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The Graham 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 $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $95k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $441k
- $250k+4 grants · $2.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PEACEHAVEN FARM INC | $750,000 |
| PEACE CENTER | $700,000 |
| SECOND BREATH CENTER | $600,000 |
| METROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL | $500,000 |
| PIEDMONT FIBERSHED-CROATAN INSTITUTE | $200,000 |
| MIAMI TECHNICAL INSTITUTE FOUNDATION | $170,000 |
| CONESTEE FOUNDATION | $71,000 |
| UPSTATE CIRCLE OF FRIENDS | $36,500 |
| POSITIVE WORKS INC | $20,000 |
| I AM CHANGED INC | $16,000 |
| ARTISPHERE | $12,500 |
| THE LONG WALK HOME | $10,000 |
| THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE | $5,000 |
| SOAPSTONE PRESERVATION ENDOWMENT | $5,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $124k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
27 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 5 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $411k 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
- PFPEACEHAVEN FARM INC3× · 2022–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +362% · 90% of their budget
- MAMETROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL3× · 2022–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +40%
- CFCONESTEE FOUNDATION INC3× · 2022–2024 · $211k · revenue +95%
Funded once
- CCCOMMUNITYWORKS CAROLINAone grant, 2019 · $550k
- TPTHE PEACE CENTER FORone grant, 2017 · $200k
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CONTRIBUTION FOR PIEDMONT HEALTH FDNone grant, 2019 · $150k
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 greenville center for creative arts exists to enrich the cultural fabric of the communities we serve by providing a nurturing environment for art-education, appreciation and enjoyment, and by establishing a lasting legacy in the visual…
Providing leadership to enhance the quality of life in greenwood through strategic long-term vision and collaborative community development initiatives.
Cultural and educational resource
Evergreen of Greenville, Inc. (the Organization) is a private nonprofit organization dedicated to revitalizing the central business district of Greenville, North Carolina. Originally founded in 1983, Evergreen of Greenville, Inc. was…
The organization's mission is to support the peace center foundation's mission to promote the performing arts through public performances, support of local artists, and educating the public.
To hold a festival designed to assist in the revitalization of downtown greenville, sc
The mission of the arts council of greenwood county, inc. is to enrich the quality of life in the greenwood community by providing a venue for exposure, participation, and education in both the visual and performing arts.
The mission of green hill center for nc art is to promote the visual arts of north carolina by engaging a broad community of artists, adults and children through dynamic exhibitions and educational programs while providing a platform for…
NC CIVIL is a nonprofit community impact organization that develops grassroots approaches to structural disparities. Our mission is to increase resident involvement, improve organization of resources, and help institutions partner…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Peace Center Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Trees Greenville. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 87 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.
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: Daniel-Mickel Foundation · The Jolley Foundation · Hayne Hipp Foundation · Helga Marston Foundation · Scsymmes Foundation · Jean T and Heyward G Pelham Foundation · Charles Timmons Foundation · The Maddrey Foundation · United Way of Greenville County Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment 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 Graham 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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