· Private foundation
The Wayne & Pauline Thrift 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $58k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OCONEE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $26,250 |
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,335 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| GRACE'S CLOSET | $3,000 |
| HOLLY SPRINGS BAPTIST CHURCH | $3,000 |
| OCONEE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION | $2,500 |
| PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK | $2,500 |
| WILD HEARTS EQUINE THERAPY | $2,000 |
| ETV ENDOWMENT OF SC | $2,000 |
| SENECA ROTARY EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $1,200 |
| GOLDEN CORNER FOOD PANTRY | $1,000 |
| OCONEE UNITED MINISTRIES | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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 (FY20–25, $84k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
34 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
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
- OMOCONEE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $73k · revenue +102%
- CUCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $54k · revenue +82%
- UWUPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $41k · revenue +213%
Funded once
- SMST MARK METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $5k
- STSENECA TORNADO RELIEF FUNDone grant, 2020 · $3k
- SMSAINT MARK DREAM CAMPAIGNone grant, 2020 · $3k
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.
South carolina legal services is a statewide law firm that provides civil legal services to protect the rights and represent the interests of low income south carolinians.
Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse
The south carolina ovarian cancer foundation (scocf) was created as an organization to support women diagnosed with ovarian cancer, to be a source of education and awareness about the disease to people across the state, and to support…
(See Schedule O)
The south carolina policy council was founded in 1986 as an independent, private, non-partisan research organization to promote the principles of limited government, free enterprise, and individual liberty and responsibility in the state…
The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.
Central carolina community foundation is a nonprofit community foundation that connects and mobilizes people and resources to strengthen the midlands of south carolina. the foundation partners with donors, nonprofit organizations,…
Inspiring philanthropy and strengthening our region through innovative community initiatives and quality services to donors and constituents.
To furnish protection and advocacy services to south carolinians with disabilities
Our mission is to protect our state's hunting heritage and ensure this sports future for generations to come.
Through responsible stewardship of our unique ecological resource, we provide inclusive opportunities for meaningful connection, discovery, and education in nature.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oconee Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Izzies Pond Inc. 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 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 14% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 39 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 OCONEE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC ↗
- Who funds OCONEE COUNTY FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds Graces Closet ↗
- Who funds OCONEE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds ETV Endowment of South Carolina Inc ↗
- Who funds Oconee United Ministries ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds RIPPLE OF ONE ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN CORNER FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HELEN'S HUGS INC ↗
- Who funds FOSTERING FAITHFULLY ↗
- Who funds WILD HEARTS EQUINE THERAPY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Izzies Pond Inc ↗
- Who funds LACHLAN'S HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds UPSTATE FOREVER ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds COLLINS HOME FAMILY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds PEACE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Dabo's All in Team Foundation · Upcountry Fiber Foundation · Oconee Federal Charitable Foundation · The Jim Parke Foundation · Rhodenbaugh Foundation · J M Smith Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good
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 Wayne & Pauline Thrift 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.