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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.
$569k
Granted FY2024
17
Grants
1
Communities
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 57% of SPARTANBURG ACADEMIC MOVEMENT’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
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
2018
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2019
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2020
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2021
covid recoveryost rapidrapid resource
2022
ost jagjag collabost rapidrapid resourcepolicyplan
2023
summer shakedown
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 17 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $96k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $415k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
- 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
- UPSTATE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER$10,000
- THE BETHLEHEM CENTER$10,000
- MIDDLE TYGER COMMUNITY CENTER$10,000
- COME CLOSER$10,000
- NORTHSIDE DEVELOPMENT$10,000
- BROTHERS RESTORING URBAN HOPE$7,400
- SPARTANBURG REGIONAL FOUNDATION$7,383
02The need
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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:
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $270k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 12%. 100% of those 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.
43%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.8M · 17 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else
17 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
17
27
Total granted
$1.8M
$1.9M
Still filing today
59%
0%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $477k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesPhilanthropyEducationCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsOther
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
- SNSTRIVETOGETHER NETWORK3× · 2017–2019 · $353k · revenue +426%
- TBTHE BETHLEHEM CENTER3× · 2021–2024 · $150k · revenue +937%
- UFUPSTATE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER2× · 2021–2024 · $110k · revenue +90%
Funded once
- SCSPARTANBURG COMMUNITY INDICATORSone grant, 2022 · $325k
- SFSPARTANBURG FIRST STEPSone grant, 2021 · $300k
- SRSPARTANBURG RACIAL EQUITYone grant, 2021 · $150k
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.
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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. the…
Education
2
Sasp-Spartanburg
SASP-Spartanburg is a not for profit youth shooting team. We practice twice per week through our 10 month season. We travel all over the southeast to compete against other SASP teams. Once per year we travel to Marengo Ohio for the…
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3
Starting With Today Inc
To create, sustain, and enhance professional, mental, and financial wellness by providing customized training and resources to underserved adults.
Human Services
4
Birthmatters
Birthmatters reduces teen pregnancy through reproductive 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…
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Sc Future Makers
To expose and connect the next generation in the state of south carolina to all of the opportunities it has to offer, close the stem skills gap, and ultimately retain talent for future economic development and regional prosperity.
Education
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Southside Community Center
Community Development Corporation - capacity building in youth and parents around areas of leadership development support and education housing
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Southern Black Policy & Advocacy Network
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.
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Urban Baby Beginnings dba Ubb
To provide community support, workforce development, and advocacy for birthing and postpartum families.
Human Services
9
Together with Families
Together with Families is dedicated to empowering families who are experiencing poverty and in danger of losing their children We partner with these families to develop SMART goals that address immediate and mid-term needs We provide…
Human Services
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The Spartanburg Repertory Company
Promote community arts appreciation
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Southeast Raleigh Community
Serclc enchances the learning environments for youth and their families in the southeast raleigh communities by building healthy and and positive partnerships with families, public, private and faith based organizations.
Youth Development
12
Tar River Community Development
The vision of our non-profit started during the pandemic in 2020, however the underlying issues of which we aim to solve have been degrading and devaluing our community for at least a decade. Here at Tar River Community Development…
Community Improvement
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Spartanburg Community College and the most unlike its peers is Bethlehem Center. 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
17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
11/17
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$2,450,194Community Improvement$665,000Philanthropy$527,832Human Services$270,000Education$200,000Social Science$92,500Youth Development$35,846
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 ↗
- Who funds STRIVETOGETHER NETWORK ↗
- Who funds THE BETHLEHEM CENTER ↗
- Who funds UPSTATE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SPARTANBURG COUNTY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPARTANBURG COMMUNITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds TRI COUNTY CRADLE TO CAREER ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR CHILD SUCCESS ↗
- Who funds UNION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE PIEDMONT ↗
- Who funds BLOOM UPSTATE ↗
- Who funds MENTAL FITNESS INC ↗
- Who funds SPEAKING DOWN BARRIERS ↗
- Who funds HUB CITY FARMERS MARKET ↗
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.
Spartanburg County FoundationSC24.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Spartanburg County Foundation · United Way of the Piedmont Inc · Mary Black Foundation Inc · Arkwright Foundation · Gerrish H Milliken Foundation 009209-009 · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · J M Smith Foundation · 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 organisation 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.
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
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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: NORTHSIDE DEVELOPMENT.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
medium risk
~4 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 6 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 300698663 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 NORTHSIDE DEVELOPMENT, 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
- WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 4 months of cash on hand.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 18% 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 Spartanburg Academic Movement?
Find your warmest path to Spartanburg Academic Movement 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.
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines