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Hayne Hipp 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k25 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+2 grants · $2.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HIPP FAMILY DONOR ADVISED FUND | $1,804,853 |
| FEED AND SEED | $304,000 |
| TREES UPSTATE | $50,000 |
| FOURTH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $15,250 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY | $15,000 |
| CLASSIC CENTER CULTURAL FOUNDATION | $6,055 |
| MARY BALDWIN COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| AVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| UPSTATE FOREVER | $2,600 |
| UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA | $2,500 |
| CHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| BROOKGREEN GARDENS | $2,000 |
| PEACE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ART | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,200 |
| SC ENVIRONMENTAL LAW PROJECT | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–23, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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 +55% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M 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
- TGTREES GREENVILLE5× · 2020–2024 · $107k · revenue +164%
Washington and Lee University5× · 2020–2024 · $65k · revenue +134%- UWUNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC3× · 2022–2024 · $45k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- SESC ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTERone grant, 2022 · $26k
- ABAmerican Battlefield Trustgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +58%
- SCSOAPSTONE CHURCH PRESERVATION ENDOWMENTone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
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.
Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.
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.
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…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Coker university is a student-centered, comprehensive university. it is dedicated to providing every student an academic curriculum based upon a uniformly excellent liberal arts core that enhances the structured development of key personal…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
The mission of the gibbes museum of art is to enhance lives through art by engaging people of every background and experience with art and artists of enduring quality; collect and preserve the art that touches charleston; and provide…
North greenville university exists to glorify god by cultivating graduates who are equipped to serve as transformational leaders for church and society.
The College of Arts and Sciences is committed to the development of the whole person through a liberal arts education of the highest quality. The School of Theology educates women and men to serve the broad whole of the Episcopal Church in…
Through responsible stewardship of our unique ecological resource, we provide inclusive opportunities for meaningful connection, discovery, and education in nature.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greenville Tech Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Robert Somers Aviation Scholarship Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 52 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
53 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. 53 of the 92 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 FEED & SEED CO ↗
- Who funds TREES GREENVILLE ↗
- Who funds Washington and Lee University ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CLASSIC CENTER CULTURAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARY BALDWIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds American Battlefield Trust ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds FOOTHILLS TRAIL CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds UPSTATE FOREVER ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA ENVIRONMENTAL LAW PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds AVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKGREEN GARDENS ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds MEYER CENTER FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds PEACE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Brewster Academy ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR THE COLLABORATION WITH THE HISPANIC COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds CHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds FACES AND VOICES OF RECOVERY(FAVOR) UPSTATE SC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL BALLET ↗
- Who funds THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL IN VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
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: Daniel-Mickel Foundation · The Jolley Foundation · Charles Timmons Foundation · Scsymmes Foundation · The Maddrey Foundation · John I Smith Charities Inc · Yeargin Foundation · Scansource Charitable Foundation · Charity Ball Board of Greenville · Jean T and Heyward G Pelham Foundation · Elbert W Rogers Foundation · Bill and Connie Timmons 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 Hayne Hipp 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.
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