· Public charity
Ivey Family Foundation
Charitable and philanthropic endeavors in support of and in conjunction with the Spartanburg county foundation.
Read this first · the figures below need context
54% of Ivey Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Spartanburg County Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Ivey Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $50k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
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 · FY2023
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAVOR Spartanburg | $10,000 |
| Walnut Grove Plantation Fund | $10,000 |
| GoForth Recovery | $10,000 |
| Ivey Family Foundation Scholarship Fund | $10,000 |
| YMCA of Greater Spartanburg | $5,000 |
| Cleveland Opportunity Foundation | $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 (FY23–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
CONVERSE UNIVERSITY2× · 2018–2021 · $95k · revenue +54%- GRGOFORTH RECOVERY2× · 2023–2025 · $20k · revenue +48%
- TSTHE SPARTANBURG SOUP KITCHEN INC2× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +140%
Funded once
- HCHOPE CENTER FOR CHILDRENgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +34%
- MMMOBILE MEALS OF SPARTANBURG COUNTY INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +27%
- TMTOTAL MINISTRIES OF SPARTANBURG COUNTY INCone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -46%
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.
The hub city farmers' market is a nonprofit community organization that aims to increase supply, demand, and access to healthy, local foods in spartanburg, south carolina.
Repair/rehabilitate homes of disadvantaged homeowners in the upstate of sc through rebuilding days as well as special projects with various community groups.
To report on data and engage the community in dialogue and strategy that leads to positive change in spartanburg county.
This corporation is organized as a non-profit organization which will operate exclusively for charitable purposes; including but not limited to directly and indirectly, to develop, own, manage, buy and sell affordable housing in and around…
Our mission is that every south carolina child will arrive at kindergarten ready to succeed.
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…
The south carolina victim assistance network's mission is to ensure crime victims receive access to, and assistance from the criminal and juvenile justice systems and related social service providers; to improve the quality of services…
The Unitarian Universalist Church of Spartanburg is a welcoming congregation transforming lives and our world by developing strong hearts and minds challenging injustice promoting sustainability and celebrating diversity.
To improve and empower the lives of the people that we serve. to accomplish our mission, we help people help themselves by providing services which enables them to develop marketable skills, reduce barriers to employment, teach living…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Mens Christian Association of Greater Spartanburg and the most unlike its peers is Cleveland Opportunity Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 15 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 Spartanburg County Foundation ↗
- Who funds CONVERSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NORTHSIDE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOFORTH RECOVERY ↗
- Who funds FACES AND VOICES OF RECOVERY(FAVOR) UPSTATE SC ↗
- Who funds THE SPARTANBURG SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds SPARTANBURG COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOC ↗
- Who funds SPARTANBURG AREA CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE CENTER FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds MOBILE MEALS OF SPARTANBURG COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds TOTAL MINISTRIES OF SPARTANBURG COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ST LUKES FREE MEDICAL CLINIC OF SPARTANBURG INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION of Greater Spartanburg ↗
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 · Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation · Mary Black Foundation Inc · Black & Phillips Foundation Inc · Balmer Foundation · Arkwright Foundation · Harry H Gibson Family Foundation · Milliken & Company Charitable Foundation · South Carolina Christian Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Betty & James K Stone Foundation · Anna M Black Charitable 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 Ivey Family 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.