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· 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.

$336k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
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, FY2018 to 2025.

Human Services$64kCrime & Legal$54kFood & Nutrition$44kInternational$29kEducation$26kYouth Development$21kHousing & Shelter$16kPublic Safety & Disaster$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $37,327, the rows itemized in this filing. The $336,194 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $298,867 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$6,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$277k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Dee Norton Child Advocacy Center$10,000
East Cooper Community Outreach$10,000
Lowcountry Orphan Relief$6,000
Communities in Schools$5,827
Star Gospel Mission$5,500
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%East Cooper Community Outreach: $10k → 12%Berkeley Seniors Inc: $6k → 9%Teachers' Supply Closet: $8k → 12%Florence Crittenton Programs: $6k → 12%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.

51%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$140k · 6 repeat orgs$132k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
15

Total granted

$140k
$110k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
0%

Still filing today

67%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalHealthEducationOther
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

  • DN
    DEE NORTON LOWCOUNTRY CHILDREN'S CENTER
    5× · 2018–2025 · $59k · revenue +30%
  • M
    METANOIA
    2× · 2018–2024 · $16k · revenue +28%
  • LF
    LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $15k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • DT
    DARKNESS TO LIGHT INC
    one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue -21%
  • FR
    FOX RIDGE FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +62%
  • FC
    Florence Crittenton Programs
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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
Carolina Teen Center

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,…

Health
2
Feed Berkeley Sc

We Served over 3000 families with over 5000 boxes of shelf stable foods and fresh produce and frozen meats

Human Services
3
Closet of Hope

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…

Human Services
4
House of Hope North Charleston

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.

Food & Nutrition
5
C4 Ministries of Laurens County

General assistance to help families experiencing homelessness and low-income families achieve sustaiinable independence through a community-based response.

Human Services
6
Christian Community Ministries of Kershaw County

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…

Religion
7
Harvest Hope Food Bank

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…

Food & Nutrition
8
Carolina's Kids

Provide food and educational items to children in need in the Darlington County and Darlington County School District

Education
9
Bluffton Community Soup Kitchen

To provide assistance to underserved families in the community through programs address hunger, job insecurity, child development, senior wellness, housing, education and community engagement.

Human Services
10
Second Helpings

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.

Human Services
11
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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12
South Carolina Empowerment Centre

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.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Star Gospel Mission; 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.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 24 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
10/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DEE NORTON LOWCOUNTRY CHILDREN'S CENTER: $59,000 · OtherDEE NORTON LOWCOUNTRY CHILDREN'S CENTERLowcountry Orphan Relief: $28,771 · OtherLowcountry Orphan ReliefLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC: $15,000 · OtherLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INCOne 80 Place: $10,000 · OtherOne 80 PlaceFOX RIDGE FUND: $10,000 · OtherFOX RIDGE FUNDFlorence Crittenton Programs: $10,000 · OtherFlorence Crittenton ProgramsCHARLESTON BASKET BRIGADE: $7,000 · OtherC&B VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $7,000 · OtherCHRIST CHURCH: $6,500 · OtherNATIONAL EXCHANGE CLUB: $6,000 · Other+2 more: $10,700 · Other+2 moreEast Cooper Community Outreach: $10,000 · Human ServicesEast Cooper Co…TEACHERS SUPPLY CLOSET: $7,500 · Human ServicesTEACHERS SUPPL…BERKELEY SENIORS INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesBERKELEY SENIO…LOWCOUNTRY ORPHAN RELIEF: $6,000 · Human ServicesLOWCOUNTRY ORP…Florence Crittenton Programs of South Carolina Inc: $5,500 · Human ServicesFlorence Critt…METANOIA: $16,000 · Community ImprovementDARKNESS TO LIGHT INC: $15,000 · Crime & LegalHANDS OF CHRIST: $7,500 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEELS OF SUMMERVILLE INC: $5,000 · Food & NutritionCommunities in Schools of South Carolina: $10,827 · EducationCourageous Kidz Inc: $6,000 · HealthHELPING AND LENDING OUTREACH SUPPORT: $6,000 · Membership Benefit
Other$169,971Human Services$35,000Community Improvement$16,000Crime & Legal$15,000Food & Nutrition$12,500Education$10,827Health$6,000Membership Benefit$6,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDEE NORTON LOWCOUNTRY CHILDREN'S CENTER: $59,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetMETANOIA: $16,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDARKNESS TO LIGHT INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCommunities in Schools of South Carolina: $10,827 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOX RIDGE FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetEast Cooper Community Outreach: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTEACHERS SUPPLY CLOSET: $7,500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCHARLESTON BASKET BRIGADE: $7,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetBERKELEY SENIORS INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCourageous Kidz Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetNATIONAL EXCHANGE CLUB: $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY ORPHAN RELIEF: $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHELPING AND LENDING OUTREACH SUPPORT: $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSTAR GOSPEL MISSION: $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFlorence Crittenton Programs of South Carolina Inc: $5,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOASTAL CAROLINA COUNCIL BSA: $5,200 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF SUMMERVILLE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% 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.

Coastal Community Fou…Trident United WayThe Joanna FoundationKuznik Charitable Fou…Daniel Island Communi…Post and Courier Foun…Henry & Sylvia Yaschi…Dominion Energy Chari…Central Carolina Comm…Sisters of Charity Fo…Beyond Our Gates Foun…Pathfinder Foundation…
Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina IncSC29.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Exchange Club of Charleston funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Exchange Club of Charleston. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%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
    0get no government money at all
    7report 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 24 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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