· Private foundation
The Brotherton 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $113k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Prisma Cancer Center-Dr Larry Gluck | $50,000 |
| Pickens County YMCA | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $37,500 |
| Niswonger Foundation | $20,000 |
| SC Ovarian Cancer Foundation | $15,000 |
| Channel Missions | $10,000 |
| Christ Church Episcopal School | $10,000 |
| United Way of Pickens County | $10,000 |
| The Chandler School | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Pickens County Cancer Foundation | $5,000 |
| Metropolitan Arts Council | $2,000 |
| Wake Forest University | $1,000 |
| Legacy Advancement | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $68k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 89% 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 +25% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
- PCPICKENS COUNTY YMCA4× · 2020–2024 · $150k · revenue +85%
- NFNISWONGER FOUNDATION INC4× · 2017–2024 · $85k · revenue +340%
- UWUNITED WAY OF PICKENS COUNTY6× · 2019–2024 · $71k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- CSCANCER SURVIVORS PARK ALLIANCEone grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue -52%
- BEBAPTIST EASLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $25k
- PHPRISMA HEALTH (PULS RESEARCH PROJECT)one grant, 2019 · $25k
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.
The mission of portersville christian school is to glorify god by preparing students to serve christ and instilling high standards spiritually, academically, socially, and physically. the school provides a high-quality academic program, a…
Coker university is a student-centered, comprehensive university. it is dedicated to providing every student an academic curriculum based upon a uniformly excellent liberal arts core that enhances the structured development of key personal…
We are a k-12 christian school founded under the following (4) pillars: academics: we provide an amazing accredited academic program utilizing 100% certified teachers. schedule: we provide our students and their families an opportunity on…
To provide an enriching and challenging curriculum and educational community which encourages students to be life-long learners, develop strong character, serve their community, and deepen their faith.
Cambridge academy provides students with an academically excellent curriculum, while fostering physical, social, and spiritual wellness within a nurturing environment.
To provide a superior education for prekindergarten through twelfth grade students in a safe, well-disciplined and nurturing environment. this mission has remained constant throughout the 50 plus year history of the school. founders…
Goucher charter academy's mission is believing in nurturing the whole child through leadership and community service.
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
The mission of legacy early college is to offer a quality, rigorous, and relevant education program leading to college graduation and empowering underserved urban students to become productive, healthy, principled citizens in a changing…
The triangle charter educational association is a north carolina not-for-profit entity organized exclusively for educational purposes. the association is comprised of respected leaders within the state of north carolina who are committed…
Provide a distinctly Christ-centered, biblical and classical education producing students who glorify God in their thoughts, words and deeds.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Pickens County and the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 31 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 TUSCULUM UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PICKENS COUNTY YMCA ↗
- Who funds NISWONGER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF PICKENS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MARY'S HOUSE MINISTRY ALLIANCE FOR REGAINING YOUR SAFETY ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER SURVIVORS PARK ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds The Chandler School ↗
- Who funds CHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds CHANNEL MISSIONS ↗
- Who funds FOSTERING GREAT IDEAS ↗
- Who funds PICKENS COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds LEGACY ADVANCEMENT ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FEED & SEED CO ↗
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: Dabo's All in Team Foundation · AWT Family Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Daniel-Mickel Foundation · Scansource Charitable Foundation · Fred Collins Foundation · Nalley Charitable Trust · Wallace Family Foundation · Hayne Hipp Foundation · Jean T and Heyward G Pelham Foundation · Charles Timmons Foundation · The Maddrey 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 Brotherton 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.