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Cherokee Plantation Charities Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$52k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Public Safety & Disaster$121kHealth$106kFood & Nutrition$64kEducation$29kArts & Culture$12kCommunity Improvement$10kPhilanthropy$10kRecreation & Sports$7kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$242k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MUSC FOUNDATION$15,000
COLLETON COUNTY FIRE&RESCUE -JONESV$7,500
LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK$7,500
COLLETON COUNTY FIRE & RESCUE$7,500
COLLETON COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE$5,000
SC FIRST STEPS-COLLETON$5,000
IN HIS NAME COLLETON$3,000
NWTF$856
COURAGEOUS KIDZ$300
COLLETON COUNTY PARKS & RECREATION$200
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 (FY23–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%IN HIS NAME COLLETON: $3k → 20%IN -HIS-NAME COLLETON: $3k → 20%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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$304k · 12 repeat orgs$68k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +76% since the first grant, against +55% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
14

Total granted

$304k
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+76%
+55%

Still filing today

25%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesHealthEducationOther

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

  • LF
    LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $64k · revenue +72%
  • CP
    COLLETON PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $6k · revenue +88%
  • IH
    IN HIS NAME - COLLETON
    2× · 2023–2024 · $6k · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • LC
    LOWCOUNTRY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +55%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $8k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $8k

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
Clemson Area Chamber of Commerce Inc

Our mission is to deliver invaluable information, outstanding services, and impactful advocacy to members by empowering businesses and individuals and contributing to the prosperity of the clemson area.

2
Lowcountry Tennis Association

To promote interest in the game of tennis, to support the usta league in teh charleston and surrounding area.

Recreation & Sports
3
Foundation for the Carolinas

Inspiring philanthropy and strengthening our region through innovative community initiatives and quality services to donors and constituents.

Philanthropy
4
Arts Center of Coastal Carolina

To provide cultural enrichment on hilton head island and enable residents and visitors to have access to cultural activities.

Arts & Culture
5
Carolinas Golf Association

The cga is a non-profit service organization that was formed in 1909 to conduct championships and tournaments for amateur golfers in north and south carolina, administer the usga handicap system in the carolinas, and support its membership…

Recreation & Sports
6
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
7
Carolina Community Actions Inc

Community support for the under-priviledged

Human Services
8
South Carolina Community Capital Alliance

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…

Community Improvement
9
Colleton County Fuller Center for Housing Inc

Collleton Fuller Center work in partenrship with God and People everywhere from all walks of life to develope decent communities. We will establish collaborate efforts with any and all agencies and individuals who can play a role in…

10
Carolina Core Soccer
Recreation & Sports
11
Centre Stage-South Carolina Inc

Centre stage is a non-profit 501(c)(3) performing arts venue and theatre organization that exists to captivate audiences with diverse programming, cultivate local artistry, and inspire community collaboration.

Arts & Culture
12
Central Carolina Economic Development Alliance

The alliance stimulates economic expansion and facilitates job creation by promoting central south carolina as a valuable location for businesses.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central Carolina Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is In His Name - Colleton. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 33 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MUSC FOUNDATION — $105,000 · OtherMUSC FOUNDATIONLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC — $63,500 · OtherLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INCCOLLETON COUNTY EMERGENCY SERVICES — $42,500 · OtherCOLLETON COUNTY EMERGENCY SERVICESSC FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS — $20,000 · OtherSC FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESSCOLLETON COUNTY FIRE & RESCUE — $16,000 · OtherCOLLETON COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMEN — $15,000 · Other+19 more — $76,331 · Other+19 moreLOWCOUNTRY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY — $10,000 · Community ImprovementCENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 · PhilanthropyCOLLETON PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC — $6,407 · EducationIN HIS NAME - COLLETON — $6,000 · Human ServicesCOLLETON COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL — $5,000 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC BEAUFORT FOUNDATION — $1,000 · Arts & CultureFIRST TEE GREATER CHARLESTON — $5,000 · Recreation & SportsCourageous Kidz Inc — $300 · Health
Other$338,331Community Improvement$10,000Philanthropy$10,000Education$6,407Human Services$6,000Arts & Culture$6,000Recreation & Sports$5,000Health$300

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC — $63,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLETON PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC — $6,407 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetIN HIS NAME - COLLETON — $6,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetFIRST TEE GREATER CHARLESTON — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHISTORIC BEAUFORT FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCourageous Kidz Inc — $300 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC
  • Who funds LOWCOUNTRY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY
  • Who funds CENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds COLLETON PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC
  • Who funds IN HIS NAME - COLLETON
  • Who funds COLLETON COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL
  • Who funds FIRST TEE GREATER CHARLESTON
  • Who funds HISTORIC BEAUFORT FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Courageous Kidz Inc

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.

Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina IncSC13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Cherokee Plantation Charities Inc 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 Cherokee Plantation Charities Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Cherokee Plantation Charities 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.

    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 33 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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