South Carolina · Public charity
Meet The Needs Charleston
To eliminate some of the burden the area soup kitchens and shelters are facing in todays economic environment and to administer an educational program in area high schools that provides job readiness training for individuals who wish to enter the hospitality workforce.
- $870k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $831k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $210,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 11
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $208k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Meet The Needs Charleston funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 14 | $831k | 57% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $686k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $700k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $741k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $338k | 45% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $624k | 17% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $477k | 20% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $378k | 40% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neighbors Together Inc | $1,492,496 | 9 | 24% |
| One-Eighty Place | $1,294,950 | 9 | 2% |
| Our Lady of Mercy Community Outreach Services | $1,241,850 | 8 | 11% |
| Ben's Friends | $327,330 | 7 | 80% |
| East Cooper Meals on Wheels Inc | $155,000 | 9 | 3% |
| East Cooper Community Outreach | $95,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Butcher and Bee | $70,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Pay it Forward Charleston | $63,000 | 2 | 63% |
| Manna Food Bank Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Southern Smoke Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neighbors Together Inc | $1,492,496 | 9 | 24% |
| One-Eighty Place | $1,294,950 | 9 | 2% |
| Our Lady of Mercy Community Outreach Services | $1,241,850 | 8 | 11% |
| Ben's Friends | $327,330 | 7 | 80% |
| East Cooper Meals on Wheels Inc | $155,000 | 9 | 3% |
| East Cooper Community Outreach | $95,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Butcher and Bee | $70,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Pay it Forward Charleston | $63,000 | 2 | 63% |
| Manna Food Bank Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Southern Smoke Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Star Gospel Mission | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Roper St Francis Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Asheville Area Arts Council | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Medical University of South Carolina Foundation | $5,255 | 1 | 0% |
| Bread and Butter | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mount Pleasant Chamber of Commerce Foundation Co Joseph Hinske | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Charleston Area Senior Citizens Inc | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Heart of the House Foundation Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Center for Women | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Trident Literacy Association Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Lung Association | $250 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($220k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Meet The Needs Charleston supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Trident United Way · The Joanna Foundation · Central Carolina Community Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Medical Society of South Carolina · Kuznik Charitable Foundation · Post and Courier Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · Therblig Foundation · Roper St Francis Healthcare
How this is measured
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About Meet The Needs Charleston
- How much does Meet The Needs Charleston give?
- Meet The Needs Charleston reported 14 itemized grants totaling $830,760, out of $870,033 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Meet The Needs Charleston fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (50%), Housing & Shelter (26%), Food & Nutrition (15%).
- Who are Meet The Needs Charleston's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Neighbors Together Inc ($1.5M), One-Eighty Place ($1.3M), Our Lady of Mercy Community Outreach Services ($1.2M).
- Does Meet The Needs Charleston fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Meet The Needs Charleston?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc, Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc, Trident United Way.
- Where is Meet The Needs Charleston based?
- Meet The Needs Charleston is based in SC.
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