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Associated Charities of Kershaw County

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$36k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it funds
0186% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$52kArts & Culture$43kPhilanthropy$39kEducation$18kEnvironment$18kYouth Development$10kInternational$6kCrime & Legal$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,234
Median grant
2
States reached
$899k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF KERSHAW COUNTY$7,000
ARTS CENTER OF KERSHAW COUNTY$6,000
UNITED WAY AMERICORPS$5,000
COMMUNITY MEDICAL CLINIC$5,000
VARIOUS LESS THAN 500$3,234
TRUTH IN NATURE$2,500
ROTARY CLUB OF CAMDEN$2,100
BEYOND THE COURT LLC$2,100
Individual grant recipient$2,000
JR LEADERSHIP OF KC$1,000
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 (FY18–20, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CAMDEN ROTARY CLUB: $2k → 12%CAMDEN ROTARY CLUB: $1k → 12%CAMDEN ROTARY CLUB: $1k → 12%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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$203k · 17 repeat orgs$17k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
10

Total granted

$203k
$12k

Still filing today

24%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesOther
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

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF KERSHAW COUNTY
    7× · 2017–2025 · $33k · revenue +158%
  • AC
    ARTS CENTER OF KERSHAW COUNTY INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $26k · revenue +134%
  • CR
    CAMDEN ROTARY CLUB
    4× · 2018–2025 · $6k · revenue +234%

Funded once

  • KC
    KERHAW COUNTY MUSIC ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
  • TF
    THE FRIENDS OF ZEMP STADIUM
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
  • JT
    JACKSON TEEN CENTER
    one grant, 2019 · $2k
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
04the grantee network

5 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. 5 of the 28 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
4/5
Grantees still filing
4/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY MEDICAL CLINIC: $50,500 · OtherCOMMUNITY MEDICAL CLINICUNITED WAY OF KERSHAW COUNTY: $33,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF KERSHAW COUNTYVARIOUS LESS THAN 500: $19,159 · OtherVARIOUS LESS THAN 500TRUTH IN NATURE: $17,500 · OtherTRUTH IN NATUREFINE ARTS CENTER: $12,500 · OtherFINE ARTS CENTERKERSHAW COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $12,424 · OtherKERSHAW COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICTJR LEADERSHIP OF KC: $8,000 · Other+18 more: $33,622 · Other+18 moreARTS CENTER OF KERSHAW COUNTY INC: $26,000 · Arts & CultureARTS CENTER O…CAMDEN ROTARY CLUB: $6,100 · Human ServicesSOUTH CAROLINA DIABETES ASSOCIATION: $795 · Health
Other$186,705Arts & Culture$26,000Human Services$6,100Health$795

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF KERSHAW COUNTY: $33,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetARTS CENTER OF KERSHAW COUNTY INC: $26,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetCAMDEN ROTARY CLUB: $6,100 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetVONNIE HOLLIDAY FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 2y, 56% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA DIABETES ASSOCIATION: $795 over 2y, 43% 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.

  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF KERSHAW COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds ARTS CENTER OF KERSHAW COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds CAMDEN ROTARY CLUB ↗
  • Who funds VONNIE HOLLIDAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA DIABETES ASSOCIATION ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Associated Charities of Kershaw County funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Associated Charities of Kershaw County. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Associated Charities of Kershaw County?

    Find your warmest path to Associated Charities of Kershaw County 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 28 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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