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The Andy Quattlebaum and Blackwell Family Foundation at a glance

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The Andy Quattlebaum and Blackwell Family 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.

$532k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$440k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$2.4MHuman Services$1.8MAnimals$407kEnvironment$82kYouth Development$40kPublic Benefit$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $62k
  • $250k+1 grant · $440k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$440,000
DUCKS UNLIMITED$61,710
QUILTS OF VALOR$10,000
GROWING MINDS PROJECT$10,000
THE VILLAGE GROUP- GIVE GAB$5,000
SMOKY MOUNTAIN SERVICE DOGS$2,000
UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION$1,750
VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE US$1,500
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 (FY23–24, $48k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 4% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION: $2k → 15%QUILTS OF VALOR: $10k → 7%SMOKY MOUNTAIN SERVICE DOGS: $35k → 10%SMOKY MOUNTAIN SERVICE DOGS: $2k → 10%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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.3M · 6 repeat orgs$685k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +82% since the first grant, against -14% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
3

Total granted

$4.3M
$600k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+82%
-14%

Still filing today

67%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationCrime & LegalEnvironmentPublic BenefitOther
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

  • CU
    CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +82%
  • TM
    The MISS Foundation Mothers in Sympathy & Support
    2× · 2020–2023 · $1.8M · revenue +198% · 64% of their budget
  • SM
    Smoky Mountain Service Dogs
    2× · 2023–2024 · $37k · revenue +70%

Funded once

  • SF
    ST FRANCES ANIMAL SHELTER
    one grant, 2022 · $250k
  • W
    WOFFORD
    one grant, 2022 · $250k
  • MR
    MISS RUBY'S KIDS
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -14% · 26% of their budget
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
River Deep Foundation

Provides healing & support to military veterans, active duty and individuals with disabilities.

Human Services
2
South Carolina Wildlife Partnership

Our mission is to protect our state's hunting heritage and ensure this sports future for generations to come.

Animals
3
Carolina Veterans Association

Honor and remembrance of service, missions and histories of us armed forces members. promotion of patriotism.

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4
Quality of Life Foundation Inc

The Wounded Veteran Family Care Program addresses the unmet needs of military veteran caregivers, children, and family members who provide daily substantial care for a severely wounded, ill, or injured veteran by focusing on initiatives…

Human Services
5
Families of the Wounded Fund Inc

Families of the wounded fund, inc (fotwf) provides financial assistance to families of service members or us agents who were wounded in combat or injured in support of combat operations while the wounded receive treatment at various…

Human Services
6
South Carolina Military Support Foundation

To receive, administer, and expend funds for the sc military to protect lives and properties during times of emergencies and to recognize those who served in the south carolina department and the united states.

Public Benefit
7
Veterans Trust Fund of South Carolina

Serve needs of south carolina veterans

Public Benefit
8
Freedom Mobility Foundation

Restoring mobility for active service members, veterans, first responders, and people with physical impairments so they can freely live their lives to the maximum extent that technology allows.

Human Services
9
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Dept of Nc

To preserve and strengthen comradeship among members, assist worthy comrades, widows and orphans of comrades; perpetuate the memory and history of our deceased veterans; promote true allegiance to the Government of the US. Conduct programs…

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10
Rocky Mountain Veterans' Hunts & Excursions Inc
Recreation & Sports
11
Southern Comfort Animal Rescue Inc

Southern Comfort Animal Rescue, Inc. is 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization that rescues and rehomes abused, unwanted and abandoned companion animals.Southern Comfort was founded in 2001 in Savannah, Georgia, to provide shelter and find…

Animals
12
Corporal Christopher Kelly Willis Foundation

Cckwf was formed to honor the memory of a beloved marine. we provide college scholarships to children of u.s. armed forces who have died or become disabled in a combat zone.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Upstate Warrior Solution Inc; the most unlike its peers is Smoky Mountain Service Dogs. 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

9 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. 9 of the 14 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $2,280,000 · EducationCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONMISS RUBY'S KIDS: $100,000 · EducationThe MISS Foundation Mothers in Sympathy & Support: $1,805,000 · Human ServicesThe MISS Foundation Mothers in Sympathy & …+3 more: $48,450 · Human ServicesST FRANCES ANIMAL SHELTER: $250,000 · OtherST FRANCES ANIM…WOFFORD: $250,000 · OtherWOFFORDSC WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION: $120,000 · OtherSC WATERFOWL AS…THE VILLAGE GROUP- GIVE GAB: $30,000 · Other+1 more: $10,000 · OtherDucks Unlimited Inc: $61,710 · EnvironmentKEEP IT GREEN ADVOCACY: $20,000 · Crime & LegalFRANCIS MARION POST 10980 V F W: $1,500 · Public Benefit
Education$2,380,000Human Services$1,853,450Other$660,000Environment$61,710Crime & Legal$20,000Public Benefit$1,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $2,280,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetThe MISS Foundation Mothers in Sympathy & Support: $1,805,000 over 2y, 64% of budgetMISS RUBY'S KIDS: $100,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc: $61,710 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSmoky Mountain Service Dogs: $36,700 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetKEEP IT GREEN ADVOCACY: $20,000 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetQUILTS OF VALOR FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC: $1,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRANCIS MARION POST 10980 V F W: $1,500 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

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.

Network for GoodDonor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Network for GoodDC8.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 The Andy Quattlebaum and Blackwell Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Andy Quattlebaum and Blackwell Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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 14 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-PF 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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