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Inman Riverdale 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 $10k18 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $19k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF THE PIEDMONT | $18,508 |
| MOBILE MEAL SERVICE OF SPARTANBURG CO | $6,000 |
| J GREEN | $2,235 |
| P PALMER | $1,402 |
| R DOBBINS | $1,100 |
| SC SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF AND THE BLIND FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| ADULT LEARNING CENTER | $1,000 |
| WOODRUFF ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB | $1,000 |
| PALMETTO COUNCIL BSA | $1,000 |
| ALDERSGATE METHODIST CHURCH | $600 |
| ENOREE METHODIST CHURCH | $600 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH ENOREE | $600 |
| BLIND INDUSTRIES & SERVICES OF MARYLAND | $500 |
| SPARTANBURG COUNTY FOUNDATION | $300 |
| NEW DAY CLUBHOUSE | $250 |
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 (FY22–22, $5k) 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.
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.
41 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 4 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- ALADULT LEARNING CENTER4× · 2022–2025 · $4k · revenue +8%
- SFSCSDB FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $3k · revenue +16%
- HSHEALTHY SMILES OF SPARTANBURG INC3× · 2021–2024 · $3k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- YYMCAone grant, 2018 · $50k
- CCCHAPMAN CULTURAL CENTER INCone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +7%
- SCSpartanburg County Foundationone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.
SMC Delivers an exceptional education that fuses the empowerment of the liberal arts with crucial career skills. Our mission is to equip our students with the knowledge, skills, virtues, and mindset needed to thrive personally, create…
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…
Sc economics is the only sc non-profit organization exclusively dedicated to improving economic education and financial literacy by preparing teachers and students to be active, successful, and prosperous members of our global economy.
South carolina community loan fund (scclf) is a u.s. treasury certified community development financial institution (cdfi) whose mission is to advance equitable access to capital by providing loans, technical assistance, and advocacy for…
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…
South Carolina Educational Communications, Inc. ("SCEC") supports and promotes educational public media activities in South Carolina and across the United States, including the development and creation of original content for broadcast and…
The mission of the spartanburg day school is to provide a superior educational experience, in a community of trust, that prepares students for a life well lived. spartanburg day school is dually accredited by southern association of…
The mission of south carolina humanities council, inc. is to enrich the cultural and intellectual lives of south carolinians. the organization seeks to increase public understanding of and support for the humanities by telling the human…
To unify christians in south carolina by connecting commerce and community to positively impact our culture for christ.
Scicu seeks to advance higher education in south carolina through fundraising, scholarships, research, as well as facilitating collaborative activities among the member institutions. scicu also enhances a positive public image and…
Through our network of members and partner organizations, SCACED strives to improve the quality of life for low-wealth families and communities by advancing community economic development and public policy in South Carolina.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Adult Learning Center and the most unlike its peers is Angel's Charge Ministry. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 79 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 UNITED WAY OF THE PIEDMONT INC ↗
- Who funds CHAPMAN CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Spartanburg County Foundation ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF GREENVILLE ↗
- Who funds ADULT LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds PALMETTO COUNCIL INC SCOUTING AMERICA ↗
- Who funds SCSDB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY SMILES OF SPARTANBURG 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: Spartanburg County Foundation · Milliken & Company Charitable Foundation · J M Smith Foundation · Arkwright Foundation · Gibbs Charitable Foundation · Mary Black Foundation Inc · Wr & Eh Floyd Foundation · Harry H Gibson Family Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Anna M Black Charitable Foundation · Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas
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 Inman Riverdale 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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