· Private foundation
Wherry 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Healthy Families Foundation | $5,000 |
| 3Gen Ministries | $5,000 |
| First Presbyterian Church | $5,000 |
| David's Table | $5,000 |
| Switch SC | $5,000 |
| Valley Hope Church | $4,000 |
| Fellowship Bible Church | $4,000 |
| Greenville's Gift | $3,000 |
| JL Mann Spirit Week | $2,000 |
| Isaiah 117 House | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Alzheimers Association | $500 |
| First Presbyterian Church Foundation | $500 |
| Campus Outreach Columbia | $500 |
| Make-A-Wish South Carolina | $500 |
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 (FY20–25, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
16 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 5 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- FUFURMAN UNIVERSITY5× · 2017–2021 · $55k · revenue +26%
- 3M3GEN MINISTRIES3× · 2023–2025 · $15k · revenue +11%
- DTDAVIDS TABLE INC2× · 2023–2025 · $10k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- FPFIRST PRESYBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $35k
- SJSt John in the Wildernessone grant, 2024 · $10k
- YLYOUNG LIFEone grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue +13%
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 organization's mission is to facilitate christian ministry by equipping the individuals and families through discipleship, financial literacy and community and economic development.
Child evangelism fellowship is a bible centered organization composed of born again believers whose purpose is to evangelize children with the gospel of the lord jesus christ and to establish them in the word of god.
Christian teaching and the spreading of the gospel throughout the beaufort south carolina area.
To provide a positive and safe living environment for hurting, abused, neglected and at-risk children placed privately and by the north carolina department of social services
South carolina christian foundation exists to disciple the hearts of individuals toward biblical stewardship and proactive philanthropy in order to transform communities and advance the kingdom of god.
Our mission is to see communities transformed by the Gospel through loving, serving, sharing, and sending. We accomplish this mission through local partnership, training, and service opportunities while advocating and empowering…
Baptist children's homes of north carolina (bch) is a nonprofit organization that reaches out to children and families in crisis. the agency's mission statement is "sharing hope...changing lives."
HOPE Missions exists for all who are marginalized and living in poverty to experience acceptance in Christ, live in sustainable housing, and joyfully engage in supportive community.
To foster and promote christian stewardship and for promoting and providing support to the ministries in north carolina affiliated with or consistent with the convention of original free will baptists and other charitable, education,…
Our mission is to partner with christian parents in providing a quality education integrated with a biblical world view that will prepare the students for a life of service to the lord jesus christ.
To provide a faith based community where life will be rich and full as god intends it to be, holding to our values, serving one another with dedication and promoting health and wellness for all.
To provide quality care, facilities and supportive services for adults with a developmental disability, traumatic brain injury or mental illness. being enabled by god, we strive to provide an intentionally christian environment and program…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is A Child's Haven Inc and the most unlike its peers is 3GEN Ministries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 65 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 FURMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds 3GEN MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds SWITCH ↗
- Who funds ALL ABOUT GOD MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds DAVIDS TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE'S GIFT ↗
- Who funds ISAIAH 117 HOUSE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Healthy Families Foundation ↗
- Who funds JUDSON COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds CALVARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY SC INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds SERVANTS FOR SIGHT ↗
- Who funds FINAL RUN RESCUE ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds KIND OF THE UPSTATE ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAMPUS OUTREACH COLUMBIA ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY HOUSE INC ↗
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: South Carolina Christian Foundation · Scansource Charitable Foundation · Daniel-Mickel Foundation · United Way of Greenville County Inc · Dabo's All in Team Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · South Carolina Charities Inc · Prisma Health-Upstate · Don Waggoner & Zelma Waggoner Foundation · St Francis Hospital Inc · Charity Ball Board of Greenville · AWT Family 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 Wherry 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.