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Sisk Foundation Buncombe St Methodist Church

Propagate and proclaim the christian faith.

$340k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 44% of SISK FOUNDATION BUNCOMBE ST METHODIST CHURCH’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 23 grants below total $303,780 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $340,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $36,220 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $73k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $230k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED MINISTRIES$40,000
TRIUNE MERCY CENTER$30,000
GREENVILLE FREE MEDICAL CLINIC$29,152
UNITED HOUSING CONNECTIONS$20,000
TAYLORS FREE MEDICAL CLINIC$16,152
LOAVES AND FISHES$16,000
SAFE HARBOR$15,000
SERVANTS FOR SIGHT$12,000
HOMES OF HOPE$12,000
CHALLENGES INC SC$10,000
THE PERIOD PROJECT$10,000
PMAC$10,000
FIRST IMPRESSIONS$10,000
JASMINE ROAD INC$8,000
UNITY HEALTH ON MAIN$8,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25, $307k) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE PERIOD PROJECT: $8k → 10%MILL COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $8k → 10%THE PERIOD PROJECT: $8k → 10%NEIGHBORHOOD FOCUS: $6k → 10%CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES: $22k → 10%SAFE HARBOR INC: $15k → 10%MIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES: $15k → 10%SAFE HARBOR INC: $14k → 10%SAFE HARBOR INC: $12k → 10%PENDLETON PLACE: $10k → 10%SAFE HARBOR INC: $10k → 10%CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES: $10k → 10%CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES: $10k → 10%SAFE HARBOR INC: $10k → 10%PENDLETON PLACE: $10k → 10%PENDLETON PLACE: $10k → 10%SAFE HARBOR INC: $10k → 10%SAFE HARBOR: $15k → 10%SAFE HARBOR INC: $10k → 10%MIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES: $15k → 10%CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES: $9k → 10%FOSTERING GREAT IDEAS: $12k → 10%PENDLETON PLACE: $8k → 10%PENDLETON PLACE: $8k → 10%PENDLETON PLACE: $8k → 10%SAFE HARBOR: $10k → 10%THE PERIOD PROJECT: $10k → 10%PENDLETON PLACE: $8k → 10%THE PERIOD PROJECT: $8k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — 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.
$2.4M · 25 repeat orgs$232k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
16

Total granted

$2.4M
$186k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+4%

Still filing today

92%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k 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 ServicesFood & NutritionHealthEducationReligionCrime & LegalOther

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

  • UM
    UNITED MINISTRIES
    9× · 2017–2025 · $330k · revenue +58%
  • SH
    SAFE HARBOR INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $106k · revenue +377%
  • UH
    UNITED HOUSING CONNECTIONS
    4× · 2020–2025 · $80k · revenue +114%

Funded once

  • CM
    CRISIS MINISTRY
    one grant, 2024 · $37k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $20k
  • SC
    SOTERIA COMM DEVELOPMENT CORP
    one grant, 2024 · $15k

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.

1
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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2
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
3
Mental Health America of Greenville County Inc

Mental health america of greenville county (mhagc) is a 501 c3 nonprofit organization whose mission is to help support, strengthen, and save lives through services that positively impact mental health. mhagc provides mental wellness…

Health
4
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
5
Beyond Abuse

To lead the community beyond sexual violence and child abuse through awareness, advocacy, and action.

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6
Family Services Inc

Origin sc empowers individuals to achieve financial, housing and mental health stability through advocacy, counseling, and education.

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7
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
8
My Sister's House Inc

My Sister's House is a nonprofit organization that provides services, programs, and resources to empower victims of domestic violence and their children to be free from abuse.

Human Services
9
Second Helpings

Our mission is to rescue and transport surplus food to qualified non profit agencies and churches. these agencies fulfill a priority need by distributing food to needy and disadvantaged families in three counties of sc.

Human Services
10
The Greenville Community Shelters

To serve the homeless and those at risk of homelessness by providing safe housing and assisting them in developing a long-term plan that leads to self-sufficiency.

Housing & Shelter
11
Southeastern Carolina Crossroads Inc

Southeastern carolina crossroads is an organization designed to provide a positive atmosphere and faith based help and hope for men to overcome addiction.

Health
12
The Turning Point of South Carolina Inc

Our Mission is to provide a structured, safe and secure residential setting in which people may recover from substance addiction physically, mentally and spiritually and reconnect with their families and community.

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Soteria Community Development Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Kellie Rynn Academy. 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 27 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%6%<5yr14%15%5–10yr18%15%10–20yr13%27%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr19%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%4%<5yr14%5%5–10yr18%6%10–20yr13%30%20–35yr13%45%35–55yr19%10%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/42
the rest of the field
13%
353/2,787

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.

04the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 47 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/38
Grantees still filing
23/38
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BUNCOMBE ST UM CHURCH — $750,915 · OtherBUNCOMBE ST UM CHURCHGREENVILLE FREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC — $182,572 · OtherGREENVILLE FREE MEDICAL CLINIC INCUNITED HOUSING CONNECTIONS — $80,492 · OtherUNITED HOUSING CONNECTIONSTHE SALVATION ARMY WORLD SERVICE OFFICE — $46,650 · Other+19 more — $312,426 · Other+19 moreUNITED MINISTRIES — $330,000 · ReligionUNITED MINISTR…+1 more — $6,000 · ReligionSAFE HARBOR INC — $106,000 · Human ServicesSAFE HARBOR I…PENDLETON PLACE INC — $61,500 · Human ServicesPENDLETON PLA…CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES — $50,588 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR DE…THE HOMELESS PERIOD PROJECT INC — $32,500 · Human ServicesTHE HOMELESS …MIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesMIRACLE HILL …FOSTERING GREAT IDEAS — $12,488 · Human Services+4 more — $30,000 · Human Services+4 moreTRIUNE MERCY CENTER — $189,000 · Food & NutritionTRIUNE MERCY…MEALS ON WHEELS OF GREENVILLE INC — $43,000 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHE…LOAVES AND FISHES — $31,000 · Food & NutritionLOAVES AND F…NORTH GREENVILLE CRISIS MINISTRY I — $31,000 · Food & NutritionNORTH GREENV…HOMES OF HOPE INC — $69,200 · Housing & ShelterFIRST IMPRESSION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC — $50,000 · Housing & ShelterSERVANTS FOR SIGHT — $47,500 · HealthTAYLORS FREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC — $33,652 · HealthCHALLENGES INC SC — $10,000 · HealthUNITY HEALTH ON MAIN — $8,000 · HealthJASMINE ROAD INC — $77,526 · Crime & LegalSOTERIA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $15,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$1,373,055Religion$336,000Human Services$323,076Food & Nutrition$294,000Housing & Shelter$119,200Health$99,152Crime & Legal$92,526

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNITED MINISTRIES — $330,000 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetTRIUNE MERCY CENTER — $189,000 over 8y, 3.7% of budgetGREENVILLE FREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC — $182,572 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetSAFE HARBOR INC — $106,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED HOUSING CONNECTIONS — $80,492 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetJASMINE ROAD INC — $77,526 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetHOMES OF HOPE INC — $69,200 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetPENDLETON PLACE INC — $61,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetCENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES — $50,588 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetFIRST IMPRESSION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC — $50,000 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetSERVANTS FOR SIGHT — $47,500 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY WORLD SERVICE OFFICE — $46,650 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOMPASS OF CAROLINA INC — $43,500 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF GREENVILLE INC — $43,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTAYLORS FREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC — $33,652 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE HOMELESS PERIOD PROJECT INC — $32,500 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetPROJECT HOST INC — $31,430 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetLOAVES AND FISHES — $31,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetNORTH GREENVILLE CRISIS MINISTRY I — $31,000 over 4y, 7.9% of budgetMIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMEYER CENTER FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN — $27,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetYOUTHBASE INC — $22,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetPOE MILL ACHIEVEMENT CENTER — $20,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetSOTERIA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFOSTERING GREAT IDEAS — $12,488 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetBEL-AIRE COMMUNITY PARTNERS — $10,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetSUSTAINING WAY — $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetA Child's Haven Inc — $9,920 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNICHOLTOWN CHILD AND FAMILY COLLABORATIVE — $9,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetREBUILD UPSTATE — $6,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNext Steps Today Inc — $6,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD FOCUS — $6,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJULIE VALENTINE CENTER — $5,476 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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 Greenvi…The Jolley FoundationScansource Charitable…Scsymmes FoundationDabo's All in Team Fo…Daniel-Mickel Foundat…John I Smith Charitie…W W Burgiss Charities…Sisters of Charity Fo…St Francis Hospital I…Central Carolina Comm…Hathaway Family Found…
United Way of Greenville County IncSC59.7× 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 · Scansource Charitable Foundation · Scsymmes Foundation · Dabo's All in Team Foundation · Daniel-Mickel Foundation · John I Smith Charities Inc · W W Burgiss Charities Inc · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · St Francis Hospital Inc · Central Carolina Community Foundation · Hathaway Family Foundation 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 organization Sisk Foundation Buncombe St Methodist Church 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 47 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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