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South Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities
Scicu seeks to advance higher education in south carolina through fundraising, scholarships, research, as well as facilitating collaborative activities among the member institutions.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $577k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOB JONES UNIVERSITY | $42,627 |
| FURMAN UNIVERSITY | $42,480 |
| VOORHEES UNIVERSITY | $37,411 |
| ANDERSON UNIVERSITY | $36,935 |
| COKER UNIVERSITY | $35,811 |
| WOFFORD COLLEGE | $33,694 |
| PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE | $32,851 |
| CHARLESTON SOUTHERN UNIVERSIT | $29,160 |
| CONVERSE UNIVERSITY | $28,318 |
| CLAFLIN UNIVERSITY | $28,161 |
| COLUMBIA COLLEGE | $27,622 |
| BENEDICT COLLEGE | $26,214 |
| NORTH GREENVILLE UNIVERSITY | $23,856 |
| COLUMBIA INTERNATIONAL UNIVER | $23,047 |
| SOUTHERN WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $22,465 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 84% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
20 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- FUFURMAN UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $453k · revenue +26%
WOFFORD COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $370k · revenue +52%
CONVERSE UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $365k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- BBBlueCross BlueShieldone grant, 2025 · $8k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.
Education - lagrange college challenges the minds and inspires the souls of its students. founded in 1831 and committed to its relationship with the united methodist church and its wesleyan and liberal arts traditions, the college supports…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Through innovative learning opportunities, individual student attention, and an unwavering commitment to inclusive educational access, simpson college cultivates a diverse community of learners to lead lives of meaning and purpose.
The College of Arts and Sciences is committed to the development of the whole person through a liberal arts education of the highest quality. The School of Theology educates women and men to serve the broad whole of the Episcopal Church in…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
John brown university (jbu) provides christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others by developing their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives. (continued on schedule o)jbu serves traditional…
The university statement of values consists of christian heritage, baptist heritage, academic excellence, liberal arts, teamwork, a student-centered focus, community engagement and diversity.
Belhaven university prepares students academically and spiritually to serve jesus christ in their careers, in human relationships, and in the world of ideas.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wofford College and the most unlike its peers is Voorhees College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 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. 21 of the 22 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds FURMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WOFFORD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CONVERSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds COKER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Columbia College ↗
- Who funds NORTH GREENVILLE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NEWBERRY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BENEDICT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Erskine College and Theological Seminary ↗
- Who funds SPARTANBURG METHODIST COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CLAFLIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LIMESTONE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Allen University ↗
- Who funds Voorhees College ↗
- Who funds Morris College ↗
- Who funds BJU INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Dick Horne Foundation · Watson-Brown Foundation Inc · Central Carolina Community Foundation · Chapman Foundation Inc · Spartanburg County Foundation · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Duke Energy Foundation · Campbell Young Leaders · South Carolina Christian Foundation · Folds of Honor Foundation · Educational Credit Management Corporation · Ibm International Foundation
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 South Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities 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.
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.