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Spinks Family Foundation

Mind, body, spirit: growing healthy kids where we live, work and play.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
44
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$272k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$5.2MHuman Services$448kEducation$325kPhilanthropy$240kPublic Safety & Disaster$236kFood & Nutrition$234kArts & Culture$142kYouth Development$111kOther$0
02FY2024 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 44 grants below total $1,265,873 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,477,586 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $211,713 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 · $28k
  • $10k–50k35 grants · $631k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $335k
  • $250k+1 grant · $272k
$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$8.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MARCH OF DIMES$271,991
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$164,132
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$70,000
THE BRIDGE CENTER RECOVERY$50,750
PHILLIS WHEATLEY ASSOCIATION DBA PHILLIS WHEATLEY COMMUNITY CENTER$50,000
LEAD COLLECTIVE INC$36,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$32,000
MEALS ON WHEELS OF GREENVILLE INC$30,325
AMERICAN RED CROSS OF THE UPSTATE$30,000
UNITED MINISTRIES$30,000
GATEWAY HOUSE INC$30,000
TRAILHEAD COMMUNITY FARM SCHOOL$26,600
GREENVILLE TECH FOUNDATION INC$25,000
NEW WAY GLOBAL$25,000
GIRLUP GVL$25,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–24, $443k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $28k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF THE UPSTATE: $30k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY: $24k → 12%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $26k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF THE UPSTATE: $24k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY: $10k → 12%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $25k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF THE UPSTATE: $22k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY: $8k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY: $6k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF GREENVILLE: $20k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF GREENVILLE: $13k → 10%NEW WAY GLOBAL: $25k → 10%JUST FOR TODAY RECOVERY: $6k → 10%PHILLIS WHEATLEY ASSOCIATION DBA PHILLIS WHEATLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $50k → 10%YMCA OF GREENVILLE: $50k → 10%PENDLETON PLACE: $20k → 10%PENDLETON PLACE: $19k → 10%YMCA OF GREENVILLE: $15k → 10%PENDLETON PLACE: $13k → 10%YMCA OF GREENVILLE: $10k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.2M · 20 repeat orgs$816k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
13

Total granted

$6.2M
$320k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+8%

Still filing today

95%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $497k 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
EducationHealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • FA
    FACES AND VOICES OF RECOVERY(FAVOR) UPSTATE SC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $275k · revenue +27%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    8× · 2017–2024 · $236k · revenue +46%
  • SH
    SAFE HARBOR INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $175k · revenue +377%

Funded once

  • GT
    GREENVILLE TECHNICAL CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +8%
  • BS
    Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +30%
  • BR
    BLUE RIDGE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -18%

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.

1
Greenville College

Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.

Education
2
Goodwill Industries of the Southern Piedmont Inc

Goodwill builds pathways that help people pursue the life they want to achieve. goodwill exists to help people see possibilities, seize opportunities, and prosper. we partner with individuals to identify their strengths, interests and…

Employment
3
Greenville Area Development Corporation

Promoting and enhancing the economic growth and development of greenville county south carolina; gadc was formed by greenville county council.

Community Improvement
4
Foundation for a Greater Greenwood County Inc

Providing leadership to enhance the quality of life in greenwood through strategic long-term vision and collaborative community development initiatives.

Philanthropy
5
Greensboro College

Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.

Education
6
Greater Greenville Association of Realtors Inc

Providing standards, guidelines, and procedures to those members engaged in practice of the real estate profession

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7
Greenwood Genetic Center Inc

The greenwood genetic center is a nonprofit institute centered on clinical genetic services, diagnostic laboratory testing, educational programs and resources, and research. with a focus on compassionate patient care and innovative…

Health
8
Granville Health Inc

The purpose of the corporation is to engage in charitable efforts and to support granville health system in providing healthcare and related services to the citizens and residents of granville county and the surrounding community.

Health
9
Greater Good Greenville

Greater good greenville multiplies the good of nonprofit organizations, philanthropic funders, and caring community members with know-how, resources, and connections to each other for collective action on our community's most pressing…

Community Improvement
10
Regenesis Health Care Inc

We strive to give health services to residents in and around the spartanburg, cherokee, and union sc areas. we believe that services to families can make a difference in the community, helping neighbors move towards healthier lifestyles…

Health
11
Veritas Catholic Information Center

The veritas catholic information center (vcic) will proclaim the beauty, truth and fullness of the catholic faith in order to fulfill christ's great commission to "go and make disciples of all nations. organized and managed by lay persons…

Religion
12
Conway Hospital Community Services

Conway hospital community services provides outpatient health care services to horry county and the surrounding community in conjunction with conway hospital, inc., a non-profit acute care hospital system.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greenville County Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Bridge Center Recovery. 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 33 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%10%<5yr14%8%5–10yr18%19%10–20yr14%17%20–35yr14%23%35–55yr15%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%1%<5yr14%1%5–10yr18%8%10–20yr14%6%20–35yr14%6%35–55yr15%78%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/60
the rest of the field
13%
905/7,121

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.

04the grantee network

57 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 57 of the 60 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/57
Grantees still filing
35/57
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MARCH OF DIMES INC — $2,635,028 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INCAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $1,953,983 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC+7 more — $146,600 · HealthAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $235,500 · Human ServicesAmerican N…SAFE HARBOR INC — $174,500 · Human ServicesSAFE HARBO…YMCA OF GREENVILLE — $75,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF GR…PENDLETON PLACE INC — $51,500 · Human ServicesPENDLETON …THE BRIDGE CENTER RECOVERY — $50,750 · Human ServicesTHE BRIDGE…PHILLIS WHEATLEY ASSOCIATION — $50,000 · Human ServicesPHILLIS WH…New Way Global — $25,000 · Human Services+2 more — $12,250 · Human ServicesFACES AND VOICES OF RECOVERY(FAVOR) UPSTATE SC — $275,000 · OtherFACES AND VOIC…GREENVILLE FREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC — $84,000 · OtherGREENVILLE FRE…THE SALVATION ARMY — $82,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION …BLUE RIDGE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $50,000 · OtherStand Together Foundation — $100,000 · OtherStand Together…Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundation — $50,000 · OtherUNITED MINISTRIES — $37,500 · OtherLEAD COLLECTIVE INCCHA — $36,000 · Other+14 more — $224,025 · Other+14 moreFURMAN UNIVERSITY — $87,500 · EducationGREENVILLE TECH FOUNDATION INC — $75,000 · EducationGREENVILLE TECHNICAL CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL — $50,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY — $25,000 · EducationCHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL SCHOOL — $22,500 · EducationCAMPERDOWN ACADEMY INC — $22,000 · EducationCOMPASS OF CAROLINA INC — $20,000 · EducationANDERSON UNIVERSITY — $12,500 · Education+3 more — $30,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE INC — $210,000 · PhilanthropyABUNDANCE CAPITAL — $9,500 · PhilanthropyLOAVES AND FISHES — $132,000 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEELS OF GREENVILLE INC — $30,325 · Food & NutritionHARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK — $15,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more — $1,000 · Food & NutritionCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE UPSTATE INC — $91,500 · Arts & CultureSOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE — $25,000 · Arts & CultureFINE ARTS CENTER PARTNERS — $25,000 · Arts & Culture
Health$4,735,611Human Services$674,500Other$938,525Education$344,500Philanthropy$219,500Food & Nutrition$178,325Arts & Culture$141,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC — $2,635,028 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $1,953,983 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFACES AND VOICES OF RECOVERY(FAVOR) UPSTATE SC — $275,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $235,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE INC — $210,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSAFE HARBOR INC — $174,500 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetLOAVES AND FISHES — $132,000 over 7y, 5.1% of budgetStand Together Foundation — $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE UPSTATE INC — $91,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetFURMAN UNIVERSITY — $87,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREENVILLE FREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC — $84,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetYMCA OF GREENVILLE — $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGREENVILLE TECH FOUNDATION INC — $75,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPENDLETON PLACE INC — $51,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetTHE BRIDGE CENTER RECOVERY — $50,750 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetGREENVILLE TECHNICAL CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBon Secours Mercy Health Foundation — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPHILLIS WHEATLEY ASSOCIATION — $50,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetBLUE RIDGE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED MINISTRIES — $37,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetLEAD COLLECTIVE INCCHA — $36,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetPROJECT HOST INC — $31,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF GREENVILLE INC — $30,325 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGATEWAY HOUSE INC — $30,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE — $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetGirlUp GVL — $25,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetSOTERIA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $25,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNew Way Global — $25,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetFINE ARTS CENTER PARTNERS — $25,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetCHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL SCHOOL — $22,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAMPERDOWN ACADEMY INC — $22,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE CAROLINAS INC — $20,200 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMPASS OF CAROLINA INC — $20,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetFIRST IMPRESSION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC — $20,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetLIVEWELL GREENVILLE — $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANDERSON UNIVERSITY — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDAILY BREAD MINISTRIES INC — $10,325 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetHOMES OF HOPE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREENVILLE LITERACY ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCOOPERRIIS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA GOVERNORS SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE & MATHEMATICS FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBEAUTIFUL GATE CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetGREENVILLE DOWNTOWN AIRPORT CHARITABLE FUND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 83% of budgetFIRST CONTACT — $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budget
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.

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.

The Jolley FoundationScsymmes FoundationScansource Charitable…Daniel-Mickel Foundat…John I Smith Charitie…United Way of Greenvi…Dabo's All in Team Fo…Charity Ball Board of…Hollingsworth Funds I…Bill and Connie Timmo…St Francis Hospital I…Jean T and Heyward G …
The Jolley FoundationNV55.3× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Jolley Foundation · Scsymmes Foundation · Scansource Charitable Foundation · Daniel-Mickel Foundation · John I Smith Charities Inc · United Way of Greenville County Inc · Dabo's All in Team Foundation · Charity Ball Board of Greenville · Hollingsworth Funds Inc · Bill and Connie Timmons Foundation · St Francis Hospital Inc · Jean T and Heyward G Pelham 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 Spinks Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your 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
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Spinks Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Spinks Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 60 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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