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Junior League of Columbia Inc

The junior league of columbia, inc is an organization of women whose mission is to advance women's leadership for meaningful community impact through volunteer action, collaboration, and training.

$50k
Granted FY2022
3
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2022.

Housing & Shelter$85kEducation$44kFood & Nutrition$31kYouth Development$29kHuman Services$28kHealth$20kInternational$20kCrime & Legal$19kOther$0
02FY2022 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Habitat for Humanity$30,000
Communities in Schools$10,000
Junior Achievement$10,000
02The need
03

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 (FY18–21, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 17%Serve and Connect: $31k → 16%Home Works: $15k → 16%James M Hinton Foundation: $10k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 10% of Junior League of Columbia Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in SC; by stated purpose, 92%.

Junior League of Columbia Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

31%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$92k · 3 repeat orgs$208k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +84% since the first grant, against -5% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2022, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
12

Total granted

$92k
$168k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+84%
-5%

Still filing today

100%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’20’21’22
Human ServicesEducationInternationalHousing & ShelterHealthEmploymentOther
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

  • SA
    SERVE AND CONNECT
    2× · 2018–2020 · $43k · revenue ×34
  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER SOUTH CAROLINA INC
    2× · 2018–2022 · $30k · revenue +84%
  • GS
    GIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTH CAROLINA - MOUNTAINS TO MIDLANDS INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $19k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • RC
    Richland County Public Library
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -5%
  • MI
    Mental Illness Recovery Center Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +11%
  • HN
    Homeless No More Inc
    one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue -8%
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.

1
Carolina Childrens Home

The mission of Carolina Children's Home is to meet the under-served mental and physical health needs of children, young adults, and their families

Human Services
2
Sc Thrive

The organization leads South Carolinians to stability by providing innovative and efficient access to quality of life resources.

Science & Tech
3
Beyond Housing

We strive to serve the community by constructing and rehabilitating homes for affordable homeownership, providing new housing rentals for low to moderate wealth families in south carolina, and providing services that aid in all aspects of…

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4
South Carolina Network of Children's Advocacy Centers

Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse

Youth Development
5
Communityworks Inc

Communityworks is a publicly supported organization and certified community development financial institution that provides funding to promote affordable housing and community development to help stabilize low wealth families and…

Housing & Shelter
6
South Carolina Council On Competitiveness

The south carolina council on competitiveness is a nonpartisan, business-led non-profit organization committed to advancing the long term competitiveness of south carolina through actionable research, support of industry clusters and…

Community Improvement
7
Junior Achievement of Central Carolinas Inc

Junior achievement is the world's largest organization dedicated to educating private and public school students in grades k-12 about entrepreneurship, workforce readiness, and financial literacy, through experiential, hands-on programs.

International
8
Leadership South Carolina

To provide South Carolinians an opportunity to advance their leadership skills while broadening their understanding of issues and opportunities facing the State.

Education
9
Palmetto Care Connections

To assist providers in keeping health care local and connecting rural and underserved South Carolinians to quality services through broadband, technology, and telehealth.

Health
10
South Carolina Council On Economic Education

Sc economics is the only sc non-profit organization exclusively dedicated to improving economic education and financial literacy by preparing teachers and students to be active, successful, and prosperous members of our global economy.

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11
South Carolina Association of Realtors

Nonprofit Trade Association for South Carolina Real Estate Business providing a facility for professional development, research, and exchange of information among members and the public in order to preserve the right to own, use, and…

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12
Sc Chamber of Commerce

Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central Sc Habitat for Humanity; the most unlike its peers is Junior Achievement of Greater South Carolina Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 17 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
9/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CENTRAL SC HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $30,000 · OtherCENTRAL SC HABITAT FOR HUMANITYMental Illness Recovery Center Inc: $20,000 · OtherMental Illness Recovery Center IncLighthouse for Life: $19,000 · OtherLighthouse for LifeCamp Cole: $8,640 · OtherCamp ColePALMETTO PLACE CHILDREN AND YOUTH SERVICES: $5,842 · OtherPALMETTO PLACE CHILDREN AND YOUTH SERVIC…Edventure Inc: $10,518 · OtherEdventure IncMIDLANDS EDUCATION & BUSINESS ALLIANCE: $10,000 · OtherMIDLANDS EDUCATION & BUSINESS ALLIANCEMidlands Fatherhood Coalition: $4,000 · OtherSERVE AND CONNECT: $43,400 · Human ServicesSERVE AND CONNECTHOME WORKS OF AMERICA INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesHOME WORKS OF AMERICA INCNORTH COLUMBIA COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesNORTH COLUMBIA COMMUNITY …Richland County Public Library: $25,000 · EducationRichland Coun…Communities in Schools of South Carolina: $10,000 · EducationCommunities i…JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER SOUTH CAROLINA INC: $30,000 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHI…Homeless No More Inc: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterPATHWAYS TO HEALING: $20,000 · HealthGIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTH CAROLINA - MOUNTAINS TO MIDLANDS INC: $18,600 · Youth Development
Other$108,000Human Services$68,400Education$35,000International$30,000Housing & Shelter$20,000Health$20,000Youth Development$18,600

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSERVE AND CONNECT: $43,400 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER SOUTH CAROLINA INC: $30,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCENTRAL SC HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $30,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetRichland County Public Library: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMental Illness Recovery Center Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHomeless No More Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPATHWAYS TO HEALING: $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLighthouse for Life: $19,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTH CAROLINA - MOUNTAINS TO MIDLANDS INC: $18,600 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHOME WORKS OF AMERICA INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetEdventure Inc: $10,518 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMIDLANDS EDUCATION & BUSINESS ALLIANCE: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCommunities in Schools of South Carolina: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH COLUMBIA COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetPALMETTO PLACE CHILDREN AND YOUTH SERVICES: $5,842 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMidlands Fatherhood Coalition: $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

Central Carolina Comm…Dominion Energy Chari…United Way of the Mid…Lipscomb Family Found…Sisters of Charity Fo…The Nord Family Found…Truist Foundation IncThe Leon Levine Found…Coastal Community Fou…Td Charitable Foundat…Publix Super Markets …Carolina Childrens Ho…
Central Carolina Community FoundationSC37.7× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Central Carolina Community Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · United Way of the Midlands · Lipscomb Family Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · The Nord Family Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · The Leon Levine Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Td Charitable Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Carolina Childrens Home

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 Junior League of Columbia Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Junior League of Columbia Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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