· Private foundation
Mary Black Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $202k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PFPARTNERS FOR ACTIVE LIVING6× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +234% · 37% of their budget
- HCHOPE CENTER FOR CHILDREN7× · 2017–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +59%
- IFINSTITUTE FOR CHILD SUCCESS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +294%
Funded once
- HOHOMES OF HOPE INCone grant, 2022 · $126k · revenue +2%
- HDHarry Dallara Memorial Foundation Inc co Charles Dallaragraduatedone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +156%
- TOTOWN OF LYMAN SCone 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.
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.
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…
Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.
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…
Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse
Promoting and protecting the free private and competitive enterprise system through research and education.
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…
Fuel south carolina's innovation economy by accelerating technology-enabled growth in research, academia, entrepreneurship and industry.
Our mission is that every south carolina child will arrive at kindergarten ready to succeed.
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.
To prepare children for success by providing resources to families and the community
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.
How this is measured
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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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
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.
- Reach Out and Read Inc: 9% of income from government
How this is measured
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