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Harry H Gibson Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$257k
Granted FY2025still arriving
52
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$340kYouth Development$336kReligion$307kEducation$226kHuman Services$192kPhilanthropy$136kHousing & Shelter$106kHealth$92kOther$0
02FY2025 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k46 grants · $114k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $88k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
$2,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$958k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
EAST WEST MINISTRIES$5,000
UNITED WAY OF THE PIEDMONT$5,000
SALVATION ARMY$5,000
TOTAL MINISTRIES$4,000
S4CA INC$4,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%GRAFFITI COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $4k → 17%LIVING WATERS INTERNATIONAL: $1k → 8%OKLAHOMA BAPTIST HOMES FOR CHILDREN: $3k → 16%OKLAHOMA BAPTIST HOMES FOR CHILDREN: $3k → 16%GRAFFITI COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $3k → 17%OKLAHOMA BAPTIST HOMES FOR CHILDREN: $2k → 16%OKLAHOMA BAPTIST HOMES FOR CHILDREN: $2k → 16%GRAFFITI COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $2k → 17%OKLAHOMA BAPTIST HOMES FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 16%GRAFFITI COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $2k → 17%OKLAHOMA BAPTIST HOMES FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 16%GRAFFITI COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $2k → 17%TEXOMA FAMILY SHELTER: $2k → 11%FOUR RIVERS OUTREACH: $4k → 11%FOUR RIVERS OUTREACH: $4k → 11%FOUR RIVERS OUTREACH: $3k → 11%FOUR RIVERS OUTREACH: $3k → 11%FOUR RIVERS OUTREACH: $3k → 11%FOUR RIVERS OUTREACH: $2k → 11%FOUR RIVERS OUTREACH: $2k → 11%FOUR RIVERS OUTREACH: $2k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MT
NY
PA
CO
MO
AZ
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 79 repeat orgs$71k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +27% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

79
31

Total granted

$1.8M
$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+27%

Still filing today

53%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesReligionFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
    9× · 2017–2025 · $255k · revenue +59%
  • CU
    CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2025 · $105k · revenue +143%
  • TC
    TEXOMA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $61k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • SC
    SOUTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY OUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • TR
    TYGER RIVER CHAPEL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -100%
  • NB
    NEW BRAUNFELS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC
    one grant, 2024 · $4k · revenue +2%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Southern Wesleyan University

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.

Education
2
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
3
Greenville College

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.

Education
4
Carolina Chaplaincy Program

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.

Religion
5
South Carolina Christian Chamber of Commerce

To unify christians in south carolina by connecting commerce and community to positively impact our culture for christ.

Religion
6
South Carolina Episcopal Home at Still Hopes

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.

Health
7
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
8
Campus Outreach Columbia

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.

Philanthropy
9
Christian Education Activities Corp

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.

Education
10
Suffolk Christian Academy

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.

Unclassified
11
Starkville Pregnancy Care Center

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…

Human Services
12
South Carolina Network of Children's Advocacy Centers

Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Advocacy Center of Spartanburg Cherokee - Union Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

64 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/64
Grantees still filing
49/64
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MOBILE MEALS: $267,600 · OtherMOBILE MEALSFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $69,000 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHUNITED WAY OF THE PIEDMONT INC: $60,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF THE PIEDMONT INCSALVATION ARMY: $44,000 · OtherTOTAL MINISTRIES OF SPARTANBURG COUNTY INC: $41,500 · OtherFULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF MCCORMICK SC INC: $49,500 · OtherSpartanburg County Foundation: $48,600 · Other+82 more: $526,991 · Other+82 moreYOUNG LIFE: $255,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFEKIDS UPSTATE: $33,000 · Youth DevelopmentKIDS UPSTATEPALMETTO COUNCIL INC SCOUTING AMERICA: $13,000 · Youth Development+3 more: $10,360 · Youth DevelopmentCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $105,000 · EducationCLEMSON UN…TEXOMA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $60,500 · EducationTEXOMA CHR…AUSTIN COLLEGE: $13,750 · EducationAUSTIN COL…+5 more: $9,000 · EducationEast-West Ministries International: $30,500 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $20,500 · ReligionSOUTH CAROLINA CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION: $20,000 · ReligionPARACLETE MISSION GROUP INC: $16,000 · ReligionBURDEN SHARE INC: $9,000 · Religion+1 more: $2,250 · ReligionMIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES INC: $46,000 · Human ServicesFOUR RIVERS OUTREACH INC: $22,500 · Human ServicesGRAFFITI COMMUNITY MINISTRIESINC: $13,000 · Human ServicesOKLAHOMA BAPTIST HOMES FOR CHILDREN INC: $11,500 · Human Services+2 more: $3,000 · Human ServicesTHE SPARTANBURG SOUP KITCHEN INC: $26,000 · Food & NutritionTRI-COUNTY SENIOR NUTRITION PROJECT INC: $26,000 · Food & NutritionGRAYSON GRAND CENTRAL STATION: $20,500 · Food & NutritionST LUKES FREE MEDICAL CLINIC OF SPARTANBURG INC: $21,000 · HealthGRAYSON CO CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER: $19,500 · HealthTHE CHARLES LEA CENTER INC: $14,500 · HealthHOPE FOR HURTING HEARTS MINISTRY: $7,000 · HealthCAROLINA PREGNANCY CENTER: $6,509 · Health+3 more: $2,500 · Health
Other$1,107,191Youth Development$311,360Education$188,250Religion$98,250Human Services$96,000Food & Nutrition$72,500Health$71,009

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYOUNG LIFE: $255,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $105,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTEXOMA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $60,500 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE PIEDMONT INC: $60,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetFULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF MCCORMICK SC INC: $49,500 over 9y, 6.8% of budgetSpartanburg County Foundation: $48,600 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES INC: $46,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTOTAL MINISTRIES OF SPARTANBURG COUNTY INC: $41,500 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION of Greater Spartanburg: $33,332 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS UPSTATE: $33,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetEast-West Ministries International: $30,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SPARTANBURG SOUP KITCHEN INC: $26,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetTRI-COUNTY SENIOR NUTRITION PROJECT INC: $26,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetWOFFORD COLLEGE: $24,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS ACROSS AMERICA FOUNDATION: $23,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSPARTANBURG PHILHARMONIC: $23,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetFOUR RIVERS OUTREACH INC: $22,500 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetST LUKES FREE MEDICAL CLINIC OF SPARTANBURG INC: $21,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGRAYSON GRAND CENTRAL STATION: $20,500 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $20,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGRAYSON CO CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER: $19,500 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetPARACLETE MISSION GROUP INC: $16,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHARLES LEA CENTER INC: $14,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCHAPMAN CULTURAL CENTER INC: $14,250 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetAUSTIN COLLEGE: $13,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPALMETTO COUNCIL INC SCOUTING AMERICA: $13,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetGRAFFITI COMMUNITY MINISTRIESINC: $13,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetHOPE CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $12,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetHATCHER GARDEN AND WOODLAND PRESERVE IN: $12,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetOKLAHOMA BAPTIST HOMES FOR CHILDREN INC: $11,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBURDEN SHARE INC: $9,000 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetHOUSE OF ELI INC: $8,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetHALTER (HEALING AND LEARNING THROUGH EQUINE RELATIONSHIPS): $7,509 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetIPTAY: $7,360 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE FOR HURTING HEARTS MINISTRY: $7,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetCAROLINA PREGNANCY CENTER: $6,509 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetOwners Manual For Life Inc: $6,500 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetETV Endowment of South Carolina Inc: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBALLET SPARTANBURG INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SPARTANBURG CHEROKEE - UNION INC: $5,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTYGER RIVER CHAPEL FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetSPARTANBURG AREA CONSERVANCY INC: $4,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $4,250 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNEW BRAUNFELS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetS4CA INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSCHOOL MINISTRIES OF SPARTANBURG COUNTY: $3,500 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetSPARTANBURG METHODIST COLLEGE: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Spartanburg County Fo…J M Smith FoundationGibbs Charitable Foun…Arkwright FoundationBlack & Phillips Foun…Mary Black Foundation…Anna M Black Charitab…Milliken & Company Ch…Balmer FoundationSouth Carolina Christ…Wr & Eh Floyd Foundat…Spartanburg Regional …
Spartanburg County FoundationSC55.3× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Harry H Gibson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harry H Gibson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 126 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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