· Private foundation
The Williams Brice Edwards Charitable Trust
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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $357k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+7 grants · $4.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF SUMTER | $1,700,000 |
| SUMTER COUNTY MUSEUM | $803,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500,000 |
| WILSON HALL | $300,000 |
| CAMP COLE | $300,000 |
| YMCA | $275,000 |
| SOUTH CAROLINA ETV | $254,567 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $216,000 |
| LIBERTY STEAM CHARTER SCHOOL | $200,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $150,000 |
| THOMAS SUMTER EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIO | $145,000 |
| MORRIS COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $75,000 |
| UNITED MINISTRIES | $60,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 28%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 16% of The Williams Brice Edwards Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in SC; read by stated purpose it is 90% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
40 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 10 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $598k 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
- SMSUMTER MUSEUM6× · 2019–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +857% · 65% of their budget
- WHWILSON HALL6× · 2019–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +44%
- MCMorris College6× · 2019–2024 · $600k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- TSTHOMAS SUMTER ACADEMY INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $160k · revenue +52%
- SCSUMTER COUNTY DEVELOPMENTALgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +84% · 42% of their budget
- MHMUSC HOLLINGS CANCER CENTERone grant, 2023 · $100k
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.
Empowering people in sumter county sc to live free from substance abuse through a continuum of high quality services.
To promote the preservation of historical strucures and sites through the collection of funds to be used for this purpose.
To promote business climate and industrial growth in the sumter area
Cultural enrichment through arts programs
SCMEP is a strategic advisor, promoting business growth and connecting manufacturers to public and private resources essential to their achieving increased competitiveness and profitability. See Sch O for additional information.
The organization leads South Carolinians to stability by providing innovative and efficient access to quality of life resources.
Scicu seeks to advance higher education in south carolina through fundraising, scholarships, research, as well as facilitating collaborative activities among the member institutions. scicu also enhances a positive public image and…
Promoting and protecting the free private and competitive enterprise system through research and education.
The college's mission is to train christians to serve god and his church.
To support the educational activities of the Sumter County School District.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sumter United Ministries and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% 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 17% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 83 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 CITY OF SUMTER HOUSING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SUMTER MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SUMTER COUNTY MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILSON HALL ↗
- Who funds Morris College ↗
- Who funds UNITED MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds ETV Endowment of South Carolina Inc ↗
- Who funds FULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF MCCORMICK SC INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds SUMTER GALLERY OF ART ↗
- Who funds PEE DEE COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL ASSAULT ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY STEAM CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THOMAS SUMTER ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds SUMTER LITTLE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds SUMTER COUNTY DEVELOPMENTAL ↗
- Who funds SAVING SUMTER'S STRAYS INC ↗
- Who funds SUMTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE SUMTER COUNTY LIBRAR ↗
- Who funds ALSTON WILKES SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WINNERS TRAVEL 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: Central Carolina Community Foundation · Glenmore & May Sharp Trust · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Lipscomb Family Foundation · The Sunshine Foundation Inc · The Leon Levine Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Williams Brice Edwards Charitable Trust 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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