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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.

$140k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Health$103kHuman Services$85kFood & Nutrition$68kArts & Culture$68kEducation$53kPhilanthropy$46kSocial Science$28kEmployment$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WALT'S WALTZ$20,000
SOUTHERN SMOKE FOUNDATION$20,000
A LA HEART$20,000
MEYER CENTER FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN$20,000
MILL VILLAGE FARMS MINISTRIES$20,000
FEED & SEED CO$20,000
THE FAMILY EFFECT$20,000
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MILL VILLAGE FARMS MINISTRIES: $33k → 10%MILL VILLAGE FARMS MINISTRIES: $20k → 10%MILL VILLAGE FARMS MINISTRIES: $19k → 10%MILL VILLAGE FARMS MINISTRIES: $13k → 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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$398k · 9 repeat orgs$79k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +6% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
7

Total granted

$398k
$59k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+6%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropySocial ScienceOther
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

  • MV
    MILL VILLAGE MINISTRIES
    4× · 2021–2025 · $85k · revenue +112%
  • FS
    FEED & SEED CO
    4× · 2018–2025 · $58k · revenue +274%
  • SS
    Southern Smoke Foundation
    2× · 2024–2025 · $50k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • PH
    PROJECT HOST INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +0%
  • GS
    GREENVILLE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +6%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -3%
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
Meals On Wheels of Greenville Inc

Meals on wheels of greenville, inc. enhances the quality of life of homebound individuals by providing nutritious meals, personal contact, and related services.

Food & Nutrition
2
Meals on Wheels of Greenville Endowment Fund Inc

To set aside funds for the future growth and support of meals on wheels of greenville, inc (an affiliated organization).

Philanthropy
3
Greenville Area Development Corporation

Promoting and enhancing the economic growth and development of greenville county south carolina; gadc was formed by greenville county council.

Community Improvement
4
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
5
Greenville Country Club Scholarship Foundation

To identify qualified applicants in order to provide scholarship grants for advanced career educational opportunities that may otherwise go unfulfilled.

Education
6
Food Bank of Greenwood County

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.

Food & Nutrition
7
Greater Greenville Association of Realtors Inc

Providing standards, guidelines, and procedures to those members engaged in practice of the real estate profession

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8
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
9
Greenville Center for Creative Arts

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…

Arts & Culture
10
Alliance for a Healthier South Carolina

Convene and connect diverse stakeholders to align and catalyze efforts to improve health and well-being for communities across South Carolina.

—
11
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
12
Musc Strategic Ventures

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…

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

17 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FEED & SEED CO: $57,668 · EducationFEED & SEED COGREENVILLE TECH FOUNDATION INC: $39,500 · EducationGREENVILLE TECH FOUNDATION IN…South Carolina Restaurant & Lodging Foundation: $20,000 · EducationSouth Carolina Restaurant & L…CAMPERDOWN ACADEMY INC: $7,300 · EducationCAMPERDOWN ACADEMY INCMEYER CENTER FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN: $40,031 · OtherMEYER CENTER FOR SPEC…A Child's Haven Inc: $17,500 · OtherA Child's Haven IncPROJECT HOST INC: $10,450 · OtherPROJECT HOST INCUNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC: $10,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF GREENVI…METROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL: $8,000 · OtherMETROPOLITAN ARTS COU…SCSDB FOUNDATION: $6,000 · OtherSCSDB FOUNDATIONMILL VILLAGE MINISTRIES: $85,005 · Human ServicesMILL VILLAGE MINISTR…Southern Smoke Foundation: $50,000 · Arts & CultureSouthern Smoke…GREENVILLE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureGREENVILLE SYM…WALTS WALTZ: $45,119 · HealthWALTS WALT…THE GIVING KITCHEN INITIATIVE INC: $35,500 · PhilanthropyTHE FAMILY EFFECT: $27,800 · Social ScienceUNITED MINISTRIES: $7,600 · Religion
Education$124,468Other$91,981Human Services$85,005Arts & Culture$60,000Health$45,119Philanthropy$35,500Social Science$27,800Religion$7,600

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMILL VILLAGE MINISTRIES: $85,005 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetFEED & SEED CO: $57,668 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetSouthern Smoke Foundation: $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWALTS WALTZ: $45,119 over 3y, 20% of budgetMEYER CENTER FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN: $40,031 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetGREENVILLE TECH FOUNDATION INC: $39,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GIVING KITCHEN INITIATIVE INC: $35,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE FAMILY EFFECT: $27,800 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetA Child's Haven Inc: $17,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPROJECT HOST INC: $10,450 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGREENVILLE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL: $8,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED MINISTRIES: $7,600 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCAMPERDOWN ACADEMY INC: $7,300 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSCSDB FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 1y, 1.2% 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.

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.

Scansource Charitable…Scsymmes FoundationDaniel-Mickel Foundat…The Jolley FoundationDabo's All in Team Fo…Duke Energy FoundationCharity Ball Board of…Hayne Hipp FoundationJohn I Smith Charitie…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Yeargin FoundationCharles Timmons Found…
Scansource Charitable FoundationSC30.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Local Boys Do Good funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Local Boys Do Good. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 17 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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