· Private foundation
The First Bank Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| E4E Relief | $5,000 |
| NORTHEASTERN TECHNICAL COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| MCARN COMMUNITY MINISTRY | $2,000 |
| TOWN OF CHERAW JAZZ FEST | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| PURPLE CRUSADERS | $1,000 |
| PATHFINDERS UNITED | $1,000 |
| CHESTERFIELD CO ANIMAL SHELTER | $1,000 |
| PEE DEE AREA COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC & SEXUAL-C | $1,000 |
| PEE DEE LAND TRUST | $1,000 |
| ST DAVID'S CEMETERY ASSOC INC | $1,000 |
| HOUSE OF HOPE | $1,000 |
| MCLEOD HEALTH FOUNDATION | $750 |
| BROCKS MILL FIRE DEPARTMENT | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
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 (FY21–25, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +8% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 3 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- PDPEE DEE LAND TRUST5× · 2021–2025 · $5k · revenue +17%
- SDST DAVID'S CEMETERY ASSOCIATION INC4× · 2022–2025 · $4k · revenue +53%
- UWUNITED WAY OF FLORENCE COUNTY4× · 2022–2025 · $3k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- PCPeeDee Coalition Dillonone grant, 2021 · $3k
- NNETCone grant, 2021 · $3k
- PDPee Dee Against Domestic Violenceone grant, 2021 · $3k
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.
Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse
The caswell county partnership for children unites the community to provide families with resources and services to enable all children to reach their fullest potential.
Provide food at no cost to hungry people in need in avery county, nc and improve their health where possible
Social welfare advocacy organization
Child evangelism fellowship is a bible centered organization composed of born again believers whose purpose is to evangelize children with the gospel of the lord jesus christ and to establish them in the word of god.
Food, shelter & emergency assistance to individuals
Feeding the spiritual and physical hunger, especially in at-risk children.
Recruit and train and license foster parents to receive foster children from county government agencies.
To find god-loving families who can help others in the foster care system, and provide support to the whole family as they navigate the process and their journey of opening their hearts and homes to the foster children of georgia.
Provide meals to the needy in the city of florence
The center operates a skilled nursing facility for the aged and participates under both the medicaid and medicare programs.
Presbyterian children's homes and services provides a variety of christ-centered care and support to children and families in need.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The School Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mcarn Community Ministry Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 64 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 MCARN COMMUNITY MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds PEE DEE LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds E4E RELIEF LLC ↗
- Who funds THE PATHFINDERS UNITED ↗
- Who funds ST DAVID'S CEMETERY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMPASSIONATE CARE OF CHESTERFIELD ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF FLORENCE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ALL 4 AUTISM ↗
- Who funds United Way of Chesterfield County Inc ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES FLORENCE ↗
- Who funds THE CARE HOUSE OF THE PEE DEE INC ↗
- Who funds SNAC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds FLORENCE COUNTY DISABILITIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HELP 4 KIDS ↗
- Who funds THE SCHOOL FOUNDATION 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: Duke Energy Foundation · Betty S Campbell Charitable Foundation · Malloy Foundation · Central Carolina Community Foundation · Assurant Foundation · Hm and Pearl Kyle Foundation Inc · Equitable Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Eastern Carolina Community Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 First Bank 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.