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Hollingsworth Funds Inc

Hollingsworth funds is a supporting organization to which approximately 45% of the annual distributions are awarded to furman university, approximately 10% to the greenville ymca, and the remainder to public charities that operate or conduct affairs for the benefit of greenville county.

$12M
Granted FY2024still arriving
56
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$5.4M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Education$26MHuman Services$7.9MPhilanthropy$6.5MHousing & Shelter$4.8MCommunity Improvement$2.1MArts & Culture$1.8MReligion$1.1MHealth$820kOther$0
02FY2024 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $214k
  • $50k–250k41 grants · $3.4M
  • $250k+7 grants · $8.4M
$75,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$407M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FURMAN UNIVERSITY$5,447,114
YMCA OF GREENVILLE$1,298,964
UNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY$500,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE$375,000
GREENVILLE HOUSING FUND$310,000
UNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY$250,000
GREENVILLE HOUSING AUTHORITY$250,000
COMMUNITYWORKS CAROLINA$200,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE$192,150
HISPANIC ALLIANCE$150,000
UNITED HOUSING CONNECTIONS$150,000
UNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY$150,000
UNITED MINISTRIES$100,000
MOUNTAIN VIEW BAPTIST CHURCH$100,000
INSTITUTE FOR CHILD SUCCESS$100,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $7.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WOMEN'S RIGHTS AND EMPOWERMENT NETWORK: $75k → 16%WOMEN'S RIGHTS AND EMPOWERMENT NETWORK: $50k → 16%WOMEN'S RIGHTS AND EMPOWERMENT NETWORK: $50k → 16%WOMEN'S RIGHTS AND EMPOWERMENT NETWORK: $50k → 16%WOMEN'S RIGHTS AND EMPOWERMENT NETWORK: $50k → 16%UPSTATE CIRCLE OF FRIENDS: $50k → 10%PLEASANT VALLEY CONNECTION INC: $50k → 10%PLEASANT VALLEY CONNECTION INC: $50k → 10%UPSTATE CIRCLE OF FRIENDS: $50k → 10%MILL COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $100k → 10%MILL COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $100k → 10%MILL COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $50k → 10%MILL COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $50k → 10%MILL COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $50k → 10%MILL VILLAGE MINISTRIES: $50k → 10%MILL COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $50k → 10%SENIOR ACTION: $75k → 10%CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $94k → 10%CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $94k → 10%CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $50k → 10%CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $50k → 10%CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $50k → 10%YMCA OF GREENVILLE: $1.3M → 10%YMCA OF GREENVILLE: $1.2M → 10%YMCA OF GREENVILLE: $1.2M → 10%YMCA OF GREENVILLE: $1.1M → 10%YMCA OF GREENVILLE: $1.0M → 10%PENDLETON PLACE: $100k → 10%PENDLETON PLACE: $100k → 10%SAFE HARBOR: $74k → 10%PENDLETON PLACE: $60k → 10%URBAN LEAGUE OF THE UPSTATE: $80k → 10%URBAN LEAGUE OF THE UPSTATE: $80k → 10%URBAN LEAGUE OF THE UPSTATE: $80k → 10%URBAN LEAGUE OF THE UPSTATE: $80k → 10%URBAN LEAGUE OF THE UPSTATE: $80k → 10%SAFE HARBOR: $30k → 10%URBAN LEAGUE OF THE UPSTATE: $45k → 10%SAFE HARBOR: $25k → 10%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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$49M · 47 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

47 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
7

Total granted

$49M
$607k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+32%

Still filing today

96%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $700k 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 ServicesEducationArts & CultureHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalOther

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

  • FU
    FURMAN UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $24M · revenue +43%
  • YO
    YMCA OF GREENVILLE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $5.8M · revenue +85%
  • GH
    Greenville Housing Fund
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +241%

Funded once

  • GT
    GREENVILLE TRANSIT AUTHORITY
    one grant, 2023 · $325k
  • MDC INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +26%
  • SA
    SENIOR ACTION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue -28%

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
Greenville Area Development Corporation

Promoting and enhancing the economic growth and development of greenville county south carolina; gadc was formed by greenville county council.

Community Improvement
2
Foundation for a Greater Greenwood County Inc

Providing leadership to enhance the quality of life in greenwood through strategic long-term vision and collaborative community development initiatives.

Philanthropy
3
Greenville Theatre Arts Center
—
4
Greensboro Area Chamber of Commerce Inc

To serve as greensboro, north carolina's principal economic and community development organization. our goal is to strategically develop a vibrant community that creates, expands, and attracts business while advancing the quality of life…

—
5
Community Industry Value Interactionist League

NC CIVIL is a nonprofit community impact organization that develops grassroots approaches to structural disparities. Our mission is to increase resident involvement, improve organization of resources, and help institutions partner…

Youth Development
6
Sc Chamber of Commerce

Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.

—
7
Greater Greenville Housing & Revitalizat

Develop, provide, and promote safe, affordable, and decent housing and design, research, and/or promote revitalization activities and facilitate the coordination of various service and support activities for the greater Greenville…

Community Improvement
8
South Carolina Council On Competitiveness

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…

Community Improvement
9
South Carolina Public Interest Foundation
Crime & Legal
10
Greater Greenville Chamber of Commerce

Promote upstate development. 2024 goals included increasing educational attainment for adults aged 25-64, drive entrepreneurial ecosystem growth, deliver 21st century talent and workforce, and inform and influence decisions with data.

—
11
South Carolina Community Capital Alliance

Our mission is to facilitate the investment of capital in south carolina in order to improve the quality of life for all her citizens by providing responsible and affordable financial products and services that are a major catalyst for…

Community Improvement
12
Upstate Sc Alliance Inc

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.

Community Improvement

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 Abundance Capital. 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 34 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%4%<5yr14%4%5–10yr18%23%10–20yr13%19%20–35yr13%32%35–55yr19%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%1%<5yr14%4%5–10yr18%8%10–20yr13%4%20–35yr13%15%35–55yr19%69%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/60
the rest of the field
13%
353/2,769

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.

04the grantee network

54 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. 54 of the 60 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/54
Grantees still filing
36/54
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FURMAN UNIVERSITY — $24,227,886 · EducationFURMAN UNIVERSITY+5 more — $1,495,000 · Education+5 moreYMCA OF GREENVILLE — $5,777,583 · Human ServicesYMCA OF GREENVILL…ALLIANCE FOR THE COLLABORATION WITH THE HISPANIC COMMUNITY — $540,000 · Human ServicesALLIANCE FOR THE …MILL VILLAGE MINISTRIES — $450,000 · Human ServicesURBAN LEAGUE OF THE UPSTATE — $445,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR COMMUNITY SERVICES — $337,500 · Human Services+6 more — $939,000 · Human Services+6 moreUNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC — $3,649,475 · OtherUNITED WAY OF GREENVIL…GREENVILLE CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC — $657,500 · OtherGREENVILLE CHAMBER FOU…METROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL — $500,000 · OtherUNITED MINISTRIES — $500,000 · OtherTHE BARBARA STONE FOUNDATION — $375,000 · OtherLIVEWELL GREENVILLE — $502,500 · OtherINSTITUTE FOR CHILD SUCCESS INC — $500,000 · OtherTRIUNE MERCY CENTER — $371,000 · Other+21 more — $3,616,000 · Other+21 moreGreenville Housing Fund — $1,623,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITYWORKS INC — $1,450,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY SC INC — $130,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more — $50,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE INC — $3,031,452 · PhilanthropyABUNDANCE CAPITAL — $200,000 · PhilanthropySOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE — $570,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE UPSTATE INC — $285,000 · Arts & CultureUPCOUNTRY HISTORY MUSEUM — $240,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WAREHOUSE THEATRE — $100,000 · Arts & CultureGREENVILLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS — $80,000 · Arts & CultureSOTERIA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $375,000 · Crime & LegalSouth Carolina Legal Services — $300,000 · Crime & LegalROOT & REBOUND — $250,000 · Crime & Legal
Education$25,722,886Human Services$8,489,083Other$10,671,475Housing & Shelter$3,253,000Philanthropy$3,231,452Arts & Culture$1,275,000Crime & Legal$925,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFURMAN UNIVERSITY — $24,227,886 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetYMCA OF GREENVILLE — $5,777,583 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC — $3,649,475 over 5y, 8.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE INC — $3,031,452 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetGreenville Housing Fund — $1,623,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetCOMMUNITYWORKS INC — $1,450,000 over 5y, 9.2% of budgetGREENVILLE CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC — $657,500 over 5y, 13% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE — $570,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetALLIANCE FOR THE COLLABORATION WITH THE HISPANIC COMMUNITY — $540,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetLIVEWELL GREENVILLE — $502,500 over 4y, 38% of budgetPUBLIC EDUCATION PARTNERS GREENVILLE COUNTY — $500,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetUNITED MINISTRIES — $500,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetMETROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL — $500,000 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR CHILD SUCCESS INC — $500,000 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetMILL VILLAGE MINISTRIES — $450,000 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF THE UPSTATE — $445,000 over 5y, 8.2% of budgetGREENVILLE TECH FOUNDATION INC — $425,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetTHE BARBARA STONE FOUNDATION — $375,000 over 5y, 45% of budgetSOTERIA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $375,000 over 5y, 10.0% of budgetTRIUNE MERCY CENTER — $371,000 over 5y, 6.4% of budgetSLATER MARIETTA HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES INC — $337,500 over 5y, 20% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY SERVICES — $337,500 over 5y, 18% of budgetTEN AT THE TOP — $300,000 over 4y, 39% of budgetSouth Carolina Legal Services — $300,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE UPSTATE INC — $285,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetWOMENS RIGHTS AND EMPOWERMENT NETWORK — $275,000 over 5y, 8.2% of budgetPENDLETON PLACE INC — $260,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetREBUILD UPSTATE — $258,000 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF UPSTATEMIDLANDS SOUTH CAROLINA INC — $250,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCommunities in Schools of South Carolina — $250,000 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetROOT & REBOUND — $250,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetUPCOUNTRY HISTORY MUSEUM — $240,000 over 3y, 9.9% of budgetGREENVILLE LITERACY ASSOCIATION — $225,000 over 5y, 9.6% of budgetPrisma Health-Upstate — $225,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREENVILLE FREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC — $220,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetJULIE VALENTINE CENTER — $219,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetABUNDANCE CAPITAL — $200,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetGREATER GOOD GREENVILLE — $200,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetUNITED HOUSING CONNECTIONS — $150,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY SC INC — $130,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetSAFE HARBOR INC — $129,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetPLEASANT VALLEY CONNECTION — $100,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetCollege Unbound — $100,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMDC INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE WAREHOUSE THEATRE — $100,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetUPSTATE CIRCLE OF FRIENDS — $100,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetCOMPASS OF CAROLINA INC — $95,000 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetGREENVILLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS — $80,000 over 2y, 8.0% 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.

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 Jolley FoundationScsymmes FoundationDaniel-Mickel Foundat…United Way of Greenvi…Sisters of Charity Fo…John I Smith Charitie…Scansource Charitable…United Community Bank…Td Charitable Foundat…The Maddrey FoundationSt Francis Hospital I…Charity Ball Board of…
The Jolley FoundationNV90.7× affinity41 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Jolley Foundation · Scsymmes Foundation · Daniel-Mickel Foundation · United Way of Greenville County Inc · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · John I Smith Charities Inc · Scansource Charitable Foundation · United Community Bank Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · The Maddrey Foundation · St Francis Hospital Inc · Charity Ball Board of Greenville

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 Hollingsworth Funds 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%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
    13report 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, FY20–25

    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Hollingsworth Funds Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Hollingsworth Funds 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 60 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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