· Private foundation
Jean T and Heyward G Pelham 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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $67k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $374k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $905k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $300,000 |
| FURMAN UNIVERSITY | $200,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL SYSTEM CORPORATION | $100,000 |
| FURMAN UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| SIGNATURE THEATRE INC | $75,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC | $75,000 |
| THE WAREHOUSE THEATRE | $55,000 |
| CANCER SURVIVORS PARK ALLIANCE | $50,000 |
| ARLINGTON FREE CLINIC INC | $50,000 |
| DUKE STUDENT PUBLISHING COMPANY INC | $40,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD CANCER CONNECTION | $40,000 |
| CHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $189k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 24% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +38% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 8 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $453k 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
DUKE UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +51%- CUCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +143%
CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +53%
Funded once
- ACAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INCone grant, 2018 · $600k · revenue -82%
- PGPRINCE GEORGES COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLSone grant, 2022 · $25k
- RCRock Creek Conservancy Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +83%
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.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
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…
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.
Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.
Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.
Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.
The mission of green hill center for nc art is to promote the visual arts of north carolina by engaging a broad community of artists, adults and children through dynamic exhibitions and educational programs while providing a platform for…
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
Inspiring philanthropy and strengthening our region through innovative community initiatives and quality services to donors and constituents.
Our mission is to create thriving communities by helping nonprofits succeed. our work revolves around four primary areas of focus.1. we are a hub for social innovation 2. we are a capacity accelerator for organizations and their people3.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greenville Tech Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Camp Spring Creek Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
64 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. 64 of the 76 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 DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CLEMSON ARCHITECTURAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMPERDOWN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SIGNATURE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds THE WAREHOUSE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds University of Maryland Medical System Corporation ↗
- Who funds FURMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE ↗
- Who funds DUKE STUDENT PUBLISHING COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds ARLINGTON FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds CHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Learnserve International ↗
- Who funds CANCER SURVIVORS PARK ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA ARCHITECTURAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds United Help Ukraine Inc ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds AVALON THEATRE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds PEACE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE ARTS FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds FINE ARTS CENTER PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD CANCER CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC ↗
- Who funds SHOES THAT FIT ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE PARK NURSERY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SIGAL MUSIC MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Rock Creek Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SC NEW PLAY FESTIVAL 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: Daniel-Mickel Foundation · The Jolley Foundation · Scsymmes Foundation · Charles Timmons Foundation · John I Smith Charities Inc · Bill and Connie Timmons Foundation · Yeargin Foundation · Spinks Family Foundation · AWT Family Foundation · Dabo's All in Team Foundation · St Francis Hospital Inc · Charity Ball Board of Greenville
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 Jean T and Heyward G Pelham 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.
- Rock Creek Conservancy Inc — 60% of income from government
- Anacostia Watershed Society Inc — 15% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- University of Maryland Medical System Corporation — 0% of income from government
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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