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Neill M Timmons 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.

$426k
Granted FY2024still arriving
44
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$747kHealth$555kArts & Culture$137kReligion$105kPhilanthropy$80kHuman Services$47kHousing & Shelter$36kFood & Nutrition$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k22 grants · $101k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $325k
$10,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FURMAN UNIVERSITY$25,000
FURMAN UNIVERSITY$25,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$25,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$25,000
SAMARITANS PURSE$20,000
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$20,000
PROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION INC$20,000
PIVOTPOINT WNC$20,000
PIVOTPOINT WNC$15,000
MORGANS HOPE$10,000
CHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL SCHOOL$10,000
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN$10,000
FACES AND VOICES OF RECOVERY GREENVILLE$10,000
MEYER CENTER FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN$10,000
PEACE CENTER FOUNDATION$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $131k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%CHARLESTON RECOVERY CENTER INC: $25k → 12%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $10k → 13%CHARLESTON RECOVERY CENTER INC: $10k → 12%CHARLESTON RECOVERY CENTER INC: $5k → 12%CHARLESTON RECOVERY CENTER INC: $5k → 12%PENDLETON PLACE INC: $10k → 10%PENDLETON PLACE INC: $10k → 10%PROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION INC: $20k → 10%PROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 10%SAFE HARBOR INC: $5k → 10%PENDLETON PLACE INC: $5k → 10%SAFE HARBOR INC: $5k → 10%SAFE HARBOR INC: $5k → 10%PROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 10%SAFE HARBOR INC: $1k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.7M · 37 repeat orgs$143k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

37 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
7

Total granted

$1.7M
$68k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+21%

Still filing today

81%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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
HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHousing & ShelterReligionOther

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

  • FA
    FACES AND VOICES OF RECOVERY(FAVOR) UPSTATE SC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $85k · revenue +98%
  • CC
    CHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL SCHOOL
    5× · 2017–2024 · $73k · revenue +92%
  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $60k · revenue +83%

Funded once

  • AC
    AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -79%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA EDUCATIONAL
    one grant, 2019 · $15k
  • DA
    Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +3%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Musc Strategic Ventures

To promote and support the educational, medical, scientific, and research purposes of the medical university of south carolina "musc", and university medical associates of the medical university of south carolina "uma", including their…

Health
2
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
3
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
4
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
5
Greenwood Genetic Center Inc

The greenwood genetic center is a nonprofit institute centered on clinical genetic services, diagnostic laboratory testing, educational programs and resources, and research. with a focus on compassionate patient care and innovative…

Health
6
Greenville College

Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.

Education
7
Annandale At Suwanee Inc

To perpetuate a village community to provide progressive life assistance to adults with developmental disabilities so that they can maximize their abilities and maintain their independence in the least restrictive environment.

Health
8
Mcleod Physician Associates Ii

Mcleod physician associates ii operates as a part of the mcleod health system. the mission of mcleod health is to improve the overall health and well being of people living within south carolina and eastern north carolina by providing…

Health
9
Tandem Health Sc

Tandem health sc is a comprehensive primary healthcare practice dedicated to building a healthy community and improving the health, well-being, and quality of life of each person served.

Health
10
East Carolina Health

To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.

Health
11
Goodwill Industries of the Southern Piedmont Inc

Goodwill builds pathways that help people pursue the life they want to achieve. goodwill exists to help people see possibilities, seize opportunities, and prosper. we partner with individuals to identify their strengths, interests and…

Employment
12
The Presbyterian Hospital

In the spirit of keeping our focus on patient-centered, equitable and compassionate care while ensuring our organization is sustainable for future generations, we have restated our mission, vision and values and are now guided by our…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greenville County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sarah Simpson Gossett Home Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAffordable Housing ProvidersFamily FoundationsFamily Philanthropic Founda…Performing Arts VenuesCharter SchoolsSouth Carolina Regional Dev…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 49 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%2%<5yr12%7%5–10yr15%10%10–20yr24%14%20–35yr9%29%35–55yr19%38%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%1%<5yr12%4%5–10yr15%9%10–20yr24%15%20–35yr9%17%35–55yr19%54%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/48
the rest of the field
12%
3,449/28,741

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.

04the grantee network

42 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. 42 of the 53 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/42
Grantees still filing
26/42
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FURMAN UNIVERSITY — $450,000 · EducationFURMAN UNIVERSITYCHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL SCHOOL — $73,333 · EducationCHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL SCHOOLUniversity of South Carolina Educational Foundation — $70,000 · EducationUniversity of South Carolina Educational Fo…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $60,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION+3 more — $29,500 · EducationFACES AND VOICES OF RECOVERY(FAVOR) UPSTATE SC — $85,000 · OtherFACES AND VOICES OF RECOVERY(F…UNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC — $80,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNT…FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF GREENVILLE S CAROLINA — $65,000 · OtherFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF GREENV…MEYER CENTER FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN — $45,000 · OtherMEYER CENTER FOR SPECIAL CHILD…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY — $35,000 · OtherAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETYUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA — $25,000 · OtherPROJECT HOST INC — $25,000 · OtherMORGANS HOPE — $20,000 · Other+10 more — $97,000 · Other+10 moreAmerican Heart Association Inc — $50,000 · HealthAmerican Heart …PIVOTPOINT WNC — $45,000 · HealthPIVOTPOINT WNCST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $35,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDRE…GATEWAY HOUSE INC — $30,000 · HealthGATEWAY HOUSE I…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $25,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER…HANLEY CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · HealthHANLEY CENTER F…THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN — $20,000 · HealthTHE SHRINERS' H…SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $10,000 · HealthCANCER SURVIVORS PARK ALLIANCE — $10,000 · Health+1 more — $7,000 · HealthCharleston Recovery Center Inc — $45,000 · Human ServicesCharleston…NEIGHBORHOOD FOCUS — $35,500 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORHO…PROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT HO…PENDLETON PLACE INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesPENDLETON …SAFE HARBOR INC — $16,000 · Human ServicesSAFE HARBO…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $10,000 · Human ServicesAmerican N…+1 more — $1,000 · Human ServicesSOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE — $60,000 · Arts & CultureGREENVILLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS — $32,500 · Arts & CulturePEACE CENTER FOUNDATION — $29,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WAREHOUSE THEATRE — $10,000 · Arts & CultureGREENVILLE THEATRE — $5,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED MINISTRIES — $35,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $20,000 · ReligionSarah Simpson Gossett Home Inc — $6,000 · Housing & ShelterPRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterMARY SUNSHINE HOUSE — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterDisabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust — $10,000 · Public Benefit
Education$682,833Other$477,000Health$252,000Human Services$167,500Arts & Culture$136,500Religion$55,000Housing & Shelter$16,000Public Benefit$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFURMAN UNIVERSITY — $450,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFACES AND VOICES OF RECOVERY(FAVOR) UPSTATE SC — $85,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC — $80,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL SCHOOL — $73,333 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of South Carolina Educational Foundation — $70,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE — $60,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPIVOTPOINT WNC — $45,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetMEYER CENTER FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN — $45,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCharleston Recovery Center Inc — $45,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD FOCUS — $35,500 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetPROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED MINISTRIES — $35,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGREENVILLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS — $32,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetGATEWAY HOUSE INC — $30,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetPEACE CENTER FOUNDATION — $29,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOST INC — $25,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetPENDLETON PLACE INC — $25,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHANLEY CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE HARBOR INC — $16,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOMPASS OF CAROLINA INC — $16,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetGAMECOCK CLUB OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDisabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WAREHOUSE THEATRE — $10,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER SURVIVORS PARK ALLIANCE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUniversity of South Carolina Alumni Association — $8,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HERREN PROJECT — $7,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSarah Simpson Gossett Home Inc — $6,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSigma Alpha Epsilon Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREENVILLE THEATRE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNAMI GREENVILLE SC — $5,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARY SUNSHINE HOUSE — $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budget
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.

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.

AWT Family FoundationCharles Timmons Found…Scsymmes FoundationDaniel-Mickel Foundat…The Jolley FoundationScansource Charitable…Bill and Connie Timmo…Yeargin FoundationCharity Ball Board of…John I Smith Charitie…United Way of Greenvi…Helga Marston Foundat…
AWT Family FoundationDE36.9× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: AWT Family Foundation · Charles Timmons Foundation · Scsymmes Foundation · Daniel-Mickel Foundation · The Jolley Foundation · Scansource Charitable Foundation · Bill and Connie Timmons Foundation · Yeargin Foundation · Charity Ball Board of Greenville · John I Smith Charities Inc · United Way of Greenville County Inc · Helga Marston 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 Neill M Timmons 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 53 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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