· Community foundation
Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc
The foundation builds thriving communities by connecting people and investing resources, across the nine coastal counties of sc beaufort, berkeley, charleston, colleton, dorchester, georgetown, hampton, horry, and jasper.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 459 grants below total $26,024,490 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $28,525,446 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,500,956 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k87 grants · $621k
- $10k–50k274 grants · $5.3M
- $50k–250k80 grants · $6.8M
- $250k+18 grants · $13M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BEAUFORT COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $2,300,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $2,005,000 |
| BEAUFORT COUNTY BLACK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $1,264,000 |
| ASHLEY HALL FOUNDATION | $1,062,826 |
| NEW MORNING | $1,037,500 |
| SEA ISLANDS HERITAGE ACADEMY | $800,000 |
| PENN CENTER INC | $650,000 |
| LOWCOUNTRY LEGAL VOLUNTEERS | $544,500 |
| ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR ALL INC (AKA EFORALL) | $525,000 |
| CHARMECK FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER INC(DBA THE UMBRELLA CENTER) | $500,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM | $417,800 |
| SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA | $396,494 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SOUTH CAROLINA | $338,436 |
| LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC | $334,630 |
| METANOIA | $326,467 |
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 (FY17–24, $8.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +42% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
546 repeat relationships — 338 still active in FY2024, 208 since wound down; 95 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.4M 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
- MUMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $4.0M · revenue +107%
- SFSPOLETO FESTIVAL USA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $2.9M · revenue +36%
- DNDEE NORTON LOWCOUNTRY CHILDREN'S CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +140% · 41% of their budget
Funded once
- TGTHE GEORGE AND BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $567k · revenue +44%
- CGCOLUMBIA GREENone grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue -86% · 89% of their budget
IMPACT JUSTICEone grant, 2023 · $450k · revenue +12%
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.
The south carolina council on competitiveness is a nonpartisan, business-led non-profit organization committed to advancing the long term competitiveness of south carolina through actionable research, support of industry clusters and…
Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.
To educate Charleston area residents and visitors about the natural and cultural history of the South Carolina Lowcountry through collections, exhibitions, preservation, conservation, research and related programming.
Promoting and protecting the free private and competitive enterprise system through research and education.
The mission of south carolina humanities council, inc. is to enrich the cultural and intellectual lives of south carolinians. the organization seeks to increase public understanding of and support for the humanities by telling the human…
Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse
South carolina legal services is a statewide law firm that provides civil legal services to protect the rights and represent the interests of low income south carolinians.
To make strategic, catalytic investments and provide expertise and technical assistance to educational organizations across south carolina.
Facilitate networking among hospitals
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Conway hospital community services provides outpatient health care services to horry county and the surrounding community in conjunction with conway hospital, inc., a non-profit acute care hospital system.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communities of Coastal Georgia Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Post and Courier Foundation. 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 32 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
805 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. 805 of the 993 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds University of South Carolina Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds NEW MORNING ↗
- Who funds DEE NORTON LOWCOUNTRY CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC ↗
- Who funds South Carolina Coastal Conservation League Inc ↗
- Who funds ASHLEY HALL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds BEAUFORT COUNTY BLACK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds TRIDENT UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds BNY MELLON CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds METANOIA ↗
- Who funds HOPEFUL HORIZONS ↗
- Who funds Grenadines Partnership Fund ↗
- Who funds WOMENS RIGHTS AND EMPOWERMENT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds MONTCLAIR FILM FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE ACADEMY SC ↗
- Who funds One-Eighty Place ↗
- Who funds South Carolina Aquarium ↗
- Who funds Roper St Francis Foundation ↗
- Who funds Charleston Jazz ↗
- Who funds East Cooper Community Outreach ↗
- Who funds Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON STAGE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY LEGAL VOLUNTEERS ↗
- Who funds Communities in Schools of South Carolina ↗
- Who funds Penn Center Inc ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY ALLIANCE FOR MODEL COMMUNITIE ↗
- Who funds ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR ALL INC ↗
- Who funds WINGS FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds The Preservation Society of Charleston 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: The Joanna Foundation · Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of the Lowcountry · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · Trident United Way · Post and Courier Foundation · Central Carolina Community Foundation · Frances P Bunnelle Foundation Coastal Community Foundation of Sc · The Mark Elliott Motley Foundation Inc · Heritage Classic Foundation · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · Daniel Island Community Fund 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 Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina 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.
- Jazz House Kids Inc — 29% of income from government
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of America — 21% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- Montclair Film Festival Inc — 2% of income from government
- Entrepreneurship for All Inc — 2% of income from government
- Trinity College — 0% of income from government
- St Andrew's School of Delaware Inc — 0% of income from government
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.