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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 12 grants below total $306,897, the rows itemized in this filing. The $92,973,746 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $92,666,849 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
CITY OF GREENVILLE SC$10,000
OUR UPSTATE SC$10,000
GREENVILLE ARTS FESTIVAL$10,000
FALL FOR GREENVILLE$7,500
UNITED MINISTRIES INC$6,650
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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%THE GREENVILLE DRIVE LLC: $75k → 10%GREENVILLE ARENA DISTRICT: $75k → 10%GREENVILLE ARENA DISTRICT: $75k → 10%THE GREENVILLE DRIVE LLC: $75k → 10%GREENVILLE ARENA DISTRICT: $75k → 10%GREENVILLE ARENA DISTRICT: $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%THE GREENVILLE DRIVE LLC: $50k → 10%M JUDSON BOOKSELLERS: $50k → 10%M JUDSON LLC: $50k → 10%UPCOUNTRY HISTORY MUSEUM: $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%INTEGRATED MEDIA PUBLISHING: $15k → 10%VENTURESOUTH CAPITAL LLC: $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
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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%
+38%

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
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

  • 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

  • VC
    VENTURESOUTH CAPITAL LLC
    2× · 2020–2024 · $15k
  • IM
    INTEGRATED MEDIA PUBLISHING
    one grant, 2019 · $15k
  • OF
    ORGANIZATION FOR TROPICAL STUDIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue +29%
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 Business & Industry Political Education Committee

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

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3
Greenville Connects

Greenville connects is a coalition seeking to increase investments in the transit system of greenville, sc.

Public Benefit
4
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
5
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
6
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
7
South Carolina Public Interest Foundation
Crime & Legal
8
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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9
Scbio Foundation

By focusing on the mission to enhance the development and growth of south carolina's life sciences industry ecosystem and by strengthening the state's workforce, education, innovation, and research infracstructure, the foundation works to…

Science & Tech
10
South Carolina Tennis Association Inc

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

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11
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
12
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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Upstate Sc Alliance Inc; the most unlike its peers is Childrens Miracle Network. 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 grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
9/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetPrisma Health-Upstate: $13,397 over 1y, 0.0% 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
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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

St Francis Hospital I…Hayne Hipp FoundationCharles Timmons Found…Hollingsworth Funds I…Scsymmes FoundationDaniel-Mickel Foundat…Duke Energy FoundationThe Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
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

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 Furman University funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Furman University. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%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
    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, 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.

    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 24 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 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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