· Community foundation
Kiawah Cares Foundation
To improve the quality of life of our Sea Island neighbors on Johns Island and Wadmalaw Island through community partnerships.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
| The Charleston Gaillard Center | $5,000 |
| Charleston AreaTherapeutic Riding Inc | $5,000 |
| Warrior WOD Foundation | $5,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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;…
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 36 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.
- 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 ↗
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 · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kiawah Cares Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kiawah Cares Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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