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Jim Hudson Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $140k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $513k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AUGUSTA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| HARVEST HOPE | $138,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| OLIVER GOSPEL MISSION | $50,000 |
| SCVAN | $50,000 |
| VIA COGNITIVE HEALTH | $44,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $16,000 |
| PRISMA HEALTH MIDLANDS FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| MADELYN'S FUND | $15,000 |
| MAY I PRAY FOR YOU MINISTRY | $10,000 |
| SERVE & CONNECT | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF SUMTER | $7,500 |
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 (FY25–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +20% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $112k 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
University of South Carolina Educational Foundation2× · 2024–2025 · $275k · revenue +0%- OGOliver Gospel Mission4× · 2022–2025 · $200k · revenue +20%
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc3× · 2022–2025 · $72k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- OPOUR PLACE OF HOPEone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -53%
- QFQUIXOTE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +27%
- RCROTARY CLUB OF COLUMBIAone grant, 2022 · $25k
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.
To foster basic living, service and safety assistance needs for our Midlands families. To lend a hand up to those in need. To work closely with local law enforcement, public servants, and the private sector to embrace our Midlands…
Our mission is to rescue and transport surplus food to qualified non profit agencies and churches. these agencies fulfill a priority need by distributing food to needy and disadvantaged families in three counties of sc.
To receive, administer, and expend funds for the sc military to protect lives and properties during times of emergencies and to recognize those who served in the south carolina department and the united states.
To provide financial aid for terminally ill patients and their families
The mission of the honorable reverend clementa c. pinckney foundation is to improve the quality of life for all south carolina citizens by supporting religious, educational, and charitable causes that the late senator supported while…
In the spirit of keeping our focus on patient-centered, equitable and compassionate care while ensuring our organization is sustainable for future generations, we have restated our mission, vision and values and are now guided by our…
Here at Palmetto Hope Network, we know that sometimes all it takes to change the world is a little support. Since our founding, we have been determined to make an impact. The core of our mission is to provide Hope to Communities and…
Convene and connect diverse stakeholders to align and catalyze efforts to improve health and well-being for communities across South Carolina.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Prisma Health Midlands Foundation F/K/a Palmetto Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Making a Difference. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 30 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 AUGUSTA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds University of South Carolina Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds Oliver Gospel Mission ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds PRISMA HEALTH MIDLANDS FOUNDATION F/K/A PALMETTO HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VIA COGNITIVE HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds Madelyns Fund ↗
- Who funds MAY I PRAY FOR YOU MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds OUR PLACE OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds QUIXOTE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAYCE PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SERVE AND CONNECT ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA SUNSHINE FOR CHILDREN LLC ↗
- Who funds 100 BLACK MEN OF GREATER COLUMBIA INC ↗
- Who funds Go Love ↗
- Who funds MAKING A DIFFERENCE ↗
- Who funds GANDY GRIFFIN VFW POST 4262 ↗
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: Central Carolina Community Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Michael J Mungo Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Jim Hudson 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.
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