· Public charity
Charleston County Bar Association
A nonprofit organization committed to promoting ethics and education within charleston county's legal community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $28k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $54k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PRO BONO LEGAL SERVICES | $54,150 |
| CHARLESTON LEGAL ACCESS | $4,500 |
| TURN 90 | $4,500 |
| ONE 80 PLACE | $4,500 |
| CENTER FOR HEIRS PROPERTY | $4,500 |
| MEDIATION CENTER | $4,500 |
| CHARLESTON COUNTY ADULT DRUG COURT | $4,500 |
| STEP ONE RECOVERY | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of your 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.
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 +210% since the first grant, against -81% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- PBPRO BONO LEGAL SERVICES INC5× · 2020–2024 · $162k · revenue +90%
- CFCenter for Heirs' Property Preservation5× · 2020–2024 · $15k · revenue +234%
- CLCharleston Legal Access5× · 2020–2024 · $12k · revenue +210%
Funded once
- TCTHE CHARLESTON FORUM2× · 2020–2021 · $8k · revenue -81%
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.
Legal resources for low income individuals and families
To provide free legal services and advocacy for system-impacted people in south carolina.
The Southern Center for Human Rights is working for equality, dignity, and justice for people impacted by the criminal legal system in the Deep South. SCHR fights for a world free from mass incarceration, the death penalty, the…
The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.
South carolina legal services is a statewide law firm that provides civil legal services to protect the rights and represent the interests of low income south carolinians.
The mission of Kentucky Legal Aid is to assist and enable low-income families, elderly, disabled, and other vulnerable individuals in south central Kentucky resolve legal problems that are barriers to self-sufficiency and to provide these…
African Law Center's mission is to defend the rights of African refugees and immigrants within countries where they seek refuge and opportunities. We achieve our mission by providing culturally appropriate and linguistically accessible…
Provides immigration legal services to persons who are otherwise financially incapable of obtaining such services.
Lowcountry Veterans Home provides transitional housing and individualized support for homeless veterans, working to restore stability, dignity, and independence. Through case management, peer support, transportation, and strong community…
To empower communities, organizations and individuals to handle disputes constructively by developing and designing appropriate and creative solutions that address all interests, needs, and values.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Charleston Legal Access and the most unlike its peers is Step 1 Recovery Resources Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 9 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
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.
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: The South Carolina Bar Foundation Inc · Post and Courier Foundation · The Sunshine Foundation Inc · Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc · The Joanna Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Charleston County Bar Association 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.