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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 FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$958kHousing & Shelter$765kPhilanthropy$595kEducation$534kHuman Services$467kPublic Benefit$390kYouth Development$171kEnvironment$100kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 17 grants below total $537,603, the rows itemized in this filing. The $568,815 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $31,212 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

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
RecipientAmount
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
UPSTATE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER$10,000
MIDDLE TYGER COMMUNITY CENTER$10,000
THE BETHLEHEM CENTER$10,000
COME CLOSER$10,000
BENJAMIN E MAYS FAMILY RESOURCE CTR$10,000
NORTHSIDE DEVELOPMENT$10,000
BROTHERS RESTORING URBAN HOPE$7,400
SPARTANBURG REGIONAL FOUNDATION$7,383
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%BENJAMIN E MAYS FAMILY RESOURCE CTR: $10k → 17%BETHLEHEM CENTER: $100k → 15%BETHLEHEM CENTER: $40k → 15%THE BETHLEHEM CENTER: $10k → 15%UPSTATE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $100k → 15%UPSTATE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $10k → 15%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.

44%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 17 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
27

Total granted

$1.8M
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+8%

Still filing today

59%
7%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $377k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementEducationHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • SI
    StriveTogether Inc
    3× · 2017–2019 · $353k · revenue +735%
  • BC
    BETHLEHEM CENTER
    3× · 2021–2024 · $150k · revenue +225%
  • TC
    TRI-COUNTY CRADLE TO CAREER COLLABORATIVE
    2× · 2021–2022 · $100k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $325k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $300k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $150k
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

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Southeastern Community Action Partnership Inc

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…

Human Services
2
Lifeworks Sc

Restore Families, Rebuild Communities. Reduce Poverty. We can accomplish this through education and career guidance, financial literacy and human rights awareness and advocacy.

Crime & Legal
3
Spartanburg County First Steps to School Readiness Partnership

Our mission is that every south carolina child will arrive at kindergarten ready to succeed.

Education
4
Black Economic Mobility Coalition

Identify and develop talent to increase the number of sustainable Black-owned business in the Upstate

Community Improvement
5
Sc Thrive

The organization leads South Carolinians to stability by providing innovative and efficient access to quality of life resources.

Science & Tech
6
Success Center of Spartanburg

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.

Employment
7
Partnership for Children of Cumberland County Inc

The partnership's mission is to be the driving force to engage partners to achieve lasting positive outcomes for all children, beginning at birth.

Education
8
Carolina Teen Center

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,…

Health
9
Spartanburg Science Center

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.

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10
Strategic Spartanburg Inc

To report on data and engage the community in dialogue and strategy that leads to positive change in spartanburg county.

Community Improvement
11
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.

—
12
North Carolina Partnership for Children Inc

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Institute for Child Success Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 54 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
11/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $325,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $300,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $150,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSPARTANBURG CTY BAPTIST ASSOC: $150,000 · OtherSPARTANBURG CTY BAPTIST ASSOCSPARTANBURG SCHOOL DIST 6: $107,450 · OtherSPARTANBURG SCHOOL DIST 2: $101,130 · OtherSPARTANBURG PUBLIC LIBRARY: $100,000 · OtherSPARTANBURG COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $100,000 · OtherHELLO FAMILY: $100,000 · OtherSPARTANBURG SCHOOL DIST 5: $88,160 · OtherUNION COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $87,500 · Other+33 more: $876,800 · Other+33 moreNORTHSIDE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $665,000 · Community ImprovementNORTHSIDE DEVELOP…StriveTogether Inc: $352,832 · PhilanthropyStriveTogether…Spartanburg County Foundation: $100,000 · PhilanthropySpartanburg Co…The Union Community Foundation: $75,000 · PhilanthropyThe Union Comm…BETHLEHEM CENTER: $150,000 · Human ServicesUPSTATE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $110,000 · Human ServicesBENJAMIN E MAYS FAMILY RESOURCE CTR: $10,000 · Human ServicesTRI-COUNTY CRADLE TO CAREER COLLABORATIVE: $100,000 · EducationSpartanburg Area Housing Corporation: $100,000 · Housing & ShelterINSTITUTE FOR CHILD SUCCESS INC: $92,500 · Social Science
Other$2,486,040Community Improvement$665,000Philanthropy$527,832Human Services$270,000Education$100,000Housing & Shelter$100,000Social Science$92,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNORTHSIDE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $665,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetStriveTogether Inc: $352,832 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetBETHLEHEM CENTER: $150,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetUPSTATE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $110,000 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetTRI-COUNTY CRADLE TO CAREER COLLABORATIVE: $100,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetSpartanburg Area Housing Corporation: $100,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetSpartanburg County Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR CHILD SUCCESS INC: $92,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetONESPARTANBURG INC: $66,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE PIEDMONT INC: $60,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBLOOM UPSTATE INC: $35,846 over 3y, 14% of budgetHALTER (HEALING AND LEARNING THROUGH EQUINE RELATIONSHIPS): $26,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetMENTAL FITNESS INC: $25,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetSpeaking Down Barriers: $21,050 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetHUB CITY ROOTS: $17,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetBENJAMIN E MAYS FAMILY RESOURCE CTR: $10,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetCome Closer: $10,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetMIDDLE TYGER COMMUNITY CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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 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 Area Housing Corporation ↗
  • Who funds Spartanburg County Foundation ↗
  • 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 ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Spartanburg County Fo…Mary Black Foundation…United Way of the Pie…J M Smith FoundationGerrish H Milliken Fo…Arkwright FoundationSpartanburg Regional …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Spartanburg County FoundationSC32.2× affinity13 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Spartanburg Academic Movement funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Spartanburg Academic Movement. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 54 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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