· Private foundation
The Providence Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $99k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CROSSROADS CORP | $50,000 |
| ACCESSIBLE HOPE INTERNATIONAL | $25,000 |
| THE FOUNDATION FOR TOMORROW | $15,000 |
| OPERATION AIRDROP | $15,000 |
| SACRED VALLEY PROJECT | $13,500 |
| PROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| WATER MISSION | $10,000 |
| HOPE INC | $10,000 |
| FIRST IN FAMILES OF MECKLENBURG | $7,500 |
| FOOD FOR THE POOR | $7,500 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $7,500 |
| FAVOR UPSTATE | $5,000 |
| NOURISH UP | $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 (FY17–25, $484k) 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +54% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 2 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- PHPROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2025 · $475k · revenue +34%
- WMWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL8× · 2017–2025 · $155k · revenue +110%
- FAFACES AND VOICES OF RECOVERY(FAVOR) UPSTATE SC6× · 2017–2025 · $130k · revenue +98%
Funded once
- BSBON SECOURS ST FRANCIS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $25k
- GTGREENVILLE TECHNICAL COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $18k
DIRECT RELIEFone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +1%
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.
Feeding the spiritual and physical hunger, especially in at-risk children.
Food for the hungry is a christian humanitarian aid and global development organization that has designed, developed and delivered solutions for more than 50 years so that children, families and communities can flourish. (continued on…
Prevent homelessness. promote self-sufficiency and dignity.
Chariots for hope shares the hope of christ by loving kenyan children through christian discipleship and long-term physical, emotional, and educational care and provision. the vision of chariots for hope is to create a transformed future…
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
Teach christian beliefs and feed children in haiti.
To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.
Baptist children's homes of north carolina (bch) is a nonprofit organization that reaches out to children and families in crisis. the agency's mission statement is "sharing hope...changing lives."
The corporation is organized to provide nutritious fortified meals throughout the world to children and families that are most vunerable to hunger and malnutriion.
Motivated by god's love, we partner with our neighbors in need, equip volunteers, respond to disasters and strenghten communities to inspire greater hope in our world.
To inspire all generations to radically live out the gospel through finding christ in the distressing disguise of the poor.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Convoy of Hope and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
29 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. 29 of the 49 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 PROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds FACES AND VOICES OF RECOVERY(FAVOR) UPSTATE SC ↗
- Who funds Accessible Hope International ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds The Foundation for Tomorrow Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOST INC ↗
- Who funds CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FREE THE KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds Sacred Valley Project Inc ↗
- Who funds Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds OPERATION AIRDROP INC ↗
- Who funds ROOF ABOVE INC ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE TYGER COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HUNGER FUND ↗
- Who funds HICKORY COVE BIBLE CAMP ↗
- Who funds CONVOY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds Nourish Up ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT OF GREENVILLE INC ↗
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: Duke Energy Foundation · United Way of Greenville County Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Scansource Charitable Foundation · Dabo's All in Team Foundation · South Carolina Christian Foundation · Yeargin Foundation · Neill M Timmons Foundation · AWT Family Foundation · Scsymmes Foundation · John I Smith Charities Inc
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 Providence 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
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.