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The Sanders Family 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k8 grants · $145k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $320k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $170,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE | $100,000 |
| PRISMA HEALTH-UPSTATEUNIV OF SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE GREENVILLE | $50,000 |
| CAINE HALTER FAMILY YMCA | $40,000 |
| FURMAN UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| SOUTH CAROLINA INDEPENDENT COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES INC | $20,000 |
| UNITED MINISTRIES | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA ENGINEERING COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| YMCA OF GREENVILLE (VERDAE YMCA) | $10,000 |
| UPCOUNTRY HISTORY MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF GREENVILLE | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $260k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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 +26% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- FUFURMAN UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $630k · revenue +26%
- CCCHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $490k · revenue +92%
- TSTHE SOUTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL SOCIETY8× · 2017–2024 · $447k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- FUFURMAN UNIVERSITY (AMERICAN HISTORY BOOK CLUB & FORUM)one grant, 2018 · $41k
University of South Carolina Educational Foundationone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -5%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
North greenville university exists to glorify god by cultivating graduates who are equipped to serve as transformational leaders for church and society.
The College of Arts and Sciences is committed to the development of the whole person through a liberal arts education of the highest quality. The School of Theology educates women and men to serve the broad whole of the Episcopal Church in…
The purpose of wofford college is to function as a liberal arts institution of superior quality. its chief concern is the development of an intellectual, spiritual, and aesthetic atmosphere in which serious and inquiring minds of students…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Coker university is a student-centered, comprehensive university. it is dedicated to providing every student an academic curriculum based upon a uniformly excellent liberal arts core that enhances the structured development of key personal…
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…
Union Institute & University educates highly motivated adults who seek academic programs to engage, enlighten, and empower them to pursue professional goals and a lifetime of learning and service. Offering accredited bachelors, masters,…
SMC Delivers an exceptional education that fuses the empowerment of the liberal arts with crucial career skills. Our mission is to equip our students with the knowledge, skills, virtues, and mindset needed to thrive personally, create…
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 Wake Forest University. 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 FURMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF GREENVILLE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds South Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities ↗
- Who funds UPCOUNTRY HISTORY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds University of South Carolina Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY 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: Bill and Connie Timmons Foundation · Daniel-Mickel Foundation · Charles Timmons Foundation · The Jolley Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Yeargin Foundation · Spinks Family Foundation · Jean T and Heyward G Pelham Foundation · Hollingsworth Funds Inc · The Maddrey Foundation · Scsymmes 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 Sanders Family 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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