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Palmetto Promise Institute
The Palmetto Promise Institute is a non partisan nonprofit educational organization dedicated to educating the public and enhancing the public good.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 50 grants below total $783,077 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $973,042 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $189,965 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k32 grants · $242k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $258k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $283k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Diocese of Charleston | $229,000 |
| Westgate Christian School | $54,050 |
| Bob Jones Academy | $31,146 |
| Lol Steam School of the Arts | $28,500 |
| Maranatha Christian School | $27,000 |
| Daniels Christian School In | $24,000 |
| Dillon Christian School | $21,387 |
| Laurence Manning Academy | $13,675 |
| Northeast Enrichment Academy | $12,000 |
| Chabad Jewish Academy | $12,000 |
| Calvary Christian School Myrt | $12,000 |
| Holly Hill Academy | $11,800 |
| Palmetto Christian Academy of | $11,700 |
| Harvest Christian Academy | $11,250 |
| Center for Learning | $10,500 |
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 (FY22–22, $74k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +7% since the first grant, against +0% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 47 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 3 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
- RPRAGIN PREPARATORY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY2× · 2024–2025 · $24k · revenue +33%
- HHHOLLY HILL ACADEMY INC2× · 2024–2025 · $24k · revenue +27%
- NANEWBERRY ACADEMY INC2× · 2024–2025 · $21k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- NWNew Way Globalone grant, 2022 · $74k · revenue -35%
- WBWEDGEFIELD BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $14k
- LFLCA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $12k
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.
The christian academy provides christian education to 300 students from kindergarten to 12th grade. the christian academy is a college-preparatory school.
Provide a distinctly Christ-centered, biblical and classical education producing students who glorify God in their thoughts, words and deeds.
The mission of victory christian academy, in partnership with christian parents, is to provide a loving, christ-centered environment of educational excellence so that the students may develop their gifts, knowledge, skills and energies to…
Aiding parents in their responsibility to educate their children so that they may love the lord their god with all their heart, all their soul, all their mind and all their strength.
The school is an independent, multi-denominational, biblically based christian school, that desires to work with families across the spectrum of the body of christ to produce a distinctively christian college preparatory environment.
Quality education from a biblical perspective.
Christian central academy is an independent, inter-denominational college preparatory christian school for students in kindergarten through grade twelve.
Hampton christian academy provides a private christian education for grades 4k through 12th grade.
Se schedule o classical christian academy
Elementary and high school education
Crossroads Christian Academy partners with parents to provide a Christ-Centered, college preparatory education where students are allowed to further develop their God-given talents and virtues and become college-worthy character witnesses…
The organization operates a non-denominational school providing a christian environment for learning.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Riverpointe Christian Academy and the most unlike its peers is New Way Global. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 20 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 15% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 65 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 New Way Global ↗
- Who funds MY SC EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds MANNING EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH MYRTLE BEACH CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN HOPE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds RAGIN PREPARATORY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds PALMETTO CHRISTIAN ACADEMY OF GREENWOOD ↗
- Who funds HOLLY HILL ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds NEWBERRY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS HART ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ORANGEBURG PREPARATORY SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE ACADEMY NURSERY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COLLETON PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHSIDE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL OF THE UPSTATE ↗
- Who funds As-Sabeel Academy of Greenville ↗
- Who funds RIVERPOINTE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
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: Central Carolina Community Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · Folds of Honor Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Promise Institute 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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