· Public charity
Berkeley Electric Cooperative Trust
The mission of berkeley electric trust is the disbursement of operation round-up funds for charitable purposes in berkeley, charleston and dorchester counties.
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.
The 2 grants below total $19,073 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $531,229 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $512,156 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 · $9k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BETHEL AME CHURCH | $10,000 |
| MONCKS CORNER FIRE DEPT | $9,073 |
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 (FY21–21, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +11% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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
- IGIndividual grant recipient4× · 2017–2020 · $227k
- LVLEBANON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC2× · 2021–2022 · $39k · revenue +11%
- OOTHER2× · 2021–2022 · $36k
Funded once
- AAAFRICAN AMERICAN SETTLEMENT COMMone grant, 2022 · $25k
- LFLandmarks for Families Incone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +11%
- OLOUR LADY OF MERCY COMMUNITY OUTREACH SERVICESone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -30%
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.
Construct and renovate homes for veterans first responders and disadvantaged women in the southeastern united states
Collleton Fuller Center work in partenrship with God and People everywhere from all walks of life to develope decent communities. We will establish collaborate efforts with any and all agencies and individuals who can play a role in…
Preserve and promote history of Abbeville County, SC
Repair homes of those incapable of doing so themselves to provide them with warm, safe, and dry shelter.
Assist low income citizens of sumter county with affordable housing. also, youth building training.
Operation home's mission is to help people remain in their homes by increasing safety and accessibility by facilitating critical home repairs in charleston, dorchester, and berkeley counties in the south carolina lowcountry.
To provide affordable housing for low-income families in darlington county, sc
Firefighting/Protection
Fire protection services
To provide fire department services for the community of wise, nc and surrounding areas
Provide fire and rescue services to the citizens of our fire district
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Our Lady of Mercy Community Outreach Services and the most unlike its peers is Landmarks for Families Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 16 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 LEBANON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN AMERICAN SETTLEMENT COMM ↗
- Who funds Landmarks for Families Inc ↗
- Who funds OUR LADY OF MERCY COMMUNITY OUTREACH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds HOPE REPAIR ↗
- Who funds CAMP RISE ABOVE INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF BERKELEY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds WHITESVILLE RURAL FIRE DEPARTMENT DBA CENTRAL BERKELEY FIRE & EMS ↗
- Who funds SUMPTER FREE HEALTH CLINIC ↗
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 · Central Carolina Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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 Berkeley Electric Cooperative Trust 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.
- Lebanon Volunteer Fire Department Inc — 1% 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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