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The H Neel Hipp and Scott Timmons Hipp 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $143k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| USS YORKTOWN FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| THE SWAMP FOX PLAYERS | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION | $13,460 |
| THE COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON ATHLETIC | $10,000 |
| CHARLESTON DAY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| BUNCOMBE STREET CHILD DEVELOPMENT | $10,000 |
| PHILLIP SIMMONS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| MOUNT PLEASANT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $10,000 |
| PHILLIP SIMMONS MIDDLE SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| GRACE CHURCH CATHEDRAL | $10,000 |
| THE RAMS CLUB | $10,000 |
| THE BAYLOR SCHOOL | $6,640 |
| GOLF FORE AFRICA | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 58% of your 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 +43% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 9 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, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k 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
- AJAmerican Junior Golf Association Inc4× · 2020–2025 · $115k · revenue +56%
- BSBAYLOR SCHOOL5× · 2020–2025 · $33k · revenue +46%
WOFFORD COLLEGE5× · 2020–2024 · $25k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- BSBUNCOMBE ST CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTEone grant, 2023 · $10k
SOUTH CAROLINA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%- KOKIND OF THE UPSTATEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +312% · 29% of their budget
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.
Through excellence in education, charlotte country day school develops the potential of each student by fostering intellectual curiosity, principled character, ethical leadership and a responsibility to serve. the key values and…
Forsyth Country Day School is a private, college preparatory independent school for preschool through high school. Students benefit from a challenging academic curriculum, fine and performing arts, competitive athletics, and a wide…
Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.
York school is an award-winning, private, coed college-prep school for grades 8-12, that develops confident and authentic leaders. we offer an academically challenging experiential program for bright, kind, and driven students in an…
The mission of wingate university is to develop educated, ethical, and productive global citizens. following its judeo-christian heritage, the university seeks to cultivate the following in its students: knowledge, faith, and service.
George fox university, a christ centered community, prepares students spiritually, academically, and professionally to think with clarity, act with integrity, and serve with passion.
North greenville university exists to glorify god by cultivating graduates who are equipped to serve as transformational leaders for church and society.
Southern wesleyan university is a christ-centered, student-focused learning community devoted to transforming lives by challenging students to be dedicated scholars and servant-leaders who impact the world for christ.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
Windward school is a dynamic college-preparatory school that challenges each student to achieve excellence in a nurturing, inclusive community. windward teachers, parents, and administrators work together to inspire our students to be…
Catawba college is committed to providing students an education rich in personal attention that blends the knowledge and competencies of liberal studies with career preparation. catawba college draws strength from judeo-christian values,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Educational Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kind of the Upstate. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 22 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 American Junior Golf Association Inc ↗
- Who funds BAYLOR SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WOFFORD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON DAY SCHOOLINC ↗
- Who funds USS YORKTOWN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SWAMP FOX PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds KIND OF THE UPSTATE ↗
- Who funds GOLF FORE AFRICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FURMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
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: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 H Neel Hipp and Scott Timmons Hipp 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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