· Public charity
Palmetto Project Inc
To seek creative ideas for solving problems faced by the citizens of sc.
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.
The 1 grants below total $55,722 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $631,916 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $576,194 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TIME SERVED | $55,722 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $156k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 59% of those 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.
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.
8 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- BSBLUFFTON SELF HELP INC2× · 2022–2023 · $95k · revenue +49%
- HHHOPEFUL HORIZONS2× · 2017–2023 · $77k · revenue +42%
- LFLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC2× · 2017–2022 · $74k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- THTHE HONORABLE REVEREND CLEMENTA C PINCKNEY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue -100%
- WOWalton Options for Independent Living Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue +102%
- RMRURAL MISSIONS INCone grant, 2017 · $66k
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.
To provide emergency assistance to low income individuals and families in the lowcountry of south carolina.
Food for Little Rascals Inc (FFLR) is operated exclusively to improve the health, welfare, and care of children in the State of South Carolina.
The south carolina victim assistance network's mission is to ensure crime victims receive access to, and assistance from the criminal and juvenile justice systems and related social service providers; to improve the quality of 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.
We are independent, community based, nonprofit with a Mission to enhance communities by providing quality, safe, decent and affordable housing, and other forms of economic opportunities that benefit low to moderate income individuals…
We strive to serve the community by constructing and rehabilitating homes for affordable homeownership, providing new housing rentals for low to moderate wealth families in south carolina, and providing services that aid in all aspects of…
To provide affordable housing for low-income families in darlington county, sc
To provide rental housing to low and moderate income tenants by owning and operating apartment complexes and single family homes located in the southeastern section of south carolina.
Empowering people in sumter county sc to live free from substance abuse through a continuum of high quality services.
Servants For Sight's mission is to help disadvantaged people, in South Carolina and in third world countries, get the eye care they need to lead productive lives. We provide eye exams, eyeglasses and surgery to poverty stricken and…
Provide education on topics relating to current public health issues
To provide a faith based community where life will be rich and full as god intends it to be, holding to our values, serving one another with dedication and promoting health and wellness for all.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bluffton Self Help Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dysautonomia Advocacy Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 28 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 THE HONORABLE REVEREND CLEMENTA C PINCKNEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLUFFTON SELF HELP INC ↗
- Who funds HOPEFUL HORIZONS ↗
- Who funds Walton Options for Independent Living Inc ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds TIME SERVED ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS BOARD OF TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds University of South Carolina Development Foundation ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds BEAUFORT-JASPER-HAMPTON COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN CLINIC ↗
- Who funds CAMDEN MILITARY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds HELP OF BEAUFORT ↗
- Who funds DYSAUTONOMIA ADVOCACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOVE HOUSE LEARNING ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY LEARNERS ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds RESOURCE FOUNDATION FOR JASPER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SECOND HELPINGS ↗
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: Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Community Foundation of the Lowcountry · United Way of the Lowcountry · Lowcountry Food Bank Inc · The Bargain Box · The Church Mouse Thrift Shop Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · Central Carolina Community Foundation · Wexford Foundation · Heritage Classic Foundation · Food Lion Feeds Charitable Foundati
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 Palmetto Project Inc 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.