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Chapin Foundation of Myrtle Beach Sc

The Chapin Foundation of Myrtle Beach SC provides funds to support various organizations in Myrtle Beach SC and limited surrounding areas.

$1.3M
Granted FY2020
14
Grants FY2020
1
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 64% of CHAPIN FOUNDATION OF MYRTLE BEACH SC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2020 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 14 grants below total $1,257,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,314,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $56,500 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 · FY2020

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $130k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $120k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
First Presbyterian Church$1,000,000
YMCA$70,000
Coastal Community Foundation$50,000
New Directions$25,000
St John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church$20,000
American Red Cross$15,000
Center for Counseling Wellness$10,000
Chabad Lubavitch of Myrtle Beach$10,000
Friendship Medical Clinic$10,000
Grand Strand Miracle League$10,000
Helping Hand$10,000
Freedom Readers$10,000
Palmetto Literacy Council$10,000
Trinity Church$7,500
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–20, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%COASTLINE WOMEN'S CENTER: $50k → 13%YMCA: $446k → 13%YMCA: $175k → 13%YMCA: $70k → 13%NEW DIRECTIONS: $100k → 13%COASTAL SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER: $70k → 13%COASTAL RECOVERY CENTER: $70k → 13%HELPING HAND: $55k → 13%CHILDREN'S RECOVERY CENTER: $35k → 13%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $26k → 13%American Red Cross: $15k → 13%Helping Hand: $10k → 13%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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.9M · 16 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

16 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2020, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
28

Total granted

$3.9M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+53%

Still filing today

44%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’20
Human ServicesEducationReligionYouth DevelopmentHealthArts & CultureOther

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

  • YO
    YMCA OF COASTAL CAROLINA
    3× · 2017–2020 · $691k · revenue +125%
  • ND
    NEW DIRECTIONS OF HORRY COUNTY INC
    2× · 2018–2020 · $125k · revenue +18%
  • CB
    CHILDRENS BIBLE STORY BOOKS IN EVERY HOME
    2× · 2017–2018 · $95k · revenue +391%

Funded once

  • FU
    FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2017 · $411k
  • HT
    HORRY-GEORGETOWN TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $197k · revenue +63%
  • SM
    SOUTHEASTERN MINORITY JOB FAIR
    one grant, 2018 · $130k · revenue -38%

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 Teen Center

Carolina Teen Center is a prevention and education year-round after-school and summer program that services youth and their families. Literacy programs, tutoring, life skills, mentoring, positive peer groups, conflict resolution skills,…

Health
2
Carolina Coastal Community Hurricane Relief Fund

Organization that seeks to provide relief to families impacted by hurricanes in order for families to rebuild after disaster.

Human Services
3
Coastal Horizons Center Inc

To provide a continuum of professional services to promote healthier lives, stronger families, and safer communities.

Health
4
Hope Mission of Coastal Carolina Inc

Provide a soup kitchen for feeding the poor and indigent and provide emergency financial assistance to the poor for help with utility bills, transportation, rent and other emergency needs

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5
Reconciliation Ministries Sc

Reconciliation ministries unites with donors, volunteers, and advocates to provide a platform that enables those suffering from addiction to experience life changing freedom, hope, healing, and reconciliation to god, themselves, and others.

Human Services
6
Hope Harbor Home Inc

Hope Harbor Home strives to break the cycle of domestic and sexual violence in Brunswick County, North Carolina.

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7
Carolina Pregnancy Center Inc

The Carolina Pregnancy Center is a nonprofit ministry serving women, and their families, who are seeking help in making decisions about their pregnancy and well-being. Services include: Counseling, continuing emotional support, referrals…

Health
8
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
9
Hope Counseling Services of Chapel Hill

We provide accessible biblical counseling and training, walking alongside hurting people, which leads to Christ-centered hope, help, and healing, for the Triangle and beyond.

Health
10
Tri-County Speaks Fka People Against Rape

Provide rape victim counseling,education, and advocacy services in the low country of south carolina.

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11
Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce Educational Foundation
Philanthropy
12
Fostering Hope Inc

Provide facility, clothing and personal care items to numerous displaced children of Horry County. Create foster care awareness. Multiple organizations are visited monthly.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Helping Hand of Myrtle Beach Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ground Zero 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 36 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number28%0%<5yr16%6%5–10yr17%6%10–20yr12%36%20–35yr8%39%35–55yr20%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value28%0%<5yr16%4%5–10yr17%2%10–20yr12%20%20–35yr8%65%35–55yr20%10%55yr+

The field is 28% 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 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/48
the rest of the field
14%
187/1,315

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

34 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. 34 of the 48 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
29/34
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

First Presbyterian Church — $1,945,100 · OtherFirst Presbyterian ChurchFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — $411,000 · OtherFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCHCHABAD LUBAVITCH OF MYRTLE BEACH — $210,000 · OtherCHABAD LUBAVITCH OF MYRTLE BEACHST PHILIPS LUTHERAN CHURCH — $162,500 · OtherSOUTHEASTERN MINORITY JOB FAIR — $130,000 · Other+21 more — $968,811 · Other+21 moreYMCA OF COASTAL CAROLINA — $691,250 · Human ServicesYMCA OF COASTAL CAROLI…NEW DIRECTIONS OF HORRY COUNTY INC — $125,000 · Human ServicesNEW DIRECTIONS OF HORR…836 INC — $70,000 · Human Services836 INCCoastal Samaritan Counseling Center — $70,000 · Human ServicesCoastal Samaritan Coun…Helping Hand of Myrtle Beach Inc — $65,000 · Human ServicesHelping Hand of Myrtle…COASTLINE WOMENS CENTER — $50,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $41,000 · Human Services+2 more — $60,000 · Human ServicesHORRY-GEORGETOWN TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $197,000 · EducationCOASTAL SCHOOL MINISTRIES INC — $73,000 · EducationA Father's Place — $50,000 · EducationFREEDOM READERS INC — $34,200 · EducationREACH OUT AND READ INC — $17,500 · EducationTHE RAPE CRISIS CENTER SERVING HORRY AND GEORGETOWN COUNTIES INC — $15,000 · Education+1 more — $10,000 · EducationBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE GRAND STRAND INC — $125,000 · Youth DevelopmentGround Zero Ministries Inc — $65,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHILDRENS BIBLE STORY BOOKS IN EVERY HOME — $95,000 · ReligionTEACH MY PEOPLE — $20,000 · ReligionCOMMUNITY KITCHEN INC OF MYRTLE BEACH — $57,000 · Food & NutritionCOASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC — $50,000 · Philanthropy
Other$3,827,411Human Services$1,172,250Education$396,700Youth Development$190,000Religion$115,000Food & Nutrition$57,000Philanthropy$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetYMCA OF COASTAL CAROLINA — $691,250 over 3y, 14% of budgetHORRY-GEORGETOWN TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $197,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetNEW DIRECTIONS OF HORRY COUNTY INC — $125,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE GRAND STRAND INC — $125,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetCOASTAL SCHOOL MINISTRIES INC — $73,000 over 1y, 28% of budget836 INC — $70,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCoastal Samaritan Counseling Center — $70,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetGround Zero Ministries Inc — $65,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetHelping Hand of Myrtle Beach Inc — $65,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY KITCHEN INC OF MYRTLE BEACH — $57,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetA Father's Place — $50,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetCOASTLINE WOMENS CENTER — $50,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetCOASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $41,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF HORRY COUNTY INC — $40,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFREEDOM READERS INC — $34,200 over 1y, 19% of budgetFRIENDSHIP MEDICAL CLINIC INC — $34,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetPHOENIX RENAISSANCE INC — $28,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC — $25,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetGRAND STRAND MIRACLE LEAGUE INC — $25,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetTHE CAROL S PETREA YOUTH GOLF FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ INC — $17,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHORRY COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL — $15,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetLONG BAY SYMPHONIC SOCIETY LTD — $11,500 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetPALMETTO LITERACY COUNCIL — $10,000 over 1y, 86% of budgetCenter for Counseling & Wellness Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

Waccamaw Community Fo…United Way of Horry C…Coastal Community Fou…Frances P Bunnelle Fo…Ocean View Memorial F…Dominion Energy Chari…South Carolina Christ…Central Carolina Comm…Frugal Princess IncSisters of Charity Fo…The K FoundationMike & Carolyn Jones …
Waccamaw Community FoundationSC55.3× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Waccamaw Community Foundation · United Way of Horry County Inc · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Frances P Bunnelle Foundation Coastal Community Foundation of Sc · Ocean View Memorial Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · South Carolina Christian Foundation · Central Carolina Community Foundation · Frugal Princess Inc · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · The K Foundation · Mike & Carolyn Jones 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 Chapin Foundation of Myrtle Beach Sc 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%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Chapin Foundation of Myrtle Beach Sc?

Find your warmest path to Chapin Foundation of Myrtle Beach Sc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 48 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $3.1M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2020, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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