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The Maddrey 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.

$193k
Granted FY2025still arriving
56
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$337kArts & Culture$218kPhilanthropy$155kEnvironment$138kHousing & Shelter$121kCommunity Improvement$58kRecreation & Sports$31kReligion$28kOther$0
02FY2025 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k51 grants · $67k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$1,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE$50,000
DAVIDSON COLLEGE$35,400
UPSTATE FOREVER$20,000
INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM$10,000
UNITED WAY$10,000
SC ENVIROMENTAL LAW PROJECT$6,000
CONSERVATION VOTERS OF SOUTH CAROLINA$5,000
UNITED MINISTRIES$5,000
METROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL$5,000
INSTITUTE FOR CHILD SUCCESS$5,000
LEGACY ADVANCEMENT$5,000
GREENVILLE COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART$2,500
UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH$2,500
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL$2,400
PEACEHAVEN$2,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 17% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1k → 14%MILL VILLAGE MINISTRIES: $1k → 10%MILL VILLAGE MINISTRIES: $1k → 10%MILL VILLAGE MINISTRIES: $1k → 10%WOMEN'S IMPACT FUND: $2k → 10%WOMEN'S IMPACT FUND: $1k → 10%WOMEN'S IMPACT FUND: $1k → 10%WOMEN'S IMPACT FUND: $1k → 10%WOMEN'S IMPACT FUND: $1k → 10%WOMEN'S IMPACT FUND: $100 → 10%YMCA OF GREENVILLE: $1k → 10%YMCA OF GREENVILLE: $1k → 10%YMCA OF GREENVILLE: $1k → 10%YMCA OF GREENVILLE: $1k → 10%URBAN LEAGUE OF THE UPSTATE: $1k → 10%URBAN LEAGUE OF THE UPSTATE: $1k → 10%URBAN LEAGUE OF THE UPSTATE: $1k → 10%URBAN LEAGUE OF THE UPSTATE: $1k → 10%URBAN LEAGUE OF THE UPSTATE: $1k → 10%URBAN LEAGUE OF THE UPSTATE: $1k → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
ID
IL
NY
MA
WY
CA
CO
VA
TN
NC
SC
DC
TX
FL
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 85 repeat orgs$114k to everyone else

85 repeat relationships: 52 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

85
16

Total granted

$1.0M
$111k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+39%

Still filing today

69%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • Davidson College
    6× · 2020–2025 · $143k · revenue +47%
  • FU
    FURMAN UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $75k · revenue +43%
  • UF
    UPSTATE FOREVER
    6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +427%

Funded once

  • GH
    GREENVILLE HOUSING IMPACT FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • CF
    COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TETON VALLEY INC
    one grant, 2024 · $4k
  • CM
    CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE UPSTATE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +165%
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
Carolina Art Association Dba Gibbes Museum of Art

The mission of the gibbes museum of art is to enhance lives through art by engaging people of every background and experience with art and artists of enduring quality; collect and preserve the art that touches charleston; and provide…

Arts & Culture
2
Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art

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…

Arts & Culture
3
Greensboro College

Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.

Education
4
South Carolina Humanities Council Inc

The mission of south carolina humanities council, inc. is to enrich the cultural and intellectual lives of south carolinians. the organization seeks to increase public understanding of and support for the humanities by telling the human…

Arts & Culture
5
Greenville College

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.

Education
6
Anderson University

The university is a comprehensive university affiliated with the south carolina baptist convention offering bachelors, masters, and doctorate degrees. located on approximately 398 acres in the upstate region of south carolina near the…

Education
7
North Carolina Biotechnology Center

The north carolina biotechnology center aids the biotechnology-related efforts of researchers, businesses, state and federal governments, and other agencies primarily through awards of grants and loans related to specific programs and…

Science & Tech
8
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
9
South Carolina Governors School for Science & Mathematics Foundation Inc

The foundation supports the sc school for science & mathematics (gssm) by giving voice to its needs, providing supplemental funds to augment its programs, and informing the public of its accomplishments and contributions to the quality of…

Education
10
Greenville Center for Creative Arts

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…

Arts & Culture
11
Barton College

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…

Education
12
Charlotte Center City Partners

Charlotte center city partners (cccp) boldly envisions and activates strategies and actions that will assure charlotte center city is a welcoming and equitable, economically vibrant, culturally rich and beloved place for all.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sc Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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

70 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. 70 of the 104 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)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
69/70
Grantees still filing
54/70
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GREENVILLE HOUSING IMPACT FUND: $100,000 · OtherGREENVILLE HOUSING IMPACT FUNDUNITED WAY: $60,000 · OtherUNITED WAYLAKE SUMMIT FOUNDATION INC: $31,000 · OtherLAKE SUMMIT FOUNDATION INCCONSERVATION VOTERS OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $30,000 · OtherCONSERVATION VOTERS OF SOUTH CAROLINAMETROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL: $30,000 · OtherMETROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCILINSTITUTE FOR CHILD SUCCESS INC: $17,000 · Other+54 more: $220,400 · Other+54 moreDavidson College: $143,000 · EducationDavidson CollegeFURMAN UNIVERSITY: $75,000 · EducationFURMAN UNIVERSITYPUBLIC EDUCATION PARTNERS GREENVILLE COUNTY: $32,500 · EducationPUBLIC EDUCATION PARTNERS GR…LEGACY ADVANCEMENT: $25,000 · EducationLEGACY ADVANCEMENT+8 more: $26,900 · Education+8 moreINTERNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM: $60,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL A…PEACE CENTER FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Arts & CulturePEACE CENTER FO…THE SOUTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SOUTH CAROL…SOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE: $8,000 · Arts & CultureGREENVILLE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $7,000 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $6,000 · Arts & CultureGreenville Chautauqua Society: $6,000 · Arts & CultureVAGABOND SCHOOL OF THE DRAMA INC: $6,000 · Arts & Culture+9 more: $7,825 · Arts & CultureUPSTATE FOREVER: $60,000 · EnvironmentTREES GREENVILLE: $6,000 · EnvironmentNaturaland Trust: $4,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE REEDY RIVER INC: $3,500 · Environment+4 more: $4,900 · EnvironmentCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE INC: $55,000 · PhilanthropyABUNDANCE CAPITAL: $16,000 · PhilanthropyCAPITA SOCIAL INC: $4,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,750 · PhilanthropyTEN AT THE TOP: $50,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $775 · Community ImprovementUNITED MINISTRIES: $26,000 · Religion
Other$488,400Education$302,400Arts & Culture$160,825Environment$78,400Philanthropy$76,750Community Improvement$50,775Religion$26,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDavidson College: $143,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFURMAN UNIVERSITY: $75,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUPSTATE FOREVER: $60,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM: $60,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE INC: $55,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPEACE CENTER FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTEN AT THE TOP: $50,000 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetPUBLIC EDUCATION PARTNERS GREENVILLE COUNTY: $32,500 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetLAKE SUMMIT FOUNDATION INC: $31,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetMETROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL: $30,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED MINISTRIES: $26,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetLEGACY ADVANCEMENT: $25,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR CHILD SUCCESS INC: $17,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetABUNDANCE CAPITAL: $16,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetFULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF MCCORMICK SC INC: $15,000 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOUTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE: $8,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetGREENVILLE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $7,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWomens Impact Fund: $7,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSC GOVERNOR'S SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGreenville Chautauqua Society: $6,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetCHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHOMES OF HOPE INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPALMETTO PROJECT INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF THE UPSTATE: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTREES GREENVILLE: $6,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetVAGABOND SCHOOL OF THE DRAMA INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBon Secours St Francis Health System Inc: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD CANCER CONNECTION: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetYMCA OF GREENVILLE: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNaturaland Trust: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITA SOCIAL INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE REEDY RIVER INC: $3,500 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetGREENVILLE FREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREENVILLE TECH FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREENVILLE COUNTY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetMILL VILLAGE MINISTRIES: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR THE COLLABORATION WITH THE HISPANIC COMMUNITY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF DUPONT FOREST: $1,900 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetARTS & SCIENCE COUNCIL CHARLOTTE/MECKLENBURG INC: $1,850 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetALL-IN TO FIGHT CANCER: $1,750 over 5y, 0.9% 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 Davidson College ↗
  • Who funds FURMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UPSTATE FOREVER ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE INC ↗
  • Who funds PEACE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TEN AT THE TOP ↗
  • Who funds PUBLIC EDUCATION PARTNERS GREENVILLE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds LAKE SUMMIT FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds UNITED MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds LEGACY ADVANCEMENT ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR CHILD SUCCESS INC ↗
  • Who funds ABUNDANCE CAPITAL ↗
  • Who funds FULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF MCCORMICK SC INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH ↗
  • Who funds THE SOUTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds GREENVILLE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Womens Impact Fund ↗
  • Who funds SC GOVERNOR'S SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
  • Who funds Greenville Chautauqua Society ↗
  • Who funds CHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
  • Who funds HOMES OF HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds PALMETTO PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF THE UPSTATE ↗
  • Who funds TREES GREENVILLE ↗

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.

Daniel-Mickel Foundat…The Jolley FoundationJohn I Smith Charitie…Hollingsworth Funds I…Bill and Connie Timmo…Duke Energy FoundationScsymmes FoundationHayne Hipp FoundationElbert W Rogers Found…Spartanburg County Fo…Yeargin FoundationSt Francis Hospital I…
Daniel-Mickel FoundationSC57.6× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Daniel-Mickel Foundation · The Jolley Foundation · John I Smith Charities Inc · Hollingsworth Funds Inc · Bill and Connie Timmons Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Scsymmes Foundation · Hayne Hipp Foundation · Elbert W Rogers Foundation · Spartanburg County Foundation · Yeargin Foundation · St Francis Hospital 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 Maddrey Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Maddrey Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 104 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home