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· Public charity
LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC
To unite our community in pursuit of equitable, dignified and consistent access to food.
$77M
Granted FY2024
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Grants
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Communities
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Largest
01What you fund
01FY2024
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
Grant detail is referenced in an attached schedule not included in the e-file. Total reported in the filing: $76,755,572.
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Median grant
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States reached
$35M
Total assets
02The need
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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.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your field
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.
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Christian Community Ministries of Kershaw County
Christian Community Ministries is a financial crisis ministry helping those who fall within our definition of crisis. Except for one paid administrator, we are a totally volunteer organization. We operate as an extension of the servant…
Religion
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Harvest Hope Food Bank
Harvest hope is south carolina's largest food bank, providing over 25 million meals on average to neighbors in need across the midlands, pee dee and upstate.
Food & Nutrition
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Good Friends of the Lowcountry
To provide emergency assistance to low income individuals and families in the lowcountry of sc. eligibility is determined by impartial guidelines and a referral system.
Philanthropy
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Southeastern Housing and Community
To provide rental housing to low and moderate income tenants by owning and operating apartment complexes and single family homes located in the southeastern section of south carolina.
Housing & Shelter
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Carolina Comfort Coalition
Serenity House is a community organization that bridges the gap for hospice families by providing a three bed group home setting at no charge for short term end of life care by trained volunteers and nurses.
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Helping Hands Ministry
To help the community in which we live, by improving the quality of life for the elderly and disabled by providing free food.
Human Services
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Charleston Nutrition Center
Prepare and serve congregate and home delivered meals to persons 60 years of age and older as well as disabled persons. Provide social activities for senior citizens.
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Conway County Care Center
Provide Emergency services, services include food, clothing, utility payment assistance, rental assistance, school supplies, infant care and medical assistance.
Human Services
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The Turning Point of South Carolina Inc
Our Mission is to provide a structured, safe and secure residential setting in which people may recover from substance addiction physically, mentally and spiritually and reconnect with their families and community.
Housing & Shelter
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Lower Chattahoochee Direct Service
The organization provides meals for elderly and disadvantaged individuals.
Human Services
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Chapin We Care Center
We Care serves those living with the burden of poverty in Chapin and the surrounding communities. We do so with dignity and compassion, providing food and other essentials, seeking to show the love of Christ to our neighbors in need.
Religion
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Coastal Samaritan Counseling Center
To assist people in Horry County, SC and the surrounding areas, on their journey towards healing and wholeness, through professional counseling, consultation and education.
Human Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Helping Hands of Georgetown Inc and the most unlike its peers is Roper St Francis Healthcare. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
3%7/246
the rest of the field
13%
812/6,271
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
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.
Coastal Community Foundation of SouthSC62.5× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Coastal Community Foundation of South · Food Lion Feeds Charitable Foundati · Trident United Way · Community Foundation of the Lowcountry · Central Carolina Community · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · Advanced Technology International · The Joanna Foundation · Waccamaw Community Foundation · United Way of Horry County Inc · The Church Mouse Thrift Shop Inc · Golden Harvest Food Bank 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.
04Through Plinth
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How do I get to Lowcountry Food Bank Inc?
Find your warmest path to Lowcountry Food Bank Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines