· Private foundation
The Suitt Foundation
Its FY2021 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 FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k11 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $91k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $44,818 |
| PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE SCOTSMAN CLUB | $16,000 |
| NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MENTAL HEALTH | $10,000 |
| GATEWAY | $10,000 |
| GREENVILLE THEATRE | $10,000 |
| UPSTATE FOREVER | $6,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF AMERICA | $2,000 |
| SWITCH SC | $2,000 |
| GREENVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| GREENVILLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS | $1,000 |
| METROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL OF GREENVILLE | $1,000 |
| GREENVILLE COUNTY ANIMAL CARE | $1,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
| THE GREENLAW FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| MEYER CENTER FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–21, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 11% 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 +72% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2021, 8 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 10% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $98k 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
- SHSAFE HARBOR INC2× · 2020–2021 · $1k · revenue +182%
- ECEPWORTH CHILDREN'S HOME2× · 2017–2019 · $200 · revenue +177%
- PCPEACE CENTER FOUNDATION2× · 2019–2020 · $65 · revenue +53%
Funded once
- TCTHE CENTER FOR EDUCATIONAL EQUITYone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +18%
- BJBOB JONES UNIVERSITY STUDENT FUNDone grant, 2020 · $1k
- TETHE EM FOR EMILYone grant, 2019 · $1k
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.
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.
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.
Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.
The south carolina council on competitiveness is a nonpartisan, business-led non-profit organization committed to advancing the long term competitiveness of south carolina through actionable research, support of industry clusters and…
To strengthen families, organizations, and communities to prevent child abuse and neglect.
To promote and support the educational, medical, scientific, and research purposes of the medical university of south carolina "musc", and university medical associates of the medical university of south carolina "uma", including their…
Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Promoting and protecting the free private and competitive enterprise system through research and education.
North greenville university exists to glorify god by cultivating graduates who are equipped to serve as transformational leaders for church and society.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Citadel Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Center for Educational Equity. 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 62 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 — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 46 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 GREENVILLE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds UPSTATE FOREVER ↗
- Who funds SWITCH ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR EDUCATIONAL EQUITY ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTH CAROLINA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds MEYER CENTER FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE CITADEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds EPWORTH CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds THE TAU BETA PI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PEACE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds WOFFORD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES 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: The Jolley Foundation · Hayne Hipp Foundation · Elbert W Rogers Foundation · Daniel-Mickel Foundation · Scansource Charitable Foundation · J M Smith Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Yeargin Foundation · Neill M Timmons Foundation · Charles Timmons Foundation · Scsymmes 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 Suitt 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 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.