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Children's Trust of South Carolina at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

Children's Trust of South Carolina

To strengthen families, organizations, and communities to prevent child abuse and neglect.

$12M
Granted FY2025still arriving
59
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$1.4M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2024.

Health$37MHuman Services$23MEducation$8.7MCrime & Legal$3.0MPhilanthropy$2.0MReligion$967kCommunity Improvement$724kYouth Development$513kOther$0
02FY2025 · 59 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $352k
  • $50k–250k23 grants · $3.0M
  • $250k+14 grants · $9.0M
$99,444
Median grant
1
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAROLINA HEALTH CENTERS INC$1,401,043
MUSC$1,396,165
MCLEOD$764,341
SPARTANBURG COUNTY FIRST STEPS$756,883
LEE COUNTY FIRST STEPS$694,360
PRIMA HEALTH UPSTATE$656,209
THE PARENTING PLACE$651,758
SC OFFICE OF RURAL HEALTH$529,797
CHILDREN'S PLACE$481,344
LOWCOUNTRY HEALTHCARE SYSTEM$418,512
GROWING HOME SOUTHEAST INC$373,861
EAU CLAIRE COOPERATIVE$344,850
PRISMA HEALTH RICHLAND$264,899
BEAUFORT JASPER HAMPTON COMP HEALTH$251,401
ST JAMES SANTEE FAMILY HEALTH$242,536
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 (FY17–25, $8.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 44% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 13%GROWING HOME SOUTHEAST INC: $572k → 11%Thornwell Home for Children: $107k → 18%NATIONAL YOUTH ADVOCATE PROGRAM INC: $111k → 15%GROWING HOME SOUTHEAST INC: $451k → 11%THORNWELL HOME FOR CHILDREN: $106k → 18%NATIONAL YOUTH ADVOCATE PROGRAM INC: $56k → 15%Growing Home Southeast Inc: $410k → 11%THORNWELL HOME FOR CHILDREN: $76k → 18%GROWING HOME SOUTHEAST INC: $384k → 11%THORNWELL HOME FOR CHILDREN: $75k → 18%GROWING HOME SOUTHEAST INC: $374k → 11%Thornwell Home for Children: $74k → 18%GROWING HOME SOUTHEAST INC: $367k → 11%Thornwell Home for Children: $74k → 18%Growing Home Southeast Inc: $296k → 11%THORNWELL HOME FOR CHILDREN: $72k → 18%GROWING HOME SOUTHEAST INC: $286k → 11%Family Connection of SC: $316k → 16%THORNWELL HOME FOR CHILDREN: $70k → 18%Growing Home Southeast Inc: $188k → 11%Family Connection of SC: $307k → 16%THORNWELL HOME FOR CHILDREN: $62k → 18%CAROLINA FAMILY SERVICES: $78k → 10%FAMILY CONNECTION OF SC INC: $233k → 16%FAMILY CONNECTION OF SC INC: $231k → 16%FAMILY CONNECTION OF SC INC: $224k → 16%FAMILY CONNECTION OF SC INC: $212k → 16%FAMILY CONNECTION OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $163k → 16%Family Connection of SC: $52k → 16%UPSTATE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $184k → 15%UPSTATE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $173k → 15%UPSTATE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $69k → 15%JUST SAY SOMETHING: $208k → 10%CAROLINA YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $99k → 12%LANDMARKS FOR FAMILIES (FORMERLY CAROLINA YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER): $87k → 12%JUST SAY SOMETHING: $190k → 10%CAROLINA YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $82k → 12%CAROLINA YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $80k → 12%CAROLINA YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $67k → 12%LANDMARKS FOR FAMILIES: $66k → 12%YMCA OF COLUMBIA: $146k → 16%PENDLETON PLACE INC: $69k → 10%Florence Crittendon: $115k → 12%PENDLETON PLACE INC: $38k → 10%YMCA of Columbia: $106k → 16%YMCA OF COLUMBIA: $82k → 16%YMCA of Columbia: $56k → 16%YMCA of Columbia: $44k → 16%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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$89M · 72 repeat orgs$665k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

72 repeat relationships: 44 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

72
11

Total granted

$89M
$481k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+15%

Still filing today

78%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $184k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationPhilanthropyCrime & LegalReligionOther
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

  • CH
    CAROLINA HEALTH CENTERS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $11M · revenue +32%
  • PC
    PREVENT CHILD ABUSE PICKENS COUNTY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $5.0M · revenue +66% · 69% of their budget
  • MH
    MCLEOD HEALTH FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2025 · $4.0M · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • CITY YEAR INC
    one grant, 2017 · $113k · revenue +15%
  • PA
    Parents Anonymous-FamilyCorps
    one grant, 2017 · $94k
  • AF
    A Father's Placegraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $74k · revenue +84%
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
South Carolina First Steps to School Readiness Board of Trustees

Per south carolina code section 59-152-30: "the goals for south carolina first steps to school readiness are to: (1) provide parents with access to the support they might seek and want to strengthen their families and to promote the…

Education
2
Colleton County First Steps to School Readiness Partnership

Our mission is that every south carolina child will arrive at kindergarten ready to succeed.

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3
Marion County First Steps to School Readiness Partnership

Per south carolina code of laws section 59-152-10: there is established the south carolina first steps to school readiness, a comprehensive, results- oriented initiative for improving early childhood development by providing, through local…

Education
4
Chester County First Steps to School Readiness Partnership

Our vision is that every south carolina child will be prepared for success in school.

Education
5
Spartanburg County First Steps to School Readiness Partnership

Our mission is that every south carolina child will arrive at kindergarten ready to succeed.

Education
6
Florence County First Steps to School Readiness Partnership

Our vision is that every south carolina child will arrive at kindergarten ready to succeed.

Education
7
Calhoun County First Steps to School Readiness Partnership

Our mission is that every south carolina child will arrive at kindergarten ready to succeed.

Education
8
Bamberg County First Steps to School Readiness Partnership

Section 59-152-10 of the south carolina code established the south carolina first steps to school readiness program, which is a comprehensive, results-oriented initiative for improving early childhood development by providing, through…

Education
9
Kershaw County First Steps to School Readiness Partnership

Our mission is that every south carolina child will arrive at kindergarten ready to succeed.

Education
10
Clarendon County First Steps to School Readiness Partnership

Section 59-152-10 of the south carolina code e established the south carolina first steps to school readiness program, which is a comprehensive, results-oreiented initiative for improving early childhood development by providing, through…

—
11
Lancaster County First Steps to School Readiness Partnership

Section 59-152-10 of the south carolina code established the south carolina first steps to school readiness program, which is a comprehensive, results-oriented initiative for improving early childhood development by providing, through…

Education
12
Georgetown County First Steps to School Readiness Partnership

Our mission is that every south carolina child will arrive at kindergarten ready to succeed.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Place Inc; the most unlike its peers is Building Thriving Communities Foundation. 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

75 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. 75 of the 96 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
74/75
Grantees still filing
47/75
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PHI CHI MEDICAL FRATERNITY INC: $6,930,728 · OtherPHI CHI MEDICAL FRATERNITY INCSPARTANBURG COUNTY FIRST STEPS: $4,046,182 · OtherSPARTANBURG COUNTY FIRST STEPSGREENVILLE HEALTH AUTHORITY: $3,851,755 · OtherGREENVILLE HEALTH AUTHORITYEAU CLAIRE COOPERATIVE HEALTH CENTER INC: $3,144,239 · OtherEAU CLAIRE COOPERATIVE HEALTH CENTER I…ST JAMES SANTEE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER: $1,815,678 · OtherST JAMES SANTEE FAMILY HEALTH CENTERCHILDREN'S PLACE INC: $1,788,029 · OtherCHILDREN'S PLACE INCPEE DEE COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC: $1,246,987 · OtherWESTVIEW BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES: $1,196,979 · Other+31 more: $6,751,957 · Other+31 moreCAROLINA HEALTH CENTERS INC: $11,066,415 · HealthCAROLINA HEALTH CENTERS INCMCLEOD HEALTH FOUNDATION: $3,970,096 · HealthMCLEOD HEALTH FOUNDATIONSC Office of Rural Health Inc: $3,709,656 · HealthSC Office of Rural Health IncLOW COUNTRY HEALTH CARE SYSTEM INC: $2,343,538 · HealthLOW COUNTRY HEALTH CARE SYSTEM INCLITTLE RIVER MEDICAL CENTER INC: $2,209,391 · HealthLITTLE RIVER MEDICAL CENTER INCPrisma Health-Midlands: $1,999,031 · HealthPrisma Health-MidlandsBEAUFORT-JASPER-HAMPTON COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH SERVICES INC: $1,199,461 · HealthMCLEOD REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER OF THE PEE DEE INC: $1,145,693 · HealthPrisma Health-Upstate: $1,130,432 · Health+4 more: $993,084 · HealthGROWING HOME SOUTHEAST INC: $3,329,496 · Human ServicesGROWING HOME …FAMILY CONNECTION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC: $1,738,128 · Human ServicesFAMILY CONNEC…JUST SAY SOMETHING INC: $1,393,477 · Human ServicesJUST SAY SOME…THORNWELL: $718,058 · Human ServicesTHORNWELLLIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES FLORENCE: $525,089 · Human ServicesLandmarks for Families Inc: $508,897 · Human ServicesLutheran Family Services in the Carolinas: $461,558 · Human ServicesThe Young Men's Christian Assoc of Columbia SC: $433,761 · Human ServicesUPSTATE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $425,899 · Human Services+8 more: $937,594 · Human Services+8 moreLEE COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP: $3,726,434 · EducationLEE COUNT…YORK COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP: $1,458,299 · EducationYORK COUN…GREENVILLE COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP: $1,001,588 · EducationGREENVILL…DARLINGTON COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP: $622,530 · EducationDARLINGTO…Communities in Schools of South Carolina: $310,886 · Education+8 more: $177,260 · EducationPREVENT CHILD ABUSE PICKENS COUNTY INC: $5,001,214 · Crime & LegalPREVENT C…SPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILI ES & YOUTH OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC: $1,563,855 · Crime & LegalSPECIALIZ…FAIRFIELD BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICE: $536,223 · Crime & LegalFAIRFIELD…+2 more: $38,605 · Crime & LegalUNITED WAY OF OCONEE COUNTY INC: $1,235,977 · PhilanthropyMARY BLACK FOUNDATION INC: $965,583 · PhilanthropyThe Lancaster County Partners for Youth: $542,478 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS: $197,037 · Philanthropy+3 more: $49,662 · PhilanthropyHOPEFUL HORIZONS: $1,087,313 · ReligionC4 MINISTRIES INC: $136,000 · Religion
Other$30,772,534Health$29,766,797Human Services$10,471,957Education$7,296,997Crime & Legal$7,139,897Philanthropy$2,990,737Religion$1,223,313

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCAROLINA HEALTH CENTERS INC: $11,066,415 over 9y, 4.8% of budgetPREVENT CHILD ABUSE PICKENS COUNTY INC: $5,001,214 over 9y, 69% of budgetMCLEOD HEALTH FOUNDATION: $3,970,096 over 7y, 5.3% of budgetLEE COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP: $3,726,434 over 9y, 54% of budgetSC Office of Rural Health Inc: $3,709,656 over 9y, 7.2% of budgetGROWING HOME SOUTHEAST INC: $3,329,496 over 9y, 9.8% of budgetEAU CLAIRE COOPERATIVE HEALTH CENTER INC: $3,144,239 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetLOW COUNTRY HEALTH CARE SYSTEM INC: $2,343,538 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetLITTLE RIVER MEDICAL CENTER INC: $2,209,391 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetPrisma Health-Midlands: $1,999,031 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S PLACE INC: $1,788,029 over 9y, 9.6% of budgetFAMILY CONNECTION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC: $1,738,128 over 8y, 12% of budgetSPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILI ES & YOUTH OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC: $1,563,855 over 9y, 3.3% of budgetYORK COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP: $1,458,299 over 7y, 20% of budgetJUST SAY SOMETHING INC: $1,393,477 over 9y, 40% of budgetPEE DEE COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC: $1,246,987 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF OCONEE COUNTY INC: $1,235,977 over 9y, 47% of budgetBEAUFORT-JASPER-HAMPTON COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH SERVICES INC: $1,199,461 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetWESTVIEW BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES: $1,196,979 over 9y, 9.9% of budgetMCLEOD REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER OF THE PEE DEE INC: $1,145,693 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPrisma Health-Upstate: $1,130,432 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOPEFUL HORIZONS: $1,087,313 over 9y, 5.1% of budgetGREENVILLE COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP: $1,001,588 over 7y, 14% of budgetMARY BLACK FOUNDATION INC: $965,583 over 4y, 8.0% of budgetCASAFAMILY SYSTEMS: $783,000 over 9y, 8.2% of budgetA Child's Haven Inc: $771,372 over 3y, 14% of budgetTHORNWELL: $718,058 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetFAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES OF HORRY CO: $671,636 over 7y, 70% of budgetDARLINGTON COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP: $622,530 over 6y, 38% of budgetGEORGETOWN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $614,181 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetST JAMES HEALTH AND WELLNESS INC: $579,652 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetThe Lancaster County Partners for Youth: $542,478 over 9y, 15% of budgetFAIRFIELD BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICE: $536,223 over 6y, 12% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES FLORENCE: $525,089 over 6y, 18% of budgetLandmarks for Families Inc: $508,897 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetLutheran Family Services in the Carolinas: $461,558 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetThe Young Men's Christian Assoc of Columbia SC: $433,761 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetUPSTATE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $425,899 over 3y, 16% of budgetNATIONAL YOUTH ADVOCATE PROGRAM INC: $346,827 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCommunities in Schools of South Carolina: $310,886 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetHOPE CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $288,817 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetMIDDLE TYGER COMMUNITY CENTER: $270,335 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetFIRST LIGHT: $265,064 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS: $197,037 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetEdventure Inc: $151,067 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetFlorence Crittenton Programs of South Carolina Inc: $141,267 over 2y, 10% of budgetC4 MINISTRIES INC: $136,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetGREER RELIEF AND RESOURCES AGENCY INC: $134,593 over 2y, 3.6% 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.

  • Who funds CAROLINA HEALTH CENTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds PREVENT CHILD ABUSE PICKENS COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds MCLEOD HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LEE COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds SC Office of Rural Health Inc ↗
  • Who funds GROWING HOME SOUTHEAST INC ↗
  • Who funds EAU CLAIRE COOPERATIVE HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds LOW COUNTRY HEALTH CARE SYSTEM INC ↗
  • Who funds LITTLE RIVER MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Prisma Health-Midlands ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY CONNECTION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC ↗
  • Who funds SPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILI ES & YOUTH OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC ↗
  • Who funds YORK COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds JUST SAY SOMETHING INC ↗
  • Who funds PEE DEE COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF OCONEE COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds BEAUFORT-JASPER-HAMPTON COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds WESTVIEW BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds MCLEOD REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER OF THE PEE DEE INC ↗
  • Who funds Prisma Health-Upstate ↗
  • Who funds HOPEFUL HORIZONS ↗
  • Who funds GREENVILLE COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds MARY BLACK FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CASAFAMILY SYSTEMS ↗
  • Who funds A Child's Haven Inc ↗
  • Who funds THORNWELL ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES OF HORRY CO ↗
  • Who funds DARLINGTON COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds ST JAMES HEALTH AND WELLNESS INC ↗
  • Who funds The Lancaster County Partners for Youth ↗
  • Who funds FAIRFIELD BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES FLORENCE ↗

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.

Central Carolina Comm…The Duke EndowmentSisters of Charity Fo…Coastal Community Fou…The Leon Levine Found…Reach Out and Read IncUnited Way of Greenvi…BlueCross BlueShield …Fact ForwardDuke Energy FoundationSpartanburg County Fo…Scansource Charitable…
Central Carolina Community FoundationSC45.9× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Central Carolina Community Foundation · The Duke Endowment · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · The Leon Levine Foundation · Reach Out and Read Inc · United Way of Greenville County Inc · BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina Foundation · Fact Forward · Duke Energy Foundation · Spartanburg County Foundation · Scansource Charitable Foundation

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 Children's Trust of South Carolina funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Children's Trust of South Carolina. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
28report 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, 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.

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 96 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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