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South Carolina Universities Research & Education Foundation

The foundation is organized and operates as a support organization primarily to provide assistance to clemson university, university of south carolina, and university of south carolina aiken in their separate and joint efforts to provide research to various government agencies such as the department of energy, savannah river nuclear…

$2.0M
Granted FY2021
3
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$1.5M
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, FY2017 to 2021.

Science & Tech$13MHealth$283kEducation$109k
02FY2021 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.9M
$483,040
Median grant
1
States reached
$308k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA$1,461,711
SOUTH CAROLINA UNIVERSITIES RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION$483,040
CLEMSON UNIVERSITY$6,965
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%Medical University of South Carolina: $283k → 12%Clemson University: $469k → 16%University of South Carolina: $3.2M → 16%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA AIKEN: $600k → 17%South carolina State university: $30k → 25%CLEMSON UNIVERSITY: $143k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $2.0M → 16%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA AIKEN: $420k → 17%CLEMSON UNIVERSITY: $120k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $1.9M → 16%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA AIKEN: $389k → 17%CLEMSON UNIVERSITY: $97k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $1.8M → 16%SOUTH CAROLINA UNIVERSITIES RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $483k → 17%CLEMSON UNIVERSITY: $7k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $1.5M → 16%SOUTH CAROLINA UNIVERSITIES RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $101k → 17%SOUTH CAROLINA UNIVERSITIES RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $8k → 17%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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 4 repeat orgs$313k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2021, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
2

Total granted

$13M
$313k

Still filing today

25%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • US
    USC School of Medicine Greenville
    5× · 2017–2021 · $11M
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA AIKEN
    2× · 2018–2019 · $989k
  • CU
    CLEMSON UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2017–2021 · $837k

Funded once

  • PC
    PHI CHI MEDICAL FRATERNITY INC
    one grant, 2017 · $283k
  • SC
    SOUTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $30k
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
04the grantee network

1 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. 1 of the 6 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
1/1
Grantees still filing
0/1
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

USC School of Medicine Greenville: $10,762,688 · OtherUSC School of Medicine GreenvilleUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA AIKEN: $989,177 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA AIKENCLEMSON UNIVERSITY: $836,630 · OtherCLEMSON UNIVERSITYSouth Carolina Universities Research & Education Foundation: $591,761 · Other+2 more: $312,973 · Other
Other$13,493,229

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSouth Carolina Universities Research & Education Foundation: $591,761 over 3y, 22% 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.

  • Who funds South Carolina Universities Research & Education Foundation ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization South Carolina Universities Research & Education Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from South Carolina Universities Research & Education Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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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    How do I get to South Carolina Universities Research & Education Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to South Carolina Universities Research & Education Foundation 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 6 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 2021, released 2021. 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 no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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