 6%UPCOUNTRY HISTORY MUSEUM: $163k → 10%EMPIRE MOCK TRIAL: $13k → 6%M JUDSON LLC: $131k → 10%UPCOUNTRY HISTORY MUSEUM: $100k → 10%UPCOUNTRY HISTORY MUSEUM: $100k → 10%UPCOUNTRY HISTORY MUSEUM: $100k → 10%GREENVILLE ARENA DISTRICT: $78k → 10%GREENVILLE ARENA DISTRICT: $75k → 10%GREENVILLE ARENA DISTRICT: $75k → 10%GREENVILLE ARENA DISTRICT: $75k → 10%GREENVILLE ARENA DISTRICT: $75k → 10%THE GREENVILLE DRIVE LLC: $75k → 10%GREENVILLE ARENA DISTRICT: $75k → 10%THE GREENVILLE DRIVE LLC: $75k → 10%GREENVILLE ARENA DISTRICT: $75k → 10%THE GREENVILLE DRIVE LLC: $75k → 10%THE GREENVILLE DRIVE LLC: $60k → 10%THE GREENVILLE DRIVE LLC: $55k → 10%THE GREENVILLE DRIVE LLC: $51k → 10%M JUDSON BOOKSELLERS: $50k → 10%THE GREENVILLE DRIVE LLC: $50k → 10%UPCOUNTRY HISTORY MUSEUM: $50k → 10%M JUDSON LLC: $50k → 10%THE GREENVILLE DRIVE LLC: $50k → 10%GREATER GREENVILLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $35k → 10%GREENVILLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $31k → 10%M JUDSON BOOKSELLERS: $25k → 10%M JUDSON BOOKSELLERS: $25k → 10%GREENVILLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $21k → 10%GREENVILLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $19k → 10%GREENVILLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $16k → 10%SOUTH CAROLINA CHARITIES INC: $12k → 10%ARTISPHERE: $11k → 10%VENTURE CAROLINA: $25k → 10%VENTURESOUTH CAPITAL LLC: $15k → 10%INTEGRATED MEDIA PUBLISHING: $15k → 10%MEDIA VENTURES LLC: $15k → 10%MEDIA VENTURES LLC: $13k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.7M · 14 repeat orgs$95k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
7

Total granted

$2.7M
$72k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
+31%

Still filing today

71%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
Community ImprovementArts & CultureRecreation & SportsCrime & LegalInternationalEducationOther

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

  • GA
    GREENVILLE ARTS FESTIVAL
    8× · 2017–2025 · $71k · revenue +58%
  • FF
    FALL FOR GREENVILLE INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $53k · revenue +49%
  • VC
    VENTURE CAROLINA
    2× · 2020–2022 · $35k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • IM
    INTEGRATED MEDIA PUBLISHING
    one grant, 2019 · $15k
  • VC
    VENTURESOUTH CAPITAL LLC
    2× · 2020–2024 · $15k
  • OF
    ORGANIZATION FOR TROPICAL STUDIES INCgraduated
    one 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.

04Your field

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.

1
Sc Chamber of Commerce

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

2
South Carolina Business & Industry Political Education Committee

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

3
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
4
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.

5
Musc Strategic Ventures

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…

Health
6
Greenville Area Development Corporation

Promoting and enhancing the economic growth and development of greenville county south carolina; gadc was formed by greenville county council.

Community Improvement
7
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
8
South Carolina Tennis Association Inc

To develop, maintain, and promote the game of tennis.

9
Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce

To initiate, advocate and empower our region to advance a prosperous business environment.

10
Chamber of Commerce of Columbia Cou

To be the leading voice of business in coumbia county providing advocacy, promotion, and benefit solutions to its members.

11
Clemson Area Chamber of Commerce Inc

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.

12
Research Triangle Regional Partnership

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.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
10/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GREENVILLE ARENA DISTRICT — $528,000 · OtherGREENVILLE ARENA DISTRICTGREENVILLE DRIVE LLC — $290,000 · OtherGREENVILLE DRIVE LLCM JUDSON LLC — $281,000 · OtherM JUDSON LLCGREATER GREENVILLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $122,781 · OtherGREATER GREENVILLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE+10 more — $123,667 · Other+10 moreUPCOUNTRY HISTORY MUSEUM — $1,042,500 · Arts & CultureUPCOUNTRY HISTORY MUSEUMGREENVILLE ARTS FESTIVAL — $70,500 · Arts & CultureGREENVILLE ARTS FESTIVALCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE INC — $200,575 · PhilanthropyEMPIRE MOCK TRIAL ASSOCIATION — $116,000 · Crime & LegalOUR UPSTATE SC — $40,000 · Community ImprovementVENTURE CAROLINA — $35,000 · Community ImprovementUPSTATE SC ALLIANCE INC — $31,000 · Community ImprovementFALL FOR GREENVILLE INC — $52,500 · Recreation & SportsSOUTH CAROLINA CHARITIES INC — $18,000 · Recreation & SportsPrisma Health-Upstate — $13,397 · Health
Other$1,345,448Arts & Culture$1,113,000Philanthropy$200,575Crime & Legal$116,000Community Improvement$106,000Recreation & Sports$70,500Health$13,397

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUPCOUNTRY HISTORY MUSEUM — $1,042,500 over 9y, 15% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE INC — $200,575 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetGREATER GREENVILLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $122,781 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetEMPIRE MOCK TRIAL ASSOCIATION — $116,000 over 8y, 7.7% of budgetGREENVILLE ARTS FESTIVAL — $70,500 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetFALL FOR GREENVILLE INC — $52,500 over 8y, 5.0% of budgetOUR UPSTATE SC — $40,000 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetVENTURE CAROLINA — $35,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetUPSTATE SC ALLIANCE INC — $31,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA CHARITIES INC — $18,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED MINISTRIES — $13,345 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetORGANIZATION FOR TROPICAL STUDIES INC — $11,535 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WASHINGTON CENTER FOR INTERNSHIPS & ACADEMIC SEMINARS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK — $5,437 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

St Francis Hospital IncSC13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your 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
    5report 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, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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