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Berkeley Electric Cooperative Trust at a glance

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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.

$531k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0171% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$75kPublic Safety & Disaster$48kHousing & Shelter$35kReligion$35kRecreation & Sports$25kScience & Tech$12kAnimals$10kHealth$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $19,073, the rows itemized in this filing. The $531,229 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $512,156 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$305k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BETHEL AME CHURCH$10,000
MONCKS CORNER FIRE DEPT$9,073
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%CAROLINA YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $25k → 12%HOPE REPAIR: $25k → 9%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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$301k · 3 repeat orgs$216k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
11

Total granted

$301k
$197k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
0%

Still filing today

33%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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
Human ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterRecreation & SportsAnimalsHealthOther
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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    4× · 2017–2020 · $227k
  • LV
    LEBANON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $39k · revenue +11%
  • O
    OTHER
    2× · 2021–2022 · $36k

Funded once

  • LF
    Landmarks for Families Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +11%
  • CC
    CANAAN CHRISTIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • OL
    OUR LADY OF MERCY COMMUNITY OUTREACH SERVICES
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -30%
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

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Hope for Heroes

Construct and renovate homes for veterans first responders and disadvantaged women in the southeastern united states

Housing & Shelter
2
Colleton County Fuller Center for Housing Inc

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…

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3
Abbeville County Historical Society Inc

Preserve and promote history of Abbeville County, SC

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4
Rebuilding Together Charleston Inc

Repair homes of those incapable of doing so themselves to provide them with warm, safe, and dry shelter.

Human Services
5
Sumter County Community Development Corporation

Assist low income citizens of sumter county with affordable housing. also, youth building training.

Community Improvement
6
Operation Home Inc

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.

Human Services
7
Darlington County Habitat for Humanity Inc

To provide affordable housing for low-income families in darlington county, sc

Housing & Shelter
8
Finally Home Rescue
Animals
9
Bunyan Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Firefighting/Protection

Public Safety & Disaster
10
Black Creek Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Fire protection services

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11
Hawtree Volunteer Fire Department Inc

To provide fire department services for the community of wise, nc and surrounding areas

Public Safety & Disaster
12
Littleton Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Provide fire and rescue services to the citizens of our fire district

Public Safety & Disaster
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Our Lady of Mercy Community Outreach Services; 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.
04the grantee network

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
4/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $226,818 · OtherIndividual grant recipientOTHER: $35,500 · OtherOTHERCANAAN CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $25,000 · OtherCANAAN CHRISTIAN CHURCHOUR LADY OF MERCY COMMUNITY OUTREACH SERVICES: $25,000 · OtherOUR LADY OF MERCY COMMUNITY OUTREACH SERVICESSAFE INDUSTRIES: $11,908 · Other+3 more: $27,000 · Other+3 moreLandmarks for Families Inc: $25,000 · Human ServicesLandmarks for Fa…AFRICAN AMERICAN SETTLEMENT COMM: $25,000 · Human ServicesAFRICAN AMERICAN…HOPE REPAIR: $25,000 · Human ServicesHOPE REPAIRLEBANON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $39,114 · Public Safety & DisasterLEBANON VO…WHITESVILLE RURAL FIRE DEPARTMENT DBA CENTRAL BERKELEY FIRE & EMS: $9,073 · Public Safety & DisasterWHITESVILL…CAMP RISE ABOVE INC: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsWILDLIFE ACTION INC: $10,000 · AnimalsSUMPTER FREE HEALTH CLINIC: $8,000 · Health
Other$351,226Human Services$75,000Public Safety & Disaster$48,187Recreation & Sports$25,000Animals$10,000Health$8,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLEBANON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $39,114 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetLandmarks for Families Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetOUR LADY OF MERCY COMMUNITY OUTREACH SERVICES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCAMP RISE ABOVE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetWILDLIFE ACTION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF BERKELEY COUNTY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWHITESVILLE RURAL FIRE DEPARTMENT DBA CENTRAL BERKELEY FIRE & EMS: $9,073 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Coastal Community Fou…Central Carolina Comm…The Bank of America C…Amazonsmile Foundation
Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina IncSC17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Central Carolina Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Berkeley Electric Cooperative Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Berkeley Electric Cooperative Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Lebanon Volunteer Fire Department Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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 Berkeley Electric Cooperative Trust?

Find your warmest path to Berkeley Electric Cooperative Trust 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 16 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 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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