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Scsymmes Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$978k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$1.3MArts & Culture$1.1MHealth$1.1MEducation$904kHousing & Shelter$811kFood & Nutrition$627kPhilanthropy$426kRecreation & Sports$400kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $120k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $855k
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PEACE CENTER FOUNDATION$100,000
YMCA CAMP GREENVILLE FRED SYMMES CHAPEL$100,000
GREENVILLE TECH CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL$100,000
PHILLIS WHEATLEY ASSOCIATION$100,000
LIVEWELL GREENVILLE$100,000
MEALS ON WHEELS OF GREENVILLE INC$100,000
GREENVILLE FREE MEDICAL CLINIC$55,000
URBAN LEAGUE OF THE UPSTATE$50,000
ST ANTHONY OF PADUA CATHOLIC SCHOOL$50,000
REBUILD UPSTATE$50,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE INC$50,000
CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES$35,000
UPSTATE CIRCLE OF FRIENDS$35,000
THE JULIE VALENTINE CENTER$30,000
GREENVILLE LITERACY ASSOCIATION INC$20,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UPSTATE CIRCLE OF FRIENDS: $35k → 10%UPSTATE CIRCLE OF FRIENDS: $25k → 10%UPSTATE CIRCLE OF FRIENDS: $20k → 10%MILL COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $50k → 10%MILL COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $50k → 10%SENIOR ACTION INC: $75k → 10%PIEDMONT EMERGENCY RELIEF CENTER: $35k → 10%UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC: $50k → 10%Center For Community Services: $50k → 10%CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $25k → 10%YMCA OF GREENVILLE: $100k → 10%YMCA OF GREENVILLE: $100k → 10%YMCA OF GREENVILLE: $100k → 10%PENDLETON PLACE INC: $50k → 10%ALIANZA HISPANA-HISPANIC ALLIANCE: $60k → 10%UPSTATE INTERNATIONAL: $40k → 10%PENDLETON PLACE INC: $36k → 10%CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES: $35k → 10%PHILLIS WHEATLEY ASSOCIATION: $32k → 10%CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES: $29k → 10%CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENT SERVICES: $25k → 10%UPSTATE INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 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.
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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.1M · 39 repeat orgs$2.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

39 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
44

Total granted

$5.1M
$2.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+21%

Still filing today

92%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthHousing & 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

  • YO
    YMCA OF GREENVILLE
    3× · 2019–2021 · $300k · revenue +35%
  • PH
    Prisma Health-Upstate
    3× · 2017–2022 · $245k · revenue +76%
  • PW
    PHILLIS WHEATLEY ASSOCIATION
    3× · 2019–2025 · $232k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • YC
    YMCA CAMP GREENVILLE FRED SYMMES PRETT
    one grant, 2024 · $300k
  • SH
    SAFE HARBOR INC
    one grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue -41%
  • JS
    JUMPSTART SOUTH CAROLINAgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +81%
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
Greenville Area Development Corporation

Promoting and enhancing the economic growth and development of greenville county south carolina; gadc was formed by greenville county council.

Community Improvement
2
Greater Greenville Association of Realtors Inc

Providing standards, guidelines, and procedures to those members engaged in practice of the real estate profession

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3
Foundation for a Greater Greenwood County Inc

Providing leadership to enhance the quality of life in greenwood through strategic long-term vision and collaborative community development initiatives.

Philanthropy
4
Upstate Mediation Center

The mission of the upstate mediation center is to provide high quality, affordable mediation and conflict resolution services to residents of the upstate of south carolina.

Crime & Legal
5
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
6
South Carolina Council On Competitiveness

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…

Community Improvement
7
Greenwood Community Theatre Inc

Greenwood community theatre aspires to enrich the community by creating and fostering professionalism and diversity in all its theatrical endeavors and experiences.

Arts & Culture
8
Sc Chamber of Commerce

Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.

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9
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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10
Upstate Sc Alliance Inc

To market the upstate sc region to attract business investment. to support economic development efforts of the upstate alliance investors. to build cohesive relationships among the region's private and public sectors.

Community Improvement
11
Greater Greenville Housing & Revitalizat

Develop, provide, and promote safe, affordable, and decent housing and design, research, and/or promote revitalization activities and facilitate the coordination of various service and support activities for the greater Greenville…

Community Improvement
12
Greenville Theatre Arts Center
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greenville County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mere Christianity Forum 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

69 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. 69 of the 87 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/69
Grantees still filing
45/69
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YMCA CAMP GREENVILLE FRED SYMMES PRETT: $300,000 · OtherYMCA CAMP GREENVILLE FRED SYMMES PRETTMEYER CENTER FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN: $220,000 · OtherMEYER CENTER FOR SPECIAL CHILDRENUNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC: $220,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INCGREENVILLE TECH CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL: $200,000 · OtherGREENVILLE TECH CHARTER HIGH SCHOOLTRIUNE MERCY CENTER: $145,000 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS OF GREENVILLE INC: $124,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE INC: $202,550 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE INCCOMMUNITYWORKS INC: $150,000 · OtherUNITED HOUSING CONNECTIONS: $125,000 · Other+36 more: $1,935,000 · Other+36 moreYMCA OF GREENVILLE: $300,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF GREENVILLEPHILLIS WHEATLEY ASSOCIATION: $232,000 · Human ServicesPHILLIS WHEATLEY ASSO…SAFE HARBOR INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesSAFE HARBOR INCMILL VILLAGE MINISTRIES: $100,000 · Human ServicesMILL VILLAGE MINISTRI…CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES: $89,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR DEVELOPMEN…PENDLETON PLACE INC: $86,000 · Human ServicesPENDLETON PLACE INCUPSTATE CIRCLE OF FRIENDS: $80,000 · Human ServicesUPSTATE CIRCLE OF FRI…SENIOR ACTION INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $75,000 · Human ServicesUPSTATE INTERNATIONAL: $65,000 · Human ServicesALLIANCE FOR THE COLLABORATION WITH THE HISPANIC COMMUNITY: $60,000 · Human ServicesUPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesURBAN LEAGUE OF THE UPSTATE: $50,000 · Human ServicesGREER RELIEF AND RESOURCES AGENCY INC: $50,000 · Human Services+1 more: $35,000 · Human ServicesPEACE CENTER FOUNDATION: $300,000 · Arts & CulturePEACE CENTER FOU…SOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE: $200,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTH CAROLINA C…GREENVILLE THEATRE: $105,000 · Arts & CultureGREENVILLE THEAT…THE WAREHOUSE THEATRE: $100,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WAREHOUSE TH…GREENVILLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS: $100,000 · Arts & CultureGREENVILLE CENTE…CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE UPSTATE INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S MUSEU…CENTRE STAGE-SOUTH CAROLINA INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureCENTRE STAGE-SOU…GREENVILLE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $95,000 · Arts & CultureGREENVILLE SYMPH…+1 more: $25,000 · Arts & CultureGREENVILLE TECH FOUNDATION INC: $285,000 · EducationFEED & SEED CO: $100,000 · EducationGREENVILLE LITERACY ASSOCIATION: $50,000 · EducationCommunities in Schools of South Carolina: $43,000 · EducationPOE MILL ACHIEVEMENT CENTER: $43,000 · EducationCAMPERDOWN ACADEMY INC: $40,000 · EducationCOMPASS OF CAROLINA INC: $38,000 · EducationPrisma Health-Upstate: $245,000 · HealthGATEWAY HOUSE INC: $150,000 · HealthCANCER SURVIVORS PARK ALLIANCE: $50,000 · HealthSERVANTS FOR SIGHT: $20,000 · HealthLIVEWELL GREENVILLE: $210,000 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF MOMENTUM BIKE CLUBS: $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentLEAD COLLECTIVE INCCHA: $45,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $6,000 · Youth DevelopmentREBUILD UPSTATE: $150,000 · ReligionUNITED MINISTRIES: $80,000 · ReligionMERE CHRISTIANITY FORUM INC: $50,000 · Religion
Other$3,621,550Human Services$1,497,000Arts & Culture$1,125,000Education$599,000Health$465,000Youth Development$306,000Religion$280,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYMCA OF GREENVILLE: $300,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetPEACE CENTER FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGREENVILLE TECH FOUNDATION INC: $285,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetPrisma Health-Upstate: $245,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPHILLIS WHEATLEY ASSOCIATION: $232,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetMEYER CENTER FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN: $220,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC: $220,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetLIVEWELL GREENVILLE: $210,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE INC: $202,550 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE: $200,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetCOMMUNITYWORKS INC: $150,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetGATEWAY HOUSE INC: $150,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetSAFE HARBOR INC: $150,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetREBUILD UPSTATE: $150,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetTRIUNE MERCY CENTER: $145,000 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetUNITED HOUSING CONNECTIONS: $125,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF GREENVILLE INC: $124,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetGREENVILLE THEATRE: $105,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetFEED & SEED CO: $100,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetJUMPSTART SOUTH CAROLINA: $100,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetTHE WAREHOUSE THEATRE: $100,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetTHE FAMILY EFFECT: $100,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetGREENVILLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS: $100,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetSOTERIA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $100,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE UPSTATE INC: $100,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCENTRE STAGE-SOUTH CAROLINA INC: $100,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetPROJECT HOST INC: $100,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetMILL VILLAGE MINISTRIES: $100,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetGREENVILLE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $95,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetGREENVILLE FREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $95,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBLUE RIDGE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $90,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetCENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES: $89,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetPENDLETON PLACE INC: $86,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetA Child's Haven Inc: $85,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetUPSTATE CIRCLE OF FRIENDS: $80,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetUNITED MINISTRIES: $80,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSENIOR ACTION INC: $75,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $75,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetUPSTATE INTERNATIONAL: $65,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetALLIANCE FOR THE COLLABORATION WITH THE HISPANIC COMMUNITY: $60,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetJULIE VALENTINE CENTER: $55,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetUPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCANCER SURVIVORS PARK ALLIANCE: $50,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetMERE CHRISTIANITY FORUM INC: $50,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetGREENVILLE LITERACY ASSOCIATION: $50,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetFACES AND VOICES OF RECOVERY(FAVOR) UPSTATE SC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetHOMES OF HOPE INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF THE UPSTATE: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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 FoundationDaniel-Mickel Foundat…United Way of Greenvi…John I Smith Charitie…Scansource Charitable…Hollingsworth Funds I…Dabo's All in Team Fo…United Community Bank…St Francis Hospital I…Charity Ball Board of…Spinks Family Foundat…Bill and Connie Timmo…
The Jolley FoundationNV113.3× affinity52 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Jolley Foundation · Daniel-Mickel Foundation · United Way of Greenville County Inc · John I Smith Charities Inc · Scansource Charitable Foundation · Hollingsworth Funds Inc · Dabo's All in Team Foundation · United Community Bank Foundation · St Francis Hospital Inc · Charity Ball Board of Greenville · Spinks Family Foundation · Bill and Connie Timmons 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 Scsymmes Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Scsymmes Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    20report 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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Scsymmes Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Scsymmes 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 87 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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