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Jean T and Heyward G Pelham Foundation at a glance

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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.

$1.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
48
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$7.4MArts & Culture$1.8MHealth$1.7MEnvironment$1.6MHuman Services$106kInternational$85kReligion$60kPhilanthropy$45kOther$0
02FY2024 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $67k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $374k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $905k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$15,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$40M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$300,000
FURMAN UNIVERSITY$200,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL SYSTEM CORPORATION$100,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY$100,000
FURMAN UNIVERSITY$100,000
CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC$75,000
SIGNATURE THEATRE INC$75,000
THE WAREHOUSE THEATRE$55,000
ARLINGTON FREE CLINIC INC$50,000
CANCER SURVIVORS PARK ALLIANCE$50,000
DUKE STUDENT PUBLISHING COMPANY INC$40,000
NEIGHBORHOOD CANCER CONNECTION$40,000
CHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL SCHOOL$30,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY$25,000
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.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UNITED HELP UKRAINE: $32k → 8%UNITED HELP UKRAINE: $23k → 8%UNITED HELP UKRAINE: $15k → 8%SHOES THAT FIT: $15k → 14%SHOES THAT FIT: $15k → 14%UNITED HELP UKRAINE: $15k → 8%SHOES THAT FIT: $10k → 14%GREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $5k → 8%GREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $5k → 8%UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC: $10k → 10%UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC: $10k → 10%UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC: $10k → 10%UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC: $10k → 10%GREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $5k → 14%CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES D-B-A CDS: $3k → 10%CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENT SERVICES: $3k → 10%YMCA OF GREENVILLE: $2k → 10%YMCA OF GREENVILLE: $2k → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
IA
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
SC
DC
GA
FL
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 46 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +21% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
21

Total granted

$12M
$810k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+21%

Still filing today

91%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $453k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentFood & NutritionOther
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

  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +51%
  • CU
    CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +143%
  • CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • AC
    AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2018 · $600k · revenue -82%
  • PG
    PRINCE GEORGES COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • RC
    Rock Creek Conservancy Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +83%
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
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
2
South Carolina Council On Competitiveness

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…

Community Improvement
3
Greenville College

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.

Education
4
North Carolina Symphony Society Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
5
Sc Chamber of Commerce

Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.

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6
Columbia College

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.

Education
7
Greensboro College

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.

Education
8
Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art

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…

Arts & Culture
9
Barton College

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…

Education
10
The George Washington University

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…

Education
11
Foundation for the Carolinas

Inspiring philanthropy and strengthening our region through innovative community initiatives and quality services to donors and constituents.

Philanthropy
12
The Georgia Center for Nonprofits

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.…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greenville Tech Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

64 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. 64 of the 76 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/64
Grantees still filing
49/64
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DUKE UNIVERSITY: $2,321,500 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,880,556 · EducationCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONCLEMSON ARCHITECTURAL FOUNDATION: $1,275,556 · EducationCLEMSON ARCHITECTURAL FOUNDATIONCAMPERDOWN ACADEMY INC: $661,000 · EducationCAMPERDOWN ACADEMY INCFURMAN UNIVERSITY: $300,000 · EducationDUKE STUDENT PUBLISHING COMPANY INC: $275,000 · Education+7 more: $562,000 · Education+7 moreSIGNATURE THEATRE INC: $455,000 · Arts & CultureSIGNATURE THEA…THE WAREHOUSE THEATRE: $419,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WAREHOUSE …SOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE: $300,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTH CAROLINA…SOUTH CAROLINA ARCHITECTURAL FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTH CAROLINA…AVALON THEATRE PROJECT INC: $73,000 · Arts & CultureGREENVILLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS: $55,000 · Arts & CultureGREENVILLE ARTS FESTIVAL: $55,000 · Arts & CulturePEACE CENTER FOUNDATION: $55,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $117,800 · Arts & Culture+5 moreCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $1,580,000 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAKE BAY…+3 more: $40,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $600,000 · HealthAMERICAN C…University of Maryland Medical System Corporation: $400,000 · HealthUniversity…CANCER SURVIVORS PARK ALLIANCE: $150,000 · HealthCANCER SUR…American Heart Association Inc: $60,000 · Health+1 more: $500 · HealthARLINGTON FREE CLINIC INC: $255,000 · OtherGREENVILLE ARTS FESTIVAL (dba ARTISPHERE): $120,200 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL SYSTEM CORPORATION: $100,000 · OtherMETROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL: $83,000 · OtherNEIGHBORHOOD CANCER CONNECTION: $41,500 · Other+29 more: $371,000 · OtherUnited Help Ukraine Inc: $85,000 · Human ServicesSHOES THAT FIT: $40,000 · Human ServicesUPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesGREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $15,000 · Human Services+2 more: $9,300 · Human ServicesUNITED MINISTRIES: $60,000 · Religion
Education$7,275,612Arts & Culture$1,629,800Environment$1,620,000Health$1,210,500Other$970,700Human Services$189,300Religion$60,000

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 budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $2,321,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,880,556 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $1,580,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetCLEMSON ARCHITECTURAL FOUNDATION: $1,275,556 over 6y, 24% of budgetCAMPERDOWN ACADEMY INC: $661,000 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $600,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSIGNATURE THEATRE INC: $455,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetTHE WAREHOUSE THEATRE: $419,000 over 8y, 7.8% of budgetUniversity of Maryland Medical System Corporation: $400,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE: $300,000 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetFURMAN UNIVERSITY: $300,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDUKE STUDENT PUBLISHING COMPANY INC: $275,000 over 8y, 5.9% of budgetARLINGTON FREE CLINIC INC: $255,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetCHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $226,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetLearnserve International: $198,000 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetCANCER SURVIVORS PARK ALLIANCE: $150,000 over 5y, 7.1% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA ARCHITECTURAL FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 4y, 28% of budgetGEORGETOWN DAY SCHOOL: $100,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Help Ukraine Inc: $85,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMETROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL: $83,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetAVALON THEATRE PROJECT INC: $73,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetUNITED MINISTRIES: $60,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $60,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGREENVILLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS: $55,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetGREENVILLE ARTS FESTIVAL: $55,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetPEACE CENTER FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFINE ARTS CENTER PARTNERS: $51,000 over 4y, 7.2% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD CANCER CONNECTION: $41,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetSHOES THAT FIT: $40,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetUPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCOLLEGE PARK NURSERY SCHOOL INC: $30,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetSIGAL MUSIC MUSEUM: $29,300 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC: $27,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetRock Creek Conservancy Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSC NEW PLAY FESTIVAL INC: $20,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetFACES AND VOICES OF RECOVERY(FAVOR) UPSTATE SC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPAUL PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $18,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE INC: $17,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSUNFLOWER NETWORK CORPORATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRIVERHEAD FDTN FOR MARINE RESEARCH & PRESERVATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGREENVILLE TECH FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE UPSTATE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT BURNS CARE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 SOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds FURMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • 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 GREENVILLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds GREENVILLE ARTS FESTIVAL ↗
  • Who funds PEACE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FINE ARTS CENTER PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD CANCER CONNECTION ↗
  • Who funds SHOES THAT FIT ↗
  • Who funds UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE PARK NURSERY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds SIGAL MUSIC MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Rock Creek Conservancy Inc ↗
  • Who funds SC NEW PLAY FESTIVAL INC ↗

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.

Daniel-Mickel Foundat…The Jolley FoundationScsymmes FoundationCharles Timmons Found…John I Smith Charitie…Bill and Connie Timmo…Yeargin FoundationSpinks Family Foundat…AWT Family FoundationDabo's All in Team Fo…St Francis Hospital I…Charity Ball Board of…
Daniel-Mickel FoundationSC51.4× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Jean T and Heyward G Pelham Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jean T and Heyward G Pelham Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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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How do I get to Jean T and Heyward G Pelham Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Jean T and Heyward G Pelham 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 76 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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