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Sargent Foundation 5621-14-48

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$837k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$350k
Largest
01What you fund
0174% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192025.

Education$1.7MHealth$1.1MScience & Tech$440kCommunity Improvement$400kHuman Services$200kHousing & Shelter$179kPublic Safety & Disaster$71kFood & Nutrition$70kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $55k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $105k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
  • $250k+2 grants · $602k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
USC School of Medicine$350,000
Bob Jones University$252,136
Prisma Foundation$75,000
Holling Cancer Center$30,000
Miracle Hill$25,000
Salvation Army$25,000
Greenvile County Sheriff Dept$15,200
Red Cross$10,000
Anderson University$7,500
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Christian Learning Center$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Home with a Heart$5,000
Meals on Wheels$5,000
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 (FY21–25, $221k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 32% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Red Cross: $21k → 14%Red Cross: $20k → 14%Red Cross: $15k → 14%Red Cross: $10k → 14%Red Cross: $5k → 14%Miracle Hill: $50k → 10%Miracle Hill: $30k → 10%Miracle Hill: $25k → 10%Miracle Hill: $25k → 10%Miracle Hill: $20k → 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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NY
IN
PA
VA
NC
SC
DC

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.9M · 19 repeat orgs$578k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
11

Total granted

$3.9M
$484k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+74%

Still filing today

42%
18%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $94k 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 ServicesPublic BenefitOther

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

  • MH
    MIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $150k · revenue +27%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    5× · 2021–2025 · $71k · revenue +27%
  • MO
    MEALS ON WHEELS INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $70k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • GS
    GHS SARGENT MEDICAL SCHOLARSHIPS
    one grant, 2020 · $200k
  • BJ
    BOB JONES UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · $170k
  • BM
    BREVARD MUSIC CENTER INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%

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
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
2
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
3
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
4
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
5
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
6
Belhaven University

Belhaven university prepares students academically and spiritually to serve jesus christ in their careers, in human relationships, and in the world of ideas.

Education
7
Regent University

Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.

8
Arizona Christian University

Arizona christian university provides a biblically-integrated, liberal arts education equipping graduates to serve the lord jesus christ in all aspects of life, as leaders of influence and excellence.

Education
9
Augustana University Association

Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.

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
Spartanburg Methodist College

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…

Education
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Greenville University and the most unlike its peers is Home With a Heart. 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

10 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. 10 of the 33 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

USC School of Medicine — $1,090,000 · OtherUSC School of MedicineMUSC — $1,080,000 · OtherMUSCBob Jones University — $992,136 · OtherBob Jones UniversityGHS SARGENT MEDICAL SCHOLARSHIPS — $200,000 · OtherBOB JONES UNIVERSITY — $170,000 · OtherSalvation Army — $165,000 · Other+21 more — $483,725 · Other+21 moreMIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES INC — $150,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $71,124 · Human ServicesANDERSON UNIVERSITY INC — $27,500 · EducationNORTH GREENVILLE UNIVERSITY — $20,000 · EducationANDERSON UNIVERSITY — $5,000 · EducationWreaths Across America — $14,000 · Public Benefit
Other$4,180,861Human Services$221,124Education$52,500Public Benefit$14,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES INC — $150,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $71,124 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC — $70,493 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetBREVARD MUSIC CENTER INCORPORATED — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOME WITH A HEART — $29,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetANDERSON UNIVERSITY INC — $27,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN LEARNING CENTER — $25,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetNORTH GREENVILLE UNIVERSITY — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWreaths Across America — $14,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANDERSON UNIVERSITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 MIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC
  • Who funds BREVARD MUSIC CENTER INCORPORATED
  • Who funds HOME WITH A HEART
  • Who funds ANDERSON UNIVERSITY INC
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN LEARNING CENTER
  • Who funds NORTH GREENVILLE UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds Wreaths Across America
  • Who funds ANDERSON UNIVERSITY

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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA9.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · 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 Sargent Foundation 5621-14-48 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    3report 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 Sargent Foundation 5621-14-48?

    Find your warmest path to Sargent Foundation 5621-14-48 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 33 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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