How much did SISK FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of SISK FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

repaircompassveteranshousingeconomic

2019

developmentalcompassveterans

2020

sustainablecompassveteranschildreneconomicexperiencing

2021

parentmealsdevelopmentalsustainablenutritiouscompassveterans

2022

achtreatmenttherapeutic childchild carecare individualindividual therapyserved children

2023

eyelivesmealsexistschildrenhousingeconomic

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k10 grants · $75k
$10k–50k13 grants · $227k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$6.9M

Total assets

Largest grants

CRISIS MINISTRY$37,000
UNITED MINISTRIES$30,000
GREENVILLE FREE MEDICAL CLINIC$25,000
CDC SCHOLARSHIPS$20,000
TRIUNE MERCY CENTER$20,000
LOAVES AND FISHES$15,000
SOTERIA COMM DEVELOPMENT CORP$15,000
MIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES$15,000
SAFE HARBOR$10,000
HOMES OF HOPE$10,000
FIRST IMPRESSIONS$10,000
SERVANTS FOR SIGHT$10,000
TAYLORS FREE MEDICAL CLINIC$10,000
CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES$9,000
JASMINE ROAD INC$8,926

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $266k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.1M · 24 repeat orgs$216k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.1M

$102k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%

+85%

Still filing today

88%

82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $114k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesFood & NutritionEducationReligionCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterOther

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

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UNITED MINISTRIES
8× · 2017–2024 · $290k · revenue +72%
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SAFE HARBOR INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $91k · revenue +377%
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JASMINE ROAD INC
7× · 2018–2024 · $70k · revenue +188%

Funded once

SC
SOTERIA COMM DEVELOPMENT CORPgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +155%
FG
FOSTERING GREAT IDEASgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $12k · revenue +178%
SW
SUSTAINING WAYgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +85%

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.

Developmental Disabilities Management

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

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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Greenlight Family Services

Greenlight's mission is to achieve the best outcomes for families, young adults, and children by providing the highest quality services. its primary focus is to provide adoption and guardianship for children in the welfare system.

Human Services

Wnc Lighthouse Inc

The mission of WNC Lighthouse Inc is Changing lives, by being a light for Christ our Lord. Our vision is To be fully devoted to Jesus Christ, by opening our arms and providing Christian services to the underseved children, adults and…

Human Services

Harvest Hope Food Bank

Harvest hope is south carolina's largest food bank, providing over 25 million meals on average to neighbors in need across the midlands, pee dee and upstate.

Food & Nutrition

My Sister's Place of Gainesville

We provide a haven for a fresh start for homeless women and children by providing temporary housing and the tools and resources to help our residents regain their independence.

Housing & Shelter

Greer Community Ministries Inc

Meals on wheels and senior dining programs. food/social interaction/clothing for the homeless with emergency services for low income individuals, school supplies for the needy.

Human Services

Partners Ending Homelessness

Partners ending homelessness (the organization) is a non-profit organization located in guilford county, north carolina. the organization plays a vital role in the community's efforts to create housing solutions for those in need. the…

Human Services

Homes of Hope Inc

Provied temporary and emergency and low income housing and secured shelter.

Housing & Shelter

United Way of Greenville County Inc

We mobilize people and resources to improve lives, strengthen the community and advance equity for the benefit of all.

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Mercy House Living Centers

To be the leader in ending homelessness by providing a unique system of dignified housing alternatives, programs, and supportive services.

Housing & Shelter

Western Carolina Rescue

Provide food, shelter, rehabilitation and christian ministry to the poor and homeless

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Soteria Community Development and the most unlike its peers is Meyer Center for Special Children. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/37

the rest of the field

11%

300/2,792

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

34 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

33/34

Grantees still filing

28/34

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,279,427Religion$296,000Human Services$282,576Food & Nutrition$240,000Crime & Legal$84,526Housing & Shelter$77,200Education$73,500

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

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.

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.

United Way of Greenville County IncSC61.1× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greenville County Inc · The Jolley Foundation · Scsymmes Foundation · Dabo's All in Team Foundation · Scansource Charitable Foundation · John I Smith Charities Inc · Daniel-Mickel Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · Hathaway Family Foundation Inc · St Francis Hospital Inc · Charity Ball Board of Greenville · W W Burgiss Charities Inc

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 organisation SISK FOUNDATION 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

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: N GREENVILLE FOOD CRISIS MINISTRY.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

9 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 200090595 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on N GREENVILLE FOOD CRISIS MINISTRY, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 8% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Sisk Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Sisk Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

SISK FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

34 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Sisk Foundation?

More from the funding graph

SISK FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

34 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Sisk Foundation?

More from the funding graph