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Carolina Childrens Home

The mission of Carolina Children's Home is to meet the under-served mental and physical health needs of children, young adults, and their families

$333k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Human Services$847kHealth$507kReligion$84kYouth Development$82kHousing & Shelter$65kCrime & Legal$36kRecreation & Sports$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 14 grants below total $211,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $333,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $122,000 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 · $6k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $205k
$17,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Palmetto Place Childrens She$25,000
Growing Home Southeast$22,000
Healthy Learners$22,000
Pathways to Healing$20,000
Mental Illness Recovery Cente$20,000
Carolina Therapeutic Riding$17,000
Epworth Childrens Home$17,000
Homeless No More$12,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Youth Corps$10,000
Christian Assistance Bridge$10,000
The Ezekiel Center Inc$10,000
The Courage Center$10,000
McGregor Presbyterian Church$6,000
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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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $755k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%Epworth Childrens Home: $300k → 16%Epworth Childrens Home: $17k → 16%Epworth Childrens Home: $15k → 16%Growing Home Southeast: $25k → 11%Growing Home Southeast: $22k → 11%Growing Home Southeast: $22k → 11%Growing Home Southeast: $22k → 11%Growing Home Southeast: $20k → 11%Growing Home Southeast: $20k → 11%Growing Home Southeast: $15k → 11%Christian Assistance Bridge: $10k → 16%Growing Home Southeast: $10k → 11%Christian Assistance Bridge: $10k → 16%Christian Assistance Bridge: $9k → 16%Camp Cole Therapeutic Riding: $12k → 16%Healthy Learners: $22k → 16%Healthy Learners: $22k → 16%Healthy Learners: $22k → 16%Mission Lexington: $6k → 11%Healthy Learners: $15k → 16%Healthy Learners: $15k → 16%Healthy Learners: $13k → 16%Family Preservation Community: $10k → 16%Healthy Learners: $10k → 16%The Nurturing Center: $25k → 16%The Nurturing Center: $22k → 16%The Nurturing Center: $20k → 16%The Nuturing Center: $15k → 16%The Nuturing Center: $10k → 16%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.

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.6M · 16 repeat orgs$74k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
6

Total granted

$1.6M
$54k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
0%

Still filing today

94%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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 ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterAnimalsOther

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

  • EC
    EPWORTH CHILDREN'S HOME
    3× · 2017–2025 · $332k · revenue +177%
  • MI
    Mental Illness Recovery Center Inc
    8× · 2018–2025 · $150k · revenue +20%
  • HL
    HEALTHY LEARNERS
    7× · 2019–2025 · $119k · revenue +93%

Funded once

  • TC
    The Camp Cole Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $12k · revenue -31%
  • PH
    PRISMA HEALTH MIDLANDS FOUNDATION F/K/A PALMETTO HEALTH FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +50%
  • FP
    FAMILY PRESERVATION COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -35%

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
Carolina Childrens Home

The mission of Carolina Children's Home is to meet the under-served mental and physical health needs of children, young adults, and their families

Human Services
2
South Carolina Network of Children's Advocacy Centers

Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse

Youth Development
3
Carolina Therapeutic Services Community Development Inc

CTS Community Development is a behavioral health provider committed to helping individuals from underserved communities to live safe, productive, and meaningful lives

Human Services
4
Carolina Community Care Inc

The mission of hospice & community care is to give hope, comfort, and compassion to those that need it most. hospice & community care is a nonprofit healthcare organization providing hospice and palliative care to residents of york,…

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5
Southern Christian Services for Children and Youth Inc

To provide residential care for children and youth, therapeutic programs, adoption and foster care, independent living skills and transitional living services.

Human Services
6
Carolina Family Connections

Recruit and train and license foster parents to receive foster children from county government agencies.

Human Services
7
Shalom House Ministries Inc

Shalom House Ministries Inc operates a treatment center for women struggling with drug and alcohol addition. It also offers transitional dwelling for women who need a safe place after treatment.

Health
8
Caramore Community

To empower adults living with severe and persistent mental illness in north carolina with the tools to lead meaningful and independent lives.

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9
Waccamaw Youth Center Inc

The waccamaw youth center is committed to providing the at-risk youth of south carolina with a safe and comforting place to call home.

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10
Palmetto Aids Life Support Services Inc

Provide services and educate people relating to aids.

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11
Compass of Carolina Inc

Our mission is to provide compassionate direction to individuals and families in need through counseling, education and financial benefits management.

Education
12
Hope House of South Central Wisconsin Inc

The mission of hope house is to prevent abuse and provide support to victims of domestic and sexual violence. our service area includes sauk, columbia, juneau, marquette, and adams counties.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mental Illness Recovery Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ezekiel Ministries Inc. 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 37 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number27%0%<5yr16%20%5–10yr17%15%10–20yr13%10%20–35yr12%25%35–55yr15%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value27%0%<5yr16%8%5–10yr17%8%10–20yr13%13%20–35yr12%20%35–55yr15%52%55yr+

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/23
the rest of the field
17%
655/3,949

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.

04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 24 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
11/21
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

EPWORTH CHILDREN'S HOME — $332,430 · Human ServicesEPWORTH CHILDREN'S HOMEGROWING HOME SOUTHEAST INC — $156,000 · Human ServicesGROWING HOME SOUTHEAST INCHEALTHY LEARNERS — $118,500 · Human ServicesHEALTHY LEARNERSNURTURING CENTER INC — $92,000 · Human ServicesNURTURING CENTER INCCHRISTIAN ASSISTANCE BRIDGE — $28,500 · Human Services+3 more — $27,500 · Human ServicesPALMETTO PLACE CHILDREN AND YOUTH SERVICES — $178,000 · OtherPALMETTO PLACE CHILDREN AND YOUT…Mental Illness Recovery Center Inc — $150,000 · OtherMental Illness Recovery Center I…CIRCLES LEXINGTON COUNTY INC — $57,750 · OtherCIRCLES LEXINGTON COUNTY INCALSTON WILKES SOCIETY — $35,500 · OtherALSTON WILKES SOCIETYMCGREGOR PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $19,000 · Other+3 more — $26,000 · Other+3 morePATHWAYS TO HEALING — $86,000 · HealthTHE COURAGE CENTER — $10,000 · HealthPRISMA HEALTH MIDLANDS FOUNDATION F/K/A PALMETTO HEALTH FOUNDATION — $10,000 · HealthEZEKIEL MINISTRIES INC — $65,000 · EducationUniversity of South Carolina Educational Foundation — $30,000 · EducationYouth Corps — $82,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAROLINA THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC — $71,000 · AnimalsHomeless No More Inc — $64,500 · Housing & Shelter
Human Services$754,930Other$466,250Health$106,000Education$95,000Youth Development$82,000Animals$71,000Housing & Shelter$64,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEPWORTH CHILDREN'S HOME — $332,430 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetPALMETTO PLACE CHILDREN AND YOUTH SERVICES — $178,000 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetGROWING HOME SOUTHEAST INC — $156,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetMental Illness Recovery Center Inc — $150,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetHEALTHY LEARNERS — $118,500 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetNURTURING CENTER INC — $92,000 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetPATHWAYS TO HEALING — $86,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetYouth Corps — $82,000 over 8y, 7.6% of budgetCAROLINA THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC — $71,000 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetEZEKIEL MINISTRIES INC — $65,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetHomeless No More Inc — $64,500 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetCIRCLES LEXINGTON COUNTY INC — $57,750 over 5y, 63% of budgetALSTON WILKES SOCIETY — $35,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of South Carolina Educational Foundation — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN ASSISTANCE BRIDGE — $28,500 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetThe Camp Cole Foundation Inc — $11,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPRISMA HEALTH MIDLANDS FOUNDATION F/K/A PALMETTO HEALTH FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY PRESERVATION COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTH CAROLINA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMISSION LEXINGTON — $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

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.

Central Carolina Comm…Lipscomb Family Found…Dominion Energy Chari…Rogersslater Foundati…United Way of the Mid…The Parrish Family Fo…The Nord Family Found…The Leon Levine Found…Junior League of Colu…Dorothy D Smith Chari…Vital Care Charitable…South Carolina Physic…
Central Carolina Community FoundationSC39.4× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Central Carolina Community Foundation · Lipscomb Family Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Rogersslater Foundation Inc · United Way of the Midlands · The Parrish Family Foundation · The Nord Family Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · Junior League of Columbia Inc · Dorothy D Smith Charitable Foundation · Vital Care Charitable Foundation Inc · South Carolina Physicians Care Charity 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 Carolina Childrens Home 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    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 24 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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