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The First Bank Foundation at a glance

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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.

$29k
Granted FY2025still arriving
34
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0177% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Human Services$16kFood & Nutrition$14kEducation$13kHealth$13kYouth Development$10kCivil Rights$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$8kPhilanthropy$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
2
States reached
$837k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
E4E Relief$5,000
NORTHEASTERN TECHNICAL COLLEGE$2,500
MCARN COMMUNITY MINISTRY$2,000
TOWN OF CHERAW JAZZ FEST$1,500
PURPLE CRUSADERS$1,000
CHESTERFIELD CO ANIMAL SHELTER$1,000
PATHFINDERS UNITED$1,000
ST DAVID'S CEMETERY ASSOC INC$1,000
HOUSE OF HOPE$1,000
PEE DEE LAND TRUST$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
PEE DEE AREA COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC & SEXUAL-C$1,000
MCLEOD HEALTH FOUNDATION$750
THE SCHOOL FOUNDATION$500
Individual grant recipient$500
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MCARN COMMUNITY MINISTRY: $3k → 20%McArn Community Ministry: $3k → 20%MCARN COMMUNITY MINISTRY: $3k → 20%MCARN COMMUNITY MINISTRY: $2k → 20%MCARN COMMUNITY MINISTRY: $2k → 20%HOSPICE OF CHESTERFIELD COUNTY: $1k → 20%Hospice of Chesterfield County: $1k → 20%HOSPICE OF CHESTERFIELD COUNTY: $1k → 20%Lighthouse Ministries: $1k → 20%HELP 4 KIDS: $500 → 20%LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES: $500 → 20%LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES: $500 → 20%HELP 4 KIDS: $500 → 20%FLORENCE COUNTY DISABILITIES FOUNDATION: $500 → 20%FLORENCE COUNTY DISABILITIES FOUNDATION: $500 → 20%LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES: $500 → 20%FLORENCE COUNTY DISABILITIES FOUNDATION: $500 → 20%HOSPICE OF CHESTERFIELD COUNTY: $500 → 20%HELP 4 KIDS: $500 → 20%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$122k · 41 repeat orgs$24k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against -5% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
20

Total granted

$122k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
-5%

Still filing today

39%
5%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • PD
    PEE DEE LAND TRUST
    5× · 2021–2025 · $5k · revenue +17%
  • SD
    ST DAVID'S CEMETERY ASSOCIATION INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $4k · revenue +53%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF FLORENCE COUNTY
    4× · 2022–2025 · $3k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • N
    NETC
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
  • PC
    PeeDee Coalition Dillon
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
  • PD
    Pee Dee Against Domestic Violence
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
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.

04Its 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
South Carolina Network of Children's Advocacy Centers

Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse

Youth Development
2
Caswell County Partnership for Children Inc

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.

Education
3
Feeding Avery Families Inc

Provide food at no cost to hungry people in need in avery county, nc and improve their health where possible

Food & Nutrition
4
Freedom Action Network of Sc

Social welfare advocacy organization

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5
Child Evangelism Fellowship of Sc Inc

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.

Youth Development
6
Paducah Interfaith Ministry Inc

Food, shelter & emergency assistance to individuals

Human Services
7
Feed the Hunger Inc

Feeding the spiritual and physical hunger, especially in at-risk children.

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8
Carolina Family Connections

Recruit and train and license foster parents to receive foster children from county government agencies.

Human Services
9
Families 4 Families

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.

Human Services
10
The Manna House

Provide meals to the needy in the city of florence

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11
Saluda Nursing Center

The center operates a skilled nursing facility for the aged and participates under both the medicaid and medicare programs.

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12
Presbyterian Children's Homes & Services

Presbyterian children's homes and services provides a variety of christ-centered care and support to children and families in need.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The School Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
10/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Northeastern Technical Colleg: $10,000 · OtherNortheastern Technical CollegPEE DEE AREA COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC & SEXUAL-C: $7,000 · OtherPEE DEE AREA COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC & SEXUAL-CYMCA: $6,000 · OtherYMCAIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherTOWN OF CHERAW JAZZ FEST: $4,500 · OtherCHESTERFIELD CO ANIMAL SHELTER: $4,000 · OtherST DAVID'S CEMETERY ASSOCIATION INC: $4,000 · Other+43 more: $60,000 · Other+43 moreMCARN COMMUNITY MINISTRY INC: $13,000 · Human ServicesMCARN COMMUNITY M…COMPASSIONATE CARE OF CHESTERFIELD: $3,500 · Human ServicesCOMPASSIONATE CAR…LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES FLORENCE: $2,500 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSE MINIST…FLORENCE COUNTY DISABILITIES FOUNDATION: $1,500 · Human ServicesFLORENCE COUNTY D…HELP 4 KIDS: $1,500 · Human ServicesHELP 4 KIDSTHE PATHFINDERS UNITED: $4,000 · Youth DevelopmentFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $1,500 · Youth DevelopmentPEE DEE LAND TRUST: $5,000 · EnvironmentE4E RELIEF LLC: $5,000 · Public Safety & DisasterUnited Way of Chesterfield County Inc: $2,500 · PhilanthropyTHE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 · PhilanthropyALL 4 AUTISM: $2,500 · HealthMCLEOD HEALTH FOUNDATION: $750 · HealthPOTTER HOUSE RECOVERY: $250 · Health
Other$100,500Human Services$22,000Youth Development$5,500Environment$5,000Public Safety & Disaster$5,000Philanthropy$4,000Health$3,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMCARN COMMUNITY MINISTRY INC: $13,000 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetPEE DEE LAND TRUST: $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetE4E RELIEF LLC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST DAVID'S CEMETERY ASSOCIATION INC: $4,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetTHE PATHFINDERS UNITED: $4,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetCOMPASSIONATE CARE OF CHESTERFIELD: $3,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF FLORENCE COUNTY: $3,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetALL 4 AUTISM: $2,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetUnited Way of Chesterfield County Inc: $2,500 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES FLORENCE: $2,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CARE HOUSE OF THE PEE DEE INC: $2,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSNAC: $2,000 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetTHE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFLORENCE COUNTY DISABILITIES FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHELP 4 KIDS: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPursuit Christian Academy: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMCLEOD HEALTH FOUNDATION: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOTTER HOUSE RECOVERY: $250 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.

  • Who funds MCARN COMMUNITY MINISTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds PEE DEE LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds E4E RELIEF LLC ↗
  • Who funds ST DAVID'S CEMETERY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PATHFINDERS UNITED ↗
  • 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 THE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FLORENCE COUNTY DISABILITIES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
  • Who funds HELP 4 KIDS ↗

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.

Duke Energy FoundationBetty S Campbell Char…Malloy FoundationCentral Carolina Comm…Assurant FoundationHm and Pearl Kyle Fou…Equitable Foundation …Foundation for the Ca…Eastern Carolina Comm…Dominion Energy Chari…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…
Duke Energy FoundationNC23.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 First Bank Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The First Bank Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
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
    8report 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.

    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 64 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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