· Private foundation
Philip & Sandra Vineyard Fdn
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
98% of Philip & Sandra Vineyard Fdn’s FY2024 grant dollars went to National Philanthropic Trust, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Philip & Sandra Vineyard Fdn named its own grantees at scale: 12 organizations, $33k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DRAYTON HALL PRESERVATION TRUST | $5,000 |
| THE CROSSNORE SCHOOL & CHILDREN'S H | $4,000 |
| APPALACHIAN REGIONAL HEALTHCARE | $3,000 |
| HISTORIC CHARLESTON FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $2,500 |
| STAR GOSPEL MISSION | $2,500 |
| LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
| ONE80 PLACE | $2,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF CHARLOTTE | $1,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY HICKORY CORPS | $1,500 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES CHA | $1,500 |
| BARRIER ISLANDS FREE MEDICAL CLINIC | $1,000 |
| GOOD FRIENDS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY | $1,000 |
| DEE NORTON CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER | $1,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL | $1,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +72% since the first grant, against +68% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2023, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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
- CCCROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN7× · 2018–2024 · $83k · revenue +4%
- LFLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC7× · 2017–2023 · $11k · revenue +72%
- DHDRAYTON HALL PRESERVATION TRUST2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIESone grant, 2021 · $5k
- TCTHE COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON ATHLETIC FUND ATHLETIC FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +226%
- SHSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANKone grant, 2018 · $3k
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.
Conway hospital community services provides outpatient health care services to horry county and the surrounding community in conjunction with conway hospital, inc., a non-profit acute care hospital system.
The Mission of the College of Charleston Foundation is to promote programs of education, research, student development, and faculty development for the exclusive benefit of the College of Charleston.
The schs mission is to expand, preserve, and make accessible our invaluable collection, and to encourage interest and pride in the rich history of our state.
Facilitate networking among hospitals
To educate Charleston area residents and visitors about the natural and cultural history of the South Carolina Lowcountry through collections, exhibitions, preservation, conservation, research and related programming.
Charleston Habitat for Humanitys (CHFH) vision is a world where everyone has a decent place to live. Seeking to put God's love into action, Charleston Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope. By…
Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.
(See Schedule O)
Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.
Our mission is to relieve suffering and improve the quality and dignity of life through compassionate hospice care at the end of life, palliative care for those with advanced illness, and through community education.
Claiborne Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc and the most unlike its peers is American College of the Building Arts. 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 39 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 36 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 NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds CROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC CHARLESTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds DRAYTON HALL PRESERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds BARRIER ISLANDS FREE MEDICAL CLINIC ↗
- Who funds One-Eighty Place ↗
- Who funds STAR GOSPEL MISSION ↗
- Who funds The Preservation Society of Charleston Inc ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON STAGE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOOD FRIENDS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY ↗
- Who funds Sea Island Habitat For Humanity Inc ↗
- Who funds DEE NORTON LOWCOUNTRY CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds East Cooper Community Outreach ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COLLEGE OF THE BUILDING ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON ATHLETIC FUND ATHLETIC FUND ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Charlotte Inc ↗
- Who funds HIGH COUNTRY UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds COUNTRY CLUB OF CHARLESTON ↗
- Who funds Charleston Library Society ↗
- Who funds COASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds LEES-MCRAE COLLEGE INC ↗
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 · Guffey Family Foundation · Post and Courier Foundation · The Joanna Foundation · Therblig Foundation · The Clyde and Summer Anderson Foundation · Magnolia Plantation Foundation · John Winthrop Charitable Trust · Elhapa Foundation Inc · Trident United Way · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley 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 Philip & Sandra Vineyard Fdn 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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