· Private foundation
Harry H Gibson 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k46 grants · $114k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $88k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MOBILE MEALS | $55,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE INTERNATIONAL | $28,000 |
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| MIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES | $12,000 |
| WESTMINISTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $12,000 |
| SPARTANBURG PHILHARMONIC | $11,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $8,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $7,000 |
| CRU | $6,900 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $6,500 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE PIEDMONT | $5,000 |
| EAST WEST MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| S4CA INC | $4,000 |
| TOTAL MINISTRIES | $4,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 49% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
79 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2025, 41 since wound down; 14 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- YLYOUNG LIFE9× · 2017–2025 · $255k · revenue +59%
- CUCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2025 · $105k · revenue +143%
- TCTEXOMA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $61k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- SCSOUTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY OUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $10k
- TRTYGER RIVER CHAPEL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -100%
- NBNEW BRAUNFELS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INCone grant, 2024 · $4k · revenue +2%
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.
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.
Carolina college of biblical studies exists to disciple christ-followers, through biblical higher education, for a lifetime of effective servant leadership.
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
To promote the gospel message by placing christian personnel in prisons for the purpose of relating to the spiritual needs of the inmates on an ongoing basis.
To unify christians in south carolina by connecting commerce and community to positively impact our culture for christ.
To provide a faith based community where life will be rich and full as god intends it to be, holding to our values, serving one another with dedication and promoting health and wellness for all.
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.
An interdenominational college ministry on seven college campuses across north and south carolina. goal is to see students leave college equipped and passionate to walk with jesus in the church and spread his love to others.
Stark college and seminary (scs) is a theological higher education institution teaching certificate, diploma, bachelor, and graduate level college courses to train men and women for service in the local church and community.
Suffolk christian academy prepares its diverse student body through rigorous, biblically-based academics to excel and to impact the world for the glory of god.
Christ centered ministry whose mission is to promote a culture for life within our community by serving people facing unexpected pregnancies, and to empower men and women to make wise choices by promoting the benefits of healthly relations…
Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse
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 Kids Across America Foundation. 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 41 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
64 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. 64 of the 126 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 YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEXOMA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE PIEDMONT INC ↗
- Who funds FULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF MCCORMICK SC INC ↗
- Who funds Spartanburg County Foundation ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds TOTAL MINISTRIES OF SPARTANBURG COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION of Greater Spartanburg ↗
- Who funds KIDS UPSTATE ↗
- Who funds East-West Ministries International ↗
- Who funds THE SPARTANBURG SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY SENIOR NUTRITION PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WOFFORD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds KIDS ACROSS AMERICA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPARTANBURG PHILHARMONIC ↗
- Who funds FOUR RIVERS OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds ST LUKES FREE MEDICAL CLINIC OF SPARTANBURG INC ↗
- Who funds GRAYSON GRAND CENTRAL STATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GRAYSON CO CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER ↗
- Who funds PARACLETE MISSION GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHARLES LEA CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHAPMAN CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PALMETTO COUNCIL INC SCOUTING AMERICA ↗
- Who funds GRAFFITI COMMUNITY MINISTRIESINC ↗
- Who funds HOPE CENTER FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds HATCHER GARDEN AND WOODLAND PRESERVE IN ↗
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 · Gibbs Charitable Foundation · Arkwright Foundation · Black & Phillips Foundation Inc · Mary Black Foundation Inc · Anna M Black Charitable Foundation · Milliken & Company Charitable Foundation · Balmer Foundation · South Carolina Christian Foundation · Wr & Eh Floyd Foundation · 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 Harry H Gibson 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.