· Public charity
Charleston County Bar Association
A nonprofit organization committed to promoting ethics and education within charleston county's legal community.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| ONE 80 PLACE | $4,500 |
| CENTER FOR HEIRS PROPERTY | $4,500 |
| TURN 90 | $4,500 |
| CHARLESTON COUNTY ADULT DRUG COURT | $4,500 |
| MEDIATION CENTER | $4,500 |
| STEP ONE RECOVERY | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +112% since the first grant, against -81% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 9 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Charleston County Bar Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charleston County Bar Association. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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