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Frugal Princess Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$21k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 59% of FRUGAL PRINCESS INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$16k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRUGAL PRINCESS INC$6,595
PHOENIX RENAISSANCE INC$5,825
BURROUGHS & CHAPIN ART MUSEUM$1,950
Individual grant recipient$1,495
BOOKGREEN GARDENS$1,000
SOS CARE$1,000
EASTERN CAROLINA HOUSING ORGANIZATION$850
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF HORRY COUNTY$525
GRAND STRAND HUMANE SOCIETY$500
YNCA$500
NEW DIRECTIONS OF HORRY COUNTY$500
JUNIOR LEAGUE GRAND STRAND$100
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FOSTERING HOPE: $300 → 13%NEW DIRECTIONS OF HORRY COUNTY: $650 → 13%NEW DIRECTIONS OF HORRY COUNTY: $500 → 13%NEW DIRECTIONS OF HORRY COUNTY: $500 → 13%NEW DIRECTIONS OF HORRY COUNTY: $450 → 13%NEW DIRECTIONS OF HORRY COUNTY: $400 → 13%NEW DIRECTONS OF HORRY COUNTY: $150 → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 10% of Frugal Princess Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in SC; read by stated purpose it is 89% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Frugal Princess Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 7.3% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$88k · 18 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +79% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
29

Total granted

$88k
$49k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+79%
+33%

Still filing today

56%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterEducationPhilanthropyOther

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

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE GRAND STRAND INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $8k · revenue +47%
  • ND
    NEW DIRECTIONS OF HORRY COUNTY INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $3k · revenue +18%
  • GS
    GRAND STRAND HUMANE SOCIETY INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $3k · revenue +155%

Funded once

  • EC
    EASTERN CAROLINA HOMELESSNESS ORG INC ECHOgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +470%
  • W
    WELVISTA
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue -28%
  • FP
    Frugal Princess, Inc.
    one grant, 2017 · $7k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce Educational Foundation
Philanthropy
2
Carolina Childrens Home

The mission of Carolina Children's Home is to meet the under-served mental and physical health needs of children, young adults, and their families

Human Services
3
Gbsc Foundation
Recreation & Sports
4
United Way of Coastal Carolina Inc

The united way of coastal carolina, inc. strives to meet the current and emerging human needs in craven, carteret, jones, and pamlico counties by mobilizing the resources of community organizations, agencies, recipients, and volunteers.

Philanthropy
5
Beyond Housing

We strive to serve the community by constructing and rehabilitating homes for affordable homeownership, providing new housing rentals for low to moderate wealth families in south carolina, and providing services that aid in all aspects of…

6
Gullah Festival of South Carolina

The Gullah Festival was established to honor and recreate the atmosphere of a celebration called Decoration Day now named Memorial Day. As a result every year during the festival weekend there is a Decoration Day Play to commemorate the…

Arts & Culture
7
South Carolina Public Interest Foundation
Crime & Legal
8
Sc Chamber of Commerce

Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.

9
South Carolina Network of Children's Advocacy Centers

Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse

Youth Development
10
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
11
Carolina Community Care Inc

The mission of hospice & community care is to give hope, comfort, and compassion to those that need it most. hospice & community care is a nonprofit healthcare organization providing hospice and palliative care to residents of york,…

12
Hope Harbor Home Inc

Hope Harbor Home strives to break the cycle of domestic and sexual violence in Brunswick County, North Carolina.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sc Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sertoma Inc International Grand Strand. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Hospital SystemsYouth Development CentersEnvironmental Advocacy and …Animal Rescue and ShelterAffordable Housing Construc…Domestic Violence and Sexua…Classical Music OrchestrasCommunity Theater CompaniesYouth Sports ProgramsChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Community Literacy TutoringCollege Foundation SupportLocal History MuseumsAffordable Housing Developm…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%9%<5yr12%13%5–10yr15%9%10–20yr24%30%20–35yr9%22%35–55yr19%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%3%<5yr12%4%5–10yr15%26%10–20yr24%42%20–35yr9%15%35–55yr19%10%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 3% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/31
the rest of the field
12%
3,448/28,758

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

27 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 50 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/27
Grantees still filing
19/27
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FRUGAL PRINCESS INC — $23,620 · OtherFRUGAL PRINCESS INCF BURROUGHS & CHAPIN ART MUSEUM — $14,100 · OtherF BURROUGHS & CHAPIN ART MUSEUMFrugal Princess, Inc. — $7,300 · OtherFrugal Princess, Inc.BURROUGHS & CHAPIN ART MUSEUM — $6,950 · OtherBURROUGHS & CHAPIN ART MUSEUMIndividual grant recipient — $6,685 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCOASTAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $3,380 · Other+31 more — $23,480 · Other+31 moreEASTERN CAROLINA HOMELESSNESS ORG INC ECHO — $14,800 · Housing & ShelterEASTERN CAROLI…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF HORRY COUNTY INC — $2,275 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HU…PHOENIX RENAISSANCE INC — $8,775 · Arts & CulturePHOENIX RE…THE FRANKLIN G BURROUGHS SIMEON B CHAPIN ART MUSEUM — $3,650 · Arts & CultureTHE FRANKL…Blacksburg Master Chorale — $600 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $325 · Arts & CultureBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE GRAND STRAND INC — $8,240 · Youth DevelopmentWELVISTA — $7,500 · Health+2 more — $300 · HealthNEW DIRECTIONS OF HORRY COUNTY INC — $2,950 · Human ServicesFostering Hope Inc — $300 · Human ServicesGRAND STRAND HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $2,785 · Animals
Other$85,515Housing & Shelter$17,075Arts & Culture$13,350Youth Development$8,240Health$7,800Human Services$3,250Animals$2,785

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEASTERN CAROLINA HOMELESSNESS ORG INC ECHO — $14,800 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPHOENIX RENAISSANCE INC — $8,775 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE GRAND STRAND INC — $8,240 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetWELVISTA — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FRANKLIN G BURROUGHS SIMEON B CHAPIN ART MUSEUM — $3,650 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCOASTAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $3,380 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW DIRECTIONS OF HORRY COUNTY INC — $2,950 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetGRAND STRAND HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $2,785 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF HORRY COUNTY INC — $2,275 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKGREEN GARDENS — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOM READERS INC — $900 over 4y, 0.3% of budget2 LIVE BEYOND INC — $600 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBlacksburg Master Chorale — $600 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLong Bay Theatre — $325 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSertoma — $300 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFostering Hope Inc — $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK — $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSC GOVERNOR'S SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES FOUNDATION INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORIC SOTTERLEY INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MARYLAND INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE GEORGIA INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH MYRTLE BEACH WOMANS CLUB — $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPALMETTO LITERACY COUNCIL — $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMyrtle Beach Women's Club — $50 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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 EASTERN CAROLINA HOMELESSNESS ORG INC ECHO
  • Who funds PHOENIX RENAISSANCE INC
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE GRAND STRAND INC
  • Who funds WELVISTA
  • Who funds THE FRANKLIN G BURROUGHS SIMEON B CHAPIN ART MUSEUM
  • Who funds COASTAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds NEW DIRECTIONS OF HORRY COUNTY INC
  • Who funds GRAND STRAND HUMANE SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF HORRY COUNTY INC
  • Who funds BROOKGREEN GARDENS
  • Who funds FREEDOM READERS INC
  • Who funds 2 LIVE BEYOND INC
  • Who funds Blacksburg Master Chorale
  • Who funds Long Bay Theatre
  • Who funds Sertoma
  • Who funds Fostering Hope Inc
  • Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK

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.

Waccamaw Community FoundationSC26.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Waccamaw Community Foundation · Chapin Foundation of Myrtle Beach Sc · Moglia Family Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Newman's Own Foundation · Central Carolina Community Foundation · United Way of Horry County Inc · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer 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 Frugal Princess Inc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 28%
  • Historic Sotterley Inc28% of 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, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 50 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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