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Ralph & Virginia Hendricks Foundati

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.

$931k
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$150k
Largest
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 FY20202025.

Education$3.1MHuman Services$423kHousing & Shelter$209kAnimals$142kReligion$119kFood & Nutrition$118kYouth Development$100kHealth$90kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $164k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $725k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
USC UPSTATE ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP$150,000
CLEMSON UNIVERSITY$150,000
ANDERSON UNIVERSITY$100,000
GREENVILLE TECHNICAL FOUNDATION$100,000
SALVATION ARMY$100,000
NORTH GREENVILLE UNIVERSITY$75,000
FURMAN UNIVERSITY$50,000
GREENVILLE RESCUE MISSION$30,000
GREENVILLE TECHNICAL FOUNDATION$25,000
MEALS ON WHEELS$20,000
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SERVICES$15,000
HOME WITH A HEART$15,000
A HOME FOR ME$15,000
ROTARY CLUB OF SIMPSONVILLE FOUNDAT$14,000
USC UPSTATE ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP$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 (FY20–25, $78k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 22% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMAZING JOURNEY: $4k → 15%AMAZING JOURNEY: $4k → 15%AMAZING JOURNEY: $3k → 15%AMAZING JOURNEY: $3k → 15%AMAZING JOURNEY: $3k → 15%CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $15k → 10%CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 10%CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 10%CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 10%CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 10%CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $6k → 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.

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.3M · 24 repeat orgs$24k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
1

Total granted

$4.3M
$20k

Still filing today

50%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureReligionHealthOther

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

  • AU
    ANDERSON UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $605k · revenue +74%
  • NG
    NORTH GREENVILLE UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $500k · revenue +14%
  • FU
    FURMAN UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2020–2025 · $245k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • CR
    COLONEL REYNOLDS SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $20k

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
George Fox University

George fox university, a christ centered community, prepares students spiritually, academically, and professionally to think with clarity, act with integrity, and serve with passion.

Education
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
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
4
Evangel University

Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.

Education
5
Greensboro College

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.

Education
6
Mid-Atlantic Christian University

Mid-atlantic christian university is an undergraduate institution of christian higher learning whose mission is to impact the world by transforming ordinary people into extraordinary christian leaders. students are taught to think…

Education
7
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
8
Westminster University

Westminster university is a private, independent university dedicated to student learning. we are a community of learners with a long and honored tradition of caring deeply about students and their education. we offer liberal arts and…

Education
9
Friends University

Friends university, a christian university of quaker heritage, equips students to honor god and serve others by integrating their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives.

Education
10
Southwestern Christian University

Scu is a christ-centered liberal arts institution equipping students for a life of learning, leadership, and service; integrating faith, learning, and living; and empowering graduates to excel and to positively impact their world for jesus…

Education
11
Florida Southern College

Florida southern college (florida southern or the college) is committed to educational excellence and is a selective comprehensive, private, united methodist affiliated college with a strong liberal arts core and signature programs. (see…

Education
12
Mcmurry University

Shaped by christian principles, mcmurry university challenges students to examine our complex world from multiple perspectives in preparation for lives of leadership, service and professional success.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is Amazing Journey Inc. 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

13 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 26 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

USC UPSTATE ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP — $655,000 · OtherUSC UPSTATE ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIPGREENVILLE TECHNICAL FOUNDATION — $536,000 · OtherGREENVILLE TECHNICAL FOUNDATIONCLEMSON UNIVERSITY — $500,000 · OtherCLEMSON UNIVERSITYSALVATION ARMY — $338,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYGREENVILLE RESCUE MISSION — $125,000 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS INC — $118,000 · Other+10 more — $464,000 · Other+10 moreANDERSON UNIVERSITY — $605,000 · EducationANDERSON UNIVERSITYNORTH GREENVILLE UNIVERSITY — $500,000 · EducationNORTH GREENVILLE UNIVERSITYFURMAN UNIVERSITY — $245,000 · EducationFURMAN UNIVERSITYYOUNG LIFE — $51,000 · Youth DevelopmentFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentCENTER FOR COMMUNITY SERVICES — $61,000 · Human ServicesAMAZING JOURNEY INC — $17,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE UPSTATE INC — $58,000 · Arts & CultureWHITE HORSE MISSIONS — $43,000 · ReligionFRIENDS OF THE LITTLE WHITE HOUSE — $4,000 · Health
Other$2,736,000Education$1,350,000Youth Development$81,000Human Services$78,000Arts & Culture$58,000Religion$43,000Health$4,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetANDERSON UNIVERSITY — $605,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH GREENVILLE UNIVERSITY — $500,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetFURMAN UNIVERSITY — $245,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC — $118,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetHOME WITH A HEART — $67,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY SERVICES — $61,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE UPSTATE INC — $58,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetGREENVILLE FREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC — $55,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG LIFE — $51,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWHITE HORSE MISSIONS — $43,000 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMAZING JOURNEY INC — $17,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE LITTLE WHITE HOUSE — $4,000 over 1y, 2.5% 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.

  • Who funds ANDERSON UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds NORTH GREENVILLE UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds FURMAN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC
  • Who funds HOME WITH A HEART
  • Who funds CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SERVICES
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE UPSTATE INC
  • Who funds GREENVILLE FREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE
  • Who funds WHITE HORSE MISSIONS
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES
  • Who funds AMAZING JOURNEY INC
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LITTLE WHITE HOUSE

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Ralph & Virginia Hendricks Foundati 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.

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no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Ralph & Virginia Hendricks Foundati?

    Find your warmest path to Ralph & Virginia Hendricks Foundati 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 26 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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