· Private foundation
Mills Bee Lane Memorial Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $240k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $265k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST | $60,000 |
| ASHLEY HALL SCHOOL OR FOUNDATION | $55,000 |
| BATTLEFIELD TRUST | $50,000 |
| ST ANDREWS ON THE MARSH | $50,000 |
| PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF CHARLESTON | $50,000 |
| SOUTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| DORCHESTER HERITAGE CENTER | $25,000 |
| JAMES ISLAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| COASTAL CONSERVATION LEAGUE | $20,043 |
| OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE | $15,000 |
| HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $15,000 |
| DUCKS UNLIMITED | $15,000 |
| CONSERVATION VOTERS OF SOUTH CARO | $15,000 |
| BEAUFORT COUNTY OPEN LAND TRUST | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 83% of your 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 +55% since the first grant, against +50% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k 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
SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $357k · revenue +55%- TPThe Preservation Society of Charleston Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $341k · revenue +161%
- LLLOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST INC8× · 2017–2024 · $185k · revenue +125%
Funded once
- ABAmerican Battlefield Trustgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +50%
- OLOPEN LAND TRUSTone grant, 2021 · $36k
VISION TO LEARNgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +40%
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.
Triangle land conservancy (tlc) strives to create a healthier and more vibrant triangle region by safeguarding clean water, protecting natural habitats, supporting local farms, and connecting people with nature through land protection and…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is acquiring and protecting lands of regional and national conservation and/or historic significance in the coastal plain of north carolina.
The congaree land trust was established to promote voluntary conservation of scenic lands, open spaces, farms, forests, natural areas and significant habitats in central south carolina.
To conserve the rural, natural, and cultural heritage of the new river region, protecting farms, forests, open spaces, and historic places.
We use our legal expertise to protect the land, water and communities across south carolina.
Brookgreen gardens was formed in 1931 to collect, preserve and exhibit american sculpture, and the flora and fauna native to south carolina.
We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…
Dedicated to protecting the world's natural environment on behalf of the public by serving as a public interest law firm. refer to schedule o, part iii, line 4a, for list of litigated cases or advocacy work.
The mission of the upper savannah land trust is to encourage and support conservation of natural and scenic lands, farms, forests, waterways, and open spaces on our eight-county area: abbeville, anderson, edgefield, greenwood, laurens,…
Mission statement of washington and lee university: washington and lee university provides a liberal arts education that develops students' capacity to think freely, critically, and humanely and to conduct themselves with honor, integrity,…
To protect georgia through ecological and economic solutions for stewardship, conservation, and sustainable use of the land and its resources.
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lowcountry Land Trust Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Village Museum. 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 48 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 68 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 SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Preservation Society of Charleston Inc ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds SAVANNAH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds LORD BERKELEY CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds ST ANDREWS ON THE MARSH INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC SAVANNAH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds South Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities ↗
- Who funds American Battlefield Trust ↗
- Who funds OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE MATTHEW REARDON CENTER FOR AUTISM INC ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA ART ASSOCIATION DBA GIBBES MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds VISION TO LEARN ↗
- Who funds THE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION ↗
- Who funds DORCHESTER HERITAGE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TUDOR PLACE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds One Hundred Miles Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR HUMANS AND NATURE ↗
- Who funds Charleston Literary Festival Inc ↗
- Who funds The Charleston Museum ↗
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: Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · The Joanna Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Guffey Family Foundation · South Carolina Humanities Council Inc · Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc · Atlantic Services of Charleston Cha · John M Rivers Jr Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Post and Courier Foundation · The Ceres Foundation Inc · Davis Family Foundation Inc
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 Mills Bee Lane Memorial 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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