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Guffey Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$5.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
51
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$1.3M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Education$5.8MArts & Culture$1.9MHealth$878kYouth Development$223kPhilanthropy$180kCrime & Legal$119kHousing & Shelter$100kHuman Services$80kOther$0
02FY2024 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k21 grants · $76k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $230k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $489k
  • $250k+5 grants · $4.2M
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$7.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PORTER-GAUD FOUNDATION$1,321,450
WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY$1,200,000
ASHLEY HALL FOUNDATION$1,120,000
COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION$333,333
INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM$250,000
THE NEMOURS FOUNDATION$163,914
COMPASS COLLEGIATE ACADEMY$75,000
KIDS ON POINT$50,000
WINGS FOR KIDS$50,000
DEE NORTON CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER$50,000
THE JAHANGIR RAHMAN AND LAUREN$50,000
METANOIA$50,000
CHARLESTON PROMISE NEIGHBORHOOD$40,000
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SOUTH$20,000
NEW MORNING$15,000
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:

Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $140k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%BLISSFUL DREAMS: $5k → 9%WINGS FOR KIDS: $50k → 12%WINGS FOR KIDS: $50k → 12%BIRTHDAY BUDS: $5k → 12%BIRTHDAY BUDS: $5k → 12%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

NH
NY
MA
NJ
CA
VA
NC
SC
AL
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.3M · 22 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.

22 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 38 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
32

Total granted

$8.3M
$611k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+7%

Still filing today

95%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $664k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyEnvironmentHealthHuman ServicesOther

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

  • WM
    William Marsh Rice University
    3× · 2022–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +19%
  • PF
    PORTER-GAUD FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +309%
  • AH
    ASHLEY HALL FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • HT
    HOMELESS TO HOPE FUND - PALMETTO PROJECT
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • DM
    DANA-FARBER MARATHON CHALLENGE
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • NY
    NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2023 · $65k

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
South Shore Charter School

The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…

Education
2
College of Charleston Foundation

The Mission of the College of Charleston Foundation is to promote programs of education, research, student development, and faculty development for the exclusive benefit of the College of Charleston.

Education
3
South Carolina Childrens Fund

To make strategic, catalytic investments and provide expertise and technical assistance to educational organizations across south carolina.

Education
4
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
5
Charleston School of Law

The mission of the charleston school of law foundation inc is to encourage and assist the study, teaching, promoting and research of the rule of law in charleston, south carolina and all related subject areas as determined by the board of…

Education
6
Columbia College

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.

Education
7
Charlotte Country Day School

Through excellence in education, charlotte country day school develops the potential of each student by fostering intellectual curiosity, principled character, ethical leadership and a responsibility to serve. the key values and…

Education
8
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
9
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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10
Barton College

Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…

Education
11
The Charles River School Inc

A pre-kindergarten through grade 8 independent school committed to academic excellence and the joy of childhood, fostering intellectual curiosity, critical thinking, and the development of the whole child.

Education
12
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids On Point Inc and the most unlike its peers is American College of the Building Arts. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%2%<5yr14%5%5–10yr21%21%10–20yr21%28%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr11%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%5%5–10yr21%3%10–20yr21%19%20–35yr13%11%35–55yr11%62%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/72
the rest of the field
11%
5,286/47,853

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.

04the grantee network

71 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 71 of the 93 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/71
Grantees still filing
39/71
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

William Marsh Rice University — $2,405,000 · EducationWilliam Marsh Rice UniversityASHLEY HALL FOUNDATION — $1,200,000 · EducationASHLEY HALL FOUNDATIONTHE PARIS REVIEW FOUNDATION INC — $515,250 · EducationTHE PARIS REVIEW FOUNDATION INCCOMPASS COLLEGIATE ACADEMY — $150,000 · Education+12 more — $223,500 · EducationPORTER-GAUD FOUNDATION — $1,496,450 · OtherPORTER-GAUD FOUNDATIONCOLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION — $333,333 · OtherCOLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATIO…HOMELESS TO HOPE FUND - PALMETTO PROJECT — $100,000 · OtherDANA-FARBER MARATHON CHALLENGE — $100,000 · OtherDEE NORTON LOWCOUNTRY CHILDREN'S CENTER — $99,000 · Other+39 more — $559,500 · Other+39 moreINTERNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM — $1,000,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL A…NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 · Arts & CultureNAVY SEAL FOUND…+11 more — $84,720 · Arts & Culture+11 moreTHE NEMOURS FOUNDATION — $463,914 · HealthNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC — $85,000 · HealthLUNG CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $70,000 · Health+3 more — $25,000 · HealthTHE KING'S TRUST USA INC — $150,000 · PhilanthropyGABRIELLE'S ANGEL FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH INC — $27,500 · PhilanthropyFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC — $20,000 · PhilanthropyNEW MORNING — $15,000 · PhilanthropyGOOD FRIENDS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY — $10,000 · PhilanthropyPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION — $10,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MARDY FISH CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $1,000 · PhilanthropyWINGS FOR KIDS — $100,000 · Human ServicesCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesBirthday Buds Inc — $10,000 · Human ServicesBlissful Dreams — $5,000 · Human ServicesKIDS ON POINT INC — $120,000 · Recreation & SportsFRESH AIR FUND — $10,000 · Recreation & Sports
Education$4,493,750Other$2,688,283Arts & Culture$1,284,720Health$643,914Philanthropy$243,500Human Services$140,000Recreation & Sports$130,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University — $2,405,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPORTER-GAUD FOUNDATION — $1,496,450 over 5y, 18% of budgetASHLEY HALL FOUNDATION — $1,200,000 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetINTERNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM — $1,000,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetTHE PARIS REVIEW FOUNDATION INC — $515,250 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetTHE NEMOURS FOUNDATION — $463,914 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCOMPASS COLLEGIATE ACADEMY — $150,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetTHE KING'S TRUST USA INC — $150,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetKIDS ON POINT INC — $120,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetWINGS FOR KIDS — $100,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetDEE NORTON LOWCOUNTRY CHILDREN'S CENTER — $99,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC — $85,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMETANOIA — $70,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetLUNG CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $70,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGRACE CHURCH SCHOOL — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Charleston Promise Neighborhood — $40,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTHE GO PROJECT INC — $35,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetGABRIELLE'S ANGEL FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH INC — $27,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE ORIGINAL SIX FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE EAST END I — $25,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLESTON DAY SCHOOLINC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Preservation Society of Charleston Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHISTORIC CHARLESTON FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW MORNING — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreen Heart Project Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDOORS TO FREEDOM — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBirthday Buds Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetCharleston Library Society — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WINDSOR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMiddleton Place Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAROLINA ART ASSOCIATION DBA GIBBES MUSEUM OF ART — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Martha and John M Rivers Performance Hall Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE WASHINGTON MARKET SCHOOL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGOOD FRIENDS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY — $10,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARDY FISH CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetSPOLETO FESTIVAL USA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC — $7,500 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.

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.

Coastal Community Fou…Henry & Sylvia Yaschi…The Joanna FoundationGaylord and Dorothy D…Pathfinder Foundation…Dominion Energy Chari…John M Rivers Jr Foun…Magnolia Plantation F…Elhapa Foundation IncCentral Carolina Comm…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Richard and Susan Lea…
Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina IncSC57.8× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc · The Joanna Foundation · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · Pathfinder Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · John M Rivers Jr Foundation · Magnolia Plantation Foundation · Elhapa Foundation Inc · Central Carolina Community Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Richard and Susan Leadem Family

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 Guffey 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • The Nemours Foundation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 Guffey Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Guffey Family Foundation 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 93 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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