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Charleston Restaurant Foundation Inc

The mission of the charleston restaurant foundation, inc. Is to raise awareness of the charleston area culinary community through various events. A portion of the proceeds from these events are contributed to local area charities and culinary education programs.

$106k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
4
Itemized grants FY2024
9
Organizations funded FY2023
44%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$85k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$35,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 9
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$213k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 44% of the organizations Charleston Restaurant Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’22’23
HealthEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving4$85k0%
FY20239$124k44%
FY20225$41k20%
FY20205$29k60%
FY20173$17kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$113kEducation$91kEnvironment$86kEmployment$6k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Coastal Conservation Association$80,50040%
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Charleston South Carolina Inc$53,50050%
Medical University of South Carolina Foundation$53,50050%
Trident Technical College$51,5006n/a
College of Charleston$23,0005n/a
Art Institute of Charleston$5,5001n/a
Pay it Forward Charleston$5,50015%
South Carolina Coastal Conservation League Inc$5,50010%
Academic Magnet High School$5,5001n/a
Charleston County School District$5,5001n/a
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All grantees of Charleston Restaurant Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Coastal Conservation Association$80,50040%
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Charleston South Carolina Inc$53,50050%
Medical University of South Carolina Foundation$53,50050%
Trident Technical College$51,5006n/a
College of Charleston$23,0005n/a
Art Institute of Charleston$5,5001n/a
Pay it Forward Charleston$5,50015%
South Carolina Coastal Conservation League Inc$5,50010%
Academic Magnet High School$5,5001n/a
Charleston County School District$5,5001n/a
Shriners Hospitals for Children$5,50010%

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.

Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina IncSC13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

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How do I get to Charleston Restaurant Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Charleston Restaurant Foundation Inc 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.

About Charleston Restaurant Foundation Inc

How much does Charleston Restaurant Foundation Inc give?
Charleston Restaurant Foundation Inc reported 4 itemized grants totaling $85,000, out of $106,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 9 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Charleston Restaurant Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (38%), Education (31%), Environment (29%).
Who are Charleston Restaurant Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Coastal Conservation Association ($81k), Ronald McDonald House Charities of Charleston South Carolina Inc ($54k), Medical University of South Carolina Foundation ($54k).
Does Charleston Restaurant Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Charleston Restaurant Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc, National Philanthropic Trust, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is Charleston Restaurant Foundation Inc based?
Charleston Restaurant Foundation Inc is based in SC.

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 11 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $125k 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 FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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