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Spartanburg Academic Movement
SPARTANBURG ACADEMIC MOVEMENT is an "all-in" partnership of schools and colleges, businesses, governments, foundations, faith communities and individuals across spartanburg county in pursuit of high levels of educational achievement.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 17 grants below total $537,603 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $568,815 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $31,212 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $96k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $415k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SPARTANBURG COUNTY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR CHILD SUCCESS | $92,500 |
| UNION COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $87,500 |
| UNION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE PIEDMONT | $60,000 |
| SPARTANBURG SCHOOL DISTRICT 1 | $25,000 |
| THE SOUND OF LEARNING | $10,700 |
| BENJAMIN E MAYS FAMILY RESOURCE CTR | $10,000 |
| COME CLOSER | $10,000 |
| NORTHSIDE DEVELOPMENT | $10,000 |
| UPSTATE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER | $10,000 |
| MIDDLE TYGER COMMUNITY CENTER | $10,000 |
| THE BETHLEHEM CENTER | $10,000 |
| BROTHERS RESTORING URBAN HOPE | $7,400 |
| SPARTANBURG REGIONAL FOUNDATION | $7,383 |
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, $270k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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 +12% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 9 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, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $377k 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
- SIStriveTogether Inc3× · 2017–2019 · $353k · revenue +735%
- BCBETHLEHEM CENTER3× · 2021–2024 · $150k · revenue +225%
- TCTRI-COUNTY CRADLE TO CAREER COLLABORATIVE2× · 2021–2022 · $100k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $325k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $300k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $150k
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.
To improve and empower the lives of the people that we serve. to accomplish our mission, we help people help themselves by providing services which enables them to develop marketable skills, reduce barriers to employment, teach living…
Restore Families, Rebuild Communities. Reduce Poverty. We can accomplish this through education and career guidance, financial literacy and human rights awareness and advocacy.
Our mission is that every south carolina child will arrive at kindergarten ready to succeed.
Identify and develop talent to increase the number of sustainable Black-owned business in the Upstate
To encourage people in the community to look high above their circumstances and see their unlimited potential, power and purpose. simply said: awakening the greatness that is within an individual is our mission.
The partnership's mission is to be the driving force to engage partners to achieve lasting positive outcomes for all children, beginning at birth.
Carolina Teen Center is a prevention and education year-round after-school and summer program that services youth and their families. Literacy programs, tutoring, life skills, mentoring, positive peer groups, conflict resolution skills,…
To provide science enrichment and interactive educational programs and exhibits to supplement and enhance the science education of children and adults of spartanburg county sc.
The mission of the Southern Black Policy and Advocacy Network is to improve health outcomes and to reduce social and economic disparities impacting Black communities living in the U.S. South.
The north carolina partnership for children (ncpc) is the lead organization and backbone of the smart start network, setting statewide vision, policy, and funding priorities. while local partnerships translate the statewide vision into…
To report on data and engage the community in dialogue and strategy that leads to positive change in spartanburg county.
Birthmatters reduces teen pregnancy through reporductive health education and empowers expectant young adults to raise healthy families through doulas utilizing the community health worker model. birthmatters believes that our strength is…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Institute for Child Success Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Union Community Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 54 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 NORTHSIDE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds StriveTogether Inc ↗
- Who funds BETHLEHEM CENTER ↗
- Who funds UPSTATE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY CRADLE TO CAREER COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds Spartanburg County Foundation ↗
- Who funds Spartanburg Area Housing Corporation ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR CHILD SUCCESS INC ↗
- Who funds The Union Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds ONESPARTANBURG INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE PIEDMONT INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOM UPSTATE INC ↗
- Who funds HALTER (HEALING AND LEARNING THROUGH EQUINE RELATIONSHIPS) ↗
- Who funds MENTAL FITNESS INC ↗
- Who funds Speaking Down Barriers ↗
- Who funds HUB CITY ROOTS ↗
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: Spartanburg County Foundation · Mary Black Foundation Inc · United Way of the Piedmont Inc · J M Smith Foundation · Gerrish H Milliken Foundation 009209-009 · Arkwright Foundation · Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Spartanburg Academic Movement 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.