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Magnolia Plantation Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRIDENT TECHNICAL COLLEGE | $9,000 |
| THE SLAVE DWELLING PROJECT | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| HISTORIC CHARLESTON FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| TURN 90 | $3,000 |
| SC SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI | $2,000 |
| ACADIA REPERATORY THEATER | $2,000 |
| GOODNEWSBEE FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| NATIONAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI | $1,500 |
| CHURCH OF THE MINISTERIO INTERNACIONAL EL SHADDAI | $1,000 |
| OLD ST ANDREWS CHURCH | $1,000 |
| EAST COOPER CENTER FOR ADVANCED STUDIES | $1,000 |
| THE CITADEL BRIGADIER FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| KEEPERS OF THE WILD | $1,000 |
| LOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +49% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
97 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 74 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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- SDSLAVE DWELLING PROJECT INC8× · 2017–2024 · $65k · revenue +302%
From The Heart Productions5× · 2019–2023 · $36k · revenue +132%- CACHARLESTON ANIMAL SOCIETY6× · 2017–2023 · $24k · revenue +87%
Funded once
- AAAGS AT TRIDENT TECHone grant, 2022 · $10k
- IAINTERNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUMgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +95%
- PWPIONEER WORKS ART FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $9k · revenue -4%
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.
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.
To educate Charleston area residents and visitors about the natural and cultural history of the South Carolina Lowcountry through collections, exhibitions, preservation, conservation, research and related programming.
We inspire people to enjoy, value and protect the wild character and natural legacy of the South.
(See Schedule O)
Brookgreen gardens was formed in 1931 to collect, preserve and exhibit american sculpture, and the flora and fauna native to south carolina.
Through responsible stewardship of our unique ecological resource, we provide inclusive opportunities for meaningful connection, discovery, and education in nature.
The organization's primary mission is a grassroots initiative that advances sustainable development of natural, cultural and historic resources for enhanced quality of life and economic revitalization of communities in south carolina.
The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.
The mission of the atlantic coast conservancy is to provide 21st century solutions and sound scientific applications for conservation of critical natural resources in the face of a changing climate, focusing on the southeasthern united…
Aia south carolina promotes the profession of architecture through advocacy, education and public outreach. the chapter supports the creation of equitable communities through its work promoting fair state laws and activities of six local…
Natural History Institute is organized to provide leadership and resources for a revitalized practice of natural history that integrates art, science, and humanities to promote the health and well-being of humans and the rest of the…
Protect and conserve land, natural areas, rural landscapes, family farms and historic places within north carolina's heartland
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Open Space Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is Goodnewsbee Foundation Inc. 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.
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 33 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
57 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. 57 of the 159 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 SLAVE DWELLING PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC CHARLESTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds From The Heart Productions ↗
- Who funds GOODNEWSBEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Keepers of the Wild ↗
- Who funds TURN90 ↗
- Who funds The Cooper School ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON WATERKEEPER ↗
- Who funds ACADIA WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds San Francisco Film Society ↗
- Who funds Charleston Horticultural Society ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds PIONEER WORKS ART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KIDS ON POINT INC ↗
- Who funds EUNOIA RESCUE ↗
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 · Guffey Family Foundation · The Joanna Foundation · Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc · Central Carolina Community Foundation · John Winthrop Charitable Trust · Elhapa Foundation Inc · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · Pathfinder Foundation Inc · The Stony Point Foundation · Post and Courier Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation
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 Magnolia Plantation 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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