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· Public charity

Palmetto Project Inc

To seek creative ideas for solving problems faced by the citizens of sc.

$632k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$56k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$283kHuman Services$237kEducation$172kReligion$157kHealth$117kYouth Development$73kCommunity Improvement$66kCrime & Legal$64kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $55,722, the rows itemized in this filing. The $631,916 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $576,194 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$55,722
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TIME SERVED$55,722
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%TIME SERVED: $56k → 10%WALTON OPT FOR INDEP LIVING INC: $75k → 18%TIME SERVED: $8k → 10%HEALTHY LEARNERS: $17k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

47%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$610k · 8 repeat orgs$689k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
20

Total granted

$610k
$689k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+61%

Still filing today

63%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthReligionPublic BenefitHousing & ShelterOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • BS
    BLUFFTON SELF HELP INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $95k · revenue +49%
  • HH
    HOPEFUL HORIZONS
    2× · 2017–2023 · $77k · revenue +26%
  • LF
    LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC
    2× · 2017–2022 · $74k · revenue +72%

Funded once

  • TH
    THE HONORABLE REVEREND CLEMENTA C PINCKNEY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue -100%
  • WO
    Walton Options for Independent Living Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue +109%
  • RM
    RURAL MISSIONS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $66k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
South Carolina Victim Assistance Network

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…

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2
Good Friends of the Lowcountry

To provide emergency assistance to low income individuals and families in the lowcountry of south carolina.

Philanthropy
3
Food for Little Rascals Inc

Food for Little Rascals Inc (FFLR) is operated exclusively to improve the health, welfare, and care of children in the State of South Carolina.

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4
Santee Lynches Affordable Housing and Community Development Corporat

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…

Housing & Shelter
5
South Carolina Legal 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.

Crime & Legal
6
Southeastern Housing and Community Development

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.

Housing & Shelter
7
Sumter County Commission On Alcohol and Drug Abuse

Empowering people in sumter county sc to live free from substance abuse through a continuum of high quality services.

Health
8
Beyond Housing

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…

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9
Servants for Sight

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…

Health
10
Harvest Hope Food Bank

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…

Food & Nutrition
11
Southeast Community Health Systems

The mission of Southeast Community Health Systems is to provide quality, affordable healthcare to all patients in underserved areas and to improve the health and wellness of the communities we serve.

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12
Eastern Carolina Human Services Agency Inc

The purpose and function of the organization is to administer programs that provide services to low income families, veterans and military families in the eastern north carolina area that shall enhance their ability to become economically…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bluffton Self Help Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 28 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
15/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ANTIOCH EDUCATIONAL CENTER: $119,172 · OtherANTIOCH EDUCATIONAL CENTERBLUFFTON SELF HELP INC: $95,000 · OtherBLUFFTON SELF HELP INCLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC: $73,620 · OtherLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INCUNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCE: $67,037 · OtherUNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCERURAL MISSIONS INC: $65,600 · OtherRURAL MISSIONS INCTHE AFRICAN METHODIST EPSICOPAL CHURCH INCORPORATED: $58,000 · OtherTHE AFRICAN METHODIST EPSICOPAL CHURCH INCORPORATEDHAMPTON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $25,306 · OtherDYSAUTONOMIA ADVOCACY FOUNDATION: $25,154 · Other+5 more: $64,996 · Other+5 moreTHE HONORABLE REVEREND CLEMENTA C PINCKNEY FOUNDATION: $150,000 · Human ServicesTHE HONORABLE REVEREND CLEMEN…Walton Options for Independent Living Inc: $75,456 · Human ServicesWalton Options for Independen…TIME SERVED: $63,782 · Human ServicesTIME SERVEDHELP OF BEAUFORT: $27,000 · Human ServicesHELP OF BEAUFORTHEALTHY LEARNERS: $16,560 · Human Services+1 more: $9,000 · Human ServicesSOUTH CAROLINA FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS BOARD OF TRUSTEES: $57,300 · EducationSOUTH CAROLIN…University of South Carolina Development Foundation: $50,000 · EducationUniversity of…CAMDEN MILITARY ACADEMY: $28,252 · EducationCAMDEN MILITA…LOVE HOUSE LEARNING ACADEMY: $18,000 · EducationLOVE HOUSE LE…HOPEFUL HORIZONS: $76,500 · ReligionBEAUFORT-JASPER-HAMPTON COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH SERVICES INC: $43,085 · HealthGOOD SAMARITAN CLINIC: $32,234 · HealthLOWCOUNTRY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $45,000 · Housing & ShelterRESOURCE FOUNDATION FOR JASPER COUNTY: $13,500 · Public Benefit
Other$593,885Human Services$341,798Education$153,552Religion$76,500Health$75,319Housing & Shelter$45,000Public Benefit$13,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBLUFFTON SELF HELP INC: $95,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetHOPEFUL HORIZONS: $76,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetWalton Options for Independent Living Inc: $75,456 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC: $73,620 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTIME SERVED: $63,782 over 2y, 14% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS BOARD OF TRUSTEES: $57,300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of South Carolina Development Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $45,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetBEAUFORT-JASPER-HAMPTON COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH SERVICES INC: $43,085 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN CLINIC: $32,234 over 1y, 10% of budgetCAMDEN MILITARY ACADEMY: $28,252 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHELP OF BEAUFORT: $27,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetLOVE HOUSE LEARNING ACADEMY: $18,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY INC: $15,070 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRESOURCE FOUNDATION FOR JASPER COUNTY: $13,500 over 1y, 29% of budget
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.

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 Fou…Community Foundation …United Way of the Low…Lowcountry Food Bank …The Bargain BoxThe Church Mouse Thri…Dominion Energy Chari…Sisters of Charity Fo…Central Carolina Comm…Wexford FoundationHeritage Classic Foun…Food Lion Feeds Chari…
Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina IncSC27.4× affinity11 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 · 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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Palmetto Project Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Palmetto Project Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 28 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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