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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% 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$847kHealth$507kReligion$84kYouth Development$82kHousing & Shelter$65kCrime & Legal$36kRecreation & Sports$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 14 grants below total $211,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $333,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $122,000 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 · $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
Mental Illness Recovery Cente$20,000
Pathways to Healing$20,000
Epworth Childrens Home$17,000
Carolina Therapeutic Riding$17,000
Homeless No More$12,000
The Ezekiel Center Inc$10,000
The Courage Center$10,000
Youth Corps$10,000
Christian Assistance Bridge$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
McGregor Presbyterian Church$6,000
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 (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 its 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
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
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

  • 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%
  • SO
    SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTH CAROLINAgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +47%
  • FP
    FAMILY PRESERVATION COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -35%
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
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.

—
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mental Illness Recovery Center Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

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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 first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTH CAROLINA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILY PRESERVATION COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPRISMA HEALTH MIDLANDS FOUNDATION F/K/A PALMETTO HEALTH FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMISSION LEXINGTON: $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

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

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 Carolina Childrens Home funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carolina Childrens Home. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's 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
    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.

    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 24 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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