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Kw Beverage Foundation Inc at a glance

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Kw Beverage Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$176k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$37k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Recreation & Sports$328kEducation$132kArts & Culture$104kHuman Services$101kHealth$72kCommunity Improvement$62kHousing & Shelter$34kReligion$29kOther$0
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $50k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $125k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$873k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BMW CHARITY PROAM$36,500
FALL FOR GREENVILLE$33,900
FIVE POINTS FOUNDATION INC$25,000
BIG RED BARN RETREAT$10,000
FOLDS OF HONOR$10,000
UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC$10,000
RIVERBANKS$8,200
METROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL$7,500
CONGAREE VISTA GUILD$5,000
HOLY TRINITY GREEK ORTHODOX CATHEDRAL$5,000
MAIN STREET LATIN FESTIVAL$5,000
CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$4,000
ARTISPHERE$3,000
SAINT GEORGE GREEK ORTHODOX CATHEDRAL$3,000
THE JAM ROOM FOUNDATION$3,000
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, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LIVE LIKE LONDON FOUNDATION: $500 → 11%BIG RED BARN RETREAT: $18k → 16%LIVE LIKE LONDON FOUNDATION: $500 → 11%BIG RED BARN RETREAT: $10k → 16%LIVE LIKE LONDON FOUNDATION: $500 → 11%BIG RED BAM RETREAT: $10k → 16%UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC: $10k → 10%HEALTHY LEARNERS: $500 → 16%UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC: $5k → 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.
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$809k · 41 repeat orgs$183k to everyone else

41 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
36

Total granted

$809k
$109k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+29%

Still filing today

61%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • I
    IPTAY
    2× · 2017–2018 · $118k · revenue +26%
  • FF
    FALL FOR GREENVILLE INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $92k · revenue +49%
  • BR
    BIG RED BARN RETREAT
    3× · 2021–2024 · $38k · revenue +79%

Funded once

  • CU
    CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue +118%
  • SF
    SPINX FAMILY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • TG
    TIGER GOLF GATHERING FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue 0%
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
The Mcconnell Foundation
Philanthropy
2
South Carolina Public Interest Foundation
Crime & Legal
3
Clemson Area Chamber of Commerce Inc

Our mission is to deliver invaluable information, outstanding services, and impactful advocacy to members by empowering businesses and individuals and contributing to the prosperity of the clemson area.

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4
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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5
South Carolina Military Support Foundation

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.

Public Benefit
6
South Carolina Archives and History Foundation

The Foundation promotes and funds various educational programs at the SC Department of Archives and History and works to stimulate interest in the state's history through various programs and activities. The Founation works to educate and…

Arts & Culture
7
South Carolina State University Foundation Inc

To foster and promote the growth of south carolina state university by receiving, investing, and expending funds for the exclusive benefit of the university.

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8
Foundation for a Greater Greenwood County Inc

Providing leadership to enhance the quality of life in greenwood through strategic long-term vision and collaborative community development initiatives.

Philanthropy
9
South Carolina Chamber Foundation

The mission of the foundation is to advance the long-term welfare of south carolina and her citizens by identifying, researching and analyzing factors that are key to improving the business climate, workforce readiness, and quality of life…

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10
Greenville Theatre Arts Center
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11
South Carolina State Museum Foundation

To support and promote the purpose of the south carolina state museum.

Arts & Culture
12
Central Carolina Community Foundation

Central carolina community foundation is a nonprofit community foundation that connects and mobilizes people and resources to strengthen the midlands of south carolina. the foundation partners with donors, nonprofit organizations,…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Junior League of Columbia Inc; the most unlike its peers is Muscular Dystrophy Association 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

49 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 49 of the 83 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/49
Grantees still filing
30/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA ED FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA ED FOUNDATIONFIVE POINTS ASSOCIATION INC: $66,250 · OtherFIVE POINTS ASSOCIATION INCFOLDS OF HONOR: $37,800 · OtherFOLDS OF HONORBMW CHARITY PROAM: $36,500 · OtherBMW CHARITY PROAMMETROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL: $31,000 · OtherMETROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCILFOLDS OF HONOR - PALMETTO CHAPTER: $21,500 · OtherRIVERBANKS: $20,000 · OtherGREATER ROSEWOOD MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION: $20,000 · OtherFULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF MCCORMICK SC INC: $30,000 · OtherFULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF MCCORMICK SC INC+44 more: $182,601 · Other+44 moreIPTAY: $117,554 · Youth DevelopmentIPTAYTHE THERAPY PLACE INC: $6,000 · Youth DevelopmentFALL FOR GREENVILLE INC: $91,800 · Recreation & SportsFALL FOR GREE…SOUTH CAROLINA CHARITIES INC: $30,000 · Recreation & SportsSOUTH CAROLIN…BIG RED BARN RETREAT: $37,500 · Human ServicesUPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC: $15,000 · Human Services+3 more: $3,200 · Human ServicesFIVE POINTS ASSOCIATION INC: $25,000 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INC: $9,500 · HealthPRISMA HEALTH MIDLANDS FOUNDATION F/K/A PALMETTO HEALTH FOUNDATION: $5,300 · HealthPalmetto Foundation for Prevention and Recovery: $5,000 · HealthMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $3,000 · HealthSCOA Cares Inc: $2,000 · Health+2 more: $1,200 · HealthGREENVILLE ARTS FESTIVAL: $12,500 · Arts & CultureOLYMPIA GRANBY HISTORICAL FOUNDATION: $10,500 · Arts & CultureMAIN STREET LATIN FESTIVAL: $10,000 · Arts & CultureJAM ROOM FOUNDATION: $9,000 · Arts & CultureCOLUMBIA MUSEUM OF ART: $3,450 · Arts & CultureColumbia Film Society: $2,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $2,500 · Arts & CultureCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationTIGER GOLF GATHERING FOUNDATION: $9,500 · EducationTHE CHRISTOPHER CONNER FOUNDATION: $2,000 · EducationFolds of Honor Palmetto State Chapter: $1,500 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · Education
Other$545,651Youth Development$123,554Recreation & Sports$121,800Human Services$55,700Health$51,000Arts & Culture$49,950Education$44,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIPTAY: $117,554 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFALL FOR GREENVILLE INC: $91,800 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetBIG RED BARN RETREAT: $37,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetMETROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL: $31,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF MCCORMICK SC INC: $30,000 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA CHARITIES INC: $30,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetFIVE POINTS ASSOCIATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetGREATER ROSEWOOD MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetCONGAREE VISTA GUILD: $17,500 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetUPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGREENVILLE ARTS FESTIVAL: $12,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE APPLEGREEN FOUNDATION: $11,500 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetJunior League of Columbia Inc: $10,575 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetOLYMPIA GRANBY HISTORICAL FOUNDATION: $10,500 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetMAIN STREET LATIN FESTIVAL: $10,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetTIGER GOLF GATHERING FOUNDATION: $9,500 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $9,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJAM ROOM FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 3y, 50% of budgetHERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION: $8,710 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE THERAPY PLACE INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSustainable Midlands: $5,500 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetPRISMA HEALTH MIDLANDS FOUNDATION F/K/A PALMETTO HEALTH FOUNDATION: $5,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPalmetto Foundation for Prevention and Recovery: $5,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetCENTRAL SC HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLUMBIA MUSEUM OF ART: $3,450 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetColumbia Film Society: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPARKINSONS UNITY WALK INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSCOA Cares Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CHRISTOPHER CONNER FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetFolds of Honor Palmetto State Chapter: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHistoric Columbia Foundation: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLIVE LIKE LONDON FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetGARNET TRUST FOUNDATION: $1,262 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBABCOCK CENTER INC: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTS CENTER OF KERSHAW COUNTY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREENVILLE CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPAWMETTO LIFELINE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE REECE HOLBROOK WIN ANYWAY FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetBENEDICT COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAYCE PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION: $930 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRICHLAND COUNTY SHERIFF'S FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSISTERCARE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COURAGE CENTER: $200 over 1y, 0.1% 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 IPTAY ↗
  • Who funds FALL FOR GREENVILLE INC ↗
  • Who funds BIG RED BARN RETREAT ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds FULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF MCCORMICK SC INC ↗
  • Who funds CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA CHARITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds FIVE POINTS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER ROSEWOOD MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds CONGAREE VISTA GUILD ↗
  • Who funds UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC ↗
  • Who funds GREENVILLE ARTS FESTIVAL ↗
  • Who funds THE APPLEGREEN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Junior League of Columbia Inc ↗
  • Who funds OLYMPIA GRANBY HISTORICAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MAIN STREET LATIN FESTIVAL ↗
  • Who funds TIGER GOLF GATHERING FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
  • Who funds JAM ROOM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE THERAPY PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds Sustainable Midlands ↗
  • Who funds PRISMA HEALTH MIDLANDS FOUNDATION F/K/A PALMETTO HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Palmetto Foundation for Prevention and Recovery ↗

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.

Central Carolina Comm…Dominion Energy Chari…Lipscomb Family Found…M B Kahn Foundation I…Michael J Mungo Found…Prisma HealthDorothy D Smith Chari…The Nord Family Found…J M Smith FoundationBignon Family Foundat…The McNair Law Firm F…Baker and Baker Found…
Central Carolina Community FoundationSC39.3× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Central Carolina Community Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Lipscomb Family Foundation · M B Kahn Foundation Inc · Michael J Mungo Foundation · Prisma Health · Dorothy D Smith Charitable Foundation · The Nord Family Foundation · J M Smith Foundation · Bignon Family Foundation · The McNair Law Firm Foundation · Baker and Baker Foundation Inc

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 Kw Beverage Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kw Beverage Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.

    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 83 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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