· Public charity
Local Boys Do Good
The mission of the organization is to: highlight the culinary and music arts community of upstate south carolina; raise money to give back to the community; and create a destination event for food, wine, and music lovers accross the country.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| A LA HEART | $20,000 |
| MEYER CENTER FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN | $20,000 |
| MILL VILLAGE FARMS MINISTRIES | $20,000 |
| WALT'S WALTZ | $20,000 |
| THE FAMILY EFFECT | $20,000 |
| FEED & SEED CO | $20,000 |
| SOUTHERN SMOKE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $85k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% 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 +42% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- MVMILL VILLAGE MINISTRIES4× · 2021–2025 · $85k · revenue +112%
- FSFEED & SEED CO4× · 2018–2025 · $58k · revenue +274%
- SSSouthern Smoke Foundation2× · 2024–2025 · $50k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- PHPROJECT HOST INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +0%
- UWUNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -3%
- GSGREENVILLE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +6%
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.
Meals on wheels of greenville, inc. enhances the quality of life of homebound individuals by providing nutritious meals, personal contact, and related services.
To set aside funds for the future growth and support of meals on wheels of greenville, inc (an affiliated organization).
Promoting and enhancing the economic growth and development of greenville county south carolina; gadc was formed by greenville county council.
Providing leadership to enhance the quality of life in greenwood through strategic long-term vision and collaborative community development initiatives.
To identify qualified applicants in order to provide scholarship grants for advanced career educational opportunities that may otherwise go unfulfilled.
The mission of the food bank of greenwood county is to reduce hunger through community cooperation, effectively distributing donated grocery products and perishable foods, and making the best possible use of all available resources.
Providing standards, guidelines, and procedures to those members engaged in practice of the real estate profession
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…
The greenville center for creative arts exists to enrich the cultural fabric of the communities we serve by providing a nurturing environment for art-education, appreciation and enjoyment, and by establishing a lasting legacy in the visual…
Convene and connect diverse stakeholders to align and catalyze efforts to improve health and well-being for communities across South Carolina.
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 promote and support the educational, medical, scientific, and research purposes of the medical university of south carolina "musc", and university medical associates of the medical university of south carolina "uma", including their…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greenville Tech Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Family Effect. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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.
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 MILL VILLAGE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds FEED & SEED CO ↗
- Who funds Southern Smoke Foundation ↗
- Who funds WALTS WALTZ ↗
- Who funds MEYER CENTER FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE GIVING KITCHEN INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY EFFECT ↗
- Who funds South Carolina Restaurant & Lodging Foundation ↗
- Who funds A Child's Haven Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOST INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds UNITED MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CAMPERDOWN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds SCSDB FOUNDATION ↗
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: Scansource Charitable Foundation · Scsymmes Foundation · Daniel-Mickel Foundation · The Jolley Foundation · Dabo's All in Team Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Charity Ball Board of Greenville · Hayne Hipp Foundation · John I Smith Charities Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Yeargin Foundation · Charles Timmons 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 Local Boys Do Good 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.