· Private foundation
United Bank Upstate Sc Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TAYLORS FREE MEDICAL CLINIC | $5,000 |
| PIEDMONT WOMEN'S CENTER | $2,000 |
| CREATIVE ADVANCEMENT CENTERS | $2,000 |
| SAFE HARBOR | $1,500 |
| GREER CHRISTIAN LEARNING CENTER | $1,500 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SC | $1,500 |
| FAITH & SUPPORT MINISTRY | $1,500 |
| GREER HIGH SCHOOL | $250 |
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 (FY18–24, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% 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 +43% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 2 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; $2k 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
- GRGREER RELIEF AND RESOURCES AGENCY INC5× · 2019–2023 · $18k · revenue +73%
- GCGREER COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC4× · 2018–2023 · $18k · revenue +81%
- PWPIEDMONT WOMEN'S CENTER5× · 2018–2024 · $13k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- CICOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLSone grant, 2019 · $4k
- CICOMMUNITIEDS IN SCHOOLSone grant, 2021 · $2k
- HOHOMES OF HOPE INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +71%
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.
Meals on wheels of greenville, inc. enhances the quality of life of homebound individuals by providing nutritious meals, personal contact, and related services.
Develop, provide, and promote safe, affordable, and decent housing and design, research, and/or promote revitalization activities and facilitate the coordination of various service and support activities for the greater Greenville…
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.
Communityworks is a publicly supported organization and certified community development financial institution that provides funding to promote affordable housing and community development to help stabilize low wealth families and…
Carolina Teen Center is a prevention and education year-round after-school and summer program that services youth and their families. Literacy programs, tutoring, life skills, mentoring, positive peer groups, conflict resolution skills,…
Providing emergency shelter and other services to persons battered and or abused, commonly referred to as domestic violence.
Recruit and train and license foster parents to receive foster children from county government agencies.
Building decent & affordable housing for the poor
Provide Group and Foster care for Homeless Children and Counseling
We connect people at-risk for or experiencing homlessness with safe, sustainable, and affordable homes. we work to promote and preserve the dignity and quality of life for all citizens in upstate south carolina.
Homelessness prevention
The Crisis Center of Russell County was organized to provide assistance and temporary housing to victims of domestic abuse through secured temporary housing and education with job placement to transition them back into society. In…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greer Community Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is Julie Valentine Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 28 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 GREER RELIEF AND RESOURCES AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds GREER COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds Greer Christian Learning Center Inc ↗
- Who funds TAYLORS FREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds DAILY BREAD MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds FOSTERING GREAT IDEAS ↗
- Who funds UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE ADVANCEMENT CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds A Child's Haven Inc ↗
- Who funds HOMES OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER GREER EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Communities in Schools of South Carolina ↗
- Who funds GREATER GREER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds JULIE VALENTINE CENTER ↗
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: United Way of Greenville County Inc · John I Smith Charities Inc · Scansource Charitable Foundation · The Jolley Foundation · Scsymmes Foundation · Prisma Health-Upstate · Dabo's All in Team Foundation · South Carolina Christian Foundation · Sisk Foundation Buncombe St Methodist Church · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · Central Carolina Community Foundation · Duke Energy 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 United Bank Upstate Sc 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.
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