· Public charity
Limestone Charter Association
Our mission is to serve as the cornerstone of charter school authorizing in sc and to facilitate a positive educational environment that fosters school autonomy through support and oversight to our member schools.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HORSE CREEK ACADEMY | $17,053,691 |
| SC LEADERSHIP PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $9,606,570 |
| GLOBAL ACADEMY OF SOUTH CAROLINA | $7,525,508 |
| LEGION COLLEGIATE ACADEMY | $6,942,890 |
| OCEANSIDE COLLEGIATE ACADEMY | $6,932,214 |
| SUMMERVILLE PREPARATORY ACADEMY | $6,795,439 |
| ORANGEBURG HIGH SCHOOL FOR HEALTH | $6,239,258 |
| ATLANTIC COLLEGIATE ACADEMY | $5,617,674 |
| MOUNTAIN VIEW PREPARATORY | $5,539,228 |
| SC PREPARATORY ACADEMY | $4,070,996 |
| GOUCHER CHARTER ACADEMY | $3,365,382 |
| EAST LINK ACADEMY | $2,942,527 |
| COASTAL HIGH SCHOOL | $2,801,643 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 81% of your 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 0 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, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40M went to new ones.
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
- HCHORSE CREEK ACADEMY3× · 2023–2025 · $46M · revenue +20% · 92% of their budget
- OCORANGEBURG CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL DISTICT 5 HIGH SCHOOL FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONS3× · 2023–2025 · $18M · revenue +22% · 99% of their budget
- GAGLOBAL ACADEMY OF SOUTH CAROLINA2× · 2024–2025 · $10M · revenue +124% · 87% of their budget
Funded once
- SCSouth Carolina Preparatory Academyone grant, 2025 · $11M · revenue 0%
- SLSC LEADERSHIP PREPARATORY SCHOOLone grant, 2025 · $9.6M
- LCLEGION COLLEGIATE ACADEMYone grant, 2025 · $6.9M · revenue 0% · 86% of their budget
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.
Provide a high standard of education to students through comprehensive curriculum supported by energetic, dynamic, and caring teachers.
To operate a private school for pre-kindergarten through grade 12 in Wilmington, NC
Provide a distinctly Christ-centered, biblical and classical education producing students who glorify God in their thoughts, words and deeds.
Oconee Christian Academy exists to glorify God by nurturing students and equipping them to fulfill God's unique purpose for their lives.
Operation of a north carolina public charter school
Our mission is to personalize learning through a collaboration of family, community and school; to nurture the innate curiosity of our students; ignite their passion for learning; and prepare them for lifelong success.
Form 990 - Organizations Mission The Academy provides education to Pre-Kindergarten through 12th Grade students. The Academy serves our students to develop college ready exemplary citizens by promoting excellence in academics character and…
To provide elementary students with a high quality and student-centered education in a safe, nurturing, and challenging environment so that all students achieve their highest level of academic success.
The new american academy charter school empowers learners and inspires leaders to make this a better world. through our collaborative teacher teams, mastery-based career ladder, and looping cycles, we offer personalized rigorous…
Provide faith based education with an emphasis on college preparation.
Compass collegiate academy's mission is to provide every scholar with the academic foundation and strong habits that inspire and cultivate lifelong learners who lead purposeful, civic lives.
To provide a student - centered, well rounded interdisciplinary education. student will engage in critical thinking while focusin on math, science, technology, enviromental and global studies.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlantic Collegiate Academy and the most unlike its peers is Orangeburg Consolidated School Distict 5 High School for Health Professions. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 12 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 HORSE CREEK ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ORANGEBURG CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL DISTICT 5 HIGH SCHOOL FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONS ↗
- Who funds South Carolina Preparatory Academy ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL ACADEMY OF SOUTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds COASTAL HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC COLLEGIATE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds LEGION COLLEGIATE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds OCEANSIDE COLLEGIATE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds EAST LINK ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN VIEW PREPARATORY ↗
- Who funds GOUCHER CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 Limestone Charter Association 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.