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Hamrick Mills Foundation Inc

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.

$92k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$14k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Human Services$104kReligion$71kHousing & Shelter$47kFood & Nutrition$43kYouth Development$36kHealth$20kCrime & Legal$14kArts & Culture$12kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $51k
$4,420
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Miracle Hill Ministries$13,700
The Salvation Army$13,550
Peach Center Ministries$11,990
Iron City Ministries$11,990
Cherokee County Meals on Wheels$7,500
Cherokee Childrens Home$6,140
Grassy Pond Baptist Church$5,000
Boys Girls Clubs Kids Clubs$4,420
Jerusalem Project$3,670
Childrens Advocacy Center$2,720
Cherokee Historical Preservation$2,720
CC Chamber of Commerce$2,280
Cherokee Pregnancy Center Options$1,900
KNOW 2$1,860
Cancer Association$1,860
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 (FY20–24, $118k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Miracle Hill Ministries: $10k → 10%Peach Center Ministries: $12k → 17%Peach Center Ministries: $8k → 17%Peach Center Ministries: $8k → 17%Peach Center Ministries: $7k → 17%Peach Center Ministries: $6k → 17%Miracle Hill Ministries: $14k → 17%Miracle Hill Ministries: $10k → 17%Miracle Hill Ministries: $9k → 17%Cherokee Childrens Home: $7k → 17%Cherokee Children's Home: $7k → 17%Cherokee Children's Home: $7k → 17%Cherokee Children's Home: $6k → 17%Cherokee Childrens Home: $6k → 17%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.

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$341k · 17 repeat orgs$36k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
7

Total granted

$341k
$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+31%

Still filing today

47%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesFood & NutritionCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsEducationOther

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

  • MH
    MIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $43k · revenue +51%
  • CC
    CHEROKEE CHILDREN'S HOME INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $34k · revenue +37%
  • CC
    CHEROKEE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS
    4× · 2020–2024 · $21k · revenue +0%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • BA
    Boys and Girls Club
    one grant, 2021 · $8k
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF THE PIEDMONT INC
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -66%

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
Hope House of Cherokee County Inc

Provide temporary shelter and assistance

2
Cherokee Home for Children

To provide a christian home environment for children dependent upon others for care. to promote growth physically, emotionally, educationally and spiritually to develop the child in the teachings of the bible and guide the child toward…

Human Services
3
Cherokee County Sharing Center Inc

Food pantry to provide food

Food & Nutrition
4
Homeless Coalition of Cherokee Coun

Provide emergency housing and shelter.

Housing & Shelter
5
Christian Community Ministries of Kershaw County

Christian Community Ministries is a financial crisis ministry helping those who fall within our definition of crisis. Except for one paid administrator, we are a totally volunteer organization. We operate as an extension of the servant…

Religion
6
Piedmont Community Actions Inc

Pca assists more than 4,000 low-income individuals and families annually. pca programs provide opportunities for individuals and families each year to improve their lives and contribute to their communities.

Human Services
7
Calhoun County Senior Citizens Asso

To provide meals on wheels and at the center, household assistance, transportation and companionship to meet the needs and interests of senior citizens within the community.

Human Services
8
Community Resource Center of Chattooga

To acquire and distribute resouces to bring relief to those in financial need in chattooga county and to walk out the words of jesus.

Food & Nutrition
9
Clarendon County Council On Aging Inc

Provide meals to elderly and disabled in clarendon county sc

10
Cherokee County Food Bank Inc

Supply food to needy,unempolyed,homeless

Food & Nutrition
11
Cherokee Child Advocacy Council Inc

The organization is dedicated to preventing child abuse and neglect and protecting and serving children and families.

12
Cherokee County Historical Society

History Cherokee is a nonprofit organization engaged in the collection, preservation, and interpretation of Cherokee County History.

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 The Jerusalem Project. 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

11 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 20172026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 25 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

The Salvation Army — $51,835 · OtherThe Salvation ArmyIRON CITY MINISTRIES — $41,350 · OtherIRON CITY MINISTRIESGRASSY POND BAPTIST CHURCH INC — $15,000 · OtherGRASSY POND BAPTIST CHURCH INCFirst Baptist Church — $14,868 · OtherFirst Baptist ChurchBoys Girls Clubs - Kids Clubs — $14,080 · OtherBoys Girls Clubs - Kids ClubsIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · OtherCherokee Pregnancy Center Options — $8,810 · OtherBoys and Girls Club — $8,000 · OtherCancer Association — $7,820 · OtherCC Chamber of Commerce — $7,190 · Other+6 more — $20,560 · Other+6 moreMIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES INC — $42,860 · Human ServicesMIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES INCPEACHCENTER MINISTRIES INC — $41,350 · Human ServicesPEACHCENTER MINISTRIES INCCHEROKEE CHILDREN'S HOME INC — $33,605 · Human ServicesCHEROKEE CHILDREN'S HOME INCCHEROKEE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS — $20,565 · Food & NutritionCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SPARTANBURG CHEROKEE - UNION INC — $14,385 · Crime & LegalCHEROKEE HISTORICAL & PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC — $11,585 · EducationKNOW2 — $8,820 · Youth DevelopmentTHE JERUSALEM PROJECT — $3,670 · ReligionUpstate Youth Development Foundation dba First Tee - Upstate South Carolina — $1,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$199,513Human Services$117,815Food & Nutrition$20,565Crime & Legal$14,385Education$11,585Youth Development$8,820Religion$3,670Recreation & Sports$1,000

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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES INC — $42,860 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPEACHCENTER MINISTRIES INC — $41,350 over 5y, 11% of budgetCHEROKEE CHILDREN'S HOME INC — $33,605 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetCHEROKEE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS — $20,565 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SPARTANBURG CHEROKEE - UNION INC — $14,385 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCHEROKEE HISTORICAL & PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC — $11,585 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetKNOW2 — $8,820 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetTHE JERUSALEM PROJECT — $3,670 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetCHEROKEE COUNTY LITERACY ASSOCIATIO — $3,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetUpstate Youth Development Foundation dba First Tee - Upstate South Carolina — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 MIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds PEACHCENTER MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds CHEROKEE CHILDREN'S HOME INC
  • Who funds CHEROKEE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SPARTANBURG CHEROKEE - UNION INC
  • Who funds CHEROKEE HISTORICAL & PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds KNOW2
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE PIEDMONT INC
  • Who funds THE JERUSALEM PROJECT
  • Who funds CHEROKEE COUNTY LITERACY ASSOCIATIO
  • Who funds Upstate Youth Development Foundation dba First Tee - Upstate South Carolina

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.

The Fullerton FoundationSC20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Fullerton Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Timken Foundation of Canton · United Way of the Piedmont Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Hamrick Mills Foundation Inc 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%1%4%8%15%your 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
    3report 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, 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

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    How do I get to Hamrick Mills Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Hamrick Mills Foundation Inc 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 25 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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