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Cw and Dorothy G Love Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
75
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$264k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Health$12MEducation$4.2MReligion$2.1MPublic Benefit$1.7MAnimals$1.3MEnvironment$1.1MCrime & Legal$724kFood & Nutrition$713kOther$0
02FY2025 · 75 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $87k
  • $10k–50k37 grants · $746k
  • $50k–250k21 grants · $2.4M
  • $250k+1 grant · $264k
$20,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$74M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$263,500
CAREFIRST CAROLINA FOUNDATION$237,000
CHARLESTON COLLEGIATE$227,472
USC EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$225,000
GOOD SAMARITAN CLINIC$201,134
Individual grant recipient$150,000
Individual grant recipient$125,000
SCOTLAND HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$125,000
CHARLESTON COLLEGIATE$123,965
Individual grant recipient$101,760
LAKE MURRAY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$100,567
Individual grant recipient$100,000
BLUERIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION$100,000
CHARLESTON COLLEGIATE SCHOOL$90,000
MARLBORO HISTORICAL MUSEUM$90,000
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 (FY17–25, $429k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WIGS FOR CANCER: $10k → 13%SCOOTER SCOTT PROJECT: $10k → 11%SCOOTER SCOTT PROJECT: $10k → 11%SCOOTER SCOTT PROJECT: $5k → 11%LEO'S PRIDE FOUNDATION: $100k → 11%LEO'S PRIDE FOUNDATION: $100k → 11%LEO'S PRIDE FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%HOSPICE OF SCOTLAND COUNTY: $10k → 24%HOSPICE OF SCOTLAND COUNTY: $10k → 24%HOSPICE OF SCOTLAND COUNTY: $6k → 24%LEO'S PRIDE FOUNDATION: $30k → 11%HOSPICE OF SCOTLAND COUNTY: $5k → 24%ELEVATE COLUMBIA: $22k → 16%HOSPICE OF SCOTLAND COUNTY: $5k → 24%LEO'S PRIDE FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%HOSPICE OF SCOTLAND COUNTY: $5k → 24%HOSPICE OF SCOTLAND COUNTY: $5k → 24%LEO'S PRIDE FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%LOW COUNTRY WARRIOR MOMS: $1k → 12%LEO'S PRIDE FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%LEO'S PRIDE FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$25M · 98 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

98 repeat relationships — 59 still active in FY2025, 39 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

98
38

Total granted

$25M
$779k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+21%

Still filing today

38%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $316k 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
HealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentEducationYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther

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

  • CC
    CARESOUTH CAROLINA INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $6.7M · revenue +132%
  • CC
    Charleston Collegiate School
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +78%
  • CC
    CAREFIRST CAROLINA FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +201% · 73% of their budget

Funded once

  • RH
    Roper Hospital Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $143k · revenue 0%
  • CW
    CHAPIN WOMENS CLUB
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • HH
    HILINSKI'S HOPE INC
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -17%

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
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
2
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
3
Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence Found ation
Health
4
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Charleston South Carolina Inc

We provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare with a vision of a world where every family has what they need to ensure the best health outcomes for their children.

Health
5
Scotland Memorial Hospital Inc

To provide safe, high quality, compassionate, and sustainable health care to the people we serve.

Health
6
Carolina Neurosurgery & Spine Education and Research Foundation
Health
7
Mcleod Loris Seacoast Hospital

Organization is part of mcleod health system. the mission of mcleodhealth is to improve the overall health and well-being of peopleliving within south carolina and eastern north carolina by providingexcellence in healthcare.

Health
8
Children's Trust of South Carolina

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

Human Services
9
Mirasol Health Inc

Mirasol health is a nonprofit, community-focused healthcare organization dedicated to honoring life through compassionate care and support for individuals facing chronic conditions, end-of-life, or grief. proudly serving beaufort, jasper,…

10
Coastal Family Vacation Foundation Inc
11
Mcleod Health Cheraw

Mcleod health cheraw operates as 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 excellence in…

Health
12
Camp Rise Above Inc

Camp rise above provides life-changing camp programs for children and adults with serious illnesses, disabilities, and life challenges.

Recreation & Sports

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Caresouth Carolina Inc and the most unlike its peers is Aiken Horse Park Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%6%<5yr15%9%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr15%19%20–35yr12%34%35–55yr15%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%1%<5yr15%1%5–10yr19%6%10–20yr15%17%20–35yr12%66%35–55yr15%10%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 2% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/63
the rest of the field
15%
2,766/18,452

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.

04the grantee network

53 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. 53 of the 144 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)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/53
Grantees still filing
41/53
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Charleston Collegiate School — $1,491,482 · OtherCharleston Collegiate SchoolIndividual grant recipient — $1,193,987 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNORTHEASTERN TECHNICAL COMMUNITY CO — $622,205 · OtherPINE GROVE UNITED METHODIST — $555,853 · OtherSCOTLAND HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $505,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $480,000 · Other+103 more — $7,700,937 · Other+103 moreCARESOUTH CAROLINA INC — $6,713,387 · HealthCARESOUTH CAROLINA INCCAREFIRST CAROLINA FOUNDATION — $1,400,229 · HealthCAREFIRST CAROLINA FOUNDATIONRoper St Francis Foundation — $570,000 · HealthRoper St Francis FoundationScotland Memorial Foundation Inc — $400,000 · Health+11 more — $881,600 · Health+11 moreUniversity of South Carolina Educational Foundation — $990,000 · EducationMARLBORO ACADEMY INC — $200,000 · Education+2 more — $6,000 · EducationBLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION — $405,000 · EnvironmentCOASTAL CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $310,000 · EnvironmentLOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST INC — $190,000 · EnvironmentDucks Unlimited Inc — $65,000 · EnvironmentTHE RIVER ALLIANCE — $45,000 · EnvironmentCHILDREN'S CANCER PARTNERS OF THE CAROLINAS INC — $525,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFE — $220,000 · Youth Development+1 more — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentLeos Pride Foundation — $325,000 · Human ServicesHospice of Scotland County Inc — $45,600 · Human ServicesEPWORTH CHILDREN'S HOME — $45,000 · Human ServicesThe Scooter Scott Project — $25,000 · Human ServicesRECONCILIATION MINISTRIES SC — $22,000 · Human Services+2 more — $11,000 · Human ServicesGEDDIE-COLE CENTER INC — $200,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$12,549,464Health$9,965,216Education$1,196,000Environment$1,015,000Youth Development$760,000Human Services$473,600Crime & Legal$200,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCARESOUTH CAROLINA INC — $6,713,387 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetCharleston Collegiate School — $1,491,482 over 9y, 7.0% of budgetCAREFIRST CAROLINA FOUNDATION — $1,400,229 over 7y, 73% of budgetUniversity of South Carolina Educational Foundation — $990,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetRoper St Francis Foundation — $570,000 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S CANCER PARTNERS OF THE CAROLINAS INC — $525,000 over 8y, 5.6% of budgetBLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION — $405,000 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetScotland Memorial Foundation Inc — $400,000 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN CLINIC — $331,134 over 7y, 80% of budgetLeos Pride Foundation — $325,000 over 8y, 25% of budgetCOASTAL CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $310,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG LIFE — $220,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMARLBORO ACADEMY INC — $200,000 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetGEDDIE-COLE CENTER INC — $200,000 over 8y, 62% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST INC — $190,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetBREAD OF LIFE FOOD PANTRY INC — $175,000 over 9y, 51% of budgetAIKEN HORSE PARK FOUNDATION — $156,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetRoper Hospital Inc — $143,466 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAPPY WHEELS INC — $95,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetMCLEOD HEALTH FOUNDATION — $70,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHOPE CENTER FOR CHILDREN — $70,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCAMP HAPPY DAYS INC — $70,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc — $65,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNANCY K PERRY CHILDRENS SHELTER — $60,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetPRISMA HEALTH MIDLANDS FOUNDATION F/K/A PALMETTO HEALTH FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHILINSKI'S HOPE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetS Q Rescue Inc — $50,000 over 5y, 7.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS — $50,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBARRIER ISLANDS LITTLE LEAGUE INC — $50,000 over 6y, 19% of budgetBARRIER ISLANDS FREE MEDICAL CLINIC — $50,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetHospice of Scotland County Inc — $45,600 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetEPWORTH CHILDREN'S HOME — $45,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE RIVER ALLIANCE — $45,000 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetSISTERCARE INC — $35,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCHAPIN WE CARE CENTER — $25,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetThe Scooter Scott Project — $25,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetRECONCILIATION MINISTRIES SC — $22,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLOWING ROCK CHARITY HORSE SHOW FOUNDATION INC — $12,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUST TRYAN IT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCHARLESTON AREA THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetWigs for Cancer Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetLAWRENCE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPINEY WOODS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO — $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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 CARESOUTH CAROLINA INC
  • Who funds Charleston Collegiate School
  • Who funds CAREFIRST CAROLINA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds University of South Carolina Educational Foundation
  • Who funds Roper St Francis Foundation
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S CANCER PARTNERS OF THE CAROLINAS INC
  • Who funds BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Scotland Memorial Foundation Inc
  • Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN CLINIC
  • Who funds Leos Pride Foundation
  • Who funds COASTAL CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE
  • Who funds MARLBORO ACADEMY INC
  • Who funds GEDDIE-COLE CENTER INC
  • Who funds LOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST INC
  • Who funds BREAD OF LIFE FOOD PANTRY INC
  • Who funds AIKEN HORSE PARK FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Roper Hospital 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.

Central Carolina Community FoundationSC42.5× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Central Carolina Community Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Lipscomb Family Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Bonner Family Private Foundation · Dorothy D Smith Charitable Foundation · Michael J Mungo Foundation · Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc · The Duke Endowment · The Nord Family 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 Cw and Dorothy G Love 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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

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    How do I get to Cw and Dorothy G Love Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Cw and Dorothy G Love 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 144 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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