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United Bank Upstate Sc Foundation at a glance

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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.

$15k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through 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, FY2018 to 2024.

Human Services$62kPhilanthropy$30kReligion$25kHealth$23kFood & Nutrition$14kHousing & Shelter$13kEducation$10kYouth Development$4kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$4k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TAYLORS FREE MEDICAL CLINIC$5,000
PIEDMONT WOMEN'S CENTER$2,000
CREATIVE ADVANCEMENT CENTERS$2,000
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SC$1,500
SAFE HARBOR$1,500
GREER CHRISTIAN LEARNING CENTER$1,500
FAITH & SUPPORT MINISTRY$1,500
GREER HIGH SCHOOL$250
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Piedmont Women's Center: $2k → 10%PIEDMONT WOMENS CENTER: $3k → 10%PIEDMONT WOMENS CENTER: $3k → 10%CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENT SERVICES: $3k → 10%Safe Harbor: $2k → 10%Center for Developmental Services: $2k → 10%SAFE HARBOR: $2k → 10%Safe Harbor: $2k → 10%CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES: $2k → 10%Center for Developmental Services: $1k → 10%Fostering Great Ideas: $3k → 10%Fostering Great Ideas: $2k → 10%Fostering Great Ideas: $1k → 10%Center for Developmental Services: $1k → 10%FOSTERING GREAT IDEAS: $360 → 10%Upstate Warrior Solutions: $3k → 10%GREER RELIEF: $6k → 10%GREER COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $5k → 10%GREER COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $5k → 10%Greer Community Ministries: $5k → 10%Greer Relief: $3k → 10%Piedmont Women's Center: $3k → 10%PIEDMONT WOMEN'S CENTER: $2k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$167k · 18 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
8

Total granted

$167k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+5%

Still filing today

78%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthReligionHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • GR
    GREER RELIEF AND RESOURCES AGENCY INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $18k · revenue +73%
  • GC
    GREER COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC
    4× · 2018–2023 · $18k · revenue +81%
  • PW
    PIEDMONT WOMEN'S CENTER
    5× · 2018–2024 · $13k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • CI
    COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2019 · $4k
  • HO
    HOMES OF HOPE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +71%
  • CI
    COMMUNITIEDS IN SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
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.

04Its 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
Meals On Wheels of Greenville Inc

Meals on wheels of greenville, inc. enhances the quality of life of homebound individuals by providing nutritious meals, personal contact, and related services.

Food & Nutrition
2
Greater Greenville Housing & Revitalizat

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…

Community Improvement
3
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
4
Communityworks Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
5
Carolina Teen Center

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,…

Health
6
The Glynn Community Crisis Center Inc

Providing emergency shelter and other services to persons battered and or abused, commonly referred to as domestic violence.

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7
Carolina Family Connections

Recruit and train and license foster parents to receive foster children from county government agencies.

Human Services
8
Fuller Center for Housing of Mccormick Sc Inc

Building decent & affordable housing for the poor

Housing & Shelter
9
Greater Chattanooga Christian Services Inc

Provide Group and Foster care for Homeless Children and Counseling

Human Services
10
United Housing Connections

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.

Community Improvement
11
Giving Hope Inc

Homelessness prevention

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12
Crisis Center of Russell County

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…

Public Safety & Disaster
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greer Community Ministries Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
11/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GREER RELIEF AND RESOURCES AGENCY INC: $17,500 · Human ServicesGREER RELIEF AND RESOURCES AGENCY INCGREER COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $17,500 · Human ServicesGREER COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INCPIEDMONT WOMEN'S CENTER: $13,000 · Human ServicesPIEDMONT WOMEN'S CENTERCENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES: $8,500 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICESSAFE HARBOR INC: $6,500 · Human ServicesSAFE HARBOR INCFOSTERING GREAT IDEAS: $6,360 · Human ServicesFOSTERING GREAT IDEASUPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesUPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INCIndividual grant recipient: $11,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDAILY BREAD MINISTRIES INC: $10,500 · OtherDAILY BREAD MINISTRIES INCIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGenerations: $9,000 · OtherGenerationsFAITH & SUPPORT MINISTRY: $5,500 · OtherFAITH & SUPPORT MINISTRYCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS: $4,000 · OtherCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLSA Child's Haven Inc: $3,000 · OtherCOMMUNITIEDS IN SCHOOLS: $2,000 · Other+5 more: $3,750 · Other+5 moreGreer Christian Learning Center Inc: $13,000 · EducationGreer Chris…CREATIVE ADVANCEMENT CENTERS INC: $4,000 · EducationCREATIVE AD…Communities in Schools of South Carolina: $1,500 · EducationCommunities…TAYLORS FREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $11,000 · HealthHARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK: $9,000 · Food & NutritionUNITED MINISTRIES: $6,000 · ReligionHOMES OF HOPE INC: $2,000 · Housing & ShelterGREATER GREER EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $1,500 · Community Improvement
Human Services$75,360Other$58,750Education$18,500Health$11,000Food & Nutrition$9,000Religion$6,000Housing & Shelter$2,000Community Improvement$1,500

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 budgetGREER RELIEF AND RESOURCES AGENCY INC: $17,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetGREER COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $17,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetPIEDMONT WOMEN'S CENTER: $13,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGreer Christian Learning Center Inc: $13,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetTAYLORS FREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDAILY BREAD MINISTRIES INC: $10,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetHARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES: $8,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSAFE HARBOR INC: $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFOSTERING GREAT IDEAS: $6,360 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetUPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED MINISTRIES: $6,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCREATIVE ADVANCEMENT CENTERS INC: $4,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetA Child's Haven Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOMES OF HOPE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER GREER EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetGREATER GREER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCommunities in Schools of South Carolina: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJULIE VALENTINE CENTER: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

United Way of Greenvi…John I Smith Charitie…Scansource Charitable…The Jolley FoundationScsymmes FoundationPrisma Health-UpstateDabo's All in Team Fo…South Carolina Christ…Sisk Foundation Bunco…Sisters of Charity Fo…Central Carolina Comm…Duke Energy Foundation
United Way of Greenville County IncSC30.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 United Bank Upstate Sc Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Bank Upstate Sc Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to United Bank Upstate Sc Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to United Bank Upstate Sc Foundation 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 28 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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