· Private foundation
Phiferjohnson 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $300k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAYO CLINIC | $500,000 |
| NEW MORNING FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION | $75,000 |
| EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF THE ADVENT | $50,000 |
| EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF THE ADVENT | $50,000 |
| SHEPPARD PRATT HOSPITAL SYSTEM | $20,000 |
| EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF THE ADVENT | $10,320 |
| OAKBROOK SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| SPARTANBURG SCIENCE CENTER | $6,000 |
| EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION | $5,000 |
| FOOTHILLS CONSERVANCY OF NORTH CAROLINA | $5,000 |
| SPARTANBURG COUNTY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| FROM K-1 ZCA HEDGED CREDIT STRATEGY LP | $1 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 23% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
10 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 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, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $520k 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
- ECEPISCOPAL CHURCH OF THE ADVENT4× · 2020–2024 · $445k
- ECEPISCOPAL CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION3× · 2022–2024 · $255k
- NMNEW MORNING2× · 2023–2024 · $250k · revenue -7%
Funded once
- SDSPARTANBURG DAY SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue -34%
- ECEPISCOPAL CHURCH OF TRANSFIGURATIONone grant, 2023 · $175k
- SRSPARTANBURG REGIONAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $103k
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.
SMC Delivers an exceptional education that fuses the empowerment of the liberal arts with crucial career skills. Our mission is to equip our students with the knowledge, skills, virtues, and mindset needed to thrive personally, create…
Brevard college is committed to an experiential liberal arts education that encourages personal growth and inspires artistic, intellectual, and social action.
Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.
Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.
Catawba college is committed to providing students an education rich in personal attention that blends the knowledge and competencies of liberal studies with career preparation. catawba college draws strength from judeo-christian values,…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.
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.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wofford College and the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum of Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 32 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 Spartanburg County Foundation ↗
- Who funds SPARTANBURG DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NEW MORNING ↗
- Who funds SPARTANBURG COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GRALAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY VAIL VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds SPARTANBURG SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds VAIL RELIGIOUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOTHILLS CONSERVANCY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKGREEN GARDENS ↗
- Who funds CONVERSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CANCER ASSOCIATION OF SPARTANBURG & CHEROKEE COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds WOFFORD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds Washington and Lee University ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC BURKE FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Foundation for the Carolinas · Mary Black Foundation Inc · Spartanburg County Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Phiferjohnson 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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Phiferjohnson Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Phiferjohnson 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.