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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.

$2.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
45
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$3.0MEducation$1.9MHealth$1.8MHousing & Shelter$1.7MPhilanthropy$1.7MFood & Nutrition$786kReligion$420kHuman Services$411kOther$0
02FY2024 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $503k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $735k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.3M
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$34M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$100,000
LEXINGTON MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$100,000
PROVIDENCE HOME$75,000
HAMMOND SCHOOL$50,000
PALMETTO PROJECT$45,500
COLUMBIA URBAN LEAGUE$35,000
MIDLANDS HOUSING ALLIANCE$30,000
WELVISTA$30,000
UNIVERSAL COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT$30,000
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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SPARKLE CAP PROJECT: $1k → 14%BIG RED BARN RETREAT: $50k → 25%SENIOR RESOURCES: $10k → 16%FAST FORWARD: $1k → 16%MISSION LEXINGTON: $30k → 11%ELEVATE COLUMBIA: $1k → 16%MISSION LEXINGTON: $30k → 11%MISSION LEXINGTON: $30k → 11%MISSION LEXINGTON: $30k → 11%MISSION LEXINGTON: $30k → 11%MISSION LEXINGTON: $30k → 11%LEXINGTON INTERFAITH COMM SERVICES: $12k → 11%HOMEWORKS OF AMERICA: $25k → 16%FAMILY PROMISE OF THE MIDLANDS: $30k → 16%FAMILY PROMISE OF THE MIDLANDS: $25k → 16%FAMILY PROMISE OF THE MIDLANDS: $25k → 16%COLUMBIA URBAN LEAGUE: $35k → 16%TRI-CITY VISIONARIES: $1k → 16%TRI CITY VISIONARIES: $1k → 16%TRI CITY VISIONARIES: $1k → 16%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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 64 repeat orgs$892k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

64
93

Total granted

$12M
$642k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+5%

Still filing today

63%
18%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentAnimalsReligionOther
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

  • University of South Carolina Educational Foundation
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +100%
  • MH
    Midlands Housing Alliance Inc
    6× · 2017–2024 · $530k · revenue +97%
  • PH
    PROVIDENCE HOME
    6× · 2017–2024 · $431k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • SD
    SCHOOL DISTRICT 4 OF LEXRICH
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • LM
    LEXINGTON MEDICAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • BR
    BIG RED BARN RETREAT
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +19%
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
Carolina Community Care Inc

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,…

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2
Sc Thrive

The organization leads South Carolinians to stability by providing innovative and efficient access to quality of life resources.

Science & Tech
3
Carolina Childrens Home

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

Human Services
4
Palmetto Care Connections

To assist providers in keeping health care local and connecting rural and underserved South Carolinians to quality services through broadband, technology, and telehealth.

Health
5
East Cooper Meals On Wheels Inc

Delivering meals to qualified individuals

Food & Nutrition
6
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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7
Health Care Partners of South Carolina Inc

The organization provides health care to individuals regardless of their ability to pay. this is a direct fulfillment of their tax exempt purpose.

Health
8
South Carolina Episcopal Home at Still Hopes

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.

Health
9
The Cooperative Ministry

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…

Human Services
10
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
11
Switch

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.

Human Services
12
Midlands Community Development Corp

Opening doors by providing programs and services that change the lives in the midlands of south carolina.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dickerson Childrens Advocacy Center Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

66 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. 66 of the 170 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)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/66
Grantees still filing
42/66
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CENTRAL CAROLINA COMM FOUNDATION: $2,210,657 · OtherCENTRAL CAROLINA COMM FOUNDATIONMidlands Housing Alliance Inc: $530,000 · OtherMidlands Housing Alliance IncIRMO CHAPIN RECREATION COMMISSION: $500,000 · OtherIRMO CHAPIN RECREATION COMMISSIONPROVIDENCE HOME: $431,282 · OtherPROVIDENCE HOMECAMP COLE: $261,000 · OtherLEXINGTON MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC D/B/A LEXINGTON HEALTH FOUNDATION: $260,000 · Other+130 more: $2,397,720 · Other+130 moreUNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS: $973,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF …CENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $690,000 · PhilanthropyCENTRAL CAROLI…+1 more: $250 · PhilanthropyUniversity of South Carolina Educational Foundation: $1,240,000 · EducationUniversity of …HAMMOND SCHOOL: $350,000 · EducationHAMMOND SCHOOL+2 more: $35,500 · EducationFREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $735,500 · HealthFREE MEDICAL …AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $250,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANC…WELVISTA: $120,000 · HealthWELVISTAPRISMA HEALTH MIDLANDS FOUNDATION F/K/A PALMETTO HEALTH FOUNDATION: $103,000 · HealthPRISMA HEALTH…Palmetto Foundation for Prevention and Recovery: $100,000 · HealthPalmetto Foun…OUR PLACE OF HOPE: $100,000 · HealthOUR PLACE OF …LEEZA GIBBONS MEMORY FOUNDATION INC dba LEEZAS CARE CONNECTION: $72,564 · HealthTHE WOMEN'S SHELTER: $65,000 · Health+6 more: $46,000 · HealthHARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK: $775,000 · Food & NutritionTHE SOUPER BOWL OF CARING INC: $35,000 · Food & NutritionHomeless No More Inc: $421,000 · Housing & ShelterMISSION LEXINGTON: $191,800 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF THE MIDLANDS INC: $80,000 · Human ServicesBIG RED BARN RETREAT: $50,000 · Human ServicesThe Columbia Urban League Inc: $35,000 · Human ServicesHOME WORKS OF AMERICA INC: $25,000 · Human Services+5 more: $16,000 · Human Services
Other$6,590,659Philanthropy$1,663,750Education$1,625,500Health$1,592,064Food & Nutrition$810,000Housing & Shelter$421,000Human Services$397,800

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 budgetUniversity of South Carolina Educational Foundation: $1,240,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS: $973,500 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetHARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK: $775,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetFREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $735,500 over 7y, 7.3% of budgetCENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $690,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetMidlands Housing Alliance Inc: $530,000 over 6y, 8.9% of budgetPROVIDENCE HOME: $431,282 over 6y, 15% of budgetHomeless No More Inc: $421,000 over 6y, 9.3% of budgetHAMMOND SCHOOL: $350,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetLEXINGTON MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC D/B/A LEXINGTON HEALTH FOUNDATION: $260,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $250,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMISSION LEXINGTON: $191,800 over 7y, 4.1% of budgetIRMO ARBOR DAY INC: $174,083 over 7y, 65% of budgetPALMETTO PROJECT INC: $146,500 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetWELVISTA: $120,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOliver Gospel Mission: $110,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetPRISMA HEALTH MIDLANDS FOUNDATION F/K/A PALMETTO HEALTH FOUNDATION: $103,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetPalmetto Foundation for Prevention and Recovery: $100,000 over 5y, 50% of budgetOUR PLACE OF HOPE: $100,000 over 3y, 31% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKEEP THE MIDLANDS BEAUTIFUL: $92,002 over 4y, 21% of budgetEdventure Inc: $85,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF THE MIDLANDS INC: $80,000 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetLEEZA GIBBONS MEMORY FOUNDATION INC dba LEEZAS CARE CONNECTION: $72,564 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S SHELTER: $65,000 over 7y, 4.2% of budgetPAWMETTO LIFELINE: $61,927 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCOLUMBIA MUSEUM OF ART: $54,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetSaluda Shoals Foundation: $51,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetBIG RED BARN RETREAT: $50,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetRIVERBANKS SOCIETY: $46,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SOUPER BOWL OF CARING INC: $35,000 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetEDUCATION EQUALS HOPE: $35,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetSISTERCARE INC: $35,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetThe Columbia Urban League Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $32,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBIA MUSIC FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $27,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetFAMILY SHELTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetDICKERSON CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetHOME WORKS OF AMERICA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCAROLINA WILDLIFE CARE INC: $22,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetMadelyns Fund: $20,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTHE ST BERNARD PROJECT INC: $17,890 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $14,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIRMO FUTURE GROWTH CORPORATION INC: $12,500 over 1y, 36% of budgetTHE LIVING WRIGHT FOUNDATION: $10,960 over 2y, 29% of budgetSenior Resources Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetReconciliation Ministries Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 OUR PLACE OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Central Carolina Comm…Dominion Energy Chari…Lipscomb Family Found…The Nord Family Found…Sisters of Charity Fo…Dorothy D Smith Chari…M B Kahn Foundation I…Vital Care Charitable…United Way of the Mid…First Citizens Founda…Kw Beverage Foundatio…The Leon Levine Found…
Central Carolina Community FoundationSC82.3× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Michael J Mungo Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Michael J Mungo Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
17report 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.
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Find your warmest path to Michael J Mungo Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 170 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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