· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $153k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $665k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Neighbors Together | $210,000 |
| Our Lady of Mercy | $205,100 |
| One 80 Place | $200,000 |
| Manna Food Bank | $50,000 |
| Ben's Friend | $30,000 |
| Southern Smoke Foundation | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| Star Gospel Mission | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $18,160 |
| East Cooper Meals On Wheels | $10,000 |
| East Cooper Community Outreach | $10,000 |
| Arts AVL | $7,500 |
| MUSC Foundation | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 23% of Meet The Needs Charleston’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 84% of the giving stays in SC; by stated purpose, 72%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $166k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OPOne-Eighty Place9× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +149%
- BFBEN'S FRIENDS7× · 2018–2025 · $327k · revenue +419% · 80% of their budget
- ECEAST COOPER MEALS ON WHEELS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $155k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- NHNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSEone grant, 2017 · $81k
- CCARTAone grant, 2017 · $46k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $19k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Our mission is to rescue and transport surplus food to qualified non profit agencies and churches. these agencies fulfill a priority need by distributing food to needy and disadvantaged families in three counties of sc.
The mission of the Organization is to coordinate, support, and advocate for member Food Banks across the Carolinas to create lasting solutions to address hunger.
Harvest hope is on a mission to eliminate hunger and food insecurity in south carolina. we rescue nutritious food from stores throughout the state and distribute it to food pantries, shelters, and soup kitchens. we operate programs that…
To foster basic living, service and safety assistance needs for our Midlands families. To lend a hand up to those in need. To work closely with local law enforcement, public servants, and the private sector to embrace our Midlands…
Feeding Charlotte rescues surplus, freshly prepared meals to reduce food waste and feed the hungry. We believe no food should be wasted while people go hungry in our community. To make this possible, we pickup unused, excess freshly…
Convene and connect diverse stakeholders to align and catalyze efforts to improve health and well-being for communities across South Carolina.
How this is measured
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 29 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Neighbors Together Inc ↗
- Who funds One-Eighty Place ↗
- Who funds OUR LADY OF MERCY COMMUNITY OUTREACH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds BEN'S FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds EAST COOPER MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds East Cooper Community Outreach ↗
- Who funds Pay it Forward Charleston ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Southern Smoke Foundation ↗
- Who funds STAR GOSPEL MISSION ↗
- Who funds Roper St Francis Foundation ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON AREA SENIOR CITIZENS INC ↗
- Who funds HEART OF THE HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR WOMEN ↗
- Who funds TRIDENT LITERACY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Meet The Needs Charleston funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Meet The Needs Charleston. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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