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Eastern Carolina Community Foundation

The Eastern Carolina Community Foundation improves the quality of life in this area of South Carolina through inspired philanthropy and innovative community programs.

$770k
Granted FY2024still arriving
35
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
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.

Education$779kReligion$377kHuman Services$307kFood & Nutrition$302kHealth$285kArts & Culture$244kHousing & Shelter$210kCrime & Legal$165kOther$0
02FY2024 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 35 grants below total $564,727, the rows itemized in this filing. The $769,573 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $204,846 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $72k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $443k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST JOHN'S UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$50,000
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF FLORENCE$42,500
FLORENCE COUNTY MUSEUM FOUNDATION$39,250
PEE DEE COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL ASSAULT$35,750
THE NAOMI PROJECT$22,000
HOUSE OF HOPE OF THE PEE DEE$21,400
ANGLICAN DIOCESE OF SOUTH CAROLINA$20,000
TRENT HILL CENTER$20,000
MCLEOD MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$19,402
THE CARE HOUSE OF THE PEE DEE INC$18,000
LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES$17,500
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE PEE DEE AREA INC$15,100
ST LUKE LUTHERAN CHURCH$15,000
DILLON COUNTY BOYS AND GIRLS YOUTH CENTER$15,000
HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK$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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $267k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%TRENT HILL CENTER: $20k → 21%TRENT HILL CENTER: $17k → 21%TRENT HILL CENTER: $12k → 21%CARING AND SHARING: $9k → 15%TRENT HILL CENTER: $6k → 21%CARING AND SHARING: $7k → 15%TRENT HILL CENTER: $470 → 21%WAYMAKER OFF-ROAD WHEELCHAIRS: $8k → 21%HOUSE OF HOPE: $33k → 20%DARLINGTON COUNTY COUNCIL OF AGING: $11k → 21%THE LORD CARES: $7k → 21%HOUSE OF HOPE OF THE PEE DEE: $21k → 20%HOUSE OF HOPE OF THE PEE DEE: $20k → 20%HOUSE OF HOPE OF THE PEE DEE: $17k → 20%LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES: $17k → 20%FOSTER CARE CLOTHING CLOSET: $12k → 20%LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES: $9k → 20%LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES: $7k → 20%LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES: $7k → 20%SENIOR CITIZENS ASSOCIATION: $5k → 20%LYDIA'S BOWELS OF MERCY HOME INC: $7k → 20%FOSTER CARE CLOTHING CLOSET: $8k → 20%FOSTER CARE CLOTHING CLOSET: $7k → 20%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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 35 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

35 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
46

Total granted

$1.9M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+7%

Still filing today

71%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $187k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther
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

  • PD
    PEE DEE COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL ASSAULT
    4× · 2021–2024 · $126k · revenue +8%
  • BW
    BELLE W BARUCH FOUNDATION
    3× · 2019–2023 · $101k · revenue +16%
  • MH
    MCLEOD HEALTH FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $100k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • CM
    CAMDEN MILITARY ACADEMY
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +22%
  • FC
    FLORENCE COUNTY MUSEUM
    one grant, 2020 · $63k
  • LF
    Lutheran Family Services in the Carolinas
    one grant, 2023 · $63k · revenue +7%
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
Florence Christian Home
Human Services
2
Faith Food Pantry

Provide food security to families in lee and monroe counties

Food & Nutrition
3
Darlington County Habitat for Humanity Inc

To provide affordable housing for low-income families in darlington county, sc

Housing & Shelter
4
Pickens County Meals On Wheels Inc

The organization provides hot, noontime meals delivered to the homes of senior citizens living in pickens county, south carolina who are unable to prepare and provide the meals for themselves as well as providing senior living experiences.

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5
Conway County Care Center

Provide Emergency services, services include food, clothing, utility payment assistance, rental assistance, school supplies, infant care and medical assistance for 10442 individuals

Human Services
6
York County Board of Disabilities and Special Needs

Serve clients with intellectual and developmental disabilities within york county, south carolina.

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7
Clemson Free Clinic

To deliver high-quality medical care and essential pharmaceuticals with unwavering compassion and respect. we focus our efforts on individuals aged 12 to 64 who find themselves without the safety net of medicaid, medicare, or any other…

Health
8
Fuller Center for Housing of Mccormick Sc Inc

Building decent & affordable housing for the poor

Housing & Shelter
9
Good Shepherd Free Medical Clinic of Laurens County

Provide free medical care, medications, & pastoral counsel to laurens county, sc residents without government help or private insurance who are unable to afford care.

Health
10
Food for Little Rascals Inc

Food for Little Rascals Inc (FFLR) is operated exclusively to improve the health, welfare, and care of children in the State of South Carolina.

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11
Nancy K Perry Childrens Shelter

Care of abused and neglected children.

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12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Care House of the Pee Dee Inc; the most unlike its peers is Belle W Baruch 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

58 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. 58 of the 95 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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/58
Grantees still filing
37/58
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF FLORENCE: $133,726 · OtherCITY OF FLORENCEPEE DEE COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL ASSAULT: $126,350 · OtherPEE DEE COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL ASSAULTBELLE W BARUCH FOUNDATION: $100,750 · OtherBELLE W BARUCH FOUNDATIONFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $95,964 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF FLORENCE: $85,500 · OtherTHE MANNA HOUSE: $71,800 · OtherFLORENCE COUNTY MUSEUM: $62,897 · OtherDARLINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY: $60,000 · OtherWOFFORD COLLEGE: $57,250 · OtherTHE NAOMI PROJECT INC: $64,811 · Other+50 more: $844,613 · Other+50 moreCAMDEN MILITARY ACADEMY: $500,000 · EducationCAMDEN MILITARY ACADE…FLORENCE-DARLINGTON TECHNICAL COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationFLORENCE-DARLINGTON T…THE CARE HOUSE OF THE PEE DEE INC: $38,500 · EducationTHE CARE HOUSE OF THE…+3 more: $32,360 · EducationHOUSE OF HOPE OF THE PEE DEE INC: $91,400 · Human ServicesHOUSE OF HOPE…LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES FLORENCE: $84,370 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSE MI…Lutheran Family Services in the Carolinas: $62,500 · Human ServicesLutheran Fami…Trent Hill Center for Children & Families: $55,510 · Human ServicesTrent Hill Ce…FOSTER CARE CLOTHING CLOSET INC: $26,100 · Human ServicesFOSTER CARE C…CARING AND SHARING INC: $16,000 · Human Services+6 more: $43,710 · Human Services+6 moreMCLEOD HEALTH FOUNDATION: $99,602 · HealthLIONS VISION SERVICES A SOUTH CAROLINA CHARITY: $35,300 · HealthMERCY MEDICAL FREE CLINICS: $21,900 · HealthPOTTER HOUSE RECOVERY: $9,100 · Health+1 more: $5,000 · HealthFLORENCE COUNTY MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $116,236 · Arts & CultureFLORENCE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $34,303 · Arts & CultureDRAMATIC COFFEE BEANS INC: $5,800 · Arts & CulturePerforming Arts and Science Academy Pasa: $5,500 · Arts & CultureHELP 4 KIDS FLORENCE: $70,760 · Food & NutritionHARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK: $47,100 · Food & NutritionBREAD OF LIFE FOOD PANTRY INC: $21,755 · Food & NutritionCELLIS MAJOR DRIFFIN I - CEDRIC MOS: $18,260 · Food & NutritionBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE PEE DEE AREA INC: $75,667 · Youth DevelopmentDillon County Boys and Girls Youth Center: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHILDREN'S CANCER PARTNERS OF THE CAROLINAS INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentPick 42 Foundation: $9,500 · Youth Development
Other$1,703,661Education$620,860Human Services$379,590Health$170,902Arts & Culture$161,839Food & Nutrition$157,875Youth Development$110,167

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 budgetCAMDEN MILITARY ACADEMY: $500,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetPEE DEE COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL ASSAULT: $126,350 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetFLORENCE COUNTY MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $116,236 over 4y, 79% of budgetBELLE W BARUCH FOUNDATION: $100,750 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetMCLEOD HEALTH FOUNDATION: $99,602 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetHOUSE OF HOPE OF THE PEE DEE INC: $91,400 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES FLORENCE: $84,370 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE PEE DEE AREA INC: $75,667 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetTHE MANNA HOUSE: $71,800 over 5y, 25% of budgetHELP 4 KIDS FLORENCE: $70,760 over 6y, 7.3% of budgetTHE NAOMI PROJECT INC: $64,811 over 4y, 18% of budgetLutheran Family Services in the Carolinas: $62,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWOFFORD COLLEGE: $57,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTrent Hill Center for Children & Families: $55,510 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetFLORENCE-DARLINGTON TECHNICAL COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetHARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK: $47,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARION-DILLON COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $43,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetTHE CARE HOUSE OF THE PEE DEE INC: $38,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetLIONS VISION SERVICES A SOUTH CAROLINA CHARITY: $35,300 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetFLORENCE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $34,303 over 2y, 14% of budgetKINGS COURT: $34,250 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetFOSTER CARE CLOTHING CLOSET INC: $26,100 over 3y, 13% of budgetAMAZING GRACE PARK CLEMENTA PINCKNEY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $25,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetROBERT S AND VIVIAN I JOHNSON FOUND: $25,000 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetFLORENCE AREA HUMANE SOCIETY: $22,400 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetMERCY MEDICAL FREE CLINICS: $21,900 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBREAD OF LIFE FOOD PANTRY INC: $21,755 over 3y, 16% of budgetPEE DEE LAND TRUST: $21,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCELLIS MAJOR DRIFFIN I - CEDRIC MOS: $18,260 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetCARING AND SHARING INC: $16,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetMARLBOROUGH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $15,000 over 2y, 36% of budgetDILLON COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP: $15,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetPEE DEE HEARING CENTER: $13,380 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetFRANCIS MARION UNIVERSITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $12,360 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDarlington County Humane Society Inc: $12,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDARLINGTON COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $11,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S CANCER PARTNERS OF THE CAROLINAS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPick 42 Foundation: $9,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPOTTER HOUSE RECOVERY: $9,100 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetWAYMAKER OFF-ROAD WHEELCHAIRS INC: $8,200 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetLYDIAS BOWELS OF MERCY HOME INC: $7,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetYOUTH MENTORS ASSOCIATION OF THE PEE DEE: $7,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF MARLBORO COUNTY INC: $7,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetFREE MEDICAL CLINIC OF DARLINGTON COUNTY: $7,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE LORD CARES: $7,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEE DEE EQUALITY: $6,000 over 1y, 72% of budgetPerforming Arts and Science Academy Pasa: $5,500 over 1y, 1.0% 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.

Central Carolina Comm…Duke Energy FoundationAssurant FoundationUnited Way of Florenc…Betty S Campbell Char…Foundation for the Ca…Aiken Foundation IncDrs Bruce & Lee Found…Hm and Pearl Kyle Fou…Marion County Healthc…The Charles W & Eliza…The Byerly Foundation
Central Carolina Community FoundationSC50.1× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Central Carolina Community Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Assurant Foundation · United Way of Florence County · Betty S Campbell Charitable Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Aiken Foundation Inc · Drs Bruce & Lee Foundation · Hm and Pearl Kyle Foundation Inc · Marion County Healthcare Foundation · The Charles W & Elizabeth H Coker Foundation · The Byerly 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 Eastern Carolina Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Eastern Carolina Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    19report 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 95 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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