· Private foundation
Atlantic Services of Charleston Cha
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k11 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST | $25,000 |
| ST PHILIPS CHURCH | $2,000 |
| CHARLESTON DAY SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| POMPION HILL CHAPEL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| ST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| SWEET BRIAR COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| HISTORIC CHARLESTON FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| CALVARY EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $1,000 |
| MIDDLETON PLACE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| COASTAL CONSERVATION LEAGUE | $1,000 |
| POST & COURIER INVESTIGATIVE FUND | $1,000 |
| EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL | $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%. 95% 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.
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 +17% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 1 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, 97% 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
- LLLOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST INC8× · 2017–2025 · $79k · revenue +125%
- CDCHARLESTON DAY SCHOOLINC9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +66%
- TPThe Preservation Society of Charleston Inc5× · 2017–2021 · $21k · revenue +161%
Funded once
- CCCoastal Crisis Chaplaincyone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue -34%
- SJST JOHN'S PARISHone grant, 2019 · $1k
- CBCOX BUSINESS SCHOOL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $1k
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.
History is not the past; it is the story we tell about the past. every person in albemarle county and the city of charlottesville has a unique and powerful story to tell. through collecting, preserving, and interpreting the history of our…
To protect and preserve buildings of architectural and historial significance in South Carolina.
(See Schedule O)
To promote interest in, knowledge of, and appreciation for north carolina history and culture through historical preservation, library service, and perpetuation of state literary and cultural heritage.
The American College of the Building Arts educates and trains artisans in the traditional building arts to foster exceptional craftsmanship and encourage the preservation, enrichment, and understanding of the world's architectural heritage…
To educate Charleston area residents and visitors about the natural and cultural history of the South Carolina Lowcountry through collections, exhibitions, preservation, conservation, research and related programming.
To preserve, promote and serve as an advocate for virginia's irreplaceable historic places for cultural, economic and educational benefits for everyone.
The Mission of the College of Charleston Foundation is to promote programs of education, research, student development, and faculty development for the exclusive benefit of the College of Charleston.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lowcountry Land Trust Inc and the most unlike its peers is Post and Courier Foundation. 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 44 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 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.
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 47 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 LOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON DAY SCHOOLINC ↗
- Who funds The Preservation Society of Charleston Inc ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA ENVIRONMENTAL LAW PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL IN VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds Middleton Place Foundation ↗
- Who funds POMPION HILL CHAPEL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC CHARLESTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds Huguenot Society of South Carolina ↗
- Who funds ANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ARM IN ARM ↗
- Who funds SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Coastal Crisis Chaplaincy ↗
- Who funds The Charleston Parks Conservancy ↗
- Who funds BEAUFORT COUNTY OPEN LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds CONFEDERATE HOME AND COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds POST AND COURIER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Charleston Horticultural Society ↗
- Who funds Roper St Francis Foundation ↗
- Who funds MAGNOLIA CEMETERY TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI ↗
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: Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · The Joanna Foundation · Guffey Family Foundation · Post and Courier Foundation · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · John M Rivers Jr Foundation · John Winthrop Charitable Trust · Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Mills Bee Lane Memorial Foundation · The Stony Point Foundation · Henry M Blackmer Foundation Inc
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 Atlantic Services of Charleston Cha 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.
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