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The Bowers-Rodgers Home Foundation

PROVIDE FUNDS FOR SUPPORT AND CAPITAL EXPANSION OF THE BOWERS-RODGERS HOME, INC.

$38k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Religion$483kHealth$75kHuman Services$75kPhilanthropy$65kCrime & Legal$25kFood & Nutrition$25kHousing & Shelter$25kYouth Development$25k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$13,260
Median grant
1
States reached
$616k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION$15,000
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH$13,260
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 16%COMMUNITY INITIATIVES INC: $25k → 18%GREATER GREENWOOD UNITED MINISTRY: $25k → 18%PROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION: $15k → 18%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 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
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
2
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
3
Greeneville Greene County Community Ministries Food Bank

To enlist and provide ecumenical Christian support for program and longer term assistance with food, shelter, utlities, and medications for residents of Greeneville and Greene County.

Human Services
4
Greenwood Pathway House Foundation

Foundation to invest legacy gifts restricted to benefit greenwood pathway house inc (ein 45-0833715) located in greenwood, sc. pathway house's mission is to help homeless persons navigate a pathway to physical, financial, and social…

Philanthropy
5
The Greenwood Promise Llc

The greenwood promise is an educational initiative aimed at increasing the economic growth of greenwood county by promoting post-secondary education and thereby ensuring a skilled and educated workforce. this initiative enables greenwood…

Human Services
6
Green County Food Pantry Inc

The purpose of the Green County Food Pantry, Inc. is to provide food for those in need in the Green County area.

Food & Nutrition
7
Greenwood Community Improvement Foundation

Support community programs

Community Improvement
8
Greensboro Foundation for the Future Inc

Promoting general social welfare through activities that combat community deterioration, aid in preservation of properties and facilitate the creation of job opportunities in Greene County, Georgia. Greene County has higher that average…

Community Improvement
9
Clemson Free Clinic

To deliver high-quality medical care and essential pharmaceuticals with unwavering compassion and respect. we focus our efforts on individuals aged 12 to 64 who find themselves without the safety net of medicaid, medicare, or any other…

Health
10
Smith Medical Clinic Inc

To provide free healthcare services to low-income, uninsured adults in georgetown county, sc. the clinic envisions a healthier community where healthcare services are available to all regardless of their financial capability.

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11
Greenville Theatre Arts Center
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12
Brookland Center for Community Economic Change

To engage and serve people of all ages and backgrounds while promoting advancements in health, education, economic empowerment, and improving the lives of residents in lexington and richland counties and neighboring communities throughout…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greenwood County Community Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Project Hope Foundation Inc. 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

8 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. 8 of the 16 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH: $458,260 · OtherFIRST BAPTIST CHURCHHABITAT FOR HUMMANITY: $25,000 · OtherBOW AND ARROW CENTER OF HOPE: $25,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE LAKELANDS: $25,000 · OtherHEALTHY FAMILIES: $25,000 · OtherLAKELANDS REGION YMCA OF GREENWOOD: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherBURTON CENTER FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherBEYOND ABUSE: $25,000 · Other+1 more: $10,000 · OtherGREATER GREENWOOD UNITED MINISTRY: $25,000 · Human ServicesGREATER G…COMMUNITY INITIATIVES INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY…PROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT H…FOOD BANK OF GREENWOOD COUNTY: $25,000 · Food & NutritionLAURENS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyGREENWOOD COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Community Improvement
Other$668,260Human Services$65,000Food & Nutrition$25,000Philanthropy$25,000Community Improvement$15,000

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 budgetFOOD BANK OF GREENWOOD COUNTY: $25,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetLAURENS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetGREATER GREENWOOD UNITED MINISTRY: $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetBURTON CENTER FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetBEYOND ABUSE: $25,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetGREENWOOD COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Countybank FoundationSC15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Countybank Foundation · Wilbur S Smith and Margaret P Smith Foundation Inc · Greenwood County Community Foundation Inc · The Self Foundation · Davis Family Foundation Inc · Central Carolina Community Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · 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 Bowers-Rodgers Home Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bowers-Rodgers Home Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
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    How do I get to The Bowers-Rodgers Home Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Bowers-Rodgers Home 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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