· Private foundation
Post and Courier 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k41 grants · $199k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $214k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $371k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK | $99,378 |
| STAR GOSPEL MISSION | $85,827 |
| ONE-EIGHTY PLACE | $63,241 |
| EAST COOPER COMMUNITY OUTREACH | $63,241 |
| OPERATION HOME | $59,689 |
| CAROLINA YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $40,655 |
| ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND | $27,103 |
| LOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST | $25,000 |
| OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE LAND TRUST | $15,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $13,552 |
| TRIDENT UNITED WAY | $12,500 |
| VILLAGE MUSEUM MCCLELLANVILLE | $10,000 |
| CHARLESTON ANIMAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| SOUTH CAROLINA ENVIRONMENTAL LAW PROJECT INC | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $544k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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 +31% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
79 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 15 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $92k 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
- LFLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC6× · 2019–2024 · $420k · revenue +55%
- AFASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED SOUTH CAROLINA5× · 2020–2024 · $305k · revenue +282%
- LFLandmarks for Families Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $215k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- TFTherblig Foundationone grant, 2022 · $3.9M · revenue -93% · 98% of their budget
- TPThe Preservation Society of Charleston Incone grant, 2020 · $750k · revenue -5%
- FPFRENCH PROTESTANT HUGUENOT CHURCH Oone grant, 2020 · $50k
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 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.
Charleston stage's vision is to be a leading professional theater company, engaging the broad community through high quality productions, with leading artists, and excellent production values. the organization provides the community access…
The mission of the gibbes museum of art is to enhance lives through art by engaging people of every background and experience with art and artists of enduring quality; collect and preserve the art that touches charleston; and provide…
Carolina Teen Center is a prevention and education year-round after-school and summer program that services youth and their families. Literacy programs, tutoring, life skills, mentoring, positive peer groups, conflict resolution skills,…
Charlotte ballet's mission: through dance, we create authentic connections, engaging and inclusive educational opportunities, and transformative experiences. charlotte ballet's vision: we inspire individuals and communities to explore the…
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 American College of the Building Arts educates and trains artisans in the traditional building arts to foster exceptional craftsmanship and encourage the preservation, enrichment, and understanding of the world's architectural heritage…
The harvey b. gantt center for african-american arts and culture (formerly the charlotte-mecklenburg afro-american cultural and service center) exists to present, preserve and promote african american art, culture and history for the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lowcountry Land Trust Inc and the most unlike its peers is Therblig Foundation. 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 34 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 52% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
93 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. 93 of the 157 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 Therblig Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Preservation Society of Charleston Inc ↗
- Who funds STAR GOSPEL MISSION ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of South Carolina ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED SOUTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Landmarks for Families Inc ↗
- Who funds East Cooper Community Outreach ↗
- Who funds One-Eighty Place ↗
- Who funds TRIDENT UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HOME INC ↗
- Who funds PORTER-GAUD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds TRIDENT LITERACY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BELLE W BARUCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds Spirit of South Carolina Inc ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds South Carolina Coastal Conservation League Inc ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY CRADLE TO CAREER COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds LIONS VISION SERVICES A SOUTH CAROLINA CHARITY ↗
- Who funds AVIAN CONSERVATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds Charleston County Parks Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Enough Pie ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds DEE NORTON LOWCOUNTRY CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
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 · The Joanna Foundation · Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Trident United Way · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · Pathfinder Foundation Inc · The Mark Elliott Motley Foundation Inc · Central Carolina Community Foundation · Daniel Island Community Fund Inc · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · Patrick Family 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 Post and Courier 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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