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Helga Marston 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k27 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $224k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $326k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Benjamin School | $125,000 |
| Habitat for Humanity Greenville | $100,000 |
| Mill Village Ministeries | $50,596 |
| Unity Health on Main | $50,036 |
| Greater Good Greenville | $36,035 |
| Individual grant recipient | $35,246 |
| Hispanic Alliance | $30,265 |
| Conestee Foundation | $25,133 |
| Live Like Jake Foundation | $25,000 |
| Greenville Theater | $20,897 |
| ACLU of S Carolina | $20,000 |
| The Warehouse Theatre | $19,579 |
| Big Dog Ranch | $12,000 |
| Redefining Refuge | $5,000 |
| Place of Hope | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $547k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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 +64% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
56 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 10 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $193k 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
- TBTHE BENJAMIN PRIVATE SCHOOL INC7× · 2019–2025 · $758k · revenue +85%
- POPLACE OF HOPE INC8× · 2018–2025 · $334k · revenue +126%
- MVMILL VILLAGE MINISTRIES5× · 2021–2025 · $204k · revenue +112%
Funded once
- LALEAD ACADEMY2× · 2024–2025 · $210k · revenue +5%
- FPFeeding Palm Beach Countyone grant, 2020 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $21k
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.
Goodwill builds pathways that help people pursue the life they want to achieve. goodwill exists to help people see possibilities, seize opportunities, and prosper. we partner with individuals to identify their strengths, interests and…
To market the upstate sc region to attract business investment. to support economic development efforts of the upstate alliance investors. to build cohesive relationships among the region's private and public sectors.
The mission of green hill center for nc art is to promote the visual arts of north carolina by engaging a broad community of artists, adults and children through dynamic exhibitions and educational programs while providing a platform for…
Southern coalition for social justice partners with communities of color and economically disadvantaged communities across the south to defend and advance their political, social, and economic rights. through an intersectional and…
Promoting and enhancing the economic growth and development of greenville county south carolina; gadc was formed by greenville county council.
Providing leadership to enhance the quality of life in greenwood through strategic long-term vision and collaborative community development initiatives.
The south carolina policy council was founded in 1986 as an independent, private, non-partisan research organization to promote the principles of limited government, free enterprise, and individual liberty and responsibility in the state…
The south carolina council on competitiveness is a nonpartisan, business-led non-profit organization committed to advancing the long term competitiveness of south carolina through actionable research, support of industry clusters and…
The organization is a network of values-based leaders committed to the betterment of life and opportunity for all citizens of south carolina. through a rigorous, 18-month seminar series, a cohort of approximately 20 established leaders…
The mission of the upstate mediation center is to provide high quality, affordable mediation and conflict resolution services to residents of the upstate of south carolina.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greenville County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Trees Greenville. 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 26 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
56 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. 56 of the 111 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 THE BENJAMIN PRIVATE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds PLACE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds LEAD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MILL VILLAGE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds LIVE LIKE JAKE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CONESTEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PEACE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOST INC ↗
- Who funds UNITY HEALTH ON MAIN ↗
- Who funds Jewish Federation of Upstate South Carolina ↗
- Who funds THE WAREHOUSE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds GREATER GOOD GREENVILLE ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR THE COLLABORATION WITH THE HISPANIC COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds BIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds TREES GREENVILLE ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINING WAY ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds REDEFINING REFUGE INC ↗
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: The Jolley Foundation · Scsymmes Foundation · Daniel-Mickel Foundation · Scansource Charitable Foundation · Elbert W Rogers Foundation · Charles Timmons Foundation · Hollingsworth Funds Inc · United Way of Greenville County Inc · United Community Bank Foundation · Jean T and Heyward G Pelham Foundation · John I Smith Charities Inc · 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 Helga Marston 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Lord's Place Inc — 12% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc — 0% of income from government
- Place of Hope Inc — 0% of income from government
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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