· Public charity
Upcountry Fiber Foundation
UPCOUNTRY FIBER FOUNDATION, llc is an organization established to accumulate and distribute funds for charitable purposes.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $58k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OTHER | $57,500 |
| GRACE'S CLOSET | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $138k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 84% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 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, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k 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
- FAFEED A HUNGRY CHILD PC INC4× · 2018–2023 · $48k · revenue +12%
- GCGOLDEN CORNER FOOD PANTRY3× · 2020–2023 · $31k · revenue +145%
- GCGraces Closet3× · 2020–2024 · $31k · revenue +187%
Funded once
- TDTHE DREAM CENTER OF PICKENS COUNTYgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $18k · revenue +210%
- CFCENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICESgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $17k · revenue +27%
- ACA CALL TO ACTION OCONEEone grant, 2018 · $17k
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.
Provide food security to families in lee and monroe counties
Recruit and train and license foster parents to receive foster children from county government agencies.
Christian Community Ministries is a financial crisis ministry helping those who fall within our definition of crisis. Except for one paid administrator, we are a totally volunteer organization. We operate as an extension of the servant…
To provide emergency assistance to the homeless
To minister to human need in the name of christ and to offer assistance to the needy in the form of a counseling,community clothes closet, food pantry and limited emergency fund operation.
Origin sc empowers individuals to achieve financial, housing and mental health stability through advocacy, counseling, and education.
Food insecurity and other need resources
Provide assistance to individuals in need in the nash county, north carolina area.
General assistance to help families experiencing homelessness and low-income families achieve sustaiinable independence through a community-based response.
Food pantry
Provide food and supplies for the low income and needy
We seek to help low income families with minor children who are at imminent risk of homelessness or already homeless to achieve long-term housing security through finding housing or paying past-due rent or utilities then addressing the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Anderson Interfaith Ministries and the most unlike its peers is Upstate Institute of Youth Programs. 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 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
24 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. 24 of the 27 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 FEED A HUNGRY CHILD PC INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH GREENVILLE CRISIS MINISTRY I ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN CORNER FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds Graces Closet ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF THE UPSTATE INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN HEALTH CLINIC OF PICKENS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds UNITED CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds SERVICE DOGS FOR VETERANS ↗
- Who funds Oconee United Ministries ↗
- Who funds THE DREAM CENTER OF PICKENS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON FREE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds FAIR PLAY CAMP SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds LACHLAN'S HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds COLLINS HOME FAMILY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds A Child's Haven Inc ↗
- Who funds CFK INC ↗
- Who funds FOOTHILLS CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST LIGHT ↗
- Who funds UPSTATE INSTITUTE OF YOUTH PROGRAMS ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF ANDERSON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON INTERFAITH MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds FOSTERING FAITHFULLY ↗
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 Wayne & Pauline Thrift Family Foundation · Abney Foundation · Oconee Federal Charitable Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · Tribble Foundation · Mary R Ramseur Charitable Trust · Dawn Laurel Foundation · Scansource Charitable Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Ge Aerospace 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 Upcountry Fiber Foundation 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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