· Private foundation
Gibbs Charitable 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 $10k12 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $164k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $277k
- $250k+1 grant · $312k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF SPARTANBURG | $312,000 |
| SVJI SPORTS FOUNDATION | $166,667 |
| SPARTANBURG COUNTY FOUNDATION | $60,500 |
| SPARTANBURG REGIONAL FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| WOFFORD COLLEGE | $35,000 |
| BLOOD CANCER UNITEDLEUKEMIA LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $27,750 |
| PAYNE STEWART FAMILY FOUNDATION - ENDEAVOR ATHLETICS | $25,000 |
| HIS RADIO NETWORK-WLFJ& WGFJ | $12,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| ROEBUCK BAPTIST CHURCH | $12,000 |
| CANCER ASSOCIATION OF SPARTANBURG AND CHEROKEE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| MAY I PRAY FOR YOU | $10,000 |
| CHRIST CENTRAL MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| CONVERSE UNIVERSITY | $7,500 |
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 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% 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.
38 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 11 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $98k 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
WOFFORD COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $4.8M · revenue +52%
CONVERSE UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +49%- SVSAGE VALLEY GOLF FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2020 · $500k · revenue +35% · 89% of their budget
Funded once
- OIONESPARTANBURG INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $42k · revenue +40%
- CACANCER ASSOCIATION OF SPARTANBURG AND CHEROKEE COUNTYone grant, 2018 · $20k
- HDHarry Dallara Memorial Foundation Inc co Charles Dallaraone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue 0%
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.
The mission of the spartanburg day school is to provide a superior educational experience, in a community of trust, that prepares students for a life well lived. spartanburg day school is dually accredited by southern association of…
Southern wesleyan university is a christ-centered, student-focused learning community devoted to transforming lives by challenging students to be dedicated scholars and servant-leaders who impact the world for christ.
Spalding university is a diverse community of learners dedicated to meeting the needs of the times in the tradition of the sisters of charity of nazareth through quality undergraduate and graduate liberal and professional studies, grounded…
Spartanburg academic movement is an "all-in" partnership of schools and colleges, businesses, governments, foundations, faith communities and individuals across spartanburg county in pursuit of high levels of educational achievement. the…
The mission of south carolina humanities council, inc. is to enrich the cultural and intellectual lives of south carolinians. the organization seeks to increase public understanding of and support for the humanities by telling the human…
Scad prepares talented students for creative professions through engaged teaching and learning in a positively oriented university environment.
Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.
Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.
To develop and administer programs organized exclusively to receive and hold by bequest, gift, or purchase any property and to manage, invest, and use the property for scientific, educational, and charitable purposes for the advancement of…
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…
Creating economic opportunities in distressed rural communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Advocacy Center of Spartanburg Cherokee - Union Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sage Valley Golf Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 103 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 WOFFORD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CONVERSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SAGE VALLEY GOLF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SVJI SPORTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Spartanburg County Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE TYGER COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds TYGER RIVER CHAPEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPARTANBURG METHODIST COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE PIEDMONT INC ↗
- Who funds CHAPMAN CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ONESPARTANBURG INC ↗
- Who funds Upstate Youth Development Foundation dba First Tee - Upstate South Carolina ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL MINISTRIES OF SPARTANBURG COUNTY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA UPSTATE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Harry Dallara Memorial Foundation Inc co Charles Dallara ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION of Greater Spartanburg ↗
- Who funds PALMETTO PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER ASSOCIATION OF SPARTANBURG & CHEROKEE COUNTIES 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: Spartanburg County Foundation · J M Smith Foundation · Milliken & Company Charitable Foundation · Harry H Gibson Family Foundation · Mary Black Foundation Inc · South Carolina Christian Foundation · Anna M Black Charitable Foundation · Black & Phillips Foundation Inc · Arkwright Foundation · Wr & Eh Floyd Foundation · United Way of the Piedmont Inc · Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System 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 Gibbs Charitable 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.