· Public charity
Exchange Club of Charleston
To promote active participation in the programs of service of the National Exchange Club for the betterment of the community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 5 grants below total $37,327 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $336,194 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $298,867 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 $10k3 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| East Cooper Community Outreach | $10,000 |
| Dee Norton Child Advocacy Center | $10,000 |
| Lowcountry Orphan Relief | $6,000 |
| Communities in Schools | $5,827 |
| Star Gospel Mission | $5,500 |
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 (FY18–25, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +28% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 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, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
- DNDEE NORTON LOWCOUNTRY CHILDREN'S CENTER5× · 2018–2025 · $59k · revenue +30%
- MMETANOIA2× · 2018–2024 · $16k · revenue +28%
- LFLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC2× · 2021–2022 · $15k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- DTDARKNESS TO LIGHT INCone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue -21%
- FRFOX RIDGE FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +62%
- FCFlorence Crittenton Programsone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
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,…
We Served over 3000 families with over 5000 boxes of shelf stable foods and fresh produce and frozen meats
Closet of Hope is a place where Foster,kinship, and adoptive families can come to find clothing, shoes, toiletries, and other items that they may need. All items are free to these families for children in their care. Like our page for more…
To reduce hunger and poverty in the Tri-County Area by providing individuals and families with food, clothing, shelter, resource and spiritual support while striving to employ, educate and empower.
General assistance to help families experiencing homelessness and low-income families achieve sustaiinable independence through a community-based response.
Christian Community Ministries is a financial crisis ministry helping those who fall within our definition of crisis. Except for one paid administrator, we are a totally volunteer organization. We operate as an extension of the servant…
Harvest hope is on a mission to eliminate hunger and food insecurity in south carolina. we rescue nutritious food from stores throughout the state and distribute it to food pantries, shelters, and soup kitchens. we operate programs that…
Provide food and educational items to children in need in the Darlington County and Darlington County School District
To provide assistance to underserved families in the community through programs address hunger, job insecurity, child development, senior wellness, housing, education and community engagement.
Our mission is to rescue and transport surplus food to qualified non profit agencies and churches. these agencies fulfill a priority need by distributing food to needy and disadvantaged families in three counties of sc.
Food for Little Rascals Inc (FFLR) is operated exclusively to improve the health, welfare, and care of children in the State of South Carolina.
SCEC launched to address the increasing challenges facing youth along with their families in generational poverty by providing support mentorship and services that encourage youth to realize their full potential.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Star Gospel Mission and the most unlike its peers is National Exchange Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 24 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 DEE NORTON LOWCOUNTRY CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds METANOIA ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds DARKNESS TO LIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds Communities in Schools of South Carolina ↗
- Who funds FOX RIDGE FUND ↗
- Who funds East Cooper Community Outreach ↗
- Who funds TEACHERS SUPPLY CLOSET ↗
- Who funds HANDS OF CHRIST ↗
- Who funds C&B VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON BASKET BRIGADE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL EXCHANGE CLUB ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY ORPHAN RELIEF ↗
- Who funds BERKELEY SENIORS INC ↗
- Who funds Courageous Kidz Inc ↗
- Who funds HELPING AND LENDING OUTREACH SUPPORT ↗
- Who funds Florence Crittenton Programs of South Carolina Inc ↗
- Who funds STAR GOSPEL MISSION ↗
- Who funds COASTAL CAROLINA COUNCIL BSA ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF SUMMERVILLE 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: Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Trident United Way · The Joanna Foundation · Kuznik Charitable Foundation · Daniel Island Community Fund Inc · Post and Courier Foundation · Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Central Carolina Community Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · Beyond Our Gates Foundation of Kiawah & Seabrook · Pathfinder Foundation 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 Exchange Club of Charleston 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.
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.