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Marion County Healthcare Foundation

Our mission is to develop partnerships and fund innovative projects that improve the health and prosperity for residents of marion county.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$3.5MEducation$1.2MRecreation & Sports$1.0MPublic Safety & Disaster$724kHuman Services$378kCommunity Improvement$251kHousing & Shelter$206kEnvironment$183kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 12 grants below total $1,088,481 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,139,981 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $51,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $173k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $407k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$29,001
Median grant
1
States reached
$81M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL$500,000
MUSC FOUNDATION$200,000
MARION COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT$125,000
CITY OF MARION$82,400
PEE DEE REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY$47,741
CITY OF MULLINS$29,001
THE JONATHAN FOUNDATION$25,000
HEALTHY LEARNERS$25,000
TROY JOHNSON LEARNING CENTER$20,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$15,000
HISTORIC MARION REVITALIZATION$11,339
FRANCIS MARION UNIVERSITY$8,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $188k) land where the poverty rate runs at 25%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%HEALTHY LEARNERS: $25k → 16%HEALTHY LEARNERS: $25k → 16%HEALTHY LEARNERS: $25k → 16%TROY JOHNSON LEARNING CENTER: $20k → 32%MARION COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $93k → 32%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.3M · 17 repeat orgs$2.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +3% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
16

Total granted

$5.3M
$2.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
0%

Still filing today

59%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $574k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CulturePublic BenefitRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • MU
    MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2024 · $500k · revenue +34%
  • TW
    TRINITY WELLNESS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $400k · revenue +503% · 100% of their budget
  • MH
    MCLEOD HEALTH FOUNDATION
    3× · 2019–2022 · $116k · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $500k
  • MC
    MARION COUNTY LIBRARY
    one grant, 2021 · $500k
  • MU
    MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA
    one grant, 2020 · $403k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

1
Marion County Council On Aging Inc

Services for the elderly

Human Services
2
Marion Senior Citizens Association Inc

To provide services to local seniors

Human Services
3
Marion Economic Development Company

To strengthen and enhance economic development in marion

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4
Columbia-Marion County Development Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
5
Marion Area Humane Society

Promote the health and welfare of small domesticated animals

Animals
6
Marion County Horizon Center

Care of approximately 261 aged and handicapped persons. services include medical, nutritional, recreational, and therapeutical.

Health
7
Marion Academy Inc

Elementary and secondary education faciltiy (grades k-12)

Education
8
Marion County Humane Society

The marion county humane society was established for the purpose of providing temporary care and housing of stray or homeless dogs and cats, to assist in the return of lost dogs and cats to their owners, to provide a means of finding new…

Animals
9
Martinsville Henry County Coalition for Health and Wellness

Providing education, awareness and coordinated health care services and programs for the underserved and uninsured individuals and families in the community.

Health
10
Martin County Senior Citizens Housing Inc

Provide housing for senior citizens of Martin County Indiana

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11
Marion Advancement Campaign Inc

Investing in the future of marion, kansas including operating the marion county food bank and providing for needy families.

Human Services
12
Marion Chamber of Commerce

The marion chamber of commerce works to promote commercial and economic growth and to foster civic improvements that benefit those who live in marion.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Helping Hands Free Medical Clinic and the most unlike its peers is The St James Learning Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%10%<5yr15%10%5–10yr17%29%10–20yr13%19%20–35yr8%29%35–55yr24%5%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%26%<5yr15%10%5–10yr17%21%10–20yr13%24%20–35yr8%16%35–55yr24%3%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 26% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/35
the rest of the field
15%
125/807

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.

04the grantee network

24 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. 24 of the 37 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/24
Grantees still filing
12/24
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MARION COUNTY — $1,295,794 · OtherMARION COUNTYHELPING HANDS FREE MEDICAL CLINIC — $1,265,800 · OtherHELPING HANDS FREE MEDICAL CLINICMARION COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT — $571,315 · OtherMARION COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICTIndividual grant recipient — $500,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL AUTHORITY — $500,000 · OtherMEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL AUTHORITYMARION COUNTY LIBRARY — $500,000 · OtherMARION COUNTY LIBRARYMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA — $403,184 · OtherMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINAPEE DEE REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY — $214,911 · Other+14 more — $881,097 · Other+14 moreMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION — $500,000 · HealthMEDICAL UNIVER…TRINITY WELLNESS FOUNDATION — $400,000 · HealthTRINITY WELLNE…MCLEOD HEALTH FOUNDATION — $116,299 · HealthMCLEOD HEALTH …MARION RESCUE SQUAD INC — $41,486 · HealthMARION COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING — $92,725 · Human ServicesHEALTHY LEARNERS — $75,000 · Human ServicesMarion-Dillon Disabilities and Special Need Board — $20,000 · Human ServicesTROY-JOHNSON LEARNING KORNER INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesBENJAMIN MACK MEMORIAL POST 10319 — $207,000 · Public BenefitAMAZING GRACE PARK CLEMENTA PINCKNEY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $168,000 · Recreation & SportsA Father's Place — $74,800 · EducationThe St James Learning Center — $46,000 · EducationFRANCIS MARION UNIVERSITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $23,500 · EducationHISTORIC MARION REVITALIZATION ASSOCIATION INC — $111,795 · Arts & CulturePerforming Arts and Science Academy Pasa — $24,518 · Arts & Culture
Other$6,132,101Health$1,057,785Human Services$207,725Public Benefit$207,000Recreation & Sports$168,000Education$144,300Arts & Culture$136,313

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHELPING HANDS FREE MEDICAL CLINIC — $1,265,800 over 4y, 72% of budgetMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION — $500,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTRINITY WELLNESS FOUNDATION — $400,000 over 2y, 100% of budgetAMAZING GRACE PARK CLEMENTA PINCKNEY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $168,000 over 3y, 38% of budgetMCLEOD HEALTH FOUNDATION — $116,299 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHISTORIC MARION REVITALIZATION ASSOCIATION INC — $111,795 over 6y, 29% of budgetMARION COUNTY LONG TERM RECOVERY — $100,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetMARION COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING — $92,725 over 1y, 28% of budgetMARION-DILLON COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $88,876 over 3y, 13% of budgetPACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC — $80,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEALTHY LEARNERS — $75,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetA Father's Place — $74,800 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetLITTLE PEE DEE BAPTIST ASSOCIATION — $70,660 over 1y, 54% of budgetPEE DEE COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL ASSAULT — $65,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARION RESCUE SQUAD INC — $41,486 over 1y, 26% of budgetJONATHAN C SMITH FOUNDATION FOR BIPOLAR — $25,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetFRANCIS MARION UNIVERSITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $23,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMarion-Dillon Disabilities and Special Need Board — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTROY-JOHNSON LEARNING KORNER INC — $20,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetKINGS COURT — $17,290 over 1y, 5.2% of budget
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.

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.

Central Carolina Comm…Eastern Carolina Comm…Duke Energy FoundationFoundation for the Ca…Firehouse Subs Public…Share Our StrengthAmerican Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Central Carolina Community FoundationSC22.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Central Carolina Community Foundation · Eastern Carolina Community Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation Inc · Share Our Strength · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Marion County Healthcare 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Pace Center for Girlsinc — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Marion County Healthcare Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Marion County Healthcare Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 37 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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