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James E Clyburn Scholarship and Research Foundation

To enhance the quality of life of persons in need through the awarding of scholarships for academic study.

$470k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Education$85kFood & Nutrition$8k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $8,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $470,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $462,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$8,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$40k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Everybody Eats of Orangeburg$8,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 78% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%CLINTON COLLEGE: $10k → 8%MORRIS COLLEGE: $10k → 14%BENEDICT COLLEGE: $10k → 16%CLAFLIN UNIVERSITY: $15k → 25%VOORHEES COLLEGE: $10k → 28%ALLEN UNIVERSITY: $10k → 16%Everybody Eats of Orangeburg: $8k → 25%DENMARK TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $10k → 28%SOUTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 25%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 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.

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Texas College

To ensure that the student body experiences balanced intellectual, psychological, social and spiritual development, aimed at enabling them to become active productive members of society where they live and work.

Education
2
Livingstone College

The mission of the College is to prepare students personally, socially, and intellectually to effectively function in a global and technological society.

Education
3
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates College is a private, highly selective, residential college devoted to undergraduate study in the traditional disciplines of the liberal arts and sciences as well as in emerging interdisciplinary programs.

Education
4
LeMoyne-Owen College

Provide a transformative experience educating students for urban-focused leadership, scholarship, service, and professional careers.

Education
5
Franklin University

Franklin University is a student-centered, nonprofit, independent institution providing high quality, relevant education to enable the broadest possible community of learners to achieve their goals and enrich the world.

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6
Raritan Valley Community College

Raritan Valley Community College is an educational community that works to develop critical thinking, foster intellectual curiosity, promote leadership, encourage social responsibility and support personal growth.

Education
7
Union Institute & University

Union Institute & University educates highly motivated adults who seek academic programs to engage, enlighten, and empower them to pursue professional goals and a lifetime of learning and service. Offering accredited bachelors, masters,…

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8
Lincoln University

Lincoln college uniquely empowers students to realize their full potential.

Education
9
Tougaloo College

The College is an institution of higher education and provides instruction and various support services in achieving its purpose.

Education
10
Lincoln University

To provide traditional educational programs in diverse fields of study, delivered by experienced educators, and leading to outstanding employment opportunities for American and international students

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11
Hampden-Sydney College

Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.

Education
12
Carroll College

Carroll college is a catholic, diocesan, liberal arts college in the ecumenical tradition of the second vatican council. carroll college acknowledges the role of preparing its students for a career, and also affirms the role of providing…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Clinton College; the most unlike its peers is Benedict College. 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

7 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. 7 of the 9 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
2/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CLAFLIN UNIVERSITY: $15,000 · EducationCLAFLIN UNIVERSITYAllen University: $10,000 · EducationAllen UniversityMorris College: $10,000 · EducationMorris CollegeCLINTON COLLEGE: $10,000 · EducationCLINTON COLLEGEBENEDICT COLLEGE: $10,000 · EducationBENEDICT COLLEGEVoorhees College: $10,000 · EducationVoorhees CollegeJAMES E CLYBURN SCHOLARSHIP AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $8,000 · EducationJAMES E CLYBURN SCHOLARSHIP AND RESEARCH FOUNDATIONDENMARK TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $10,000 · OtherDENMARK TECHNICAL COLLEG…SOUTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · OtherSOUTH CAROLINA STATE UNI…
Education$73,000Other$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCLAFLIN UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAllen University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMorris College: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCLINTON COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBENEDICT COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVoorhees College: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJAMES E CLYBURN SCHOLARSHIP AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 1y, 1.4% 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.

Sc Chamber Education and Workforce Development FoundationSC17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sc Chamber Education and Workforce Development Foundation · Educational Credit Management Corporation · Frazier Family Foundation · South Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities · United Negro College Fund Inc · Tom Joyner Foundation Inc · Chapman Foundation Inc · Dick Horne Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 James E Clyburn Scholarship and Research Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James E Clyburn Scholarship and Research Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to James E Clyburn Scholarship and Research Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 9 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $381k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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