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Mary Black Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
43
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$411k
Largest
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 2024.

Health$3.7MHuman Services$3.4MEducation$2.9MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.8MFood & Nutrition$1.6MPhilanthropy$1.4MSocial Science$1.1MPublic Benefit$846kOther$0
02FY2024 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $573k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $987k
  • $250k+3 grants · $962k
$30,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$87M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SPARTANBURG ACADEMIC MOVEMENT$411,000
SPARTANBURG REGIONAL HEALTHCARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION$281,475
PARTNERS FOR ACTIVE LIVING DBA PLAY ADVOCATE LIVE WELL$269,500
CITY OF SPARTANBURG$201,750
INSTITUTE FOR CHILD SUCCESS$126,500
UNITED WAY OF THE PIEDMONT$114,029
EMERGE FAMILY THERAPY CENTER & TEACHING CLINIC$101,000
SPARTANBURG COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT THREE$95,000
UPSTATE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER$80,500
RUTH'S GLEANINGS$75,000
HUB CITY ROOTS$75,000
SPARTANBURG COUNTY FIRST STEPS$68,562
SOUTH CAROLINA INFANT YOUNG CHILD MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION$50,000
SPARTANBURG AREA MENTAL HEALTH$40,500
Individual grant recipient$40,000
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, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%PROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION INC: $40k → 15%BENJAMIN E MAYS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $32k → 17%PROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION INC: $15k → 15%UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION: $25k → 10%CHILDREN'S TRUST FUND OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $51k → 16%UPSTATE-CAROLINA ADAPTIVE GOLF: $5k → 10%CHILDREN'S TRUST FUND OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $50k → 16%UPSTATE-CAROLINA ADAPTIVE GOLF: $5k → 10%CHILDREN'S TRUST FUND OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $41k → 16%CHILDREN'S TRUST FUND OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $18k → 16%CHILDREN'S TRUST FUND OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $18k → 16%CHILDREN'S TRUST OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $3k → 16%UPSTATE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $155k → 15%UPSTATE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $106k → 15%UPSTATE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $81k → 15%UPSTATE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $75k → 15%UPSTATE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $71k → 15%UPSTATE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $67k → 15%UPSTATE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $65k → 15%UPSTATE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $50k → 15%UPSTATE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $31k → 15%UPSTATE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $15k → 15%UPSTATE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $15k → 15%UPSTATE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $11k → 15%UPSTATE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $8k → 15%UPSTATE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $8k → 15%UPSTATE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $6k → 15%UPSTATE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 15%UPSTATE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 15%UPSTATE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 15%UPSTATE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 15%UPSTATE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $4k → 15%UPSTATE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $500 → 15%SAFE HOMES - RAPE CRISIS COALITION: $50k → 15%GOFORTH RECOVERY: $25k → 15%SAFE HOMES-RAPE CRISIS COALITION: $25k → 15%UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC: $5k → 15%GOFORTH RECOVERY: $25k → 15%UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC: $5k → 15%PROJECT REST (FORMERLY KNOWN AS SAFE HOMES-RAPE CRISIS COALITION): $20k → 15%SAFE HOMES-RAPE CRISIS COALITION: $20k → 15%GOFORTH RECOVERY: $15k → 15%GOFORTH RECOVERY: $13k → 15%RUTH'S GLEANINGS: $75k → 15%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
OR
CA
MD
NC
SC
DC
AL
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$19M · 82 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

82 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2024, 48 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

82
62

Total granted

$19M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+9%

Still filing today

66%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $202k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyCrime & LegalOther
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

  • PF
    PARTNERS FOR ACTIVE LIVING
    6× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +234% · 37% of their budget
  • HC
    HOPE CENTER FOR CHILDREN
    7× · 2017–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +59%
  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR CHILD SUCCESS INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +294%

Funded once

  • HO
    HOMES OF HOPE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $126k · revenue +2%
  • HD
    Harry Dallara Memorial Foundation Inc co Charles Dallaragraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +156%
  • TO
    TOWN OF LYMAN SC
    one grant, 2018 · $100k
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
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
2
South Carolina Public Interest Foundation
Crime & Legal
3
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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4
South Carolina First Steps to School Readiness Board of Trustees

Per south carolina code section 59-152-30: "the goals for south carolina first steps to school readiness are to: (1) provide parents with access to the support they might seek and want to strengthen their families and to promote the…

Education
5
South Carolina Network of Children's Advocacy Centers

Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse

Youth Development
6
South Carolina Business & Industry Political Education Committee

Promoting and protecting the free private and competitive enterprise system through research and education.

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7
South Carolina Policy Council Education Foundation

The south carolina policy council was founded in 1986 as an independent, private, non-partisan research organization to promote the principles of limited government, free enterprise, and individual liberty and responsibility in the state…

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8
Sc Launch Inc

Fuel south carolina's innovation economy by accelerating technology-enabled growth in research, academia, entrepreneurship and industry.

Community Improvement
9
Spartanburg County First Steps to School Readiness Partnership

Our mission is that every south carolina child will arrive at kindergarten ready to succeed.

Education
10
Sc Future Makers Fka South Carolina Manuf Education Found

To expose and connect the next generation in the state of south carolina to all of the opportunities it has to offer, close the stem skills gap, and ultimately retain talent for future economic development and regional prosperity.

Education
11
Scotland County Partnership for Children and Families Inc

To prepare children for success by providing resources to families and the community

Education
12
Southern Wesleyan University

Southern wesleyan university is a christ-centered, student-focused learning community devoted to transforming lives by challenging students to be dedicated scholars and servant-leaders who impact the world for christ.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Advocacy Center of Spartanburg Cherokee - Union Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hub City Writers Project. 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

91 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. 91 of the 155 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
91/91
Grantees still filing
69/91
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SPARTANBURG COUNTY FIRST STEPS: $1,370,812 · OtherSPARTANBURG COUNTY FIRST STEPSHOPE CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $1,144,129 · OtherHOPE CENTER FOR CHILDRENCITY OF SPARTANBURG: $831,000 · OtherCITY OF SPARTANBURGPAL: $830,914 · OtherPALBIRTHMATTERS: $811,676 · OtherBIRTHMATTERSUNITED WAY OF THE PIEDMONT INC: $557,968 · OtherSPARTANBURG COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT THREE: $497,125 · OtherEMERGE FAMILY THERAPY CENTER & TEACHING CLINIC: $487,000 · OtherMIDDLE TYGER COMMUNITY CENTER: $820,000 · OtherMIDDLE TYGER COMMUNITY CENTERHUB CITY ROOTS: $758,810 · OtherHUB CITY ROOTS+101 more: $4,995,190 · Other+101 moreUPSTATE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $786,758 · Human ServicesUPSTATE FA…RUTH'S GLEANINGS: $490,000 · Human ServicesRUTH'S GLE…CHILDREN'S TRUST OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $181,500 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S…GOFORTH RECOVERY: $137,500 · Human ServicesGOFORTH RE…PROJECT REST: $115,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT RE…+7 more: $177,500 · Human Services+7 morePARTNERS FOR ACTIVE LIVING: $1,821,566 · Public Safety & DisasterPARTNERS …INSTITUTE FOR CHILD SUCCESS INC: $1,105,050 · Social ScienceSPARTANBURG ACADEMIC MOVEMENT: $626,938 · EducationImpact America: $113,100 · EducationREACH OUT AND READ INC: $68,900 · EducationSPARTANBURG COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $63,898 · EducationADULT LEARNING CENTER: $49,000 · EducationSPARTANBURG METHODIST COLLEGE: $41,600 · Education+7 more: $130,900 · EducationSpartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation: $423,700 · HealthREGENESIS HEALTH CARE INC: $193,500 · HealthHEALTHY SMILES OF SPARTANBURG INC: $161,000 · HealthST LUKES FREE MEDICAL CLINIC OF SPARTANBURG INC: $160,000 · HealthSERVANTS FOR SIGHT: $56,000 · HealthSOUTH CAROLINA INFANT MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION: $50,000 · Health+4 more: $20,000 · HealthSpartanburg County Foundation: $807,000 · PhilanthropyHarry Dallara Memorial Foundation Inc co Charles Dallara: $100,000 · Philanthropy+5 more: $46,000 · Philanthropy
Other$13,104,624Human Services$1,888,258Public Safety & Disaster$1,821,566Social Science$1,105,050Education$1,094,336Health$1,064,200Philanthropy$953,000

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 budgetPARTNERS FOR ACTIVE LIVING: $1,821,566 over 6y, 37% of budgetHOPE CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $1,144,129 over 7y, 4.9% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR CHILD SUCCESS INC: $1,105,050 over 8y, 21% of budgetMIDDLE TYGER COMMUNITY CENTER: $820,000 over 8y, 20% of budgetBIRTHMATTERS: $811,676 over 8y, 35% of budgetSpartanburg County Foundation: $807,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetUPSTATE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $786,758 over 8y, 7.5% of budgetHUB CITY ROOTS: $758,810 over 8y, 28% of budgetSPARTANBURG ACADEMIC MOVEMENT: $626,938 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE PIEDMONT INC: $557,968 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetRUTH'S GLEANINGS: $490,000 over 5y, 30% of budgetSpartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation: $423,700 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetNORTHSIDE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $382,700 over 6y, 6.8% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE UPSTATE INC: $309,345 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SPARTANBURG CHEROKEE - UNION INC: $201,430 over 5y, 8.3% of budgetREGENESIS HEALTH CARE INC: $193,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S TRUST OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $181,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCHAPMAN CULTURAL CENTER INC: $162,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetHEALTHY SMILES OF SPARTANBURG INC: $161,000 over 6y, 9.9% of budgetST LUKES FREE MEDICAL CLINIC OF SPARTANBURG INC: $160,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITYWORKS INC: $140,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetGOFORTH RECOVERY: $137,500 over 6y, 15% of budgetANGEL'S CHARGE MINISTRY: $136,500 over 5y, 17% of budgetHOMES OF HOPE INC: $126,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPROJECT REST: $115,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetImpact America: $113,100 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetKIDS UPSTATE: $100,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetJUMPSTART SOUTH CAROLINA: $100,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR A HEALTHIER GENERATION INC: $99,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBLOOM UPSTATE INC: $98,280 over 3y, 83% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE UPSTATE INC: $89,000 over 6y, 7.5% of budgetUPSTATE FOREVER: $77,575 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ INC: $68,900 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSPARTANBURG COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $63,898 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA UPSTATE FOUNDATION: $58,500 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetGirls on the Run Upstate SC: $57,000 over 4y, 8.4% of budgetSERVANTS FOR SIGHT: $56,000 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetWESTGATE TRAINING & CONSULTATION NETWORK: $55,960 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetUPLIFT AND OUTREACH CENTER: $55,000 over 2y, 42% of budgetPROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY SPARTANBURG I: $52,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetOPPORTUNITY HUB: $52,000 over 5y, 7.3% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA INFANT MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFACES AND VOICES OF RECOVERY(FAVOR) UPSTATE SC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetADULT LEARNING CENTER: $49,000 over 3y, 8.4% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION of Greater Spartanburg: $47,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSPARTANBURG METHODIST COLLEGE: $41,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMOBILE MEALS OF SPARTANBURG COUNTY INC: $40,000 over 1y, 1.6% 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 PARTNERS FOR ACTIVE LIVING ↗
  • Who funds HOPE CENTER FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR CHILD SUCCESS INC ↗
  • Who funds MIDDLE TYGER COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BIRTHMATTERS ↗
  • Who funds Spartanburg County Foundation ↗
  • Who funds UPSTATE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds HUB CITY ROOTS ↗
  • Who funds SPARTANBURG ACADEMIC MOVEMENT ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE PIEDMONT INC ↗
  • Who funds RUTH'S GLEANINGS ↗
  • Who funds Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation ↗
  • Who funds NORTHSIDE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE UPSTATE INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SPARTANBURG CHEROKEE - UNION INC ↗
  • Who funds REGENESIS HEALTH CARE INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S TRUST OF SOUTH CAROLINA ↗
  • Who funds CHAPMAN CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds HEALTHY SMILES OF SPARTANBURG INC ↗
  • Who funds ST LUKES FREE MEDICAL CLINIC OF SPARTANBURG INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITYWORKS INC ↗
  • Who funds GOFORTH RECOVERY ↗
  • Who funds ANGEL'S CHARGE MINISTRY ↗
  • Who funds HOMES OF HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT REST ↗
  • Who funds Impact America ↗
  • Who funds Harry Dallara Memorial Foundation Inc co Charles Dallara ↗
  • Who funds KIDS UPSTATE ↗
  • Who funds JUMPSTART SOUTH CAROLINA ↗

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.

Spartanburg County FoundationSC131.2× affinity64 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Spartanburg County Foundation · United Way of the Piedmont Inc · Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation · Arkwright Foundation · Milliken & Company Charitable Foundation · J M Smith Foundation · South Carolina Christian Foundation · Black & Phillips Foundation Inc · Anna M Black Charitable Foundation · Gibbs Charitable Foundation · Harry H Gibson Family Foundation · Balmer 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 Mary Black Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mary Black Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Reach Out and Read Inc: 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
33report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 155 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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