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Darla Moore and Richard Rainwater Foundation at a glance

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Darla Moore and Richard Rainwater Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$35M
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$19M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Community Improvement$46MEnvironment$36MArts & Culture$10.0MEducation$4.0MPhilanthropy$3.5MHousing & Shelter$1.2MHealth$640kScience & Tech$501kOther$0
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $155k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
  • $250k+8 grants · $35M
$35,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$658M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MOORE FARMS BOTANICAL GARDEN FOUNDATION$19,215,182
GREATER LAKE CITY ALLIANCE$10,130,000
BEEMOK FAMILY FOUNDATION$1,984,031
MUSC FOUNDATION$1,158,300
FRANCIS MARION UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION$1,020,000
LAKE CITY CREATIVE ALLIANCE$900,000
SANTE FE INSTITUTE$250,000
INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM$250,000
TARGET ALS FOUNDATION$100,000
PEE DEE LAND TRUST$100,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$50,000
WINYAH RIVERS ALLIANCE$40,000
COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON$35,000
INNEREAR LABS$25,000
SOUTH CAROLINA RED CROSS$15,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HOME WORKS OF AMERICA: $30k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
NY
NJ
CA
VA
MD
NM
NC
SC
DC
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$99M · 30 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

30 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
20

Total granted

$99M
$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+14%

Still filing today

67%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $186k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentHealthAnimalsCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • MF
    MOORE FARMS BOTANICAL GARDEN FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $34M · revenue +825% · 99% of their budget
  • LC
    LAKE CITY CREATIVE ALLIANCE
    4× · 2021–2024 · $3.8M · revenue +79% · 67% of their budget
  • BF
    BEEMOK FAMILY FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $3.2M · revenue ×41 · 26% of their budget

Funded once

  • OS
    OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE LAND TRUST INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $1.4M · revenue +36%
  • TN
    THE NATURE CONSERVANCY SC CHAPTER
    one grant, 2021 · $200k
  • MH
    MCLEOD HOSPICE CARE-MCLEOD HEALTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $150k
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.

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Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
3
Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education
4
Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology Foundation

To aid the alliance for clinical trials in oncology national clinical trials cooperative group and support the clinical trials and laboratory research of the alliance, as well as efforts to educate the medical community on methods of…

Health
5
The Land Trust for Tennessee Inc

To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.

Environment
6
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
7
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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8
The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit
9
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
10
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
11
Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation

The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.

Animals
12
Acmg Foundation for Genetic and Genomic Medicine

Support the american college of medical genetics and genomics' (acmg) educational mission to "translate genes into health" by raising funds to attract the next generation of medical geneticists and genetic counselors, to sponsor important…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trust for Public Land; the most unlike its peers is Moore Farms Botanical Garden 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

35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 35 of the 56 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
21/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GREATER LAKE CITY ALLIANCE: $45,443,320 · Community ImprovementGREATER LAKE CITY ALLIANCEMOORE FARMS BOTANICAL GARDEN FOUNDATION: $33,590,182 · PhilanthropyMOORE FARMS BOTANICAL GARDEN FOUNDATI…+1 more: $300,000 · PhilanthropyLAKE CITY CREATIVE ALLIANCE: $3,811,393 · Arts & CultureSHED NYC INC: $3,100,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM: $850,000 · Arts & CultureAmerican Battlefield Trust: $300,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $9,500 · Arts & CultureBEEMOK FAMILY FOUNDATION: $3,243,759 · EducationTHE CAROLINA ACADEMY: $1,400,000 · EducationFRANCIS MARION UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $1,183,100 · Education+5 more: $491,256 · EducationFRANCIS MARION UNIVERSITY: $2,150,000 · OtherMUSC FOUNDATION: $1,895,800 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY SC CHAPTER: $200,000 · OtherBRAINFUTURES INCORPORATED: $350,000 · Other+29 more: $1,030,500 · OtherOPEN SPACE INSTITUTE LAND TRUST INC: $1,350,000 · EnvironmentPEE DEE LAND TRUST: $400,000 · EnvironmentThe Charleston Parks Conservancy: $370,000 · EnvironmentWinyah Rivers Foundation Inc: $80,000 · Environment+1 more: $7,000 · EnvironmentSANTA FE INSTITUTE: $500,000 · Science & Tech
Community Improvement$45,443,320Philanthropy$33,890,182Arts & Culture$8,070,893Education$6,318,115Other$5,626,300Environment$2,207,000Science & Tech$500,000

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 budgetGREATER LAKE CITY ALLIANCE: $45,443,320 over 4y, 78% of budgetMOORE FARMS BOTANICAL GARDEN FOUNDATION: $33,590,182 over 4y, 99% of budgetLAKE CITY CREATIVE ALLIANCE: $3,811,393 over 4y, 67% of budgetBEEMOK FAMILY FOUNDATION: $3,243,759 over 3y, 26% of budgetSHED NYC INC: $3,100,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetTHE CAROLINA ACADEMY: $1,400,000 over 2y, 39% of budgetOPEN SPACE INSTITUTE LAND TRUST INC: $1,350,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetFRANCIS MARION UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $1,183,100 over 2y, 14% of budgetINTERNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM: $850,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetSANTA FE INSTITUTE: $500,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetPEE DEE LAND TRUST: $400,000 over 4y, 6.8% of budgetThe Charleston Parks Conservancy: $370,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetBRAINFUTURES INCORPORATED: $350,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetAmerican Battlefield Trust: $300,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCOASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC: $300,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHETERODOX ACADEMY: $200,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetLEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $165,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTARGET ALS FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWinyah Rivers Foundation Inc: $80,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $40,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetHOME WORKS OF AMERICA INC: $30,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTURN90: $25,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE: $24,256 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SYNERGOS INSTITUTE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSouth Carolina Aquarium: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CATALYST FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION SIGHT: $5,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetLAKE CITY CONCERT SERIES: $3,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetPenland School Of Craft: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Gaylord and Dorothy D…Coastal Community Fou…Dominion Energy Chari…Henry & Sylvia Yaschi…Central Carolina Comm…Greater Houston Commu…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley FoundationIL15.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc · Central Carolina Community Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Darla Moore and Richard Rainwater Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Darla Moore and Richard Rainwater Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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

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    How do I get to Darla Moore and Richard Rainwater Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Darla Moore and Richard Rainwater 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 56 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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