· Private foundation
Wallace Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $92k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Vanderbilt University | $40,000 |
| Brookgreen Gardens | $30,000 |
| Bon Secours St Francis Foundation | $11,500 |
| The Citadel | $10,000 |
| Proctor Academy | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Cutaneous Lymphoma Foundation | $2,000 |
| Fund for Davidson College | $1,000 |
| The Chandler School | $1,000 |
| International Ballet | $1,000 |
| Metropolitan Arts Council | $1,000 |
| Warehouse Theater | $1,000 |
| Camperdown Academy | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of your 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +38% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- BGBROOKGREEN GARDENS9× · 2017–2025 · $256k · revenue +52%
Vanderbilt University6× · 2018–2025 · $96k · revenue +65%- CACAMPERDOWN ACADEMY INC8× · 2017–2025 · $58k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- SCSOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATREone grant, 2017 · $13k · revenue -64%
- CMCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE UPSTATE INCone grant, 2022 · $12k · revenue +21%
- LBLakes Bridges Charter Schoolone grant, 2018 · $5k
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.
The mission of the gibbes museum of art is to enhance lives through art by engaging people of every background and experience with art and artists of enduring quality; collect and preserve the art that touches charleston; and provide…
The mission of green hill center for nc art is to promote the visual arts of north carolina by engaging a broad community of artists, adults and children through dynamic exhibitions and educational programs while providing a platform for…
Our mission is to cultivate a vibrant space where the arts are celebrated, all voices are amplified, and the power of live theatre brings people together. at workshop theatre, we are dedicated to enriching our community by providing access…
Cultural and educational resource
Centre stage is a non-profit 501(c)(3) performing arts venue and theatre organization that exists to captivate audiences with diverse programming, cultivate local artistry, and inspire community collaboration.
Dedicated to the creation, presentation and advancement of contemporary art through its exhibitions, educational programming and studio art program.
Coker university is a student-centered, comprehensive university. it is dedicated to providing every student an academic curriculum based upon a uniformly excellent liberal arts core that enhances the structured development of key personal…
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
Carolina collaborative prep (ccp) is a non-profit academic center that serves students in grades 3-12 with learning differences, empowering them to thrive in school and in life.
The mission of the capitol center for the arts is to inspire, educate, and entertain audiences by providing both the finest venues for the performing arts and a wide range of professionally excellent and artistically significant…
Advances and promotes the arts for all south carolinians through advocacy, leadership, development and public awareness.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Museum of the Upstate Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Sculpture Society Inc. 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 39 years old; the field is 15. 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.
26 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. 26 of the 49 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 BROOKGREEN GARDENS ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds CAMPERDOWN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL BALLET ↗
- Who funds THE WAREHOUSE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds PEACE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE UPSTATE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOST INC ↗
- Who funds PROCTOR ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds FIVE FISH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUTISM PENSACOLA INC ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON HOPE ↗
- Who funds The Chandler School ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS ↗
- Who funds CUTANEOUS LYMPHOMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE ART INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds WARRIOR SURF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CANCER SURVIVORS PARK ALLIANCE ↗
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: Scsymmes Foundation · Daniel-Mickel Foundation · The Jolley Foundation · Jean T and Heyward G Pelham Foundation · Yeargin Foundation · Charity Ball Board of Greenville · Hayne Hipp Foundation · John I Smith Charities Inc · Neill M Timmons Foundation · Charles Timmons Foundation · Elbert W Rogers Foundation · Bill and Connie Timmons 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 Wallace Family 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.