· Private foundation
Milton & Betty Holcombe Foundation
Its FY2025 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WINTHROP UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| CENTRAL HERITAGE SOCIETY | $100,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $20,000 |
| LAWRENCE CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST | $15,000 |
| NATIONAL TRUST HISTORIC PRESERVATIO | $10,000 |
| SAMARITANS PURSE | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TX HILL COU | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $8,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $8,000 |
| DAUGHTERS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION | $6,000 |
| AMERICAN BATTLEFIELD TRUST | $5,000 |
| JAMES F BYRNES FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ST LABRE INDIAN SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| ST JOSEPHS INDIAN SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| CENTRAL FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $4,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $77k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
30 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- CHCentral Heritage Society9× · 2017–2025 · $670k · revenue +66% · 100% of their budget
- WUWinthrop University Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $223k · revenue +66%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches5× · 2021–2025 · $77k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- UDUNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACYgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +81%
- CACREATIVE ARTS CENTERone grant, 2020 · $5k
- LCLAWRENCE CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $5k
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 schs mission is to expand, preserve, and make accessible our invaluable collection, and to encourage interest and pride in the rich history of our state.
To promote interest in, knowledge of, and appreciation for north carolina history and culture through historical preservation, library service, and perpetuation of state literary and cultural heritage.
Today, with the formal approval of congress, the society continues exploring and instituting new and creative ways to bring the fascinating story of the capitol, its institutions and america's unique history to people across the nation and…
To preserve, promote and serve as an advocate for virginia's irreplaceable historic places for cultural, economic and educational benefits for everyone.
Tudor place historic house & garden preserves the stories of six generations of descendants of martha washington and the enslaved and free people who lived and worked at this georgetown landmark for nearly two centuries. by examining their…
The georgia trust works for the preservation and revitalization of georgia's diverse historic resources and advocates for their appreciation, protection, and use.
The rhode island historical society, through its collections, museums, and educational initiatives, welcomes everyone to engage with rhode island's complex and significant past.
The founding mission of the new-york historical society ("the new york historical "tnyh") is to collect, preserve, and interpret, for the broadest possible public, material relevant to the history of the united states in general and of new…
To promote understanding of the history of massachusetts and the nation by collecting and communicating materials and resources that foster historical knowledge.
The national society of the colonial dames of america in the state of south carolina is dedicated to furthering knowledge and appreciation of our colonial/national heritage through historic preservation, patriotic service, and educational…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Preserve, restore, reconstruct, or otherwise maintain historical structures, objects, works of art and locations and to promote, encourage, and carry on any historical, interpretive, research, or related educational activities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Parish Episcopal School and the most unlike its peers is James F Byrnes Foundation. 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 52 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
16 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. 16 of the 42 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 Central Heritage Society ↗
- Who funds Winthrop University Foundation ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds JAMES F BYRNES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Battlefield Trust ↗
- Who funds PICKENS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds RICHARDSON WOMANS CLUB ↗
- Who funds UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY ↗
- Who funds GREENHILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PINNACLE PARTNERS OF THE CAROLINAS INC ↗
- Who funds PARISH EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PEO Foundation ↗
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: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Milton & Betty Holcombe 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.
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.