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Service League of Hickory Inc

Community improvements through direct financial support 501(c)3 charities that provide direct support.

$58k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Itemized grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$6k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$6,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$6,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 7
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$981k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Service League of Hickory Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHousing & ShelterHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving1$6k100%
FY20232$16k50%
FY20221$12k0%
FY20211$12k0%
FY20206$10k50%
FY20196$18k83%
FY20187$85kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$79kArts & Culture$34kHousing & Shelter$13kEmployment$10kFood & Nutrition$7kHealth$7kHuman Services$6kYouth Development$2kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 15 grantees
All grantees of Service League of Hickory Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Catawba Science Center Inc$30,00011%
Womens Resource Center$10,00017%
Family Care Center of Catawba Valley Inc$10,0001n/a
Hickory Public Schools$10,0001n/a
Childrens Advocacy and Protection Center of Catawb$7,00021%
Hickory Soup Kitchen Inc$6,00011%
Clyde Campbell Elementary School PTO$5,000111%
Hickory Music Factory Inc$3,50015%
Habitat For Humanity of Catawba Valley Inc$3,0002n/a
Classroom Connections$2,00013%
Exodus Outreach Foundation Inc$1,24010%
Hickory Porch$1,0001n/a
Hickory Boys and Girls Club$1,0001n/a
Girl Scouts Carolinas Peaks to Piedmont Inc$1,00010%
Alexander Chapter National Railway Historical Society Inc$5001n/a

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($68k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Service League of Hickory Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCatawba Science Center Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetWomens Resource Center: $10,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetChildrens Advocacy and Protection Center of Catawb: $7,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetHickory Soup Kitchen Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetClyde Campbell Elementary School PTO: $5,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetHickory Music Factory Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetClassroom Connections: $2,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetExodus Outreach Foundation Inc: $1,240 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGirl Scouts Carolinas Peaks to Piedmont Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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.

George Foundation IncNC24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: George Foundation Inc · Beaver Family Foundation Inc · The Bolick Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · Hambrick Family Foundation Inc · E Rhodes and Leona B Carpenter Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Richard M Griffin Sr Family Foundation · Tsh Charitable Foundation · Corning Incorporated Foundation · Underdown Family Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas

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.

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How do I get to Service League of Hickory Inc?

Find your warmest path to Service League of Hickory Inc 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.

About Service League of Hickory Inc

How much does Service League of Hickory Inc give?
Service League of Hickory Inc reported 1 itemized grants totaling $6,000, out of $58,250 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 7 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Service League of Hickory Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (50%), Arts & Culture (21%), Housing & Shelter (8%).
Who are Service League of Hickory Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Catawba Science Center Inc ($30k), Womens Resource Center ($10k), Family Care Center of Catawba Valley Inc ($10k).
Does Service League of Hickory Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Service League of Hickory Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include George Foundation Inc, Beaver Family Foundation Inc, The Bolick Foundation.
Where is Service League of Hickory Inc based?
Service League of Hickory Inc is based in NC.

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 17 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $57k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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