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Central Carolina Community Foundation
CENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is a nonprofit community foundation that connects and mobilizes people and resources to strengthen the midlands of south carolina.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k109 grants · $776k
- $10k–50k257 grants · $5.7M
- $50k–250k102 grants · $8.7M
- $250k+20 grants · $11M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW MORNING FOUNDATION | $1,476,261 |
| TRENHOLM ROAD UNITED METHODIST | $1,372,094 |
| NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST | $1,148,402 |
| KOGER CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $1,144,436 |
| FEEDING THE CAROLINAS | $773,833 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY SOUTH CAROLINA | $766,500 |
| I LIKE GIVING | $522,000 |
| CAROLINA CARES | $458,167 |
| HEATHWOOD HALL EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $413,000 |
| SHANDON BAPTIST CHURCH | $399,500 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS | $327,501 |
| MOUNTAINEER FOOD BANK | $300,000 |
| E4E RELIEF LLC | $300,000 |
| SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF | $286,500 |
| HOME WORKS OF AMERICA INC | $282,335 |
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 (FY17–25, $10.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +25% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
648 repeat relationships — 387 still active in FY2025, 261 since wound down; 89 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.1M 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
- CUCOKER UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $3.8M · revenue +23%
- TCThe Camp Cole Foundation Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +65% · 43% of their budget
- CLCONGAREE LAND TRUST9× · 2017–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +27% · 79% of their budget
Funded once
- FCFLORENCE COUNTYone grant, 2023 · $650k
- CGCamp Griergraduatedone grant, 2021 · $350k · revenue +187%
- OSOPEN SPACE INSTITUTE LAND TRUST INCone grant, 2024 · $244k · revenue 0%
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.
Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.
Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse
Promoting and protecting the free private and competitive enterprise system through research and education.
To unify christians in south carolina by connecting commerce and community to positively impact our culture for christ.
Convene and connect diverse stakeholders to align and catalyze efforts to improve health and well-being for communities across South Carolina.
Our mission is to foster economic development in underserved communities by providing capital, business services, and policy research to support small businesses.
Inspiring philanthropy and strengthening our region through innovative community initiatives and quality services to donors and constituents.
Our mission is to facilitate the investment of capital in south carolina in order to improve the quality of life for all her citizens by providing responsible and affordable financial products and services that are a major catalyst for…
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,…
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
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
To develop, maintain, and promote the game of tennis.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of the Coastal Empire and the most unlike its peers is Elkins Otters Swim. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
895 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. 895 of the 1,161 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 COLUMBIA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds University of South Carolina Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds NEW MORNING ↗
- Who funds COKER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
- Who funds The Camp Cole Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds TEACH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONGAREE LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds KATIE AND IRWIN KAHN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CROSSOVER COMMUNICATIONS INTL ↗
- Who funds CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Heathwood Hall Episcopal School ↗
- Who funds HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Feeding the Carolinas ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds WOMENS RIGHTS AND EMPOWERMENT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds HOME WORKS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds Oliver Gospel Mission ↗
- Who funds Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds REAL CHAMPIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity South Carolina ↗
- Who funds Homeless No More Inc ↗
- Who funds NURTURING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE HOME ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA GOVERNORS SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE & MATHEMATICS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Hartsville ↗
- Who funds PHILLIPS-AMICK FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH ↗
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: Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · Lipscomb Family Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · United Way of the Midlands · Michael J Mungo Foundation · Prisma Health · South Carolina Physicians Care Charity Inc · Frances P Bunnelle Foundation Coastal Community Foundation of Sc · United Way Association of South Carolina Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · First Citizens Foundation Inc Co First · United Way of Greenville County 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 Central Carolina Community Foundation 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.
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.