· Private foundation
Lb Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $243k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $941k
- $250k+4 grants · $2.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAMILY EFFECT | $1,216,850 |
| SOTERIA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT | $752,000 |
| MILL VILLAGE MINISTRIES | $500,000 |
| TIME SERVED | $250,000 |
| SOTERIA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT | $246,000 |
| MILL VILLAGE MINISTRIES | $154,445 |
| BEST SKILLS ACADEMY | $150,000 |
| POE MILL ACHIEVEMENT CENTER | $110,450 |
| FOSTERING GREAT IDEAS | $100,000 |
| BEL-AIRE COMMUNITY PARTNERS | $94,100 |
| BEL-AIRE COMMUNITY PARTNERS | $86,025 |
| BEAUTY MARKS | $47,443 |
| SAFE HARBOR INC | $41,855 |
| COLLEGE UNBOUND | $37,771 |
| GIRLUP GVL | $35,640 |
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 (FY22–25, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 5% 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 +47% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 2 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $122k 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
- SCSOTERIA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION5× · 2021–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +54% · 35% of their budget
- MVMILL VILLAGE MINISTRIES4× · 2022–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +43%
- SHSAFE HARBOR INC5× · 2020–2025 · $597k · revenue +182%
Funded once
- BCBETHLEHEM CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $101k · revenue +146%
- JRJASMINE ROAD INCone grant, 2024 · $78k · revenue +16%
- RORIPPLE OF ONEone grant, 2024 · $69k · revenue +9%
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.
Carolina Teen Center is a prevention and education year-round after-school and summer program that services youth and their families. Literacy programs, tutoring, life skills, mentoring, positive peer groups, conflict resolution skills,…
The south carolina victim assistance network's mission is to ensure crime victims receive access to, and assistance from the criminal and juvenile justice systems and related social service providers; to improve the quality of services…
Teach a positive lifestyle and promote social, emotional and spiritual growth by providing housing and resources for women previously incarcerated who have suffered from drug and alcohol abuse or violent crimes. we strive to reduce…
Greenlight's mission is to achieve the best outcomes for families, young adults, and children by providing the highest quality services. its primary focus is to provide adoption and guardianship for children in the welfare system.
SCEC launched to address the increasing challenges facing youth along with their families in generational poverty by providing support mentorship and services that encourage youth to realize their full potential.
As an innovative social enterprise, The Stride Center's mission is to empower men and women facing barriers to employment to achieve economic self-sufficiency. We provide a comprehensive career development program that includes job skills…
Benevolence farm seeks to cultivate leadership, promote sustainable livelihoods, and reap structural change with individuals impacted by the criminal legal system in north carolina.
Southlight healthcare provides access to high-quality mental health and substance use treatment, fostering a resilient community by supporting individuals in their recovery.
We provide a recovery community that includes outpatient treatment and community support. Providing a hand-up, not a hand out through collaborative partnerships, housing and support services.
Our mission is to provide compassionate support, resources, and advocacy for victims of violent crime. we are dedicated to empowering children, teens and adults in their journey to healing by offering a safe place, emotional care, and the…
To lead the community beyond sexual violence and child abuse through awareness, advocacy, and action.
Our vision is to make a positive impact in our community by rebuilding strong family foundations. We create a safe fun and caring environment for children and provide parent training. Through counseling parenting classes and mentorship…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Soteria Community Development Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Best Skills Academy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 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. 21 of the 25 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 SOTERIA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY EFFECT ↗
- Who funds MILL VILLAGE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds TIME SERVED ↗
- Who funds POE MILL ACHIEVEMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds BEST SKILLS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds BEL-AIRE COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds GirlUp GVL ↗
- Who funds THE SPARTANBURG SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds FOSTERING GREAT IDEAS ↗
- Who funds BETHLEHEM CENTER ↗
- Who funds JASMINE ROAD INC ↗
- Who funds RIPPLE OF ONE ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE FREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds Beauty Marks for Girls ↗
- Who funds HOPE CENTER FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SUNDAY DINNER WITH A TWIST LLC ↗
- Who funds College Unbound ↗
- Who funds UNITY HEALTH ON MAIN ↗
- Who funds YOUTHBASE 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: The Jolley Foundation · Sisk Foundation Buncombe St Methodist Church · United Way of Greenville County Inc · Dabo's All in Team Foundation · South Carolina Christian Foundation · Scsymmes Foundation · Gerrish H Milliken Foundation 009209-009 · Scansource Charitable Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · Duke Energy Foundation · Charity Ball Board of Greenville · Crane Fund for Widows and Children
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 Lb 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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