· Public charity
Chester Healthcare Foundation
The foundations mission is to support programs, projects, and/or services of prevention and education which enhance, improve, and/or promote the health and wellness with measurable outcomes of the citizens of chester county.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k4 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $82k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $151k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GOOD SAMARITAN MEDICAL CLINIC | $100,000 |
| MUSC - CHESTER | $51,000 |
| SENIOR SERVICES OF CHESTER COUNTY | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SC CURBS | $17,000 |
| HOSPICE AND COMMUNITY CARE | $15,000 |
| STRIDES OF STRENGTH THERAPEUTIC RID | $10,300 |
| CANCER OF MANY COLORS | $10,000 |
| KEYSTONE SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES | $10,000 |
| SC CANCER ALLIANCE | $8,240 |
| USC LANCASTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS OF CHESTER COUNT | $6,000 |
| CHILDRENS CANCER PARTNERS | $6,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $857k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 96% of those 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 +67% since the first grant, against -33% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2023, 8 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $82k 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
- GSGOOD SAMARITAN MEDICAL CLINIC INC7× · 2017–2023 · $680k · revenue +67% · 48% of their budget
- SSSENIOR SERVICES INC OF CHESTER COUNTY7× · 2017–2023 · $130k · revenue +24%
- EFEducational Foundation of USCL Inc7× · 2017–2023 · $121k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- CCCHESTER COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $12k · revenue -33%
- TSTHE SALUDA COUNSELING SERVICES CENTER INCone grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue -100%
- TTTHE TURNING POINT OF CHESTER INCone grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +24%
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.
Mcleod physician associates ii operates as a part of the mcleod health system. the mission of mcleod health is to improve the overall health and well being of people living within south carolina and eastern north carolina by providing…
To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.
To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.
Cancer patient support
To operate a health care system providing medical excellence to the eastern region of south carolina and the extreme southeastern region of north carolina.
Since its creation in 1974, south county mental health center, inc. "center" has brought quality mental health and substance abuse care to our communities in a manner which enhances and preserves human dignity. through local support,…
Provider of comprehensive, compassionate, high quality primary medical, dental, pharmacy and behavioral health services in southeastern north carolina.
To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.
To provide safe, effective, compassionate care and to promote healthy lifestyles to our community.
To provide free healthcare services to low-income, uninsured adults in georgetown county, sc. the clinic envisions a healthier community where healthcare services are available to all regardless of their financial capability.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Cancer Partners of the Carolinas Inc and the most unlike its peers is Nami Piedmont Tri-County. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
23 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. 23 of the 29 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.
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN MEDICAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR SERVICES INC OF CHESTER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Educational Foundation of USCL Inc ↗
- Who funds York County Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse Inc ↗
- Who funds Cancer of Many Colors ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA COMMUNITY CARE INC ↗
- Who funds UPPER PALMETTO YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds Upper Midlands Rural Health Network ↗
- Who funds University of South Carolina Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds Affinity Health Center ↗
- Who funds NAMI Piedmont Tri-County ↗
- Who funds CHESTER COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STRIDES OF STRENGTH THERAPEUTIC SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CHESTER CO COMM ON ALCHOHOL & DRUG ABUSE ↗
- Who funds I58 INC ↗
- Who funds South Carolina Cancer Alliance ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THE SALUDA COUNSELING SERVICES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CANCER PARTNERS OF THE CAROLINAS INC ↗
- Who funds THE TURNING POINT OF CHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds WELVISTA ↗
- Who funds FORT LAWN COMMUNITY CENTER 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.
Open a dossier: Arras Foundation · The Springs Close Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Central Carolina Community Foundation · United Way of Chester County In · The Junior Welfare League Inc · Nutramax Family Foundation · Comporium Foundation Inc · The Duke Endowment · Duke Energy Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Chester Healthcare Foundation 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.
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