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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 FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $6,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $58,250 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $52,250 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$6,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$981k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SALVATION ARMY$6,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–18, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%FAMILY CARE CENTER: $10k → 12%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.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$72k · 3 repeat orgs$87k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +93% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
13

Total granted

$72k
$81k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+93%
-1%

Still filing today

67%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEducationHousing & ShelterYouth 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CC
    CATAWBA COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    6× · 2018–2023 · $62k
  • CA
    CHILDRENS ADVOCACY AND PROTECTION CENTER OF CATAWB
    2× · 2018–2020 · $7k · revenue +34%
  • HF
    Habitat For Humanity of Catawba Valley Inc
    2× · 2019–2020 · $3k · revenue +93%

Funded once

  • CS
    CATAWBA SCIENCE CENTER INC
    one grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue -7%
  • WR
    WOMENS RESOURCE CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +188%
  • FC
    FAMILY CARE CENTER OF CATAWBA VALLEY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +26%
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 Family Connections

Recruit and train and license foster parents to receive foster children from county government agencies.

Human Services
2
Carolina Adoption Services Inc

Carolina adoption services provides international and domestic adoption services, foster care, home studies, and post adoption support for children, youth and adoptive families.

Human Services
3
Children's Advocacy Center of Caldwell County Inc

Robin's nest provides a central location for the delivery of services to abused children, using the multi-disciplinary team approach to provide a continuum of care for child victims.

Human Services
4
Hickory Creek Child Center Inc

Provide child care and education to underprivileged children

Education
5
Waccamaw Youth Center Inc

The waccamaw youth center is committed to providing the at-risk youth of south carolina with a safe and comforting place to call home.

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6
Habitat for Humanity Cabarrus County

Guided by God, Habitat Cabarrus transforms lives and our community by uniting all of Cabarrus County around the cause of decent, affordable housing for everyone.

Housing & Shelter
7
The Children's Center Inc

The children's center provides affordable high quality education and childcare for working families throughout the lowcountry.

Human Services
8
The Child Advocacy Center of Anderson Co Tn

To combat severe physical and sexual abuse and resulting trauma by coordinating and providing services in a child friendly, safe and nurturing environment.

Human Services
9
Council On Adolescents of Catawba County Inc

To inspire today's youth to be physically and emotionally healthy through education, awareness and advocacy.

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10
Isabella County Child Advocacy Center

Provide nbsp;community nbsp;prevention nbsp;and nbsp;awareness nbsp;programs nbsp;related nbsp;to nbsp;child nbsp;abuse nbsp;and nbsp;neglect

—
11
Cayugaseneca Community Action Agency Inc

To respectfully assist people to achieve and sustain self-sufficiency through direct services, education, and community partnerships. the agency administers more than 50 different programs including head start, early head start, homeless…

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12
Child Advocacy Center of Cullman Inc

Nurturing hope, encouraging health, and promoting healing in troubled families through community collaboration, communication and cooperation

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catawba Science Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Classroom Connections. 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

11 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. 11 of the 17 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CATAWBA COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $61,500 · OtherCATAWBA COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLSHICKORY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $10,000 · OtherHICKORY PUBLIC SCHOOLSHICKORY SOUP KITCHEN INC: $6,000 · OtherHICKORY SOUP KITCHEN INCSALVATION ARMY: $6,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMY+4 more: $4,500 · OtherCATAWBA SCIENCE CENTER INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureCATAWBA SCIENCE CENTER …HICKORY MUSIC FACTORY INC: $3,500 · Arts & CultureHICKORY MUSIC FACTORY I…WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER: $10,000 · Human ServicesWOMENS RESOURC…FAMILY CARE CENTER OF CATAWBA VALLEY INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY CARE CE…CHILDRENS ADVOCACY AND PROTECTION CENTER OF CATAWB: $7,000 · HealthEXODUS OUTREACH FOUNDATION INC: $1,240 · HealthCLYDE CAMPBELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO: $5,000 · EducationHabitat For Humanity of Catawba Valley Inc: $3,000 · Housing & ShelterGIRL SCOUTS CAROLINAS PEAKS TO PIEDMONT INC: $1,000 · Youth Development
Other$88,000Arts & Culture$33,500Human Services$20,000Health$8,240Education$5,000Housing & Shelter$3,000Youth Development$1,000

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

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
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.

George Foundation IncBeaver Family Foundat…The Bolick FoundationNorth Carolina Commun…Hambrick Family Found…E Rhodes and Leona B …Duke Energy FoundationRichard M Griffin Sr …Tsh Charitable Founda…Corning Incorporated …Underdown Family Foun…Foundation for the Ca…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Service League of Hickory Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Service League of Hickory Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
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    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.

    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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