South Carolina · Public charity
United Way of the Piedmont Inc
Together we are strengthening educational opportunity, economic mobility, and access to healthcare for families across spartanburg, cherokee, and union counties in south carolina.
- $2.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 40
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 43
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $1.6M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,641
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $163,220
- Organizations funded a year
- 43 to 65
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.5M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations United Way of the Piedmont Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 39 | $1.6M | 0% |
| FY2024 | 43 | $1.7M | 7% |
| FY2023 | 63 | $2.2M | 35% |
| FY2022 | 63 | $2.1M | 13% |
| FY2021 | 65 | $2.4M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Project Rest | $809,316 | 5 | 9% |
| Hope Center for Children | $762,029 | 5 | 5% |
| Middle Tyger Community Center | $551,074 | 5 | 9% |
| Project Hope Foundation Inc | $436,732 | 5 | 1% |
| Children's Advocacy Center of Spartanburg Cherokee - Union Inc | $431,481 | 5 | 10% |
| Upstate Family Resource Center | $389,215 | 5 | 12% |
| Adult Learning Center | $366,771 | 5 | 26% |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Upstate Inc | $358,742 | 5 | 40% |
| Bethlehem Center | $311,287 | 5 | 6% |
| Kids Upstate | $299,114 | 2 | 6% |
Show all 78 grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($948k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
United Way of the Piedmont Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 64 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Spartanburg County Foundation · Mary Black Foundation Inc · Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation · J M Smith Foundation · Arkwright Foundation · Anna M Black Charitable Foundation · South Carolina Christian Foundation · Crane Fund for Widows and Children · The Fullerton Foundation · Black & Phillips Foundation Inc · Milliken & Company Charitable Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas
How this is measured
About United Way of the Piedmont Inc
- How much does United Way of the Piedmont Inc give?
- United Way of the Piedmont Inc reported 40 itemized grants totaling $1,582,392, out of $2,609,612 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 43 and 65 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does United Way of the Piedmont Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (37%), Health (23%), Education (10%).
- Who are United Way of the Piedmont Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Project Rest ($809k), Hope Center for Children ($762k), Middle Tyger Community Center ($551k).
- Does United Way of the Piedmont Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of the Piedmont Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Spartanburg County Foundation, Mary Black Foundation Inc, Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation.
- Where is United Way of the Piedmont Inc based?
- United Way of the Piedmont Inc is based in SC.
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