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Ivey Family Foundation at a glance

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Ivey Family Foundation

Charitable and philanthropic endeavors in support of and in conjunction with the Spartanburg county foundation.

$50k
Granted FY2023
6
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

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

2
’18
4
’20
2
’21
1
’22
5
’23
3
’24
3
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$165kPhilanthropy$72kHealth$45kHousing & Shelter$35kHuman Services$28kFood & Nutrition$20kArts & Culture$10kEnvironment$10k
02FY2023 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GoForth Recovery$10,000
FAVOR Spartanburg$10,000
Ivey Family Foundation Scholarship Fund$10,000
Walnut Grove Plantation Fund$10,000
Cleveland Opportunity Foundation$5,000
YMCA of Greater Spartanburg$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%GoForth Recovery: $10k → 15%GoForth Recovery: $10k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$210k · 6 repeat orgs$58k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +27% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
4

Total granted

$210k
$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+27%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2018–2021 · $95k · revenue +54%
  • GR
    GOFORTH RECOVERY
    2× · 2023–2025 · $20k · revenue +48%
  • TS
    THE SPARTANBURG SOUP KITCHEN INC
    2× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +140%

Funded once

  • HC
    HOPE CENTER FOR CHILDRENgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +34%
  • MM
    MOBILE MEALS OF SPARTANBURG COUNTY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +27%
  • TM
    TOTAL MINISTRIES OF SPARTANBURG COUNTY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -46%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Hub City Roots

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.

Food & Nutrition
2
Rebuilding Together Spartanburg Inc

Repair/rehabilitate homes of disadvantaged homeowners in the upstate of sc through rebuilding days as well as special projects with various community groups.

Human Services
3
Strategic Spartanburg Inc

To report on data and engage the community in dialogue and strategy that leads to positive change in spartanburg county.

Community Improvement
4
Regenesis Community Development Corporation

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…

Housing & Shelter
5
Sargeants Army
Human Services
6
South Carolina Public Interest Foundation
Crime & Legal
7
Spartanburg County First Steps to School Readiness Partnership

Our mission is that every south carolina child will arrive at kindergarten ready to succeed.

Education
8
Spartanburg Methodist College

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…

Education
9
South Carolina Victim Assistance Network

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…

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10
Unitarian Universalist Church of Spartanburg Sc Inc

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.

Religion
11
Southeastern Community Action Partnership Inc

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…

Human Services
12
Spartanburg Area Housing Corporation

None

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Mens Christian Association of Greater Spartanburg; 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.
04the grantee network

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
7/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONVERSE UNIVERSITY: $95,000 · EducationCONVERSE UNIVERSITYCLEVELAND OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationCLEVELAND OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATIONSpartanburg County Foundation: $116,750 · PhilanthropySpartanburg County FoundationFACES AND VOICES OF RECOVERY(FAVOR) UPSTATE SC: $20,000 · OtherFACES AND VOICES OF…SPARTANBURG COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOC: $10,000 · OtherSPARTANBURG COUNTY …SPARTANBURG AREA CONSERVANCY INC: $10,000 · OtherSPARTANBURG AREA CO…Walnut Grove Plantation Fund: $10,000 · OtherWalnut Grove Planta…HOPE CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $7,500 · OtherHOPE CENTER FOR CHI…TOTAL MINISTRIES OF SPARTANBURG COUNTY INC: $5,000 · OtherTOTAL MINISTRIES OF…YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION of Greater Spartanburg: $5,000 · OtherYOUNG MENS CHRISTIA…NORTHSIDE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $35,000 · Community ImprovementNORTHSIDE …GOFORTH RECOVERY: $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE SPARTANBURG SOUP KITCHEN INC: $15,000 · Food & NutritionMOBILE MEALS OF SPARTANBURG COUNTY INC: $5,000 · Food & NutritionST LUKES FREE MEDICAL CLINIC OF SPARTANBURG INC: $5,000 · Health
Education$120,000Philanthropy$116,750Other$67,500Community Improvement$35,000Human Services$20,000Food & Nutrition$20,000Health$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSpartanburg County Foundation: $116,750 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCONVERSE UNIVERSITY: $95,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHSIDE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $35,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCLEVELAND OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetGOFORTH RECOVERY: $20,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetFACES AND VOICES OF RECOVERY(FAVOR) UPSTATE SC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SPARTANBURG SOUP KITCHEN INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSPARTANBURG COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSPARTANBURG AREA CONSERVANCY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHOPE CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMOBILE MEALS OF SPARTANBURG COUNTY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTOTAL MINISTRIES OF SPARTANBURG COUNTY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetST LUKES FREE MEDICAL CLINIC OF SPARTANBURG INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION of Greater Spartanburg: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Spartanburg County Fo…Spartanburg Regional …Mary Black Foundation…Black & Phillips Foun…Balmer FoundationArkwright FoundationHarry H Gibson Family…Milliken & Company Ch…South Carolina Christ…Duke Energy FoundationBetty & James K Stone…Anna M Black Charitab…
Spartanburg County FoundationSC30.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ivey Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ivey Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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