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Medical Society of South Carolina

To improve the health of our community through clinical excellence.

$452k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$145k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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$5.3MCrime & Legal$1.5MHuman Services$299kEducation$191kHousing & Shelter$111kArts & Culture$55kYouth Development$50kPhilanthropy$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k15 grants · $307k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $145k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$702M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Roper St Francis Health Care Foundation$145,000
Trident Technical College Foundation$36,500
Vision to Learn$25,000
Coastal Community Foundation$25,000
Palmetto Community Care$20,000
Lowcountry Youth Services$20,000
Charleston Hope$20,000
Operation Rise Again$20,000
I am Voices$20,000
North Charleston Dental Outreach$20,000
Closing the Gap in Health Care$20,000
Let's Walk$20,000
Our Lady of Mercy Community Outreach$20,000
WakeUp Carolina$16,675
Association for the Blind and Visually Imparied$13,500
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 (FY17–24, $779k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%DORCHESTER CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $500k → 11%CHILDREN IN CRISIS DBA CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $20k → 11%Dorchester Child CtrChildren in Crisis: $20k → 11%Beyond Basic Life Skills: $15k → 11%EAST COOPER COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $25k → 12%EAST COOPER COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $20k → 12%EAST COOPER COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $14k → 12%RESPITE CARE CHARLESTON: $15k → 12%I am Voices: $20k → 12%I am Voices: $20k → 12%Ari Floss Foundation: $15k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 12%TRICOUNTY FAMILY MINISTRIES: $20k → 12%BRIDGES OF HOPE: $15k → 12%WINGS FOR KIDS: $30k → 12%RESPITE CARE CHARLESTON: $25k → 12%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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.7M · 21 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +64% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

21 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
27

Total granted

$5.7M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
+27%

Still filing today

100%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $107k 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 ServicesRecreation & SportsEducationHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalOther

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

  • RS
    ROPER ST FRANCIS HEALTHCARE
    3× · 2017–2023 · $2.0M · revenue +104%
  • RH
    Roper Hospital Inc
    2× · 2019–2020 · $1.2M · revenue +34%
  • RS
    Roper St Francis Foundation
    6× · 2017–2024 · $755k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • DN
    DEE NORTON LOWCOUNTRY CHILDREN'S CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1.0M · revenue +140% · 39% of their budget
  • MU
    MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $250k · revenue +187%
  • OP
    One-Eighty Placegraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $111k · revenue +149%

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
South Carolina Public Interest Foundation
Crime & Legal
2
South Carolina Network of Children's Advocacy Centers

Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse

Youth Development
3
Regenesis Health Care Inc

We strive to give health services to residents in and around the spartanburg, cherokee, and union sc areas. we believe that services to families can make a difference in the community, helping neighbors move towards healthier lifestyles…

Health
4
Alliance for a Healthier South Carolina

Convene and connect diverse stakeholders to align and catalyze efforts to improve health and well-being for communities across South Carolina.

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5
Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence Found ation
Health
6
Bon Secours-St Francis Xavier Hospital Inc

Healing all people with compassion, faith, and excellence.

Health
7
Children's Trust of South Carolina

To strengthen families, organizations, and communities to prevent child abuse and neglect.

Human Services
8
Beaufort-Jasper-Hampton Comprehensive Health Services Inc

Provide community healthcare services to the citizens in the low country of south carolina.

Health
9
Disability Rights South Carolina Inc

To furnish protection and advocacy services to south carolinians with disabilities

Civil Rights
10
South Carolina Legal Services

South carolina legal services is a statewide law firm that provides civil legal services to protect the rights and represent the interests of low income south carolinians.

Crime & Legal
11
Carolina Community Care Inc

The mission of hospice & community care is to give hope, comfort, and compassion to those that need it most. hospice & community care is a nonprofit healthcare organization providing hospice and palliative care to residents of york,…

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12
Compass of Carolina Inc

Our mission is to provide compassionate direction to individuals and families in need through counseling, education and financial benefits management.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Operation Rise Again. 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 21 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number28%7%<5yr17%19%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr15%21%20–35yr8%19%35–55yr14%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value28%4%<5yr17%4%5–10yr19%4%10–20yr15%42%20–35yr8%26%35–55yr14%19%55yr+

The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%2/53
the rest of the field
14%
346/2,391

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

50 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. 50 of the 55 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/50
Grantees still filing
32/50
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ROPER ST FRANCIS HEALTHCARE — $2,005,066 · HealthROPER ST FRANCIS HEALTHCARERoper Hospital Inc — $1,174,755 · HealthRoper Hospital IncRoper St Francis Foundation — $755,000 · HealthRoper St Francis FoundationMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION — $249,920 · HealthBARRIER ISLANDS FREE MEDICAL CLINIC — $218,205 · Health+13 more — $709,425 · Health+13 moreDEE NORTON LOWCOUNTRY CHILDREN'S CENTER — $1,000,000 · OtherDEE NORTON LOWCOUNTR…OUR LADY OF MERCY COMMUNITY OUTREACH SERVICES — $60,000 · Other+15 more — $361,500 · Other+15 moreKAY PHILLIPS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC — $540,000 · Human ServicesKAY PHILLIPS…East Cooper Community Outreach — $58,500 · Human ServicesEast Cooper …RESPITE CARE OF CHARLESTON — $40,000 · Human ServicesI AM VOICES INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesTHE FORMATION PROJECT — $40,000 · Human ServicesWINGS FOR KIDS — $30,000 · Human Services+5 more — $70,000 · Human Services+5 moreTRIDENT TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $102,500 · EducationCHARLESTON HOPE — $20,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS — $13,500 · EducationOne-Eighty Place — $110,864 · Housing & ShelterLOWCOUNTRY YOUTH SERVICES — $20,000 · Housing & ShelterCOASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC — $50,000 · PhilanthropyLOWCOUNTRY AQUATIC PROJECT SWIMMING INC — $25,000 · Recreation & SportsCAMP RISE ABOVE INC — $12,500 · Recreation & SportsSUMMERVILLE MIRACLE LEAGUE INC — $12,000 · Recreation & Sports
Health$5,112,371Other$1,421,500Human Services$818,500Education$136,000Housing & Shelter$130,864Philanthropy$50,000Recreation & Sports$49,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetROPER ST FRANCIS HEALTHCARE — $2,005,066 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetRoper Hospital Inc — $1,174,755 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDEE NORTON LOWCOUNTRY CHILDREN'S CENTER — $1,000,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetRoper St Francis Foundation — $755,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetKAY PHILLIPS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC — $540,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION — $249,920 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBARRIER ISLANDS FREE MEDICAL CLINIC — $218,205 over 6y, 6.7% of budgetVISION TO LEARN — $130,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetEDISTO INDIAN FREE CLINIC — $125,000 over 6y, 22% of budgetThe ARK of SC — $115,000 over 6y, 6.5% of budgetOne-Eighty Place — $110,864 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCLOSING THE GAP IN HEALTH CARE INC — $110,000 over 5y, 39% of budgetTRIDENT TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $102,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $81,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOUR LADY OF MERCY COMMUNITY OUTREACH SERVICES — $60,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetEast Cooper Community Outreach — $58,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCOASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRESPITE CARE OF CHARLESTON — $40,000 over 2y, 9.0% of budgetI AM VOICES INC — $40,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetTHE FORMATION PROJECT — $40,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED SOUTH CAROLINA — $38,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetDARKNESS TO LIGHT INC — $35,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetLETS WALK — $35,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetEAST COOPER MEALS ON WHEELS INC — $30,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetICNA RELIEF USA PROGRAMS INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWINGS FOR KIDS — $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPALMETTO PROJECT INC — $28,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetNorth Charleston Dental Outreach Inc — $25,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY AQUATIC PROJECT SWIMMING INC — $25,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY AIDS SERVICES CHILDS — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNeighbors Together Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCHARLESTON HOPE — $20,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY YOUTH SERVICES — $20,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetOPERATION RISE AGAIN — $20,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHEART INCLUSIVE ARTS COMMUNITY — $20,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetPUBLIC WORKS ARTS CENTER — $20,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetWAKE UP CAROLINA — $16,675 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBEYOND BASIC LIFE SKILLS — $15,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetBRIDGES OF HOPE — $15,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS — $13,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP RISE ABOVE INC — $12,500 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetSUMMERVILLE MIRACLE LEAGUE INC — $12,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetSEEDS OF LIFE INC — $11,250 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSENIOR RIDE CHARLESTON — $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetWindwood Farm Home For Children Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOPERATION SIGHT — $10,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Coastal Community Fou…The Joanna FoundationHenry & Sylvia Yaschi…Dominion Energy Chari…Trident United WayThe Mark Elliott Motl…Sisters of Charity Fo…Roper St Francis Heal…Post and Courier Foun…Kuznik Charitable Fou…Daniel Island Communi…The Leon Levine Found…
Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina IncSC68.2× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · The Joanna Foundation · Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Trident United Way · The Mark Elliott Motley Foundation Inc · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · Roper St Francis Healthcare · Post and Courier Foundation · Kuznik Charitable Foundation · Daniel Island Community Fund Inc · The Leon Levine 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 Medical Society of South Carolina 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%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 55 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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