· Private foundation
The Springs Close Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k48 grants · $184k
- $10k–50k45 grants · $924k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $605k
- $250k+1 grant · $271k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Chester County School District | $270,720 |
| Lancaster County First Steps | $136,000 |
| Fort Mill School District | $121,125 |
| Children's Attention Home | $110,000 |
| Winthrop University | $70,000 |
| Children's Attention Home | $65,000 |
| Carolina Community Care- Charity Care Program | $52,800 |
| Battered But Not Broken | $50,000 |
| 2023 Retiring Board Members (5 Members) - Grant of Choosing | $46,000 |
| KARE | $41,000 |
| Christian Services | $39,000 |
| Greater New Hope Christian Assoc | $37,000 |
| Mount Calvary Outreach Center | $36,665 |
| United Way - Chester | $35,000 |
| Fort Lawn Community Center | $31,400 |
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 +37% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
110 repeat relationships — 52 still active in FY2024, 58 since wound down; 43 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $543k 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
- CACHILDREN'S ATTENTION HOME INC4× · 2020–2024 · $207k · revenue +98%
- CSChristian Services Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $168k · revenue +975%
- FLFORT LAWN COMMUNITY CENTER INC5× · 2020–2024 · $140k · revenue +264%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $5.0M
- TOTown of Kershawone grant, 2021 · $100k
- WUWinthrop University Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $70k · revenue +28%
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.
To reduce hunger and poverty in the Tri-County Area by providing individuals and families with food, clothing, shelter, resource and spiritual support while striving to employ, educate and empower.
Serenity House is a community organization that bridges the gap for hospice families by providing a three bed group home setting at no charge for short term end of life care by trained volunteers and nurses.
Serve clients with intellectual and developmental disabilities within york county, south carolina.
General assistance to help families experiencing homelessness and low-income families achieve sustaiinable independence through a community-based response.
Food distribution to the needy
To serve the homeless and those at risk of homelessness by providing safe housing and assisting them in developing a long-term plan that leads to self-sufficiency.
The Shepherds Center of Charlotte enriches the lives of older adults by providing a network of support to increase social connection, expand access to critical resources, and combat the negative effects of isolation.
Provide short-term housing for homeless
We are independent, community based, nonprofit with a Mission to enhance communities by providing quality, safe, decent and affordable housing, and other forms of economic opportunities that benefit low to moderate income individuals…
Cancer patient support
CTS Community Development is a behavioral health provider committed to helping individuals from underserved communities to live safe, productive, and meaningful lives
To provide free meals and temporary shelter for the needy of robeson county.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Attention Home Inc and the most unlike its peers is WorkAbility. 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 24 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) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
80 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. 80 of the 258 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 BATTERED BUT NOT BROKEN ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S ATTENTION HOME INC ↗
- Who funds Christian Services Inc ↗
- Who funds FORT LAWN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Adult Enrichment Centers Inc ↗
- Who funds FULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF MCCORMICK SC INC ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA COMMUNITY CARE INC ↗
- Who funds KERSHAW AREA RESOURCE EXCHANGE ↗
- Who funds Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds G R A S P ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN MEDICAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds YORK COUNTY DISABILITIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Winthrop University Foundation ↗
- Who funds BETHEL SHELTERS ↗
- Who funds YORK TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION 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: Comporium Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Nutramax Family Foundation · Community Partnership Foundation · York Electric Trust Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Arras Foundation · Central Carolina Community Foundation · True Homes Foundation Inc · The Junior Welfare League Inc · Clarence H & Anna E Lutz Foundation · United Way of York County SC
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 Springs Close Foundation Inc 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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