· Public charity
United Way of Pickens County
The mission of the UNITED WAY OF PICKENS COUNTY is to optimize the organized capacity of people to care for another with the vision to lead pickens county in creating and developing talents and resources to enhance the quality of life for individuals, families and the community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $79,703 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $99,488 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $19,785 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $62k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MCKISSICK ACADEMY | $21,500 |
| EAST END ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $16,500 |
| CENTRAL ACADEMY OF ARTS | $13,703 |
| SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PICKENS COUNTY | $10,750 |
| PICKENS COUNTY FIRST STEPS | $9,250 |
| SIX MILE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $8,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $288k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 74% 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.
21 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 4 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, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
- PCPICKENS COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP7× · 2017–2024 · $150k · revenue +86%
- PCPICKENS COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS INC7× · 2017–2024 · $122k · revenue +102%
- UWUPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC3× · 2017–2019 · $72k · revenue +279%
Funded once
- TPTHE PARENTING PLACE3× · 2022–2024 · $60k
- BHBEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES OF SC3× · 2022–2024 · $54k
- UCUNITED CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES3× · 2022–2024 · $42k
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.
Our mission is to provide compassionate direction to individuals and families in need through counseling, education and financial benefits management.
Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse
Providing emergency shelter and other services to persons battered and or abused, commonly referred to as domestic violence.
Origin sc empowers individuals to achieve financial, housing and mental health stability through advocacy, counseling, and education.
The mission of hope house is to prevent abuse and provide support to victims of domestic and sexual violence. our service area includes sauk, columbia, juneau, marquette, and adams counties.
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…
Provide rape victim counseling,education, and advocacy services in the low country of south carolina.
Recruit and train and license foster parents to receive foster children from county government agencies.
Transforming lives through safety, healing and empowerment.
Provide crisis intervention, counseling, and shelter; support and empowerment; education, information, and referrals to victims of sexual and domestic violence and to those significant in their lives; and outreach related to the issues of…
Meals on wheels of greenville, inc. enhances the quality of life of homebound individuals by providing nutritious meals, personal contact, and related services.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Dream Center of Pickens County 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.
21 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. 21 of the 38 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 PICKENS COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds PICKENS COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF PICKENS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN HEALTH CLINIC OF PICKENS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds ALSTON WILKES SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF UPSTATEMIDLANDS SOUTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds MEYER CENTER FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds JULIE VALENTINE CENTER ↗
- Who funds PICKENS COUNTY ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CLEMSON COMMUNITY CARE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds PREVENT CHILD ABUSE PICKENS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds REBUILD UPSTATE ↗
- Who funds CLIFFS RESIDENTS OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds RIPPLE OF ONE ↗
- Who funds THE HELPING HANDS OF CLEMSON INC ↗
- Who funds THE DREAM CENTER OF PICKENS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE UPSTATE INC ↗
- Who funds MARY'S HOUSE MINISTRY ALLIANCE FOR REGAINING YOUR SAFETY ↗
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: Dabo's All in Team Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · The Reserve at Lake Keowee Charitable Foundation · United Way of Greenville County Inc · United Way of Anderson County · AWT Family Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · United Community Bank Foundation · Nalley Charitable Trust · Scsymmes Foundation · Prisma Health-Upstate · The Jolley 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 Way of Pickens County 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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