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The Fullerton Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $377k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREENWOOD GENETIC CENTER | $100,000 |
| MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SC | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE (CHAPEL HILL) | $99,919 |
| ANDERSON UNIVERSITY | $99,558 |
| SPARTANBURG COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $98,528 |
| GARDNER-WEBB UNIVERSITY | $83,500 |
| PRISMA HEALTH UPSTATE FOUNDATION | $80,099 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SC FOUNDATION | $65,590 |
| GREENVILLE TECH FOUNDATION | $63,975 |
| NEXT STEP RECOVERY | $60,000 |
| PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE | $56,250 |
| SPARTANBURG REGIONAL HEALTHCARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| DECISIONSORG | $50,000 |
| KIDS UPSTATE | $50,000 |
| HEALTHY LEARNERS | $50,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $700k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 77% 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.
55 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 5 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $254k 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
- AUANDERSON UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $600k · revenue +74%
- GGGREENWOOD GENETIC CENTER INC4× · 2020–2025 · $400k · revenue +18%
- PHPROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION INC4× · 2020–2024 · $395k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- SSSILAS STEPSone grant, 2020 · $97k · 40% of their budget
- SLST LUKE'S HOSPITALone grant, 2022 · $75k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $75k
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.
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.
Charleston southern university (csu) is a private, four-year co-educational institution organized under the laws of the state of south carolina as a non-profit organization and sponsored by the south carolina baptist convention. the…
Spalding university is a diverse community of learners dedicated to meeting the needs of the times in the tradition of the sisters of charity of nazareth through quality undergraduate and graduate liberal and professional studies, grounded…
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…
The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…
The nc ahec program provides and supports educational activities and services with a focus on primary care in rural communities and those with less access to resources to recruit, train, and retain the workforce needed to create a healthy…
To promote and support the educational, medical, scientific, and research purposes of the medical university of south carolina "musc", and university medical associates of the medical university of south carolina "uma", including their…
The College of Arts and Sciences is committed to the development of the whole person through a liberal arts education of the highest quality. The School of Theology educates women and men to serve the broad whole of the Episcopal Church in…
SMC Delivers an exceptional education that fuses the empowerment of the liberal arts with crucial career skills. Our mission is to equip our students with the knowledge, skills, virtues, and mindset needed to thrive personally, create…
To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.
To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Advocacy Center of Spartanburg Cherokee - Union Inc and the most unlike its peers is Next Step Recovery Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
48 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 48 of the 97 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 ANDERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GREENWOOD GENETIC CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LIMESTONE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHEROKEE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Cleveland County Family YMCA Inc ↗
- Who funds GARDNER-WEBB UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MARY SUNSHINE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH GREENVILLE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds EDWARD VIA VIRGINIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds Prisma Health-Upstate Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHEROKEE HISTORICAL & PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS UPSTATE ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY LEARNERS ↗
- Who funds SPARTANBURG COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SILAS STEPS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY 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: Spartanburg County Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · United Way of the Piedmont Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Timken Foundation of Canton · Mary Black Foundation Inc · Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation · J M Smith Foundation · Arkwright Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · South Carolina Christian Foundation · Central Carolina Community 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 Fullerton 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.
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