· Public charity
Jewish Endowment Foundation of South Carolina
The mission of the JEWISH ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA is to educate, strengthen and support the sc jewish community by uniting people, and investing resources; and to lead and facilitate a culture of philanthropy and shared investment among donors and community leaders to sustain, strengthen and support the jewish communities…
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 44% of JEWISH ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA’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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 25 grants below total $882,211 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $957,954 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $75,743 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $281k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $265k
- $250k+1 grant · $285k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ADDLESTONE HEBREW ACADEMY | $285,487 |
| SYNAGOGUE EMANU-EL | $101,921 |
| CHARLESTON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION | $85,491 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER CHARLESTON | $77,654 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF GREATER CHARLESTON | $46,607 |
| CHABAD OF CHARLESTON INC | $30,271 |
| BRITH SHOLOM BETH ISRAEL SYNAGOGUE | $29,474 |
| KAHAL KADOSH BETH ELOHIM | $27,801 |
| LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC | $26,400 |
| WEST END SYNAGOGUE - THE CONGREGATION KHAL KODESH ADATH | $22,950 |
| JEWISH STUDIES CENTER INC | $18,377 |
| MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION - HEART & VASCULAR CENTER | $15,000 |
| PALMETTO PROJECT INC | $12,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $11,500 |
| COMING STREET CEMETERY KKBE | $10,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $202k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
23 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k 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
- AHADDLESTONE HEBREW ACADEMY9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +178%
- COCOLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $218k · revenue +110%
- JSJEWISH STUDIES CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $127k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- TCTRI-COUNTY CRADLE TO CAREER COLLABORATIVEone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -5%
- COCOLLEGE OF CHARLESTONone grant, 2018 · $12k
- HCHISTORIC COMING STREET CEMETERY TRone grant, 2020 · $10k
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 educate jewish students based on chabad chassidic philosophy, advance their understanding of jewish ideas and foster their jewishness.
The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…
To empower and inspire north carolina's jewish college students to pursue their own jewish journeys by creating strong communities and transformative experiences.
Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…
To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…
The organization's mission is to manage a continuum of senior care business lines that consistently provide high-quality compassionate care while focusing on the development of innovative programs and services that enable individuals to…
The mission of the charleston school of law foundation inc is to encourage and assist the study, teaching, promoting and research of the rule of law in charleston, south carolina and all related subject areas as determined by the board of…
Cesjds is a pre k-12 grade independent day school that delivers an exemplary general and jewish education. our purpose is to ensure a vibrant jewish future by fostering the growth of confident, compassionate thinkers who engage the world…
Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.
San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.
Charged with raising, collecting and distributing funds, the federation seeks to "advance the welfare of the total jewish community". the federation strongly supports israel and world jewry. additionally, the organization strives to…
To further jewish historical education among youths
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chabad of Charleston Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hadassah the Women's Zionist Org of America Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
28 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. 28 of the 39 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 ADDLESTONE HEBREW ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF CHARLESTON SC ↗
- Who funds Charleston Jewish Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Jewish Family Services of Greater Charleston Inc ↗
- Who funds PALMETTO PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH STUDIES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHABAD OF CHARLESTON INC ↗
- Who funds CLAFLIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Ohr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds B'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY CRADLE TO CAREER COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds COASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds END IT FOR GOOD INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN BUSINESS LEADERS OF THE US HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY FOUNDATION (WBL) ↗
- Who funds South Carolina Aquarium ↗
- Who funds University of South Carolina Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds Charleston Literary Festival Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR PEACE COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE OLGA LENGYEL INSTITUTE FOR HOLOCAUST STUDIES AND HUMAN RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN DOCUMENTARY FUND ↗
- Who funds JCC HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Hadassah The Women's Zionist Org of America Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC ↗
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: Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Charleston Jewish Federation Inc · Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc · Oscar and Mona Sokol Foundation · Norman J and Gerry Sue Arnold Foundation · The Sherman Family Charitable Trust · The Leon Levine Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Jewish Endowment Foundation of South Carolina 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.