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Kiawah Cares Foundation
To improve the quality of life of our Sea Island neighbors on Johns Island and Wadmalaw Island through community partnerships.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $339,020 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $359,693 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $20,673 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 $10k6 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $71k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $232k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Angel Oak Elementary School | $232,295 |
| Mt Zion Elementary School | $20,000 |
| Palmetto Project | $16,500 |
| St Johns High School | $14,725 |
| Reading Partners South Carolina | $10,000 |
| Circle Of Life Program | $10,000 |
| Heal with Hearts | $8,000 |
| Sea Island Habitat for Humanity | $7,500 |
| Lowcountry Equine Assisted Psychotherapy | $5,000 |
| Charleston AreaTherapeutic Riding Inc | $5,000 |
| The Charleston Gaillard Center | $5,000 |
| Warrior WOD Foundation | $5,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $8k) 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 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.
13 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 5 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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
- PPPALMETTO PROJECT INC7× · 2017–2025 · $118k · revenue +23%
- RPREADING PARTNERS7× · 2017–2025 · $88k · revenue +1%
- KWKIAWAH WOMENS FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2019 · $34k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- CUCLEMSON UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $30k
- JIJOHNS ISLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $25k
- CUClemson Universityone grant, 2023 · $21k
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.
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
Trusting in Gods guidance, the mission of Cape Charles School is to educate and develop the Whole Child in a non-denominational Christian setting
Food for Little Rascals Inc (FFLR) is operated exclusively to improve the health, welfare, and care of children in the State of South Carolina.
The mission of the school is to create a superior learning environment founded upon the shared values of hard work, honor, self-discipline,and community and parental involvement, with the purpose of preparing students for academic and…
Goucher charter academy's mission is believing in nurturing the whole child through leadership and community service.
To surround at risk students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.
We bring yoga and mindfulness to public now-income schools
Carolina collaborative prep (ccp) is a non-profit academic center that serves students in grades 3-12 with learning differences, empowering them to thrive in school and in life.
Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse
To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.
James island outreach uplifts and unites our community by helping neighbors with basic and emergency services.
Wings for kids equips at-risk children with social and emotional skills they need to succeed in school, stay in school, and thrive in life. the organization operates afterschool programs at title i elementary schools in the southeast;…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Our Lady of Mercy Community Outreach Services and the most unlike its peers is Barrier Islands Little League Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 36 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 PALMETTO PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Sea Island Hunger Awareness Foundation ↗
- Who funds READING PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE CHARLESTON AREA INC ↗
- Who funds KIAWAH WOMENS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WARRIOR WOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOING PLACES ↗
- Who funds OUR LADY OF MERCY COMMUNITY OUTREACH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY EQUINE-ASSISTED PSYCHOTHERAPY ↗
- Who funds COASTAL CAROLINA COUNCIL BSA ↗
- Who funds Communities in Schools of South Carolina ↗
- Who funds VISION TO LEARN ↗
- Who funds BARRIER ISLANDS LITTLE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds HEAL WITH HEARTS ↗
- Who funds Sea Island Habitat For Humanity Inc ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON GAILLARD MANAGEMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HANDS OF CHRIST ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON AREA THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC ↗
- Who funds ROC SOLID FOUNDATION 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 · The Joanna Foundation · Beyond Our Gates Foundation of Kiawah & Seabrook · Trident United Way · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Mark Elliott Motley Foundation Inc · George R & Janet E Desko Charitable Foundation · Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc · Tara Foundation · Post and Courier Foundation · Central Carolina Community Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities 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 Kiawah Cares Foundation 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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