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Rhodenbaugh Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $24k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUTH ON COURSE | $50,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,700 |
| CLIFFS RESIDENTS OUTREACH | $4,600 |
| PEACE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ART | $3,748 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $1,000 |
| NAF | $1,000 |
| GIRLS GOLF OF AMERICA | $1,000 |
| GLASSY FIRE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| RIDE TO WORK MINISTRY NONPROFIT INC | $1,000 |
| SC JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION | $910 |
| BEARINGS BIKE WORKS | $500 |
| COLLINS CHILDREN'S HOME | $325 |
| THE LUTHEREAN CHURCH OF THE GOOD SH | $200 |
| CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER | $100 |
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 (FY17–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 86% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +73% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 11 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, 86% 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
- NFNCGA FOUNDATION7× · 2019–2025 · $283k · revenue +244%
- PCPEACE CENTER FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $16k · revenue +79%
- CGCAROLINAS GOLF FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2023 · $11k · revenue +126%
Funded once
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSEone grant, 2017 · $20k
- UOUniversity of Michigangraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +202%
- UOUNIVERSTIY OF IOWA CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENTone grant, 2022 · $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 cga is a non-profit service organization that was formed in 1909 to conduct championships and tournaments for amateur golfers in north and south carolina, administer the usga handicap system in the carolinas, and support its membership…
The united states golf association champions and advances the game of golf. it serves millions of golfers and thousands of golf courses both within the united states and around the world through programs and services that promote a…
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…
Central carolina community foundation is a nonprofit community foundation that connects and mobilizes people and resources to strengthen the midlands of south carolina. the foundation partners with donors, nonprofit organizations,…
To identify qualified applicants in order to provide scholarship grants for advanced career educational opportunities that may otherwise go unfulfilled.
Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.
Inspiring philanthropy and strengthening our region through innovative community initiatives and quality services to donors and constituents.
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.
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…
To preserve, promote, and serve the game of golf
North greenville university exists to glorify god by cultivating graduates who are equipped to serve as transformational leaders for church and society.
The south carolina council on competitiveness is a nonpartisan, business-led non-profit organization committed to advancing the long term competitiveness of south carolina through actionable research, support of industry clusters and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Advocacy Center of Spartanburg Cherokee - Union Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Shivas Irons Society. 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.
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 42 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
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 102 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 NCGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PEACE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAROLINAS GOLF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds CLIFFS RESIDENTS OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds RIDE TO WORK MINISTRY NONPROFIT INC ↗
- Who funds COLLINS HOME FAMILY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF OCONEE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HV3 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIRLS GOLF OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Global ↗
- Who funds METROLINA ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds READING IS ESSENTIAL FOR ALL PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN CORNER FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds NW FURNITURE BANK ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN 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: Duke Energy Foundation · Central Carolina Community Foundation · The Jolley Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Elbert W Rogers Foundation · Scsymmes Foundation · Daniel-Mickel Foundation · J M Smith Foundation · South Carolina Christian Foundation · The Wayne & Pauline Thrift Family Foundation · Hayne Hipp Foundation · 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 Rhodenbaugh 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.
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