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How Can We Change That Foundation
Its FY2020 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
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BISHOP ENGLAND HIGH SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| CHARLESTON CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| CHARLESTON CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| CHARLESTON AREA URBAN LEAGUE | $100 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $100 |
| CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE LOWCOUNTRY | $75 |
| PAY IT FORWARD-CHARLESTON | $53 |
| MAKE-A-WISH | $50 |
| ONE WORLD HEALTH | $50 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY | $50 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $153) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
6 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. 6 of the 9 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
Open a dossier: Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization How Can We Change That Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from How Can We Change That Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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