· Public charity
Hilton Head Firefighters Association Inc
The hilton head firefigheters association is dedicated to the advancement of fire safety.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OPERATION R&R | $8,000 |
| HILTON HEAD HEROES | $3,000 |
| NAMI LOWCOUNTRY | $3,000 |
| MEMORY MATTERS | $3,000 |
| HILTON HEAD DEEP WELL PROJECT | $2,720 |
| DISASTER RELIEF USA-PENECOSTAL HOLINESS CHURCH | $2,518 |
| PROGRAMS FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE | $2,000 |
| CAR SEATS FOR KIDS | $2,000 |
| HUNGER COALITION OF THE LOW COUNTRY | $2,000 |
| SANDLEWOOD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY | $2,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE | $1,800 |
| SECOND HELPINGS | $1,800 |
| THE SANDBOX | $1,600 |
| HEATHER TREW FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| HHI SAFE HARBOUR | $1,200 |
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 (FY18–18, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 5%. 100% of those 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.
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.
3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (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 FY2018, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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
- OROPERATION REST AND RELAX USA2× · 2017–2018 · $18k · revenue -8%
- NLNAMI LOWCOUNTRY2× · 2017–2018 · $6k · revenue -5%
- HHHilton Head Firefighters Association Inc2× · 2017–2018 · $4k · revenue -1%
Funded once
- HHHILTON HEAD ISLAND RECREATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +115%
- BFBURTON FIRE DISTRICTone grant, 2017 · $3k
- NONeighborhood Outreach Connectiongraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +42%
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.
To render aid, assistance & comfort to the patients of hilton head hospital and coastal carolina hospital and to their families and friends through an in-service volunteer program, and to enrich the quality of life, health and education of…
To eliminate food insecurity and to fight hunger by providing access to nutritional food and meals to those who need our services on Hatteras Island.
Meals on wheels bluffton-hilton head provides nutritious meals and wellness checks to elderly, ill, disabled, and homebound individuals residing in bluffton and on hilton head island. the organization's primary purpose is to reduce hunger…
The concours event is held annually on hilton head island, sc and displays historical and significant automobiles for the purpose of educating the public on the automotive industry origin, development and contribution to history
The hilton head reef foundation, a subsidiary of the hilton head island sportfishing club is dedicated to the enhancement and protection of marine fisheries that are significant to the recreational and charter fishing communities. the…
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…
To support and promote the town of hilton head island.
Lowcountry Veterans Home provides transitional housing and individualized support for homeless veterans, working to restore stability, dignity, and independence. Through case management, peer support, transportation, and strong community…
To provide emergency assistance to low income individuals and families in the lowcountry of south carolina.
To provide affordable housing for low-income families in darlington county, sc
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hilton Head Island Deep Well Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lt Michael P Murphy Usn Memorial Scholarship Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 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. 21 of the 25 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 OPERATION REST AND RELAX USA ↗
- Who funds NAMI LOWCOUNTRY ↗
- Who funds Hilton Head Firefighters Association Inc ↗
- Who funds MEMORY MATTERS ↗
- Who funds HILTON HEAD HEROES INC ↗
- Who funds HILTON HEAD ISLAND RECREATION ↗
- Who funds HILTON HEAD ISLAND DEEP WELL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUNGER COALITION OF THE LOWCOUNTRY ↗
- Who funds PROGRAMS FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood Outreach Connection ↗
- Who funds SANDALWOOD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds SECOND HELPINGS ↗
- Who funds THE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds THE SANDBOX A HILTON HEAD ↗
- Who funds THE HEATHER PERKINS TREW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILTON HEAD ISLAND SAFE HARBOURINC ↗
- Who funds THE LITERACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds OSPREY VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF THE LOWCOUNTRY ↗
- Who funds ZETA TAU ALPHA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LT MICHAEL P MURPHY USN MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
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: Heritage Classic Foundation · Community Foundation of the Lowcountry · The Bargain Box · Wexford Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · The Church Mouse Thrift Shop Inc · Palmetto Electric Trust · The Berkeley Hall Charitable Foundation · Rotary Club of Hilton Head Island-Sunset · Breedlove Foundation Im 020120186528 · The Marshall Miller Foundation · The Douglas & Tonyia Bolton 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 organization Hilton Head Firefighters Association 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.
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.
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