· Private foundation
Lane Legare Harper Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ASSN FOR THE BLIND & VISUALLY IMPRD | $12,000 |
| HALLIE HILL ANIMAL SANCTUARY | $6,000 |
| CAMPERDON ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| TRIDENT TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATN | $5,000 |
| ROPER ST FRANCIS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| HIBERNIAN SOCIETY CHAS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| LOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILL | $3,000 |
| COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| MUSC FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| MUSC CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FUND | $2,500 |
| CHARLESTON LIBRARY SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| SC HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| CHARLESTON MUSEUM | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY24–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of its 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: 13 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LLLOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST INC2× · 2024–2025 · $10k · revenue +114%
- COCOLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION2× · 2024–2025 · $8k · revenue +9%
- MUMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION2× · 2024–2025 · $8k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- CACAROLINA ART ASSOCIATION DBA GIBBES MUSEUM OF ARTone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +13%
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.
Our mission is to inspire conservation of the natural world by exhibiting and caring for animals, by excelling in education and research, and by providing an exceptional visitor experience.
The conway hospital foundation is a not-for-profit corporation established in 1988 as a charitable organization to provide support to conway hospital in its effort to fullfill its mission and goals. (see schedule o) description of…
Facilitate networking among hospitals
Conway hospital community services provides outpatient health care services to horry county and the surrounding community in conjunction with conway hospital, inc., a non-profit acute care hospital system.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.
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…
The Community Foundation's mission is strengthening community by connecting people, resources, and needs.
Our mission is to foster economic development in underserved communities by providing capital, business services, and policy research to support small businesses.
To solicit and receive gifts, grants, bequests and contributions for the support of carolina meadows, inc. in order to enhance or extend its mission, programs, services, and facilities.
Charleston waterkeeper's mission it to protect and restore charleston's waterways for our community and future generations. we do that through an effective mix of boots-on-the-water stewardship and data-driven advocacy designed to protect…
To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 15 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 HALLIE HILL ANIMAL SANCTUARY F/K/A HALLIE HILL INC ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Roper St Francis Foundation ↗
- Who funds CAMPERDOWN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Charleston Museum ↗
- Who funds Charleston Library Society ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA ART ASSOCIATION DBA GIBBES MUSEUM OF ART ↗
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: Harper Family Foundation · John M Rivers Jr Foundation · Guffey Family Foundation · The Stony Point Foundation · The Ceres Foundation Inc · South Carolina Humanities Council Inc · Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lane Legare Harper Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lane Legare Harper Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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