· Private foundation
The Grant McDonald 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 $10k13 grants · $85k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Newberry Opera House | $20,000 |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church | $8,500 |
| Univ of Georgia Foundation | $8,000 |
| Harvest Hope Food Bank | $8,000 |
| St Nicholas Orthodox Academy | $8,000 |
| ETV Endowment of S Carolina | $8,000 |
| Newberry County Family YMCA | $6,000 |
| Living Hope Foundation | $6,000 |
| Lutheran Services Carolinas | $6,000 |
| Sistercare | $6,000 |
| Central SC Habitat for Humanity | $5,500 |
| Create Newberry Inc | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Newberry County Literary Council | $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 (FY19–24, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
19 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $38k · revenue +62%
- NCNewberry County Family YMCA6× · 2019–2024 · $36k · revenue +39%
- SISISTERCARE INC6× · 2019–2024 · $29k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $15k
- EWELCA World Hungerone grant, 2018 · $10k
- BTBUILDING THRIVING COMMUNITIES FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue -60%
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.
Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.
The mission of the lowcountry food bank endowment fund is to support the lowcountry food bank.
The mission of the food bank of greenwood county is to reduce hunger through community cooperation, effectively distributing donated grocery products and perishable foods, and making the best possible use of all available resources.
Habitat for Humanity of Berkeley County (HFHBC) is a community-level Habitat for Humanity organization that acts in partnership with and on behalf of Habitat for Humanity International. HFHBC seeks to put Gods love into action by brings…
To provide a faith based community where life will be rich and full as god intends it to be, holding to our values, serving one another with dedication and promoting health and wellness for all.
Our mission is to rescue and transport surplus food to qualified non profit agencies and churches. these agencies fulfill a priority need by distributing food to needy and disadvantaged families in three counties of sc.
To support the University of South Carolina in its academic, research and charitable endeavors by promoting a culture of philanthropy, managing and stewarding donor gifts, and providing financial resources to support students and faculty…
To support the ministry of lutheran homes of south carolina by enabling donors, who care about older adults and hospice patients, to achieve their philanthropic goals and by being a faithful steward of their gifts.
Presbyterian communities of south carolina operates six not-for-profit continuing care retirement communities and is associated with the presbyterian church (usa) and offers a variety of lifestyle choices to meet the diverse and changing…
The foundation is committed to assisting newberry county memorial hospital in providing quality healthcare to the community through awareness and financial support.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys Farm Inc and the most unlike its peers is Living Water Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 28 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 HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Newberry County Family YMCA ↗
- Who funds Newberry County Literacy Council ↗
- Who funds LIVING HOPE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SISTERCARE INC ↗
- Who funds NEWBERRY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL SC HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds ETV Endowment of South Carolina Inc ↗
- Who funds CREATE Newberry Inc ↗
- Who funds BUILDING THRIVING COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Lutheran Family Services in the Carolinas ↗
- Who funds Boys Farm Inc ↗
- Who funds LIVING WATER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Oliver Gospel Mission ↗
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: Central Carolina Community Foundation · United Way of the Midlands · Taylor Foundation of Newberry Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Grant McDonald 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.