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· Public charity

Wholespire Inc

To provide communities with proven and sustainable approaches that lead to increased access to healthy choices for all people.

$81k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$12k
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 2024.

Health$203kFood & Nutrition$105kPhilanthropy$75kHuman Services$75kPublic Benefit$40kEducation$18kRecreation & Sports$12kYouth Development$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $64,747, the rows itemized in this filing. The $80,567 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $15,820 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $53k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
$6,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$79k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LAURENS COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT 55$12,000
THE VILLAGE GROUP$6,000
PATHWAYS COMMUNITY CENTER INC$6,000
BEREA MIDDLE SCHOOL$6,000
Individual grant recipient$6,000
ASPIRE 2 INSPIRE INITIATIVE INC$6,000
PARTNERS FOR ACTIVE LIVING$6,000
KNIGHTS HILL HISTORIC PRESERVATION$5,986
CAMPING MINISTRIES OF THE CAROLINAS$5,454
UPPER MIDLANDS RURAL HEALTH$5,307
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 (FY17–24, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%PATHWAYS COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $6k → 8%UPPER PALMETTO YMCA: $35k → 8%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.

11%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$62k · 3 repeat orgs$480k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
27

Total granted

$62k
$421k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+52%

Still filing today

33%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 9% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’20’21’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionPublic Safety & DisasterYouth DevelopmentReligionOther
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

  • PH
    Prisma Health-Midlands
    2× · 2017–2018 · $35k · revenue +12%
  • WB
    WELLNESS BEYOND FIFTY LLC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $15k
  • KH
    KNIGHTS HILL HISTORIC PRESERVATION BOARD INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $12k

Funded once

  • BB
    BLUECROSS BLUESHIELD OF SC FOUNDATI
    one grant, 2021 · $35k
  • HC
    HAMPTON COUNTY GOVERNMENT
    one grant, 2017 · $35k
  • UP
    UPPER PALMETTO YMCA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue +68%
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
Tri-County Community Health Council Inc

Provider of comprehensive, compassionate, high quality primary medical, dental, pharmacy and behavioral health services in southeastern north carolina.

—
2
Smith Medical Clinic Inc

To provide free healthcare services to low-income, uninsured adults in georgetown county, sc. the clinic envisions a healthier community where healthcare services are available to all regardless of their financial capability.

—
3
Palmetto Health Council Inc

Palmetto Health Council, Inc will be the model of excellence for improving the total health status of the communities it serves. All of our employees will provide comprehensive preventative, curative, and life-enhancing services in a…

Health
4
East Carolina Health

To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.

Health
5
University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina Inc

To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.

Health
6
Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence Found ation
Health
7
Southern Healthcare Collaboration Inc

To inspire hope and well being by providing affordable quality healthcare to patients and families through integrated clinical practice.

Health
8
Robeson Health Care Corporation

Providing primary health care and professional counseling services to all indviduals who need it.

Health
9
Mcleod Health

To operate a health care system providing medical excellence to the eastern region of south carolina and the extreme southeastern region of north carolina.

Health
10
Wellstar Mcg Health Inc

Vision: deliver world-class healthcare to every person, every time. mission: to enhance the health and well-being of every person we serve. values: we serve with compassion. we pursue excellence. we honor every voice.

—
11
Pitt County Memorial Hospital Inc

To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.

Health
12
Tandem Health Sc

Tandem health sc is a comprehensive primary healthcare practice dedicated to building a healthy community and improving the health, well-being, and quality of life of each person served.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown Memorial Hospital; the most unlike its peers is Travelers Rest Farmers Market. 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

21 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. 21 of the 39 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
13/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BLUECROSS BLUESHIELD OF SC FOUNDATI: $35,000 · OtherBLUECROSS BLUESHIELD OF SC FOUNDATIHAMPTON COUNTY GOVERNMENT: $34,500 · OtherHAMPTON COUNTY GOVERNMENTTHE FAMILY YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LAURENS INC: $34,500 · OtherTHE FAMILY YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LAURENS INCUNITED WAY OF ANDERSON COUNTY: $34,500 · OtherUNITED WAY OF ANDERSON COUNTYUNITED WAY OF KERSHAW COUNTY: $34,500 · OtherUNITED WAY OF KERSHAW COUNTYJOHNS ISLAND FARMERS MARKET: $23,000 · OtherJOHNS ISLAND FARMERS MARKETWELLNESS BEYOND FIFTY LLC: $15,286 · OtherLAURENS COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT 55: $12,000 · OtherKNIGHTS HILL HISTORIC PRESERVATION BOARD INC: $11,986 · Other+15 more: $96,334 · Other+15 morePrisma Health-Midlands: $34,624 · HealthPrisma Health-MidlandsBARNWELL COUNTY COMMISSION ON ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE: $34,500 · HealthBARNWELL COUNTY COMMISSIO…HEALTH CARE PARTNERS OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC: $16,312 · HealthHEALTH CARE PARTNERS OF S…GEORGETOWN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $11,234 · HealthGEORGETOWN MEMORIAL HOSPI…BEAUFORT-JASPER-HAMPTON COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH SERVICES INC: $8,130 · HealthBEAUFORT-JASPER-HAMPTON C…GOOD SAMARITAN CLINIC: $7,130 · HealthGOOD SAMARITAN CLINICTHE CHARLES LEA CENTER INC: $6,104 · HealthUpper Midlands Rural Health Network: $5,307 · HealthUPPER PALMETTO YMCA INC: $34,500 · Human ServicesPATHWAYS COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesTRAVELERS REST FARMERS MARKET: $23,000 · Food & NutritionPARTNERS FOR ACTIVE LIVING: $6,000 · Public Safety & DisasterUnited Way of Chesterfield County Inc: $6,000 · PhilanthropyThe Village Group: $6,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAMPING MINISTRIES OF THE CAROLINAS: $5,454 · Religion
Other$331,606Health$123,341Human Services$40,500Food & Nutrition$23,000Public Safety & Disaster$6,000Philanthropy$6,000Youth Development$6,000Religion$5,454

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPrisma Health-Midlands: $34,624 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUPPER PALMETTO YMCA INC: $34,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ANDERSON COUNTY: $34,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBARNWELL COUNTY COMMISSION ON ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE: $34,500 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF KERSHAW COUNTY: $34,500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetTRAVELERS REST FARMERS MARKET: $23,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetGEORGETOWN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $11,234 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEAUFORT-JASPER-HAMPTON COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH SERVICES INC: $8,130 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN CLINIC: $7,130 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTHE CHARLES LEA CENTER INC: $6,104 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS FOR ACTIVE LIVING: $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetST JAMES HEALTH AND WELLNESS INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way of Chesterfield County Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetThe Village Group: $6,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPATHWAYS COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSCSDB FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGREENWOOD COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP: $5,824 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCAMPING MINISTRIES OF THE CAROLINAS: $5,454 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetUpper Midlands Rural Health Network: $5,307 over 1y, 13% of budgetGREENVILLE FREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $5,104 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Central Carolina Comm…Duke Energy FoundationChildren's Trust of S…Foundation for the Ca…Sisters of Charity Fo…The Duke EndowmentSpartanburg County Fo…Direct ReliefCharities Aid Foundat…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…
Central Carolina Community FoundationSC20.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Central Carolina Community Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Children's Trust of South Carolina · Foundation for the Carolinas · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · The Duke Endowment · Spartanburg County Foundation · Direct Relief · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Wholespire Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wholespire Inc. 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%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 39 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.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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