How much does Jewish Endowment Foundation of South Carolina give?

Jewish Endowment Foundation of South Carolina reported 25 itemized grants totaling $882,211, out of $957,954 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Jewish Endowment Foundation of South Carolina fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (31%), Religion (29%), Human Services (18%).

Who are Jewish Endowment Foundation of South Carolina's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Addlestone Hebrew Academy ($1.1M), Jewish Community Center of Charleston Sc ($691k), Synagogue Emanu-El ($525k).

Does Jewish Endowment Foundation of South Carolina fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Where is Jewish Endowment Foundation of South Carolina based?

Jewish Endowment Foundation of South Carolina is based in SC.

Jewish Endowment Foundation of South Carolina

Jewish Endowment Foundation of South Carolina at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

Jewish Endowment Foundation of South Carolina

Q: Which funders back the same organizations as Jewish Endowment Foundation of South Carolina?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc, Charleston Jewish Federation Inc, Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc.

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…

$958k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$285k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.6MReligion$1.5MHuman Services$893kPhilanthropy$545kCommunity Improvement$122kFood & Nutrition$89kHealth$82kPublic Benefit$71kOther$0

02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 25 grants below total $882,211, the rows itemized in this filing. The $957,954 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $75,743 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k7 grants · $51k
$10k–50k14 grants · $281k
$50k–250k3 grants · $265k
$250k+1 grant · $285k

$12,500

Median grant

States reached

$32M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
CENTER FOR PEACE COMMUNICATIONS INC	$10,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

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.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$4.2M · 23 repeat orgs$148k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.2M

$114k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%

+54%

Still filing today

65%

67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationCommunity ImprovementHealthArts & CultureReligionYouth DevelopmentOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

AH
ADDLESTONE HEBREW ACADEMY
9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +178%
CO
COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION
9× · 2017–2025 · $218k · revenue +110%
JS
JEWISH STUDIES CENTER INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $127k · revenue +34%

Funded once

TC
TRI-COUNTY CRADLE TO CAREER COLLABORATIVE
one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -5%
CO
COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON
one grant, 2018 · $12k
Charleston Literary Festival Inc
one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +22%

How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Chabad of Columbia University

To educate jewish students based on chabad chassidic philosophy, advance their understanding of jewish ideas and foster their jewishness.

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The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America

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…

International

North Carolina Hillel Foundation

To empower and inspire north carolina's jewish college students to pursue their own jewish journeys by creating strong communities and transformative experiences.

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Hebrew College

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,…

Education

University of Southern California Hillel Foundation

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…

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Chelsea Jewish Lifecare Inc

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…

Health

Charleston School of Law

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…

Education

Charles E Smith Jewish Day School of Greater Washington Inc

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…

Education

Columbia College

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.

Education

San Diego Jewish Academy

San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.

Education

Savannah Jewish Council Inc Dba Savannah Jewish Federation

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…

Religion

Jewish Childrens Museum

To further jewish historical education among youths

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chabad of Charleston Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 39 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

27/28

Grantees still filing

19/28

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$2,319,886Education$1,469,522Philanthropy$656,553Human Services$201,695Community Improvement$152,867Religion$147,081Health$82,200

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.

Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina IncSC25.5× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Jewish Endowment Foundation of South Carolina funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jewish Endowment Foundation of South Carolina. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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