How much did South Carolina Independent Colleges and grant in FY2024?

South Carolina Independent Colleges and reported 21 grants totaling $673,985 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is South Carolina Independent Colleges and based?

South Carolina Independent Colleges and is based in SC.

South Carolina Independent Colleges and

Foundation Dossiers Also receives grants — funding profile →

· Public charity

South Carolina Independent Colleges and

Scicu supports and promotes the values of independent higher education in south carolina.

$674k

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$44k

Largest

01What you fund

0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.

Education$4.1MHousing & Shelter$288kOther$375k

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

2019

fulllimestone

2020

fulllimestone

2021

fulllimestone

2022

fulllimestone

2023

limestone

2024

limestone

2025

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

03FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$30,709

Median grant

States reached

$5.4M

Total assets

Largest grants

ANDERSON UNIVERSITY$44,246
PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE$40,288
BENEDICT COLLEGE$38,926
COKER UNIVERSITY$36,752
FURMAN UNIVERSITY$36,466
CONVERSE UNIVERSITY$35,797
BOB JONES UNIVERSITY$35,767
WOFFORD COLLEGE$32,152
COLUMBIA INTERNATIONAL UNIVER$32,031
CLAFLIN UNIVERSITY$31,078
NORTH GREENVILLE UNIVERSITY$30,709
SOUTHERN WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY$30,391
CHARLESTON SOUTHERN UNIVERSIT$30,150
LIMESTONE UNIVERSITY$29,879
VOORHEES UNIVERSITY$28,900

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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 14%. 84% of your 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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$4.8M · 22 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

22 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.8M

Still filing today

95%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHousing & 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

WOFFORD COLLEGE
7× · 2018–2024 · $295k · revenue +24%
CONVERSE UNIVERSITY
7× · 2018–2024 · $288k · revenue +54%
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ANDERSON UNIVERSITY
7× · 2018–2024 · $286k · revenue +57%

Funded once

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.

Columbia College

Columbia College improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education

Greenville College

To transform students for lives of character and service through a christ-centered education.

Education

Christian Brothers University

Christian brothers university is a private, catholic comprehensive university committed to preparing students of all faiths and backgrounds to excel in their professional and public lives by providing challenging educational opportunities…

Education

Union University

Union University provides Christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.

Education

Washington College

Washington college challenges and inspires emerging citizen leaders to discover lives of purpose and passion.

Education

Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education

Parker University

Parker university is a leading healthcare educator, developing skilled and compassionate professionals in chiropractic, allied health and business-related fields.

Education

Concordia University

Concordia university nebraska's mission is to be an excellent academic and christ-centered community equipping men and women for lives of learning, service and leadership in the church and the world. we primarily do this by providing…

Education

Andrews University

Education

Regent University

Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.

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Union College

Union college is a private liberal arts college affiliated with the united methodist church

Education

Union College

Offer a college experience including education, housing, & associated programs in lincoln, ne.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wofford College and the most unlike its peers is Bju Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2018–2025.

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)

21/21

Grantees still filing

17/21

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Education$4,144,994Other$375,433Housing & Shelter$288,016

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.

Watson-Brown Foundation IncGA33.3× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Watson-Brown Foundation Inc · Spartanburg County Foundation · Dick Horne Foundation · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Central Carolina Community · Folds of Honor Foundation · South Carolina Christian Foundation · Campbell Young Leaders · Duke Energy Foundation · Milliken & Company Charitable Foundation · Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Inc · Chapman 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 organisation South Carolina Independent Colleges and 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

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: VOORHEES UNIVERSITY.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~1 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 4 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.2× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 570329786 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 VOORHEES UNIVERSITY, 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

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 0% 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 South Carolina Independent Colleges and?

Find your warmest path to South Carolina Independent Colleges and 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.

South Carolina Independent Colleges and

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

21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2018–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to South Carolina Independent Colleges and?

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South Carolina Independent Colleges and

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

21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2018–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to South Carolina Independent Colleges and?

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