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Michael J Mungo Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $503k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $735k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATI | $500,000 |
| USC EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $430,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS | $360,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $150,000 |
| HOMELESS NO MORE | $135,000 |
| FREE MEDICAL CLINIC | $125,000 |
| LEXINGTON MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $100,000 |
| PROVIDENCE HOME | $75,000 |
| HAMMOND SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| PALMETTO PROJECT | $45,500 |
| COLUMBIA URBAN LEAGUE | $35,000 |
| OUR PLACE OF HOPE | $30,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF THE MIDLANDS | $30,000 |
| UNIVERSAL COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT | $30,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $398k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +28% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
64 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 11 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k 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
University of South Carolina Educational Foundation6× · 2019–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +100%- MHMidlands Housing Alliance Inc6× · 2017–2024 · $530k · revenue +97%
- PHPROVIDENCE HOME6× · 2017–2024 · $431k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- SDSCHOOL DISTRICT 4 OF LEXRICHone grant, 2023 · $100k
- LCLEXINGTON COUNTY HEALTH SERVICE DISTRICTone grant, 2019 · $50k
- LMLEXINGTON MEDICAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $50k
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.
The mission of hospice & community care is to give hope, comfort, and compassion to those that need it most. hospice & community care is a nonprofit healthcare organization providing hospice and palliative care to residents of york,…
The organization leads South Carolinians to stability by providing innovative and efficient access to quality of life resources.
The mission of Carolina Children's Home is to meet the under-served mental and physical health needs of children, young adults, and their families
To assist providers in keeping health care local and connecting rural and underserved South Carolinians to quality services through broadband, technology, and telehealth.
Delivering meals to qualified individuals
Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.
The organization provides health care to individuals regardless of their ability to pay. this is a direct fulfillment of their tax exempt purpose.
To provide a faith based community where life will be rich and full as god intends it to be, holding to our values, serving one another with dedication and promoting health and wellness for all.
The organization's mission is to increase the economic self-sufficiency of people experiencing poverty in the Midlands through crisis assistance and sustainability programs. The Ministry provides guidance, counseling, referrals, and direct…
Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse
Switch's mission is to end human trafficking and sexual exploitation in the upstate of south carolina focusing on awareness, demand, intervention, prevention and restoration.
Opening doors by providing programs and services that change the lives in the midlands of south carolina.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dickerson Childrens Advocacy Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Stroud Development Group. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
66 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. 66 of the 170 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 University of South Carolina Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
- Who funds HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds FREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Midlands Housing Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE HOME ↗
- Who funds Homeless No More Inc ↗
- Who funds HAMMOND SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC D/B/A LEXINGTON HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION LEXINGTON ↗
- Who funds IRMO ARBOR DAY INC ↗
- Who funds PALMETTO PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WELVISTA ↗
- Who funds Oliver Gospel Mission ↗
- Who funds PRISMA HEALTH MIDLANDS FOUNDATION F/K/A PALMETTO HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Palmetto Foundation for Prevention and Recovery ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds OUR PLACE OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds KEEP THE MIDLANDS BEAUTIFUL ↗
- Who funds Edventure Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF THE MIDLANDS INC ↗
- Who funds LEEZA GIBBONS MEMORY FOUNDATION INC dba LEEZAS CARE CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S SHELTER ↗
- Who funds PAWMETTO LIFELINE ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds Saluda Shoals Foundation ↗
- Who funds BIG RED BARN RETREAT ↗
- Who funds RIVERBANKS SOCIETY ↗
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: Central Carolina Community Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Lipscomb Family Foundation · The Nord Family Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · Dorothy D Smith Charitable Foundation · M B Kahn Foundation Inc · Vital Care Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way of the Midlands · First Citizens Foundation Inc Co First · Kw Beverage Foundation Inc · The Leon Levine 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 Michael J Mungo 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
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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