· Public charity
Daniel Island Community Fund Inc
To provide for the civic betterment and social improvement of daniel island, sc, and the general public.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 25 grants below total $527,638 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $645,838 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $118,200 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $351k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $138k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ECCO | $80,000 |
| OPERATION HOME | $57,800 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $45,000 |
| WANDO-HUGER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $33,588 |
| DANIEL ISLAND SCHOOL PTA | $30,000 |
| PHILIP SIMMONS MIDDLE SCHOOL PTSA | $30,000 |
| SOUTH COAST LACROSSE ASSOCIATION | $30,000 |
| PHILIP SIMMONS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| PHILIP SIMMONS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTSA | $25,000 |
| CHARLESTON STAGE COMPANY | $17,500 |
| ST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| PALMETTO PROJECT | $13,500 |
| PROVIDENCE BAPTIST CHURCH | $10,900 |
| LOW COUNTRY FOOD BANK | $10,350 |
| EAST COOPER MEALS ON WHEELS | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% 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 +50% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- ECEast Cooper Community Outreach9× · 2017–2025 · $508k · revenue +209%
- OHOPERATION HOME INC9× · 2017–2025 · $406k · revenue +153%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches5× · 2021–2025 · $258k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- DIDANIEL ISLAND TOWN ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2022 · $500k
- SCSOUTH CAROLINA CONGRESS OF PARENTS AND TEACHERSone grant, 2018 · $40k
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2024 · $23k
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.
To provide South Carolinians an opportunity to advance their leadership skills while broadening their understanding of issues and opportunities facing the State.
To strengthen families, organizations, and communities to prevent child abuse and neglect.
To facilitate, develop, and advocate for neighborhood revitalization, affordable housing construction, preservation and economic development in Charleston County.
The mission of Carolina Children's Home is to meet the under-served mental and physical health needs of children, young adults, and their families
Carolina Teen Center is a prevention and education year-round after-school and summer program that services youth and their families. Literacy programs, tutoring, life skills, mentoring, positive peer groups, conflict resolution skills,…
Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse
Our mission is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.
Recruit and train and license foster parents to receive foster children from county government agencies.
Food for Little Rascals Inc (FFLR) is operated exclusively to improve the health, welfare, and care of children in the State of South Carolina.
To expand access to legal representation and rights in South Carolina.
Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pattison's Academy and the most unlike its peers is Pure Theatre. 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 27 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
57 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. 57 of the 81 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 East Cooper Community Outreach ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HOME INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds DANIEL ISLAND SCHOOL PTA ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Philip Simmons Elementary PTA ↗
- Who funds SOUTH COAST LACROSSE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA CONGRESS OF PARENTS AND TEACHERS ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds ICNA RELIEF USA PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Lowcountry ↗
- Who funds The Humanities Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds EAST COOPER MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP RISE ABOVE INC ↗
- Who funds Charleston Jewish Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds READING PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON STAGE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds AVIAN CONSERVATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER SOUTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds WANDO HUGER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT C ↗
- Who funds LIFELINE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Museum of the Lowcountry ↗
- Who funds The Charleston Promise Neighborhood ↗
- Who funds DEE NORTON LOWCOUNTRY CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA HEALTH & WELFARE BENEFIT PLAN TRUST ↗
- Who funds COASTAL DISTRICT COUNCIL OF THE ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PALMETTO PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Landmarks for Families Inc ↗
- Who funds Charleston Jazz ↗
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: Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · The Joanna Foundation · Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Trident United Way · The Mark Elliott Motley Foundation Inc · Post and Courier Foundation · Central Carolina Community Foundation · Employees Community Fund of Boeing-Puget Sound · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · Td Charitable Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities 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 Daniel Island Community Fund 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.
- Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc — 46% 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.