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Chester Healthcare Foundation at a glance

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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.

$262k
Granted FY2023
12
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Health$1.0MEducation$243kHuman Services$172kPublic Safety & Disaster$100kHousing & Shelter$10kCivil Rights$5kRecreation & Sports$5k
02FY2023 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k4 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $82k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $151k
$10,300
Median grant
1
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%GOOD SAMARITAN MEDICAL CLINIC: $103k → 18%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF CHESTER COUNT: $6k → 8%GOOD SAMARITAN MEDICAL CLINIC: $100k → 18%GOOD SAMARITAN MEDICAL CLINIC: $100k → 18%GOOD SAMARITAN MEDICAL CLINIC: $100k → 18%GOOD SAMARITAN MEDICAL CLINIC: $100k → 18%GOOD SAMARITAN MEDICAL CLINIC: $100k → 18%CHESTER COUNTY YMCA: $15k → 8%GOOD SAMARITAN MEDICAL CLINIC: $78k → 18%SENIOR SERVICES OF CHESTER COUNTY: $40k → 18%SENIOR SERVICES OF CHESTER COUNTY: $25k → 18%SENIOR SERVICES OF CHESTER COUNTY: $20k → 18%SENIOR SERVICES OF CHESTER COUNTY: $15k → 18%CHESTER COUNTY YMCA: $8k → 8%CHESTER COUNTY YMCA: $7k → 8%STRIDES OF STRENGTH THERAPEUTIC RID: $10k → 18%SENIOR SERVICES INC OF CHESTER COUNTY: $10k → 18%SENIOR SERVICES INC OF CHESTER COUNTY: $10k → 18%SENIOR SERVICES INC OF CHESTER COUNTY: $10k → 18%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 15 repeat orgs$136k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against -33% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
9

Total granted

$1.4M
$55k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
-33%

Still filing today

87%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $82k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterPublic BenefitOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • GS
    GOOD SAMARITAN MEDICAL CLINIC INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $680k · revenue +67% · 48% of their budget
  • SS
    SENIOR SERVICES INC OF CHESTER COUNTY
    7× · 2017–2023 · $130k · revenue +24%
  • EF
    Educational Foundation of USCL Inc
    7× · 2017–2023 · $121k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • CC
    CHESTER COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $12k · revenue -33%
  • TT
    THE TURNING POINT OF CHESTER INC
    one grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +24%
  • TS
    THE SALUDA COUNSELING SERVICES CENTER INC
    one grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue -100%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence Found ation
Health
2
Mcleod Physician Associates Ii

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…

Health
3
East Carolina Health

To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.

Health
4
University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina Inc

To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.

Health
5
York County Cancer Association

Cancer patient support

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6
Mcleod Health

To operate a health care system providing medical excellence to the eastern region of south carolina and the extreme southeastern region of north carolina.

Health
7
South County Mental Health Center Inc

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,…

Health
8
Tri-County Community Health Council Inc

Provider of comprehensive, compassionate, high quality primary medical, dental, pharmacy and behavioral health services in southeastern north carolina.

—
9
Pitt County Memorial Hospital Inc

To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.

Health
10
Caldwell Memorial Hospital Inc

To provide safe, effective, compassionate care and to promote healthy lifestyles to our community.

Health
11
Smith Medical Clinic Inc

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.

—
12
Carolina Neurosurgery & Spine Education and Research Foundation
Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Cancer Partners of the Carolinas Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 29 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
18/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GOOD SAMARITAN MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $680,000 · Human ServicesGOOD SAMARITAN MEDICAL CLINIC INCSENIOR SERVICES INC OF CHESTER COUNTY: $130,000 · Human ServicesSENIOR SERVICES INC OF CHESTER COUNTYUPPER PALMETTO YMCA INC: $30,520 · Human Services+2 more: $16,300 · Human ServicesYork County Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse Inc: $95,000 · OtherYork County Council on Al…CHESTER COUNTY CHIEFS ASSOCIATION: $94,350 · OtherCHESTER COUNTY CHIEFS ASS…YORK TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $77,728 · OtherYORK TECHNICAL COLLEGECAROLINA COMMUNITY CARE INC: $45,000 · OtherCAROLINA COMMUNITY CARE I…+7 more: $40,990 · Other+7 moreCancer of Many Colors: $57,500 · HealthCancer of Man…MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION: $51,000 · HealthMEDICAL UNIVE…Upper Midlands Rural Health Network: $27,500 · HealthUpper Midland…Affinity Health Center: $20,000 · HealthAffinity Heal…NAMI Piedmont Tri-County: $15,000 · HealthNAMI Piedmont…CHESTER CO COMM ON ALCHOHOL & DRUG ABUSE: $10,000 · HealthCHESTER CO CO…+1 more: $5,100 · HealthEducational Foundation of USCL Inc: $121,000 · EducationEducational…University of South Carolina Educational Foundation: $27,000 · EducationUniversity …CHESTER COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $11,800 · EducationCHESTER COU…I58 INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterCHILDREN'S CANCER PARTNERS OF THE CAROLINAS INC: $6,000 · Youth DevelopmentFORT LAWN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $5,000 · Public Benefit
Human Services$856,820Other$353,068Health$186,100Education$159,800Housing & Shelter$10,000Youth Development$6,000Public Benefit$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGOOD SAMARITAN MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $680,000 over 7y, 48% of budgetSENIOR SERVICES INC OF CHESTER COUNTY: $130,000 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetEducational Foundation of USCL Inc: $121,000 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetYork County Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse Inc: $95,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCancer of Many Colors: $57,500 over 6y, 24% of budgetMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION: $51,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAROLINA COMMUNITY CARE INC: $45,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetUPPER PALMETTO YMCA INC: $30,520 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUpper Midlands Rural Health Network: $27,500 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetUniversity of South Carolina Educational Foundation: $27,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAffinity Health Center: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHESTER COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $11,800 over 1y, 14% of budgetSTRIDES OF STRENGTH THERAPEUTIC SERVICES INC: $10,300 over 1y, 16% of budgetCHESTER CO COMM ON ALCHOHOL & DRUG ABUSE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetI58 INC: $10,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetSouth Carolina Cancer Alliance: $8,240 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TURNING POINT OF CHESTER INC: $6,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S CANCER PARTNERS OF THE CAROLINAS INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SALUDA COUNSELING SERVICES CENTER INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWELVISTA: $5,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFORT LAWN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budget
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.

Arras FoundationThe Springs Close Fou…Foundation for the Ca…Central Carolina Comm…United Way of Chester…The Junior Welfare Le…Nutramax Family Found…Comporium Foundation …The Duke EndowmentDuke Energy FoundationThe Bank of America C…American Online Givin…
Arras FoundationSC22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Chester Healthcare Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chester Healthcare Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Chester Healthcare Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Chester Healthcare Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 29 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 2023, released 2023. 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 no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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