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Beaufort Charities Inc

The beaufort charities is a philanthropic organization focused on generating funds to be specifically used for local need organizations which possess a worthy objective and program of service in northern beaufort county.

$64k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182025.

Philanthropy$50kMembership Benefit$20kInternational$18kHousing & Shelter$12kYouth Development$12kHuman Services$7kRecreation & Sports$5kArts & Culture$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 2 grants below total $17,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $63,645 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $46,145 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$130k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BEAUFORT CHAPTER OF SCJGA$10,000
OPERATION PATRIOTS FOB INC$7,500
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 33% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CAPA: $13k → 10%DRAGON BOAT: $1k → 12%BEAUFORT CHAPTER OF SCJGA: $10k → 16%OPERATION PATRIOTS FOB INC: $8k → 17%BARNWELL HS ROTC: $1k → 21%CAPA BEAUFORT: $8k → 10%BOY SCOUTS: $5k → 12%BEAUFORT CHAPTER OF SCJGA: $10k → 16%DAV: $8k → 10%BOY SCOUTS: $4k → 12%AMVETS POST #70: $6k → 10%FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $4k → 12%CAPA BEAUFORT: $5k → 10%DAV: $2k → 12%DAV: $3k → 10%PORT ROYAL HISTORIC FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%AMVETS POST #70: $3k → 10%AMI KIDS: $1k → 10%ALZHEIMERS SUPPORT GROUP: $5k → 10%GOOD NEIGHBOR CLINIC: $2k → 10%HOPEFUL HORIZONS: $2k → 10%ALZHEIMERS SUPPORT GROUP: $2k → 10%YOUNG LIFE: $1k → 10%BEAUFORT MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $1k → 10%LADY'S ISLAND EAGLES: $1k → 10%PAT CONROY LITERARY CENTER: $1k → 10%LENDING ROOM: $1k → 10%ANGEL TREE - SALVATION ARMY: $350 → 10%PORT ROYAL SOUND FOUNDATION: $2k → 10%BEAUFORT ACADEMY: $500 → 10%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $11k → 10%ABLE FOUNDATION: $6k → 10%DEMPSEY FARMS: $2k → 10%ABLE FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 100% of Beaufort Charities Inc’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. Read by recipient address, 97% of the giving stays in SC; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Beaufort Charities Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$108k · 9 repeat orgs$46k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 1 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

9
21

Total granted

$108k
$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-14%
+5%

Still filing today

11%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’22’23’24’25
Youth DevelopmentEducationHousing & ShelterEnvironmentReligionHealthOther

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

  • BC
    BEAUFORT CHAPTER OF SCJGA
    2× · 2024–2025 · $20k
  • C
    CAPA
    2× · 2018–2024 · $18k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2022–2023 · $13k

Funded once

  • F
    FCA
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • FO
    FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETESgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue +32%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
South Carolina Aquarium

Our mission is to inspire conservation of the natural world by exhibiting and caring for animals, by excelling in education and research, and by providing an exceptional visitor experience.

Animals
2
Pantego Christian Academy Inc

Pantego Christian Academy exists to glorify God by partnering with Christian parents to provide a Christ centered education preparing students for college and the passionate pursuit of God's plan for their lives.

Education
3
Greenville Classical Academy

Provide a distinctly Christ-centered, biblical and classical education producing students who glorify God in their thoughts, words and deeds.

Education
4
Conway Hospital Foundation Inc

The conway hospital foundation is a not-for-profit corporation established in 1988 as a charitable organization to provide support to conway hospital in its effort to fullfill its mission and goals. (see schedule o) description of…

Health
5
Portsmouth Christian Academy

Portsmouth christian academy exists to honor god joyfully by inspiring students to maximize their god-given potential.

6
The Bladen County Hospital Foundation

The mission of the bladen county hospital foundation is to serve the community by building awareness and philanthropic support for bladen county hospital as it provides compassionate, quality healthcare for all its patients.

7
Carolina College of Biblical Studies

Carolina college of biblical studies exists to disciple christ-followers, through biblical higher education, for a lifetime of effective servant leadership.

Education
8
Oconee Christian Academy

Oconee Christian Academy exists to glorify God by nurturing students and equipping them to fulfill God's unique purpose for their lives.

Education
9
Life House Church

Christian teaching and the spreading of the gospel throughout the beaufort south carolina area.

Religion
10
Foundation for the Carolinas

Inspiring philanthropy and strengthening our region through innovative community initiatives and quality services to donors and constituents.

Philanthropy
11
Sc Chamber of Commerce

Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.

12
Youth Golf Foundation of the Carolinas

To impact the lives of young people of all backgrounds by providing learning facilities and educational programs that promote character development and life enhancing values through the game of golf.

Recreation & Sports

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is Big Green Booster Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 31 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BEAUFORT CHAPTER OF SCJGA — $20,000 · OtherBEAUFORT CHAPTER OF SCJGACAPA — $18,354 · OtherCAPAIndividual grant recipient — $12,995 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDAV — $12,575 · OtherDAVBOY SCOUTS — $9,182 · OtherBOY SCOUTSAMVETS POST #70 — $8,250 · OtherAMVETS POST #70Individual grant recipient — $7,200 · OtherIndividual grant recipientABLE FOUNDATION — $6,900 · OtherABLE FOUNDATIONFCA — $5,450 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · Other+13 more — $17,800 · Other+13 moreFULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF MCCORMICK SC INC — $12,100 · Housing & ShelterOPERATION PATRIOTS FOB INC — $7,500 · PhilanthropyFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $3,500 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFE — $1,410 · Youth DevelopmentPORT ROYAL SOUND FOUNDATION — $2,250 · EnvironmentHOPEFUL HORIZONS — $2,000 · ReligionBig Green Booster Club — $800 · EducationTHE BEAUFORT ACADEMY INC — $500 · Education
Other$123,706Housing & Shelter$12,100Philanthropy$7,500Youth Development$4,910Environment$2,250Religion$2,000Education$1,300

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF MCCORMICK SC INC — $12,100 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetOPERATION PATRIOTS FOB INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPORT ROYAL SOUND FOUNDATION — $2,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPEFUL HORIZONS — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG LIFE — $1,410 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEAUFORT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PAT CONROY LITERARY CENTER INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBig Green Booster Club — $800 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BEAUFORT ACADEMY INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 FULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF MCCORMICK SC INC
  • Who funds OPERATION PATRIOTS FOB INC
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES
  • Who funds PORT ROYAL SOUND FOUNDATION
  • Who funds HOPEFUL HORIZONS
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE
  • Who funds BEAUFORT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE PAT CONROY LITERARY CENTER INC
  • Who funds Big Green Booster Club
  • Who funds THE BEAUFORT ACADEMY 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.

Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina IncSC15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Community Foundation of the Lowcountry · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Beaufort Charities Inc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Beaufort Charities Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Beaufort Charities Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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