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National Exchange Club

ECKS is a service organization committed to barrier island enrichment

$113k
Granted FY2021
4
Itemized grants FY2021
4
Organizations funded FY2021
50%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Itemized, FY2021
$28k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2021
$7,000
Largest grant, FY2021
$9,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 5
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
1
Total assets, FY2021
$99k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 50% of the organizations National Exchange Club funded were first-time grantees, receiving 44% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’21
Food & NutritionHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20214$28k50%
FY20195$46k20%
FY20184$40k0%
FY20175$43kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Human Services$54kHealth$49kFood & Nutrition$27kCrime & Legal$22kEducation$5k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Dee Norton Lowcountry Children's Center$59,30031%
Barrier Islands Free Medical Clinic$28,33741%
Sweetgrass Garden Coop$19,700310%
Our Lady of Mercy Community Outreach Services$18,0373n/a
Charleston County School District$14,1702n/a
Sea Island Hunger Awareness Foundation$7,00011%
St Marys Academy$5,4001n/a
Lowcountry Orphan Relief$5,00011%

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.

Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina IncSC17.7× affinity6 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 · Bishop Gadsden Episcopal Retirement Community · Trident United Way · Beyond Our Gates Foundation of Kiawah & Seabrook · Medical Society of South Carolina · The Joanna Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About National Exchange Club

How much does National Exchange Club give?
National Exchange Club reported 4 itemized grants totaling $27,900, out of $112,844 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 5 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does National Exchange Club fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Human Services (34%), Health (31%), Food & Nutrition (17%).
Who are National Exchange Club's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: Dee Norton Lowcountry Children's Center ($59k), Barrier Islands Free Medical Clinic ($28k), Sweetgrass Garden Coop ($20k).
Does National Exchange Club fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as National Exchange Club?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc, Bishop Gadsden Episcopal Retirement Community, Trident United Way.
Where is National Exchange Club based?
National Exchange Club is based in SC.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 8 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $109k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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