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Goforth Family 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $33k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ANCHOR OF HOPE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $20,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $13,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF STATESVILLE | $5,000 |
| THE HOSPITAL AUXILIARY | $5,000 |
| POWER CROSS | $2,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $2,000 |
| OCONEE HUMANE SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| THE CARPENTER'S TABLE | $1,000 |
| ANCHOR OF HOPE OUTREACH INC | $1,000 |
| PEACE CENTER | $1,000 |
| HOPE REMAINS YOUTH RANCH | $1,000 |
| SPARTANBURG HUMANE SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| ANIMAL ALLIES | $1,000 |
| SPARTANBURG SOUP KITCHEN | $1,000 |
| GREENVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY | $1,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those 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; 12 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE4× · 2022–2025 · $38k · revenue +40%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC3× · 2022–2025 · $4k · revenue +59%- TSTHE SOUTH CAROLINA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS2× · 2023–2025 · $4k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- LCLEES-MCRAE COLLEGE INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +44%
- C5CIRCLE 555 SPARTANBURGone grant, 2022 · $1k
- UGUNION GROVE FIRE AND RESCUEone grant, 2024 · $1k
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.
Animal Welfare and Rescue.
Schs is an animal welfare organization whose mission is to shelter, protect and promote the adoption of homeless animals as well as provide education about responsible pet ownership. schs also has a spay/neuter program to help reduce pet…
To promote affordable and accessible spay and neuter services to midlands pet owners and support municipal shelters through intake diversion programs.
The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.
Our mission is to rescue, foster, transport, and find homes for unwanted, abandoned and abused dogs in the Carolinas. Halfway There Rescue's goal is to pull at-risk pets from over-crowded shelters in North and South Carolina, place them in…
The organization's mission is to protect, shelter and provide quality care for unwanted, abandoned, abused and stray animals of sumter county; to strive to adopt these orphan animals into stable and loving homes; to alleviate suffering and…
The humane society for greater savannah, inc. (the organization) is a not- for-profit organization dedicated to the welfare of companion animals and their owners. the organization serves as a safety net for pet owners by accepting pets,…
Speak for animals is an innovative 501(c)3 charitable organiation dedicated to saving and improving the lives of companion animals in upstate, south carolina since 2003. we accomplish our mission through low-cost spay and neuter programs,…
Survivors Paws Animal Rescue Inc rescues dogs and cats from southern state kill shelters and off the streets to save them being euthanized. We also help contract by the pet population by spaying and neutering and educating the public on…
The jacksonville humane society provides care, comfort and compassion to animals in need while engaging the hearts, hands and minds of our community to bring about an end to the killing of abandoned and orphaned shelter animals.
Prevention of animal cruelty.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Spartanburg Humane Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 35 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 SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds PATTERSON SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPITAL AUXILIARY ↗
- Who funds LEES-MCRAE COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTH CAROLINA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds HOPE REMAINS YOUTH RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds PEACE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds POWER CROSS ↗
- Who funds THE SPARTANBURG SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds OCONEE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SPARTANBURG HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL ALLIES INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT REST ↗
- Who funds TOTAL MINISTRIES OF SPARTANBURG COUNTY 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: J M Smith Foundation · Spartanburg County Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Arkwright Foundation · United Way of the Piedmont Inc · South Carolina Christian Foundation · Anna M Black Charitable Foundation · Black & Phillips Foundation Inc · Balmer Foundation · Petco Love · Celanese Foundation · Ge Aerospace 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 Goforth Family 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.