· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $113k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Pickens County YMCA | $50,000 |
| Prisma Cancer Center-Dr Larry Gluck | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $37,500 |
| Niswonger Foundation | $20,000 |
| SC Ovarian Cancer Foundation | $15,000 |
| The Chandler School | $10,000 |
| Channel Missions | $10,000 |
| Christ Church Episcopal School | $10,000 |
| United Way of Pickens County | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +1% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
- PHPRISMA HEALTH (PULS RESEARCH PROJECT)one grant, 2019 · $25k
- BEBAPTIST EASLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $25k
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 31 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Brotherton Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Brotherton Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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