· Private foundation
Southern Imagination Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRESH AIR FAMILY | $20,000 |
| UNITED WAY | $15,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $6,000 |
| SURFERS HEALING FOLLY BEACH | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| MANNA FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| ROCK N ROLL RESCUE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Y2O - YOUTH TO OCEAN | $2,000 |
| BIRMINGHAM ZOO | $1,667 |
| WOODLAWN UNITED | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k 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
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC7× · 2018–2024 · $103k · revenue +41%- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE7× · 2018–2024 · $37k · revenue +163%
- MRMEDIA REFORM SC LLC4× · 2018–2023 · $22k · revenue +114%
Funded once
- PVPUYALLUP VALLEY FOOD BANKone grant, 2020 · $25k
- PFPUYALLUP FOOD BANKgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +29%
- UMUrban Ministry Incone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -33%
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.
Our mission is to inspire conservation of the natural world by exhibiting and caring for animals, by excelling in education and research, and by providing an exceptional visitor experience.
Provide Charlotte's low-income children and youth with the academic, spiritual, and social development necessary to become Christian leaders determined to restore their communities.
The mission of the Organization is to coordinate, support, and advocate for member Food Banks across the Carolinas to create lasting solutions to address hunger.
Our mission is to see communities transformed by the Gospel through loving, serving, sharing, and sending. We accomplish this mission through local partnership, training, and service opportunities while advocating and empowering…
The mission of the food bank of greenwood county is to reduce hunger through community cooperation, effectively distributing donated grocery products and perishable foods, and making the best possible use of all available resources.
Our mission is to feed the hungry in baton rouge and the surrounding parishes by providing food and educational outreach through faith-based and other community partners.
Second Chance Foods (SCF or the Organization) is dedicated to reducing food waste by rescuing food that would otherwise be discarded, reducing hunger on a local basis while elevating the health of those served by the program, and reducing…
The Food Bank of Eastern Michigan's mission is to be the Food Source for people in need. Partnering with organizations to feed the hungry, we advocate and build a community solution to a community problem. By leveraging an abundance of…
The mission is to feed the hungry and eliminate hunger in our community. last year, we fed over 101,000 adults in our general feeding program and nourished 32,644 children in our childrens hunger initiative program (chip). every person who…
Food for Little Rascals Inc (FFLR) is operated exclusively to improve the health, welfare, and care of children in the State of South Carolina.
The Museum is a non-profit organization whose mission is to spark imagination, stimulate curiosity and encourage problem solving through the power of play in families from all backgrounds with young children.
Harvest hope is on a mission to eliminate hunger and food insecurity in south carolina. we rescue nutritious food from stores throughout the state and distribute it to food pantries, shelters, and soup kitchens. we operate programs that…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Going Places and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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 34 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
34 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. 34 of the 56 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 UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM ↗
- Who funds MEDIA REFORM SC LLC ↗
- Who funds FRESH AIR FAMILY INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON WATERKEEPER ↗
- Who funds PUYALLUP FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Urban Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds TURN90 ↗
- Who funds WOODLAWN UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds Birmingham Zoo Inc ↗
- Who funds Rock n Roll Rescue ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds WARRIOR SURF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds QUEST IN RECOVERY ↗
- Who funds HEALING FARM MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds I GOT LEGS ↗
- Who funds GOING PLACES ↗
- Who funds RED MOUNTAIN PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Lowcountry Local First ↗
- Who funds KIDS ON POINT INC ↗
- Who funds BIRMINGHAM LANDMARKS INC ↗
- Who funds Green Heart Project 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: The Joanna Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Protective Life Foundation · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Harold M Henderson Benevolent Fund · Nall-Whatley Foundation · Arlington Partners Charitable Foundation Inc · The Hugh Kaul Foundation · Dunn-French 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 Southern Imagination 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.
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.