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Upcountry Fiber Foundation

UPCOUNTRY FIBER FOUNDATION, llc is an organization established to accumulate and distribute funds for charitable purposes.

$68k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$58k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Human Services$181kHealth$142kFood & Nutrition$96kYouth Development$26kHousing & Shelter$26kCrime & Legal$17kReligion$9kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $58k
$57,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$121k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OTHER$57,500
GRACE'S CLOSET$10,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SERVICE DOGS FOR VETERANS: $13k → 10%THE DREAM CENTER OF PICKENS CO: $18k → 16%GRACE'S CLOSET: $12k → 17%SERVICE DOGS FOR VETERANS: $9k → 10%GRACE'S CLOSET: $10k → 17%GRACE'S CLOSET: $9k → 17%MIRACLE HILL CHILDREN'S HOME: $17k → 16%CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENT SERVICES: $17k → 16%OCONEE PRESBYTERIAN SERVICE FUND: $12k → 17%CFK INC: $12k → 17%FOSTERING FAITHFULLY: $9k → 17%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.

48%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$267k · 9 repeat orgs$288k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +23% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
17

Total granted

$267k
$230k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+23%

Still filing today

100%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’20’21’23’24
Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionPhilanthropyPublic BenefitYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • FA
    FEED A HUNGRY CHILD PC INC
    4× · 2018–2023 · $48k · revenue +12%
  • GC
    GOLDEN CORNER FOOD PANTRY
    3× · 2020–2023 · $31k · revenue +145%
  • GC
    Graces Closet
    3× · 2020–2024 · $31k · revenue +187%

Funded once

  • TD
    THE DREAM CENTER OF PICKENS COUNTYgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $18k · revenue +210%
  • AC
    A CALL TO ACTION OCONEE
    one grant, 2018 · $17k
  • CF
    CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICESgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $17k · revenue +27%
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
Faith Food Pantry

Provide food security to families in lee and monroe counties

Food & Nutrition
2
Carolina Family Connections

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

Human Services
3
Christian Community Ministries of Kershaw County

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…

Religion
4
Family Promise of Pickens County Inc

To provide emergency assistance to the homeless

Human Services
5
Pender County Christian Svcs Inc

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.

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6
Family Services Inc

Origin sc empowers individuals to achieve financial, housing and mental health stability through advocacy, counseling, and education.

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7
Blessed Hands Food Pantry & Resource Center

Food insecurity and other need resources

Food & Nutrition
8
Faith Christian Ministries of Nash County

Provide assistance to individuals in need in the nash county, north carolina area.

Religion
9
C4 Ministries of Laurens County

General assistance to help families experiencing homelessness and low-income families achieve sustaiinable independence through a community-based response.

Human Services
10
Inman Methodist Food Pantry

Food pantry

Food & Nutrition
11
Feed-a-Child Wnc Inc

Provide food and supplies for the low income and needy

Food & Nutrition
12
Family Promise of Aiken County

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…

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Anderson Interfaith Ministries; 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.
04the grantee network

24 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. 24 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
17/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GOLDEN CORNER FOOD PANTRY: $31,000 · Human ServicesGOLDEN CORNER FOOD PANTRYGraces Closet: $31,000 · Human ServicesGraces ClosetUNITED CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $22,000 · Human ServicesUNITED CHRISTIAN MINISTRIESOconee United Ministries: $21,000 · Human ServicesOconee United MinistriesTHE DREAM CENTER OF PICKENS COUNTY: $18,000 · Human ServicesTHE DREAM CENTER OF PICKENS COUNTYCENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES: $17,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICESMIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES INC: $17,000 · Human ServicesMIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES INCCFK INC: $12,000 · Human ServicesCFK INCANDERSON INTERFAITH MINISTRIES: $9,000 · Human ServicesFOSTERING FAITHFULLY: $9,000 · Human ServicesOTHER: $57,500 · OtherOTHERHOSPICE OF THE UPSTATE INC: $29,000 · OtherHOSPICE OF THE UPSTATE INCSAMARITAN HEALTH CLINIC OF PICKENS COUNTY: $26,000 · OtherSAMARITAN HEALTH CLINIC OF PICKENS C…A CALL TO ACTION OCONEE: $17,000 · OtherA CALL TO ACTION OCONEECOLLINS HOME FAMILY MINISTRIES: $17,000 · OtherCOLLINS HOME FAMILY MINISTRIESA Child's Haven Inc: $12,000 · OtherA Child's Haven IncGLEANING HOUSE MINISTRIES: $9,000 · OtherFAMILY PROMISE OF ANDERSON COUNTY INC: $9,000 · OtherFEED A HUNGRY CHILD PC INC: $48,000 · Food & NutritionFEED A HUNGRY CHI…NORTH GREENVILLE CRISIS MINISTRY I: $38,000 · Food & NutritionNORTH GREENVILLE …FAIR PLAY CAMP SCHOOL INC: $17,000 · HealthFAIR PLAY C…ANDERSON FREE CLINIC: $17,000 · HealthANDERSON FR…FIRST LIGHT: $12,000 · HealthFIRST LIGHTFOOTHILLS CARE CENTER INC: $12,000 · HealthFOOTHILLS C…SERVICE DOGS FOR VETERANS: $21,000 · Public BenefitLACHLAN'S HOPE INC: $17,000 · PhilanthropyUPSTATE INSTITUTE OF YOUTH PROGRAMS: $9,320 · Youth Development
Human Services$187,000Other$176,500Food & Nutrition$86,000Health$58,000Public Benefit$21,000Philanthropy$17,000Youth Development$9,320

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFEED A HUNGRY CHILD PC INC: $48,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetNORTH GREENVILLE CRISIS MINISTRY I: $38,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetGOLDEN CORNER FOOD PANTRY: $31,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetGraces Closet: $31,000 over 3y, 8.5% of budgetHOSPICE OF THE UPSTATE INC: $29,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSAMARITAN HEALTH CLINIC OF PICKENS COUNTY: $26,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetUNITED CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $22,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetSERVICE DOGS FOR VETERANS: $21,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetOconee United Ministries: $21,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetTHE DREAM CENTER OF PICKENS COUNTY: $18,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES: $17,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCOLLINS HOME FAMILY MINISTRIES: $17,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetFAIR PLAY CAMP SCHOOL INC: $17,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES INC: $17,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLACHLAN'S HOPE INC: $17,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetA Child's Haven Inc: $12,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFIRST LIGHT: $12,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFOOTHILLS CARE CENTER INC: $12,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCFK INC: $12,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetUPSTATE INSTITUTE OF YOUTH PROGRAMS: $9,320 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF ANDERSON COUNTY INC: $9,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetANDERSON INTERFAITH MINISTRIES: $9,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFOSTERING FAITHFULLY: $9,000 over 1y, 9.5% 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.

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.

Dabo's All in Team Fo…Duke Energy FoundationThe Wayne & Pauline T…Abney FoundationOconee Federal Charit…Sisters of Charity Fo…Tribble FoundationMary R Ramseur Charit…Dawn Laurel FoundationScansource Charitable…Publix Super Markets …Ge Aerospace Foundati…
Dabo's All in Team FoundationSC34.6× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Upcountry Fiber Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Upcountry Fiber Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.
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    How do I get to Upcountry Fiber Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Upcountry Fiber Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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