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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 FY2025still arriving
40
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$163k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.

Human Services$3.8MHealth$2.3MEducation$995kYouth Development$926kCrime & Legal$621kHousing & Shelter$523kFood & Nutrition$339kPublic Safety & Disaster$150kOther$0
02FY2025 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 40 grants below total $1,582,392 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,609,612 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,027,220 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $626k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $943k
$25,641
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MIDDLE TYGER COMMUNITY CENTER$163,220
UPSTATE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER$135,920
SAFE HOMESRAPE CRISIS COALITION$122,145
HOPE CENTER FOR CHILDREN$96,784
PROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION$79,675
THE BETHLEHEM CENTER$71,291
GREER RELIEF & RESOURCES AGENCY$62,565
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE UPSTATE$56,913
CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER$53,337
ADULT LEARNING CENTER INC$50,522
UPSTATE FATHERHOOD COALITION$50,192
UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC$48,556
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SPARTANBURG$44,087
HEALTHY SMILES OF SPARTANBURG INC$41,943
THE BRIDGE AT GREEN STREET$36,228
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%PROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION: $99k → 15%PROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION: $91k → 15%ACADEMIC TECHNOLOGY AND WELLNESS: $18k → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF UPSTATE SC: $28k → 10%PROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION: $86k → 15%PROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION: $81k → 15%ACADEMIC TECHNOLOGY & WELLNESS: $11k → 17%PROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION: $80k → 15%ACADEMIC TECHNOLOGY AND WELLNESS: $5k → 17%HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES OF THE WOODRUFF AREA INC: $23k → 15%HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES: $20k → 15%HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES OF THE WOODRUFF AREA INC: $20k → 15%URBAN LEAGUE OF THE UPSTATE: $18k → 10%HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES: $17k → 15%SENIOR CENTERS OF CHEROKEE COUNTY: $35k → 17%HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES WOODRUFF: $16k → 15%MIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES INC: $35k → 17%UNION COUNTY YMCA: $11k → 18%URBAN LEAGUE OF THE UPSTATE: $18k → 10%SENIOR CENTERS OF CHEROKEE COUNTY: $18k → 17%UNION COUNTY YMCA: $10k → 18%SENIOR CENTERS OF CHEROKEE COUNTY: $11k → 17%URBAN LEAGUE OF THE UPSTATE: $16k → 10%SENIOR CENTERS OF CHEROKEE COUNTY: $10k → 17%SENIOR CENTERS OF CHEROKEE COUNTY: $10k → 17%URBAN LEAGUE OF THE UPSTATE: $9k → 10%SENIOR CENTERS OF CHEROKEE COUNTY: $9k → 17%SENIOR CENTERS OF CHEROKEE COUNTY: $5k → 17%UNION COUNTY YMCA: $7k → 18%URBAN LEAGUE OF THE UPSTATE: $9k → 10%UPSTATE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $136k → 15%UPSTATE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $130k → 15%UPSTATE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $55k → 15%UPSTATE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $35k → 15%UPSTATE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $32k → 15%SOUTH CAROLINA HUNTERS & LANDOWNERS: $29k → 15%SAFE HOMESRAPE CRISIS COALITION: $190k → 15%SAFE HOMESRAPE CRISIS COALITION: $172k → 15%SAFE HOMESRAPE CRISIS COALITION: $159k → 15%SAFE HOMESRAPE CRISIS COALITION: $130k → 15%SAFE HOMESRAPE CRISIS COALITION: $122k → 15%UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC: $49k → 15%UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC: $45k → 15%PROJECT REST: $36k → 15%UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC: $12k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$9.7M · 75 repeat orgs$444k to everyone else

75 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

75
23

Total granted

$9.7M
$444k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+22%

Still filing today

76%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentEducationCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • PR
    PROJECT REST
    5× · 2021–2025 · $809k · revenue +10%
  • HC
    HOPE CENTER FOR CHILDREN
    5× · 2021–2025 · $762k · revenue +34%
  • MT
    MIDDLE TYGER COMMUNITY CENTER
    5× · 2021–2025 · $551k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • SL
    ST LUKE FREE CLINIC
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $43k
  • AA
    ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION - GREENVILLE COUNTY
    one grant, 2023 · $33k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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
2
Regenesis Health Care Inc

We strive to give health services to residents in and around the spartanburg, cherokee, and union sc areas. we believe that services to families can make a difference in the community, helping neighbors move towards healthier lifestyles…

Health
3
South Carolina Victim Assistance Network

The south carolina victim assistance network's mission is to ensure crime victims receive access to, and assistance from the criminal and juvenile justice systems and related social service providers; to improve the quality of services…

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4
Southlight Healthcare Inc

Southlight healthcare provides access to high-quality mental health and substance use treatment, fostering a resilient community by supporting individuals in their recovery.

Health
5
Sumter County Commission On Alcohol and Drug Abuse

Empowering people in sumter county sc to live free from substance abuse through a continuum of high quality services.

Health
6
South Carolina Network of Children's Advocacy Centers

Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse

Youth Development
7
Sc Thrive

The organization leads South Carolinians to stability by providing innovative and efficient access to quality of life resources.

Science & Tech
8
Southeastern Community Action Partnership Inc

To improve and empower the lives of the people that we serve. to accomplish our mission, we help people help themselves by providing services which enables them to develop marketable skills, reduce barriers to employment, teach living…

Human Services
9
Family and Children's Services of Centra

To transform the lives of children and adults by providing opportunities to build self-confidence, resilience and hope.

Human Services
10
Sunbelt Human Advancement Resources Inc

Sunbelt human advancement resources, inc. is a not for profit corporation whose principal activities consist of administering programs that are funded by grants from various governmental agencies, the acceptance of which requires…

Education
11
South Carolina First Steps to School Readiness Board of Trustees

Per south carolina code section 59-152-30: "the goals for south carolina first steps to school readiness are to: (1) provide parents with access to the support they might seek and want to strengthen their families and to promote the…

Education
12
Carolina Family Connections

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

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Advocacy Center of Spartanburg Cherokee - Union 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.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr13%7%5–10yr17%9%10–20yr13%35%20–35yr12%22%35–55yr22%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr13%4%5–10yr17%11%10–20yr13%50%20–35yr12%25%35–55yr22%10%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%2/79
the rest of the field
12%
515/4,186

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.

04the grantee network

66 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. 66 of the 99 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
65/66
Grantees still filing
43/66
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HOPE CENTER FOR CHILDREN — $762,029 · OtherHOPE CENTER FOR CHILDRENIMAGINATION LIBRARY — $282,783 · OtherIMAGINATION LIBRARYSPARTANBURG REGIONAL HOSPITAL — $166,411 · OtherBIRTHMATTERS — $156,120 · OtherNEW DAY INC OF SPARTANBURG — $151,845 · OtherCANCER ASSOCIATION OF SPARTANBURG & CHEROKEE COUNTIES INC — $151,114 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY SPARTANBURG I — $188,212 · Other+50 more — $2,108,721 · Other+50 morePROJECT REST — $809,316 · Human ServicesPROJECT RESTPROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION INC — $436,732 · Human ServicesPROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION INCUPSTATE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER — $389,215 · Human ServicesUPSTATE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTERBETHLEHEM CENTER — $311,287 · Human ServicesBETHLEHEM CENTERGREER RELIEF AND RESOURCES AGENCY INC — $210,471 · Human ServicesGREER RELIEF AND RESOURCES AGENC…S C HUNTERS AND LANDOWNERS FOR THE HUNGRY — $111,258 · Human ServicesUPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC — $105,078 · Human ServicesSENIOR CENTERS OF CHEROKEE COUNTY — $97,513 · Human Services+8 more — $427,063 · Human Services+8 moreBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE UPSTATE INC — $358,742 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTH…KIDS UPSTATE — $299,114 · Youth DevelopmentKIDS UPST…PALMETTO COUNCIL INC SCOUTING AMERICA — $81,666 · Youth DevelopmentPALMETTO …HOPE REMAINS YOUTH RANCH INC — $78,899 · Youth DevelopmentHOPE REMA…BLOOM UPSTATE INC — $37,906 · Youth Development+2 more — $31,167 · Youth DevelopmentHEALTHY SMILES OF SPARTANBURG INC — $231,313 · HealthST LUKES FREE MEDICAL CLINIC OF SPARTANBURG INC — $150,453 · HealthC4 SERVICES INC — $68,000 · HealthUNION COUNTY PREGNANCY CENTER — $65,117 · HealthPiedmont Care Inc — $61,559 · HealthTHE FORRESTER CENTER FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC — $30,000 · Health+4 more — $66,174 · HealthCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SPARTANBURG CHEROKEE - UNION INC — $431,481 · Crime & LegalSouth Carolina Legal Services — $105,240 · Crime & LegalANGEL'S CHARGE MINISTRY — $84,329 · Crime & LegalADULT LEARNING CENTER — $366,771 · EducationUpstate Fatherhood Coalition — $118,664 · EducationSPARTANBURG COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP — $51,384 · EducationSPARTANBURG METHODIST COLLEGE — $30,000 · Education+1 more — $9,171 · EducationMIDDLE TYGER COMMUNITY CENTER — $551,074 · Recreation & Sports
Other$3,967,235Human Services$2,897,933Youth Development$887,494Health$672,616Crime & Legal$621,050Education$575,990Recreation & Sports$551,074

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPROJECT REST — $809,316 over 5y, 8.8% of budgetHOPE CENTER FOR CHILDREN — $762,029 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetMIDDLE TYGER COMMUNITY CENTER — $551,074 over 5y, 8.6% of budgetPROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION INC — $436,732 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SPARTANBURG CHEROKEE - UNION INC — $431,481 over 5y, 10% of budgetUPSTATE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER — $389,215 over 5y, 12% of budgetADULT LEARNING CENTER — $366,771 over 5y, 26% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE UPSTATE INC — $358,742 over 5y, 40% of budgetBETHLEHEM CENTER — $311,287 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetKIDS UPSTATE — $299,114 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetHEALTHY SMILES OF SPARTANBURG INC — $231,313 over 5y, 10.0% of budgetGREER RELIEF AND RESOURCES AGENCY INC — $210,471 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY SPARTANBURG I — $188,212 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetBIRTHMATTERS — $156,120 over 5y, 14% of budgetNEW DAY INC OF SPARTANBURG — $151,845 over 5y, 6.1% of budgetCANCER ASSOCIATION OF SPARTANBURG & CHEROKEE COUNTIES INC — $151,114 over 5y, 19% of budgetST LUKES FREE MEDICAL CLINIC OF SPARTANBURG INC — $150,453 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetOPPORTUNITY HUB — $120,995 over 3y, 13% of budgetUpstate Fatherhood Coalition — $118,664 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetCHEROKEE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS — $118,374 over 5y, 9.4% of budgetTOTAL MINISTRIES OF SPARTANBURG COUNTY INC — $113,810 over 5y, 8.1% of budgetS C HUNTERS AND LANDOWNERS FOR THE HUNGRY — $111,258 over 3y, 36% of budgetSouth Carolina Legal Services — $105,240 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetUPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC — $105,078 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetSENIOR CENTERS OF CHEROKEE COUNTY — $97,513 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetHELPING HANDS MINISTRIES OF THE WOODRUFF AREA INC — $95,713 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetHUB CITY ROOTS — $94,774 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetANGEL'S CHARGE MINISTRY — $84,329 over 4y, 8.8% of budgetPALMETTO COUNCIL INC SCOUTING AMERICA — $81,666 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetUNITED WAY ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC — $79,992 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWESTGATE TRAINING & CONSULTATION NETWORK — $79,521 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetHOPE REMAINS YOUTH RANCH INC — $78,899 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER SPARTANBURG INC — $78,893 over 3y, 22% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF THE UPSTATE — $69,539 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetC4 SERVICES INC — $68,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE — $66,660 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHALTER (HEALING AND LEARNING THROUGH EQUINE RELATIONSHIPS) — $66,440 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetUNION COUNTY PREGNANCY CENTER — $65,117 over 5y, 33% of budgetFAITH HOME INC — $64,168 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetPiedmont Care Inc — $61,559 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetMIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES INC — $56,001 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSPARTANBURG COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP — $51,384 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMENTAL FITNESS INC — $48,851 over 3y, 22% of budgetPARTNERS FOR ACTIVE LIVING — $43,759 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetBLOOM UPSTATE INC — $37,906 over 3y, 12% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE UPSTATE INC — $37,710 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCHEROKEE CHILDREN'S HOME INC — $36,024 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetABLE SOUTH CAROLINA INC — $35,657 over 3y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

Spartanburg County Fo…Mary Black Foundation…Spartanburg Regional …J M Smith FoundationArkwright FoundationAnna M Black Charitab…South Carolina Christ…Crane Fund for Widows…The Fullerton Foundat…Black & Phillips Foun…Milliken & Company Ch…Foundation for the Ca…
Spartanburg County FoundationSC96.6× affinity46 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 the Piedmont Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 99 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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