How much did HERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

Arts & Culture$3.9MHuman Services$2.7MEducation$1.3MYouth Development$1.2MPhilanthropy$1.2MRecreation & Sports$752kAnimals$529kEnvironment$360kEmployment$320kOther$7.9M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

fundgeneralfundgolfclemsonfbifundscholarshipbobby chapmanmens golf

2019

sacrificestephen sillermentaldomestic violenceviolence sexualsexual assaultpositive

2020

mentalfresh producerecoverychildhoodsnackssummeraddiction

2021

sea pinespan-africanempowermentlandfacilitiesrecoveryfresh produce

2022

researchpan-africanempowermentmealslandorganizedchrist

2023

junior jazzparkseconomicwell-beingdomestic violenceviolence sexualsexual assault

2024

girlsgenaralparksinvestmentsea pineswell-beingmeals

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 79 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k16 grants · $119k
$10k–50k43 grants · $1.1M
$50k–250k19 grants · $2.4M
$250k+1 grant · $259k

$27,791

Median grant

States reached

$17M

Total assets

Largest grants

MEMORY MATTERS$258,853
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LC$238,050
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB HILTON HEAD$229,915
HILTON HEAD SYMPHONY ORCH$219,047
SOUTH COASTAL FCA$214,983
VOUNTEERS IN MEDICINE$196,338
POCKET FULL OF SUNSHINE$161,031
HILTON HEAD HUMANE ASSOC$157,383
ARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLI$155,822
COASTAL COMMUNITIES DEV$114,900
MITCHELLVILLE PRESERVATION$107,596
AMERICAN RED CROSS$100,000
COASTAL DISCOVERY MUSEUM$93,658
CHILDRENS CENTER$82,324
OSPREY VILLAGE$65,379

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $954k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 11%. 4% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$20M · 105 repeat orgs$430k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

105 repeat relationships — 64 still active in FY2024, 41 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

105

Total granted

$20M

$178k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%

+17%

Still filing today

82%

55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $251k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureRecreation & SportsHealthOther

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

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VOUNTEERS IN MEDICINE
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +153%
MM
MEMORY MATTERS
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +48%
BG
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE LOW COUNTRY
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +4%

Funded once

RC
ROTARY CLUB OF HILTON HEAD
one grant, 2019 · $40k
PS
PAYNE STEWERT KIDSgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +99%
TS
THE SANDBOX
one grant, 2022 · $22k

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.

South Carolina Golf Association

To preserve promote and serve the game of golf

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Carolinas Golf Association

The cga is a non-profit service organization that was formed in 1909 to conduct championships and tournaments for amateur golfers in north and south carolina, administer the usga handicap system in the carolinas, and support its membership…

Recreation & Sports

Hilton Head Students Incentive Fund

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South Carolina Junior Golf Foundation

Establish necessary funding to create opportunities for youth through educationrecreation and maintainingexpanding junior golf programs

Education

Rotary Club of Hilton Head Island

The rotary club of hilton head island charitable foundation is the funding arm of all of the community projects and charitable efforts of the rotary club of hilton head island. it provides a simple, tax efficient way for everyone - club…

Philanthropy

College of Charleston Foundation

To promote education, research, and development programs for the exclusive benefit of the college of charleston

Education

South Carolina Public Interest

Crime & Legal

Myrtle Beach Golf Holiday Inc

Promotion of golf tourism

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South Carolina Tennis

To develop, maintain, and promote the game of tennis.

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Carolinas Golf Foundation

The carolinas golf foundation was formed by the carolinas golf association in 1977 to provide scholarships and funding for a variety of carolinas-based golf initiatives.

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Friends of the Hilton Head Library

The Friends of the Hilton Head Library was organized as a non-profit organization to promote literacy and encourage the pursuit of life long learning through use of the library's resources. We raise funds to help our library be the…

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Good Friends of the Lowcountry

To provide emergency assistance to low income individuals and families in the lowcountry of sc. eligibility is determined by impartial guidelines and a referral system.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra Inc and the most unlike its peers is Young Life. 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.

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 31 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%2/144

the rest of the field

13%

933/6,921

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

115 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

110/115

Grantees still filing

80/115

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$9,103,923Arts & Culture$3,851,909Human Services$2,702,027Education$1,268,429Youth Development$1,240,553Philanthropy$1,170,181Recreation & Sports$751,853

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.

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.

Community Foundation of the LowcountrySC112.3× affinity53 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Lowcountry · Coastal Community Foundation of South · The Bargain Box · Palmetto Electric Trust · The Church Mouse Thrift Shop Inc · Wexford Foundation · The Berkeley Hall Charitable · Hilton Head Firefighters Association Inc · United Way of the Lowcountry · The Watterson Family Foundation · The Douglas & Tonyia Bolton · Goulder Family 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 organisation HERITAGE CLASSIC 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.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: PEOPLE FOR PARKS.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~86 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 571029113 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on PEOPLE FOR PARKS, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 86 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 67% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Heritage Classic Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Heritage Classic Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

HERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

115 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Heritage Classic Foundation?

More from the funding graph

HERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

115 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Heritage Classic Foundation?

More from the funding graph