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University of South Carolina Educational Foundation

To support the University of South Carolina in its academic, research and charitable endeavors by promoting a culture of philanthropy, managing and stewarding donor gifts, and providing financial resources to support students and faculty now and into the future.

$34M
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$20M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$156MHealth$266kHuman Services$61kPublic Benefit$15k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $31,350,016, the rows itemized in this filing. The $33,782,231 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,432,215 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $87k
  • $250k+3 grants · $31M
$867,497
Median grant
3
States reached
$857M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of South Carolina$20,426,582
USC Development Foundation$9,946,937
Children's Center at USC$867,497
National Merit Scholarship Corporation$87,000
Midlands Alliance for Better Transportation and Roads$15,000
American Heart Association$7,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $61k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THE COOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $61k → 16%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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$145M · 11 repeat orgs$11M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +10% since the first grant, against -35% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
14

Total granted

$145M
$538k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
-35%

Still filing today

64%
21%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesOther
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

  • CC
    Children's Center at USC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $5.5M · revenue +370% · 100% of their budget
  • NM
    National Merit Scholarship Corporation
    5× · 2017–2021 · $405k · revenue +10%
  • MU
    MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $164k · revenue +377%

Funded once

  • CC
    CHESTER COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2019 · $103k
  • WC
    WILLIAMSBURG COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2018 · $65k
  • TC
    The Cooperative Ministry
    one grant, 2021 · $61k · revenue -35%
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
Musc Strategic Ventures

To promote and support the educational, medical, scientific, and research purposes of the medical university of south carolina "musc", and university medical associates of the medical university of south carolina "uma", including their…

Health
2
Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence Found ation
Health
3
Association of American Medical Colleges

Aamc leads & serves the academic medicine community to improve the health of people everywhere.

Education
4
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
5
Health Sciences South Carolina

Health Sciences South Carolina (HSSC) was established with the vision of transforming the state of South Carolina's public health and economic well-being through research. HSSC is also committed to educating and training the healthcare…

Health
6
Morehouse School of Medicine

Leading the creation and advancement of health equity we exist to improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities, increase the diversity of the health professional and scientific workforce, and address primary health care…

Education
7
Musc Foundation for Research Development

1. to support the educational, research, and healthcare mission of the medical university of south carolina (musc) by fostering creativity and innovation. 2. to initiate and sustain cooperation and collaboration between musc and business…

Health
8
North Carolina Medical Society

To organize members of the medical profession to advance medical science.

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9
University of Chicago Medical Center

Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…

Health
10
Unmc Physicians

Our mission is to lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for all individuals and communities through premier educational programs, innovative research and extraordinary patient care.

Health
11
South Carolina Medical Association

The scma's purpose is to serve south carolina physicians and to support their efforts to provide high quality medical care and to promote good health for all citizens of the state. the scma accomplishes the stated purposes through…

Membership Benefit
12
Edward Via Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine

The mission of the edward via college of osteopathic medicine (vcom) is to prepare globally-minded, community-focused physicians to meet the needs of rural and medically underserved populations and promote research to improve human health.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medical University of South Carolina Foundation; the most unlike its peers is American College of Lifestyle Medicine. 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

12 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. 12 of the 27 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

USC School of Medicine Greenville: $138,306,854 · OtherUSC School of Medicine Greenville+15 more: $1,166,710 · OtherUniversity of South Carolina Development Foundation: $9,946,937 · EducationUniversity …Children's Center at USC: $5,506,957 · EducationChildren's …+3 more: $594,750 · EducationMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION: $163,955 · HealthFREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $71,500 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $14,000 · HealthAMERICAN COLLEGE OF LIFESTYLE MEDICINE: $10,000 · Health+1 more: $6,500 · HealthThe Cooperative Ministry: $61,315 · Human Services
Other$139,473,564Education$16,048,644Health$265,955Human Services$61,315

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of South Carolina Development Foundation: $9,946,937 over 1y, 45% of budgetChildren's Center at USC: $5,506,957 over 9y, 100% of budgetNational Merit Scholarship Corporation: $404,750 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFRANCIS MARION UNIVERSITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $165,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION: $163,955 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $71,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetThe Cooperative Ministry: $61,315 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTRI-COUNTY CRADLE TO CAREER COLLABORATIVE: $25,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $14,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN COLLEGE OF LIFESTYLE MEDICINE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $6,500 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.

  • Who funds University of South Carolina Development Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Children's Center at USC ↗
  • Who funds National Merit Scholarship Corporation ↗
  • Who funds FRANCIS MARION UNIVERSITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds The Cooperative Ministry ↗
  • Who funds TRI-COUNTY CRADLE TO CAREER COLLABORATIVE ↗
  • Who funds Midlands Alliance for Better Transportation and Ro ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN COLLEGE OF LIFESTYLE MEDICINE ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗

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.

Central Carolina Comm…Share Our StrengthI Car Education Found…GenYOUTH IncorporatedFor Inspiration and R…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Central Carolina Community FoundationSC19.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Central Carolina Community Foundation · Share Our Strength · I Car Education Foundation · GenYOUTH Incorporated · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 University of South Carolina Educational Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from University of South Carolina Educational Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 27 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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