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The Bailey Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k27 grants · $92k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $277k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAURENS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $36,485 |
| CITY OF CLINTON | $30,000 |
| PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF LAURENS COUNTY | $20,000 |
| SC INDEPENDENT COLLEGES & UNIVERSIT | $20,000 |
| OPEN DOOR CHRISTIAN CENTER | $16,500 |
| CLINTON FAMILY YMCA | $15,500 |
| LAURENS COUNTY MUSEUM ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| LAURENS COUNTY CLINTON LIBRARY | $13,515 |
| GOOD SHEPHERD FREE MEDICAL CLINIC | $10,476 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $111k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +13% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k 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
- UWUNITED WAY OF LAURENS COUNTY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $160k · revenue +60%
- PCPRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE6× · 2020–2025 · $159k · revenue +11%
- CSCHRIST SCHOOL INC6× · 2020–2025 · $120k · revenue +165%
Funded once
- HOHOSPICE OF LAURENS COUNTY INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $51k · revenue +201%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $16k
- CFCLINTON FIRST PENTECOSTAL HOLINESSone grant, 2024 · $10k
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.
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.
Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.
Related by faith to the united methodist church, louisburg college is a two-year residential institution committed to offering a supportive community that nurtures young men and women intellectually, culturally, socially, physically, and…
Louisville collegiate school inspires academic excellence, extraordinary character and global citizenship.
Education - lagrange college challenges the minds and inspires the souls of its students. founded in 1831 and committed to its relationship with the united methodist church and its wesleyan and liberal arts traditions, the college supports…
Educate each student for a life of productive work, enlightened living, and community involvement.
Southern wesleyan university is a christ-centered, student-focused learning community devoted to transforming lives by challenging students to be dedicated scholars and servant-leaders who impact the world for christ.
Georgetown college is a fully accredited liberal arts institution of higher learning located in georgetown, kentucky. the college is committed to providing opportunities for excellence in higher learning under christian influences so as to…
Houghton university provides an academically challenging, christ-centered education in the liberal arts and sciences to students from diverse traditions and economic backgrounds and equips them to lead and labor as scholar-servants in a…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The mission of the University is to inspire independent thinkers who become trustworthy, effective leaders that shape caring communities. The vision of the University of Lynchburg is to cultivate a world that is innovative, authentic, and…
Catawba college is committed to providing students an education rich in personal attention that blends the knowledge and competencies of liberal studies with career preparation. catawba college draws strength from judeo-christian values,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wofford College and the most unlike its peers is Long Cane Cemetery Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 51 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
32 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. 32 of the 77 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 UNITED WAY OF LAURENS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds South Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities ↗
- Who funds CHRIST SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE OPEN DOOR CHRISTIAN CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF LAURENS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Queens University of Charlotte ↗
- Who funds LAURENS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAURENS COUNTY MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LIMESTONE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LAURENS COUNTY COMMUNITY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds WOFFORD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ANGEL FLIGHT SOARS INC ↗
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 · Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · The Maddrey Foundation · Arkwright Foundation · J M Smith Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Central Carolina Community Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment 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 The Bailey 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.
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.
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