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Scansource Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$374k
Granted FY2025still arriving
71
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$856kHealth$421kEducation$392kFood & Nutrition$323kYouth Development$218kHousing & Shelter$115kPhilanthropy$106kArts & Culture$104kOther$0
02FY2025 · 71 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k59 grants · $197k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $127k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$3,750
Median grant
12
States reached
$4.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MILL VILLAGE MINISTRIES$50,000
SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE$20,250
LIVEWELL GREENVILLE$13,000
CHRISTMAS SHOES$12,500
LEO SANTA$10,500
KIND OF THE UPSTATE$10,439
SUNSHINE ON A RANNEY DAY$10,000
PROJECT HOST$10,000
LEAD ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL$10,000
REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK$10,000
PUBLIC EDUCATION PARTNERS$10,000
WE CARE FOR YOU INC$10,000
PHILLIS WHEATLEY COMMUNITY CENTER$9,750
WASHINGTON CENTER PTA$8,100
THE FAMILY EFFECT$7,800
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $601k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CALVARY HOME FOR CHILDREN: $19k → 15%LAWRENCEVILLE COOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $5k → 9%WISH FOR WHEELS: $13k → 12%GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND: $5k → 14%CALVARY HOME FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 15%LOAVES & FISHES: $5k → 10%SER FAMILIA: $3k → 8%GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND: $5k → 14%UPSTATE CIRCLE OF FRIENDS: $20k → 10%GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND: $5k → 14%TWILIGHT WISH FOUNDATION: $3k → 6%UPSTATE CIRCLE OF FRIENDS: $10k → 10%CALVARY HOME FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 15%UPSTATE CIRCLE OF FRIENDS: $5k → 10%CALVARY HOME FOR CHILDREN: $3k → 15%UPSTATE CIRCLE OF FRIENDS: $5k → 10%UPSTATE CIRCLE OF FRIENDS: $5k → 10%ARIZONA FRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN: $10k → 11%MILL VILLAGE MINISTRIES: $105k → 10%MILL COMMUNITY MINISITRIES: $100k → 10%GABRIEL'S ANGELS: $3k → 11%MILL VILLAGE MINISTRIES: $50k → 10%CORTNEY'S PLACE: $5k → 11%HOMELESS PERIOD PROJECT: $6k → 10%THE HOMELESS PERIOD PROJECT: $3k → 10%SELAH GREY FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%GREER RELIEF AND RESOURCES AGENCY: $23k → 10%CHRISTMAS SHOES: $13k → 10%CHRISTMAS SHOES: $7k → 10%ADAPTIVE PICKLEBALL: $7k → 10%CHRISTMAS SHOES: $5k → 10%GREER RELIEF AND RESOURCES AGENCY: $3k → 10%CHRISTMAS SHOES: $5k → 10%CHRISTMAS SHOES: $3k → 10%JUST SAY SOMETHING: $15k → 10%LEO SANTA: $11k → 10%PENDLETON PLACE: $18k → 10%JUST SAY SOMETHING: $6k → 10%FOSTERING GREAT IDEAS: $5k → 10%PENDLETON PLACE: $9k → 10%HISPANIC ALLIANCE: $5k → 10%PROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION: $4k → 10%SAFE HARBOR INC: $5k → 10%THE HOMELESS PERIOD PROJECT INC: $3k → 10%SAFE HARBOR INC: $5k → 10%CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES: $5k → 10%HISPANIC ALLIANCE: $3k → 10%PENDLETON PLACE: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
IL
WI
NY
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
AZ
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
LA
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 84 repeat orgs$803k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

84 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 54 since wound down; 41 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

84
147

Total granted

$2.1M
$655k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+11%

Still filing today

77%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $148k 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
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MV
    MILL VILLAGE MINISTRIES
    3× · 2021–2025 · $255k · revenue +112%
  • PH
    Prisma Health
    3× · 2020–2022 · $55k · revenue +124%
  • MC
    MEYER CENTER FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN
    2× · 2020–2021 · $50k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • OA
    OPERATION AIRDROP INC
    one grant, 2024 · $38k
  • CI
    Communities in Schools of South Carolinagraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +368%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Carolina Teen Center

Carolina Teen Center is a prevention and education year-round after-school and summer program that services youth and their families. Literacy programs, tutoring, life skills, mentoring, positive peer groups, conflict resolution skills,…

Health
2
Children's Trust of South Carolina

To strengthen families, organizations, and communities to prevent child abuse and neglect.

Human Services
3
South Carolina First Steps to School Readiness Board of Trustees

Per south carolina code section 59-152-30: "the goals for south carolina first steps to school readiness are to: (1) provide parents with access to the support they might seek and want to strengthen their families and to promote the…

Education
4
Harvest Hope Food Bank

Harvest hope is on a mission to eliminate hunger and food insecurity in south carolina. we rescue nutritious food from stores throughout the state and distribute it to food pantries, shelters, and soup kitchens. we operate programs that…

Food & Nutrition
5
Thompson Child & Family Focus Inc

Founded in 1886, thompson child & family focus is called to strengthen children, families, and communitiesdelivering measurable outcomes through healing, teaching, worship, and play. for more than a century, thompson has transformed lives…

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6
Beyond Housing

We strive to serve the community by constructing and rehabilitating homes for affordable homeownership, providing new housing rentals for low to moderate wealth families in south carolina, and providing services that aid in all aspects of…

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7
Developmental Disabilities Management Assistance Inc

Carolina hill provides safe and caring emergency shelter and supportive services to homeless families focusing efforts to achieve rapid re-housing and developing skills and resources to maintain it.

Human Services
8
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
9
South Carolina Network of Children's Advocacy Centers

Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse

Youth Development
10
South Carolina Youth Advocate Program Inc

We believe: scyap believes that every child has the right to a permanent home and family; that a child's family and community are valuable resources for promoting positive growth and overall development. we serve: scyap promotes the use of…

Human Services
11
Communities in Schools of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Inc

The mission of Communities In Schools is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.

Education
12
Alliance Center for Education Inc

Our mission is to provide high-quality education and support for children in need through partnership with their families. our vision is to positively affect the future of children at risk by improving economic mobility through education.…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is A Child's Haven Inc; the most unlike its peers is New Mind Health & Care 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

176 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 176 of the 273 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
43
Early backer (in before they grew)
174/176
Grantees still filing
104/176
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MILL VILLAGE FARMS: $200,000 · OtherMILL VILLAGE FARMSUNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC: $82,500 · OtherUNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INCMEYER CENTER FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN: $50,000 · OtherROPER MOUNTAIN SCIENCE CENTER: $49,250 · Other+106 more: $1,026,397 · Other+106 moreMILL VILLAGE MINISTRIES: $255,000 · Human ServicesMILL VILLAGE MINISTRIESSWITCH: $67,000 · Human ServicesSWITCHUPSTATE CIRCLE OF FRIENDS: $45,000 · Human ServicesUPSTATE CIRCLE OF FRIENDSCALVARY HOME FOR CHILDREN: $36,831 · Human ServicesGREER RELIEF AND RESOURCES AGENCY INC: $33,875 · Human ServicesCHRISTMAS SHOES: $32,000 · Human ServicesPENDLETON PLACE INC: $31,873 · Human ServicesALLIANCE FOR THE COLLABORATION WITH THE HISPANIC COMMUNITY: $25,000 · Human Services+24 more: $198,165 · Human Services+24 morePUBLIC EDUCATION PARTNERS GREENVILLE COUNTY: $41,500 · EducationGREENVILLE TECH FOUNDATION INC: $32,500 · EducationCREATIVE ADVANCEMENT CENTERS INC: $32,000 · EducationCommunities in Schools of South Carolina: $24,750 · EducationSOUTH CAROLINA GOVERNORS SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE & MATHEMATICS FOUNDATION INC: $17,000 · EducationCONVERSE UNIVERSITY: $12,960 · EducationKIND OF THE UPSTATE: $10,439 · Education+7 more: $28,800 · EducationPrisma Health: $54,666 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SC INC: $40,000 · HealthJW HOUSE: $10,000 · HealthFIRST LIGHT: $10,000 · HealthSUNSHINE ON A RANNEY DAY INCORPORATED: $10,000 · HealthHILINSKI'S HOPE INC: $7,081 · Health+7 more: $27,500 · HealthCHILDREN'S CANCER PARTNERS OF THE CAROLINAS INC: $27,000 · Youth DevelopmentGirlUp GVL: $22,525 · Youth DevelopmentPREDESTINED TEEN OUTREACH: $22,500 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF MOMENTUM BIKE CLUBS: $13,500 · Youth DevelopmentLIVEWELL GREENVILLE: $13,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTHBASE INC: $12,500 · Youth DevelopmentGirls on the Run Upstate SC: $11,000 · Youth Development+7 more: $32,000 · Youth DevelopmentHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY SC INC: $26,500 · Housing & ShelterSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $24,250 · Housing & ShelterFIRST IMPRESSION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC: $7,500 · Housing & ShelterHOMES OF HOPE INC: $7,000 · Housing & ShelterREFUGE FOR WOMEN INC: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterBELOVED ASHEVILLE: $3,700 · Housing & ShelterTHE BIGGER VISION OF ATHENS INC: $3,000 · Housing & ShelterUPCOUNTRY HISTORY MUSEUM: $15,000 · Arts & CultureGREENVILLE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $13,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE UPSTATE INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE: $8,000 · Arts & CultureGREENVILLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS: $7,500 · Arts & CultureFINE ARTS CENTER PARTNERS: $6,000 · Arts & CultureGREENVILLE THEATRE: $5,000 · Arts & CultureCAROLINA DANCE COLLABORATIVE: $3,500 · Arts & CultureSCOTTSDALE ARTS: $2,500 · Arts & CultureSC NEW PLAY FESTIVAL INC: $2,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,408,147Human Services$724,744Education$199,949Health$159,247Youth Development$154,025Housing & Shelter$76,950Arts & Culture$73,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMILL VILLAGE MINISTRIES: $255,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC: $82,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSWITCH: $67,000 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetPrisma Health: $54,666 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEYER CENTER FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN: $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetUPSTATE CIRCLE OF FRIENDS: $45,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetPUBLIC EDUCATION PARTNERS GREENVILLE COUNTY: $41,500 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SC INC: $40,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetOPERATION AIRDROP INC: $38,026 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCALVARY HOME FOR CHILDREN: $36,831 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetCLARITY INC: $35,135 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetTHE FAMILY EFFECT: $35,100 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetJASMINE ROAD INC: $35,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetGREER RELIEF AND RESOURCES AGENCY INC: $33,875 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetGREENVILLE TECH FOUNDATION INC: $32,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCREATIVE ADVANCEMENT CENTERS INC: $32,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetCHRISTMAS SHOES: $32,000 over 5y, 9.6% of budgetPENDLETON PLACE INC: $31,873 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetUNITED MINISTRIES: $29,200 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S CANCER PARTNERS OF THE CAROLINAS INC: $27,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY SC INC: $26,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetALLIANCE FOR THE COLLABORATION WITH THE HISPANIC COMMUNITY: $25,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetCommunities in Schools of South Carolina: $24,750 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $24,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGirlUp GVL: $22,525 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetPREDESTINED TEEN OUTREACH: $22,500 over 2y, 21% of budgetJULIE VALENTINE CENTER: $22,290 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetJUST SAY SOMETHING INC: $21,300 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetPROJECT HOST INC: $20,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSCSDB FOUNDATION: $20,250 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetANGEL FLIGHT SOARS INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA GOVERNORS SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE & MATHEMATICS FOUNDATION INC: $17,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE CAROLINAS INC: $16,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetFACES AND VOICES OF RECOVERY(FAVOR) UPSTATE SC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSAFE HARBOR INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUPCOUNTRY HISTORY MUSEUM: $15,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetANDERSON INTERFAITH MINISTRIES: $14,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF MOMENTUM BIKE CLUBS: $13,500 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetGREENVILLE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $13,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWish for Wheels Inc: $13,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCONVERSE UNIVERSITY: $12,960 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTHBASE INC: $12,500 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetLEO SANTA: $12,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLOAVES AND FISHES: $12,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetArizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation: $12,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HOMELESS PERIOD PROJECT INC: $11,500 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK: $11,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Jolley FoundationUnited Way of Greenvi…Dabo's All in Team Fo…Scsymmes FoundationDaniel-Mickel Foundat…John I Smith Charitie…South Carolina Christ…Sisk Foundation Bunco…Charity Ball Board of…Spinks Family Foundat…Hollingsworth Funds I…Spartanburg County Fo…
The Jolley FoundationNV114.3× affinity54 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Jolley Foundation · United Way of Greenville County Inc · Dabo's All in Team Foundation · Scsymmes Foundation · Daniel-Mickel Foundation · John I Smith Charities Inc · South Carolina Christian Foundation · Sisk Foundation Buncombe St Methodist Church · Charity Ball Board of Greenville · Spinks Family Foundation · Hollingsworth Funds Inc · Spartanburg County Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Scansource Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Scansource Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • Arts for Learning Connecticut: 14% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
57report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Scansource Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Scansource Charitable 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 273 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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