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Graham Family Foundation Mng Agency

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$167k
Granted FY2021
20
Grants FY2021
5
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What you fund
0188% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192021.

Education$171kReligion$119kPhilanthropy$42kArts & Culture$25kYouth Development$22kCrime & Legal$17kHealth$12kHousing & Shelter$10kOther$0
02FY2021 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k13 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $122k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$738k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLUMBIA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$35,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
USC EDUCATION FOUNDATION$15,000
CLEMSON LIFE FOUNDATION$15,000
CAMPUS OUTREACH COLUMBIA$11,500
TRIDENT TECHNICAL COLLEGE$10,000
YOUNG LIFE$10,000
Individual grant recipient$7,500
ST JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH$5,000
CIU PRISON MINISTRY$5,000
THE ABILITY EXPERIENCE$5,000
ST ANDREWS LAND TRUST$5,000
OLIVER GOSPEL MISSION$5,000
PROVIDENCE HOME$2,750
Individual grant recipient$2,500
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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%721 MINISTRIES: $4k → 10%FRIENDS OF HARBISON: $8k → 11%TRIDENT TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $10k → 12%SUMTER HOUSING & DEVELOPMENT: $41k → 14%CLEMSON LIFE FOUNDATION: $15k → 16%ST JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $10k → 16%PIONEERS - USA: $3k → 13%CHRISTIAN ADOPTION SERVICES: $3k → 7%THE ABILITY EXPERIENCE: $5k → 18%NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%OUR MILITARY KIDS: $3k → 6%CAMPUS OUTREACH GREENVILLE: $15k → 10%EMMANUS ROAD PARTNERS: $3k → 11%TRIDENT TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $10k → 12%ALICE DRIVE BAPTIST CHURCH: $5k → 14%CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $15k → 16%ST JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $5k → 16%THE ABILITY EXPERIENCE: $6k → 10%ST ANDREWS LAND TRUST: $5k → 12%SUMTER FAMILY YMCA: $5k → 14%CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $7k → 16%ISABELLE & ROBERT GRAHAM ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP FD: $28k → 16%SUMTER YMCA: $3k → 14%CIU PRISON MINISTRY: $5k → 16%PROVIDENCE HOME: $5k → 16%CIU PRISON MINISTRY: $5k → 16%CIU PRISON MINISTRY: $5k → 16%PROVIDENCE HOME: $3k → 16%PROVIDENCE HOME: $3k → 16%USC EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $50k → 16%COLUMBIA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $35k → 16%USC EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $35k → 16%HISTORIC COLUMBIA: $25k → 16%HISTORIC COLUMBIA FOUNDATION: $25k → 16%COLUMBIA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $23k → 16%COLUMBIA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $15k → 16%USC EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $15k → 16%CAMPUS OUTREACH COLUMBIA: $12k → 16%YOUNG LIFE: $10k → 16%YOUNG LIFE: $9k → 16%DELTA RIVER FELLOWSHIP: $8k → 16%CAMPUS OUTREACH COLUMBIA: $8k → 16%HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK: $5k → 16%REFORMED UNIVERSITY FELLOWSHIP: $5k → 16%OLIVER GOSPEL MISSION: $5k → 16%YOUNG LIFE: $3k → 16%OLIVER GOSPEL MISSION: $3k → 16%RICHLAND COUNTY CASA: $2k → 16%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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VA
AR
NC
SC
GA
TX
FL

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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$315k · 11 repeat orgs$227k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2021, 1 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
19

Total granted

$315k
$164k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+13%

Still filing today

55%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21
PhilanthropyReligionYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureEducationEnvironmentOther

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

  • YL
    YOUNG LIFE
    3× · 2019–2021 · $22k · revenue +38%
  • CU
    CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2019–2020 · $22k · revenue +107%
  • TA
    THE ABILITY EXPERIENCE
    2× · 2019–2021 · $11k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $41k
  • IR
    ISABELLE & ROBERT GRAHAM ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP FD
    one grant, 2019 · $28k
  • HC
    Historic Columbia Foundation
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +20%

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
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
2
Central Christian College of the Bible

Central christian college of the bible (central) exists to develop servant-leaders for the church. as a traditional undergraduate bible college of the restoration movement, central equips faithful men and women for leadership ministry.

Education
3
Carolina College of Biblical Studies

Carolina college of biblical studies exists to disciple christ-followers, through biblical higher education, for a lifetime of effective servant leadership.

Education
4
Financial Planning Ministry

Financial planning ministry, inc. (fpm) is a not-for-profit organization devoted to assisting in the performance of the functions of christian churches by serving their financial needs.

Health
5
National Christian Foundation -- Wisconsin Inc

Equipping followers of christ to give wisely to advance his kingdom by inspiring biblical stewardship and generosity.

Religion
6
Crossover Communications Intl

Crossover global, a church planting organization, desires to see god glorified by providing gospel access through the planting of multiplying churches among unreached people groups.

Religion
7
Charlotte Christian College & Theological Seminary

To educate, train, and develop ministers, evangelists, missionaries, and other people who are going to enter the Christian ministry. Educate ministers and missionaries to serve the Lord.

Religion
8
Biglife International Inc

Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.

Recreation & Sports
9
Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation

We guide and encourage donors who are motivated toward kingdom-building generosity. our mission is carried out through four primary initiatives: providing donor-advised funds, inspiring and encouraging generosity within families along the…

Philanthropy
10
Charis Bible College Inc

Charis Bible Colleges, Inc. (CBC) was established to train and equip individuals to carry out the Gospel of Jesus Christ through practical application through mentoring, training, and teaching.

Religion
11
Crossroads Christian Counseling

Crossroads combines innovative clinical counseling with a redemptive worldview to restore people to emotional health, relational unity, and a hopeful future.

Human Services
12
Erskine College and Theological Seminary

Erskine College exists to glorify God as a Christian academic community where students are equipped to flourish as whole persons for lives of service through the pursuit of undergraduate liberal arts and graduate theological education.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Harbison State Forest Inc. 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

17 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. 17 of the 40 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)
16/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

USC EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $100,000 · OtherUSC EDUCATION FOUNDATIONCOLUMBIA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $72,500 · OtherCOLUMBIA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHIndividual grant recipient — $41,449 · OtherIndividual grant recipientISABELLE & ROBERT GRAHAM ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP FD — $28,000 · OtherISABELLE & ROBERT GRAHAM ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP FDIndividual grant recipient — $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTRIDENT TECHNICAL COLLEGE — $20,000 · OtherCIU PRISON MINISTRY — $15,000 · OtherCLEMSON LIFE FOUNDATION — $15,000 · OtherST JOHNS EPISCOPAL CHURCH — $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $15,000 · Other+18 more — $77,850 · Other+18 moreCAMPUS OUTREACH COLUMBIA — $19,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · PhilanthropyOUR MILITARY KIDS INC — $2,500 · PhilanthropyHistoric Columbia Foundation — $25,000 · Arts & CultureYOUNG LIFE — $22,250 · Youth DevelopmentFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $1,500 · Youth DevelopmentCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $22,000 · EducationOliver Gospel Mission — $8,000 · Religion721 MINISTRIES INC — $4,000 · ReligionCommunity Bible Study — $1,000 · ReligionHARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK — $5,000 · Food & NutritionFriends of Harbison State Forest Inc — $2,000 · Environment
Other$424,799Philanthropy$26,500Arts & Culture$25,000Youth Development$23,750Education$22,000Religion$13,000Food & Nutrition$5,000Environment$2,000

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 budgetHistoric Columbia Foundation — $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE — $22,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $22,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ABILITY EXPERIENCE — $11,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPROVIDENCE HOME — $10,250 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetOliver Gospel Mission — $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget721 MINISTRIES INC — $4,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetOUR MILITARY KIDS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChristian Adoption Services Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Harbison State Forest Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetRichland County Court Appointed Special Advocates — $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Bible Study — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOFFORD COLLEGE — $1,000 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 Historic Columbia Foundation
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE
  • Who funds CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds CAMPUS OUTREACH COLUMBIA
  • Who funds THE ABILITY EXPERIENCE
  • Who funds PROVIDENCE HOME
  • Who funds Oliver Gospel Mission
  • Who funds HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK
  • Who funds NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds 721 MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds OUR MILITARY KIDS INC
  • Who funds Christian Adoption Services Inc
  • Who funds Friends of Harbison State Forest Inc
  • Who funds Richland County Court Appointed Special Advocates
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES
  • Who funds Community Bible Study
  • Who funds WOFFORD COLLEGE

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.

Central Carolina Community FoundationSC17.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Central Carolina Community Foundation · South Carolina Christian Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Graham Family Foundation Mng Agency 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%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Graham Family Foundation Mng Agency?

    Find your warmest path to Graham Family Foundation Mng Agency through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 40 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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