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Yeargin Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
89% of Yeargin Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Community Foundation Of Greenville Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 15 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Yeargin Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 20 organizations, $51k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k29 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $22k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $21,500 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH - GREENVILLE | $6,900 |
| SEARCH MINISTRIES | $4,000 |
| GREENVILLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS | $2,000 |
| RESOURCING CHRISTIAN EDUCATION INTERNATIONAL | $1,500 |
| PROJECT HOST | $1,100 |
| PEACE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $1,000 |
| SHRINER'S HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN - GREENVILLE | $1,000 |
| ISAIAH 117 HOUSE | $1,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS - GREENVILLE | $1,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $1,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE | $1,000 |
| FAVOR GREENVILLE | $1,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER GREENVILLE | $1,000 |
| A CHILD'S HAVEN | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of Yeargin Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +40% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2023, 21 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- MOMEALS ON WHEELS OF GREENVILLE INC4× · 2018–2024 · $22k · revenue +400%
- PCPEACE CENTER FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $6k · revenue +65%
- NCNEIGHBORHOOD CANCER CONNECTION4× · 2017–2022 · $5k · revenue +135%
Funded once
- CUCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +82%
- HCHighlands Cashiers Health Foundation Incone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue -38%
- NLNO LONGER BOUND INCone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +25%
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.
Conway hospital community services provides outpatient health care services to horry county and the surrounding community in conjunction with conway hospital, inc., a non-profit acute care hospital system.
Providing standards, guidelines, and procedures to those members engaged in practice of the real estate profession
Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.
The veritas catholic information center (vcic) will proclaim the beauty, truth and fullness of the catholic faith in order to fulfill christ's great commission to "go and make disciples of all nations. organized and managed by lay persons…
To provide high-quality, comprehensive, community-sensitive health care utilizing christ-oriented principles. rooted in our faith-driven values, sichc serves as a pillar for accessible, comprehensive care of the whole person and a catalyst…
Our mission is to create thriving communities by helping nonprofits succeed. our work revolves around four primary areas of focus.1. we are a hub for social innovation 2. we are a capacity accelerator for organizations and their people3.…
Greenwood community theatre aspires to enrich the community by creating and fostering professionalism and diversity in all its theatrical endeavors and experiences.
Goodwill industries of central north carolina, inc.'s mission is improving lives and enriching communities through the power of work
The purpose of the corporation is to engage in charitable efforts and to support granville health system in providing healthcare and related services to the citizens and residents of granville county and the surrounding community.
To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greenville County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Favor 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 42 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% 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 13% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 73 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF GREENVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Resourcing Christian Education International ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS ↗
- Who funds A Child's Haven Inc ↗
- Who funds PEACE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD CANCER CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds FACES AND VOICES OF RECOVERY(FAVOR) UPSTATE SC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOST INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds PENDLETON PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds CHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE FREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NO LONGER BOUND INC ↗
- Who funds ISAIAH 117 HOUSE ↗
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: Daniel-Mickel Foundation · Scsymmes Foundation · John I Smith Charities Inc · The Jolley Foundation · Charles Timmons Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Dabo's All in Team Foundation · Jean T and Heyward G Pelham Foundation · Bill and Connie Timmons Foundation · Charity Ball Board of Greenville · Hayne Hipp Foundation · Spinks 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 Yeargin 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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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