· Private foundation
James F and Nelle E Burgess Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| World Vision | $312 |
| Papa Tank Theater for Inclusion | $250 |
| First Baptist Church of Greenville | $250 |
| Furman University | $200 |
| Woodlands Foundation | $150 |
| Upstate Forever | $100 |
| Meals on Wheels | $85 |
| Natureland Trust | $50 |
| United Ministries | $50 |
| Conserving Carolina | $50 |
| CVSC | $50 |
| Greenville Free Medical Clinic | $50 |
| Friends of Lake Keowee | $45 |
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 (FY19–19, $150) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $545 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
- UMUNITED MINISTRIES8× · 2017–2024 · $900 · revenue +58%
- MOMEALS ON WHEELS INC7× · 2017–2024 · $735 · revenue +186%
- SWSUSTAINING WAY5× · 2017–2022 · $575 · revenue +121%
Funded once
- LCLake Conestee Nature Preserveone grant, 2022 · $150
- GFGREENVILLE FREE MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2020 · $100
- UFUpstate Fatherhood Centerone grant, 2023 · $100
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.
Through responsible stewardship of our unique ecological resource, we provide inclusive opportunities for meaningful connection, discovery, and education in nature.
Protect and conserve land, natural areas, rural landscapes, family farms and historic places within north carolina's heartland
Charleston waterkeeper's mission it to protect and restore charleston's waterways for our community and future generations. we do that through an effective mix of boots-on-the-water stewardship and data-driven advocacy designed to protect…
Blue ridge rc&d works with partners to conserve natural resources, foster environmental stewardship, and support sustainable community development in northwest north carolina.
Our mission is to protect our state's hunting heritage and ensure this sports future for generations to come.
As a nationally accredited land trust, we conserve and manage land for public benefit in North Carolinas Southern Piedmont. We have conserved 235 properties, totaling 17,786 acres of land. We also facilitate the creation of a 1600 mile…
The mission of the atlantic coast conservancy is to provide 21st century solutions and sound scientific applications for conservation of critical natural resources in the face of a changing climate, focusing on the southeasthern united…
The congaree land trust was established to promote voluntary conservation of scenic lands, open spaces, farms, forests, natural areas and significant habitats in central south carolina.
Providing leadership to enhance the quality of life in greenwood through strategic long-term vision and collaborative community development initiatives.
To protect land and water forever, nurture relationships between people and place, and connect conservation to community.
The mission of the upper savannah land trust is to encourage and support conservation of natural and scenic lands, farms, forests, waterways, and open spaces on our eight-county area: abbeville, anderson, edgefield, greenwood, laurens,…
To help farmers and agricultural landowners protect their land and preserve its purpose.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Carolina Wildlife Federation and the most unlike its peers is Challenge to Conquer Cancer. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
26 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. 26 of the 68 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 WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds TRIUNE MERCY CENTER ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINING WAY ↗
- Who funds UPSTATE FOREVER ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds FURMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Genesis Homes Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE REEDY RIVER INC ↗
- Who funds Conserving Carolina ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS ↗
- Who funds FREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE FREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds HOMES OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds FULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF MCCORMICK SC INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds THE ANCHORAGE ↗
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: The Maddrey Foundation · Daniel-Mickel Foundation · The Jolley Foundation · Yeargin Foundation · Elbert W Rogers Foundation · Scansource Charitable Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · W W Burgiss Charities Inc · Sisk Foundation Buncombe St Methodist Church · Helga Marston Foundation · Spinks Family Foundation · Kellett Family 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 James F and Nelle E Burgess 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.