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The Springs Close Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Springs Close Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
101
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$271k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$5.1MPublic Safety & Disaster$3.5MHuman Services$1.7MEducation$911kHealth$651kHousing & Shelter$386kFood & Nutrition$277kReligion$273kOther$0
02FY2024 · 101 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k48 grants · $184k
  • $10k–50k45 grants · $924k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $605k
  • $250k+1 grant · $271k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$36M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

50%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.6M · 110 repeat orgs$6.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +34% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

110
105

Total granted

$6.6M
$6.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+34%

Still filing today

39%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $543k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsArts & CultureOther
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

  • CA
    CHILDREN'S ATTENTION HOME INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $207k · revenue +98%
  • CS
    Christian Services Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $168k · revenue +975%
  • FL
    FORT LAWN COMMUNITY CENTER INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $140k · revenue +264%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $5.0M
  • TO
    Town of Kershaw
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • WU
    Winthrop University Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $70k · revenue +69%
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.

03Its 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.

1
House of Hope North Charleston

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.

Food & Nutrition
2
Carolina Comfort Coalition

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.

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3
York County Board of Disabilities and Special Needs

Serve clients with intellectual and developmental disabilities within york county, south carolina.

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4
C4 Ministries of Laurens County

General assistance to help families experiencing homelessness and low-income families achieve sustaiinable independence through a community-based response.

Human Services
5
Hickory County Cares

Food distribution to the needy

Human Services
6
The Greenville Community Shelters

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.

Housing & Shelter
7
The Shepherds Center of Charlotte

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.

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8
Anson County Homes of Hope

Provide short-term housing for homeless

Housing & Shelter
9
Santee Lynches Affordable Housing and Community Development Corporat

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…

Housing & Shelter
10
York County Cancer Association

Cancer patient support

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11
Carolina Therapeutic Services Community Development Inc

CTS Community Development is a behavioral health provider committed to helping individuals from underserved communities to live safe, productive, and meaningful lives

Human Services
12
Lumberton Christian Care Center Inc

To provide free meals and temporary shelter for the needy of robeson county.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Attention Home Inc; 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.
03the grantee network

80 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
79/80
Grantees still filing
58/80
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $5,000,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientChester County School District: $528,970 · Other+156 more: $5,511,153 · Other+156 moreChristian Services Inc: $167,800 · Human ServicesChristian…Adult Enrichment Centers Inc: $137,500 · Human ServicesAdult Enr…KERSHAW AREA RESOURCE EXCHANGE: $118,000 · Human ServicesKERSHAW A…Hope Inc: $115,500 · Human ServicesHope IncGOOD SAMARITAN MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $97,775 · Human ServicesGOOD SAMA…BETHEL SHELTERS: $68,500 · Human ServicesBETHEL SH…LANCASTER COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $55,000 · Human ServicesHOPE in Lancaster Inc: $50,250 · Human ServicesPATHWAYS COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesA FATHERS WAY: $46,000 · Human ServicesMERCY HOUSE: $39,000 · Human Services+7 more: $149,034 · Human Services+7 moreYORK COUNTY DISABILITIES FOUNDATION: $85,000 · HealthCHRYSALIS AUTISM CENTER INC: $49,646 · HealthPalmetto Community Health Care: $34,000 · HealthWOMENS ENRICHMENT CENTER: $32,465 · HealthNAMI Piedmont Tri-County: $13,000 · Health+5 more: $28,000 · HealthBATTERED BUT NOT BROKEN: $225,034 · Crime & LegalWinthrop University Foundation: $70,000 · EducationYORK TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $62,500 · EducationThe Foundation for Fort Mill Schools Inc: $26,484 · EducationTherapy Resource Group: $12,500 · EducationSETHS GIVING TREE: $8,200 · Education+2 more: $10,000 · EducationFULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF MCCORMICK SC INC: $130,000 · Housing & ShelterThe Life House Women's Shelter Inc: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE HAVEN MEN'S SHELTER: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterHER PLACE: $7,500 · Housing & ShelterLancaster Housing Services Incorporated: $7,500 · Housing & ShelterFORT LAWN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $140,400 · Public Benefit
Other$11,040,123Human Services$1,094,359Health$242,111Crime & Legal$225,034Education$189,684Housing & Shelter$175,000Public Benefit$140,400

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBATTERED BUT NOT BROKEN: $225,034 over 5y, 27% of budgetCHILDREN'S ATTENTION HOME INC: $207,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetChristian Services Inc: $167,800 over 5y, 15% of budgetFORT LAWN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $140,400 over 5y, 9.1% of budgetAdult Enrichment Centers Inc: $137,500 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetFULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF MCCORMICK SC INC: $130,000 over 5y, 27% of budgetCAROLINA COMMUNITY CARE INC: $128,849 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetKERSHAW AREA RESOURCE EXCHANGE: $118,000 over 5y, 6.8% of budgetHope Inc: $115,500 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetG R A S P: $111,551 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $97,775 over 3y, 17% of budgetYORK COUNTY DISABILITIES FOUNDATION: $85,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetWinthrop University Foundation: $70,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBETHEL SHELTERS: $68,500 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetYORK TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $62,500 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetLANCASTER COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $55,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetMAGNOLIA MEMORY CARE INC: $50,268 over 3y, 16% of budgetHOPE in Lancaster Inc: $50,250 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetPATHWAYS COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $50,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetCHRYSALIS AUTISM CENTER INC: $49,646 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetDorothy Day Soup Kitchen: $47,720 over 3y, 11% of budgetA FATHERS WAY: $46,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetChristians to Feed the Hungry Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetMERCY HOUSE: $39,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetYORK COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $34,442 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPalmetto Community Health Care: $34,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetWOMENS ENRICHMENT CENTER: $32,465 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetSENIOR SERVICES INC OF CHESTER COUNTY: $30,775 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetLeroy Springs & Company Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLINDSAY PETTUS GREENWAY INC: $27,500 over 2y, 11% of budgetThe Foundation for Fort Mill Schools Inc: $26,484 over 2y, 12% of budgetPATH INC: $25,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetLANCASTER CHILDRENS HOME: $23,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetFort Mill Care Center Inc: $21,817 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetPILGRIMS INN INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF YORK COUNTYINC: $20,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetSAFE PASSAGE INC: $18,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHE MANNA HOUSE: $17,500 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetTHE HAVEN INC: $17,500 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetLancaster County Community Center: $17,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetLANCASTER COUNTY COUNCIL OF THE ARTS: $16,223 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetThe Life House Women's Shelter Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE HAVEN MEN'S SHELTER: $15,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetDEFEND THE FATHERLESS INC: $14,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetNAMI Piedmont Tri-County: $13,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetBROWN'S CORNER INC: $12,500 over 1y, 23% of budgetTherapy Resource Group: $12,500 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetMARLIE DRU SULLIVAN FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 5.3% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Comporium Foundation …Foundation for the Ca…Nutramax Family Found…Community Partnership…York Electric Trust I…Duke Energy FoundationArras FoundationCentral Carolina Comm…True Homes Foundation…The Junior Welfare Le…Clarence H & Anna E L…United Way of York Co…
Comporium Foundation IncSC77.6× affinity35 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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.
    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Springs Close Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Springs Close Foundation Inc 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 258 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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