· Private foundation
Fei Family Foundation
Its FY2017 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WINDWOOD FARM HOME FOR CHILDREN INC | $8,000 |
| LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC | $6,000 |
| WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL | $6,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC | $6,000 |
| HELPING AND LENDING OUTREACH SUPPORT | $6,000 |
| UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE CHARLESTON AREA INC | $5,000 |
| CHARLESTON PORT & SEAFARERS SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| READING PARTNERS | $4,000 |
| CHARLESTON PROMISE NEIGHBORHOOD | $4,000 |
| TRIDENT LITERACY ASSOCIATION INC | $4,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $3,000 |
| 34 WEST THEATER COMPANY | $1,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–17) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your 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.
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.
Our mission is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.
Charleston waterkeeper's mission it to protect and restore charleston's waterways for our community and future generations. we do that through an effective mix of boots-on-the-water stewardship and data-driven advocacy designed to protect…
To provide a superior education for prekindergarten through twelfth grade students in a safe, well-disciplined and nurturing environment. this mission has remained constant throughout the 50 plus year history of the school. founders…
(See Schedule O)
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
The mission of Communities In Schools is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.
Our mission is to provide compassionate direction to individuals and families in need through counseling, education and financial benefits management.
To expand access to legal representation and rights in South Carolina.
Charleston Habitat for Humanitys (CHFH) vision is a world where everyone has a decent place to live. Seeking to put God's love into action, Charleston Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope. By…
Charleston stage's vision is to be a leading professional theater company, engaging the broad community through high quality productions, with leading artists, and excellent production values. the organization provides the community access…
To facilitate, develop, and advocate for neighborhood revitalization, affordable housing construction, preservation and economic development in Charleston County.
Provide Charlotte's low-income children and youth with the academic, spiritual, and social development necessary to become Christian leaders determined to restore their communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Water Missions International and the most unlike its peers is Hillsdale College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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.
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 Windwood Farm Home For Children Inc ↗
- Who funds Sea Island Habitat For Humanity Inc ↗
- Who funds WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING AND LENDING OUTREACH SUPPORT ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON PORT & SEAFARERS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE CHARLESTON AREA INC ↗
- Who funds READING PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds TRIDENT LITERACY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Charleston Promise Neighborhood ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds 34 WEST PRODUCTIONS ↗
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: Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc · Trident United Way · The Joanna Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Fei Family Foundation 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.