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Patrick Family 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 $10k29 grants · $123k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ELK RIVER HELPING HANDS | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS | $10,000 |
| READING PARTNERS | $10,000 |
| CHARLESTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $5,000 |
| THE DEE NORTON LOWCOUNTRY CHILDRENS | $5,000 |
| LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION SC | $5,000 |
| CONSERVATION VOTERS OF SC EDUCATION | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SC | $5,000 |
| LOWCOUNTRY AIDS SERVICES | $5,000 |
| ASSOC FOR THE BLIND VISUALLY IMP | $5,000 |
| HELPING LENDING OUTREACH SUPPORT | $5,000 |
| LOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST INC | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PERENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC | $5,000 |
| CHARLESTON LEGAL ACCESS | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $126k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 48% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +42% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 13 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, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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
- OPOne-Eighty Place5× · 2017–2023 · $40k · revenue +149%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches3× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +23%
- PBPRO BONO LEGAL SERVICES INC6× · 2019–2024 · $28k · revenue +179%
Funded once
- MMUSCone grant, 2021 · $20k
- SESOUTHERN ENV LAW CENTERone grant, 2017 · $20k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
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.
To provide South Carolinians an opportunity to advance their leadership skills while broadening their understanding of issues and opportunities facing the State.
Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.
Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse
Charleston waterkeeper's mission it to protect and restore charleston's waterways for our community and future generations. we do that through an effective mix of boots-on-the-water stewardship and data-driven advocacy designed to protect…
The south carolina council on competitiveness is a nonpartisan, business-led non-profit organization committed to advancing the long term competitiveness of south carolina through actionable research, support of industry clusters and…
Convene and connect diverse stakeholders to align and catalyze efforts to improve health and well-being for communities across South Carolina.
The Community Foundation's mission is strengthening community by connecting people, resources, and needs.
The south carolina policy council was founded in 1986 as an independent, private, non-partisan research organization to promote the principles of limited government, free enterprise, and individual liberty and responsibility in the state…
Promoting and protecting the free private and competitive enterprise system through research and education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Trust of South Carolina and the most unlike its peers is American Lung Association. 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 41 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 12% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
51 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. 51 of the 88 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 ELK RIVER HELPING HANDS ↗
- Who funds One-Eighty Place ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds PRO BONO LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Lowcountry ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Charleston Legal Access ↗
- Who funds My Sister's House Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC ↗
- Who funds Lowcountry Local First ↗
- Who funds Landmarks for Families Inc ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Communities in Schools of South Carolina ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED SOUTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds University of South Carolina Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds Colour of Music ↗
- Who funds NEW MORNING ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION VOTERS OF SC ↗
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 · Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc · The Joanna Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Trident United Way · Post and Courier Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · Central Carolina Community Foundation · Elhapa Foundation Inc · Pathfinder Foundation Inc · The Mark Elliott Motley Foundation Inc · The Leon Levine 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 Patrick Family 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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