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The Priester Foundation
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Read this first · the figures below need context
69% of The Priester Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Community Foundation Of Greenville Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 8 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
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.
The 9 grants below total $288,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $330,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $42,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $67k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $199k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE | $198,500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC | $20,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY SC | $15,000 |
| GREENVILLE SYMPHONY | $12,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC | $10,000 |
| YMCA OF GREENVILLE | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $8,000 |
| PUBLIC EDUCATION PARTNERS | $7,500 |
| CAPE MAY MAC | $7,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 19% of The Priester Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
11 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- GSGREENVILLE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2024 · $167k · revenue +26%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC3× · 2021–2024 · $60k · revenue +59%- UFUPSTATE FOREVER4× · 2019–2022 · $53k · revenue +101%
Funded once
- MAMETROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCILgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $11k · revenue +73%
- GLGREENVILLE LITERACY ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +19%
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…
Promoting and enhancing the economic growth and development of greenville county south carolina; gadc was formed by greenville county council.
Vgsc is organized to foster improved business conditions for the tourism and convention industry in the upstate of sc with the vision of becoming one of the most visited travel destinations in the southeast.
Providing standards, guidelines, and procedures to those members engaged in practice of the real estate profession
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…
Providing leadership to enhance the quality of life in greenwood through strategic long-term vision and collaborative community development initiatives.
Greenwood community theatre aspires to enrich the community by creating and fostering professionalism and diversity in all its theatrical endeavors and experiences.
Greater good greenville multiplies the good of nonprofit organizations, philanthropic funders, and caring community members with know-how, resources, and connections to each other for collective action on our community's most pressing…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greenville County Inc and the most unlike its peers is American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 15 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC EDUCATION PARTNERS GREENVILLE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UPSTATE FOREVER ↗
- Who funds MID-ATLANTIC CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY SC INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF GREENVILLE ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE LITERACY ASSOCIATION ↗
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 · Hollingsworth Funds Inc · John I Smith Charities Inc · Charity Ball Board of Greenville · The Maddrey Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · Hayne Hipp Foundation · Charles Timmons Foundation · Scsymmes Foundation · Scansource Charitable Foundation · Dabo's All in Team 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 Priester 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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