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The Priester Foundation

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$339k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$199k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

66% of The Priester Foundation’s FY2025 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. FY2025 names 9 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

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’18
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’19
7
’20
11
’21
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’22
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’23
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’24
9
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$1.5MArts & Culture$341kEducation$100kHealth$100kEnvironment$53kHousing & Shelter$40kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kHuman Services$10k
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $300,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $339,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $39,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $87k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $199k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$7.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE$198,500
PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC$20,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY SC$15,000
GREENVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$12,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$10,000
YMCA OF GREENVILLE$10,000
UNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC$10,000
MEALS ON WHEELS OF GREENVILLE INC$10,000
PUBLIC EDUCATION PARTNERS$7,500
MID-ATLANTIC CENTER FOR THE ARTS & HUMANITIES$7,000
02The need
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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 (FY24–25, $20k) 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%YMCA OF GREENVILLE: $10k → 10%YMCA OF GREENVILLE: $10k → 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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 19% of The Priester Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Priester Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$802k · 12 repeat orgs$29k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
2

Total granted

$802k
$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+73%

Still filing today

92%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

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Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterEnvironmentOther
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

  • GS
    GREENVILLE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $179k · revenue +26%
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $80k · revenue +59%
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY SC INC
    3× · 2021–2025 · $55k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • MA
    METROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCILgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $11k · revenue +73%
  • GL
    GREENVILLE LITERACY ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +19%
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.

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Greenville Theatre Arts Center
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2
Greenville Area Development Corporation

Promoting and enhancing the economic growth and development of greenville county south carolina; gadc was formed by greenville county council.

Community Improvement
3
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
4
Greenville Art Guild
Arts & Culture
5
Visitgreenvillesc

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.

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6
Greenville Connects

Greenville connects is a coalition seeking to increase investments in the transit system of greenville, sc.

Public Benefit
7
Greater Greenville Association of Realtors Inc

Providing standards, guidelines, and procedures to those members engaged in practice of the real estate profession

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8
Foundation for a Greater Greenwood County Inc

Providing leadership to enhance the quality of life in greenwood through strategic long-term vision and collaborative community development initiatives.

Philanthropy
9
Greater Good Greenville

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…

Community Improvement
10
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
11
Greenville Educational Enrichment Foundation
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12
Greenwood Community Theatre Inc

Greenwood community theatre aspires to enrich the community by creating and fostering professionalism and diversity in all its theatrical endeavors and experiences.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greenville County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Upstate Forever. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 16 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
10/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE INC: $1,617,500 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE INCGREENVILLE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $179,000 · Arts & CultureGREENVILLE SYMPH…SOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE: $120,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTH CAROLINA C…MID-ATLANTIC CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $50,000 · Arts & CultureMID-ATLANTIC CEN…UNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC: $70,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $40,000 · OtherMETROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL: $11,000 · OtherUPSTATE FOREVER: $52,500 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS OF GREENVILLE INC: $10,000 · OtherPUBLIC EDUCATION PARTNERS GREENVILLE COUNTY: $85,000 · EducationGREENVILLE TECH FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · EducationGREENVILLE LITERACY ASSOCIATION: $7,500 · EducationPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC: $80,000 · HealthHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY SC INC: $55,000 · Housing & ShelterAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $35,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF GREENVILLE: $20,000 · Human Services
Philanthropy$1,617,500Arts & Culture$349,000Other$183,500Education$107,500Health$80,000Housing & Shelter$55,000Human Services$55,000

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 budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE INC: $1,617,500 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetGREENVILLE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $179,000 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE: $120,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetPUBLIC EDUCATION PARTNERS GREENVILLE COUNTY: $85,000 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC: $80,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC: $70,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY SC INC: $55,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetUPSTATE FOREVER: $52,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetMID-ATLANTIC CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $50,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYMCA OF GREENVILLE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREENVILLE TECH FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL: $11,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGREENVILLE LITERACY ASSOCIATION: $7,500 over 1y, 1.0% 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.

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 FoundationHollingsworth Funds I…John I Smith Charitie…Charity Ball Board of…The Maddrey FoundationTd Charitable Foundat…Hayne Hipp FoundationCharles Timmons Found…Scsymmes FoundationScansource Charitable…Dabo's All in Team Fo…
Daniel-Mickel FoundationSC28.4× affinity11 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 · 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

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 Priester Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Priester Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report 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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Priester Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Priester Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 16 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 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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