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Post and Courier Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$754k
Granted FY2025still arriving
59
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$90k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Philanthropy$4.1MHuman Services$1.3MHousing & Shelter$1.2MArts & Culture$1.0MFood & Nutrition$504kHealth$435kEducation$359kPublic Benefit$262kOther$0
02FY2025 · 59 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k42 grants · $198k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $179k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $377k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK$90,470
STAR GOSPEL MISSION$77,330
OPERATION HOME$75,120
ONE-EIGHTY PLACE$73,260
CAROLINA YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER (LANDMARKS FOR FAMILIES)$61,050
P&C SUSTAINABILITY FUND - FROM COLUMBIA FOOD AND WINE$32,000
ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND$24,420
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$20,000
LOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST$15,000
OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE LAND TRUST$15,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES$12,210
AUDUBON SOUTH CAROLINA$10,000
SOUTH CAROLINA ENVIRONMENTAL LAW PROJECT INC$10,000
LIFELINE CHILDREN'S SERVICES$10,000
FRIENDS OF COASTAL SC$10,000
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 (FY19–25, $627k) 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HOMELESS PERIOD PROJECT: $3k → 10%I AM VOICES INC: $4k → 11%YMCA OF GREENVILLE: $15k → 10%JAMES M HINTON COMMUNITY DEVELOP: $2k → 16%SANCTUARY OF UNBORN LIFE: $8k → 9%EAST COOPER COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $2k → 12%EAST COOPER COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $63k → 12%EAST COOPER COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $55k → 12%EAST COOPER COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $25k → 12%EAST COOPER COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $15k → 12%EAST COOPER COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $8k → 12%EAST COOPER COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $5k → 12%OPERATION HOME: $75k → 12%OPERATION HOME: $60k → 12%CAROLINA YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $49k → 12%CAROLINA YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $47k → 12%CAROLINA YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $41k → 12%CAROLINA YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $37k → 12%CAROLINA YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $32k → 12%OPERATION HOME: $10k → 12%CAROLINA YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $9k → 12%OPERATION HOME: $8k → 12%OPERATION HOME: $6k → 12%OPERATION HOME: $5k → 12%OPERATION HOME: $2k → 12%LOWCOUNTRY ORPHAN RELIEF: $2k → 12%FLORENCE CRITTENTON PROGRAMS OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC: $5k → 12%DRAYTON HALL PRESERVATION TRUST: $6k → 12%DRAYTON HALL PRESERVATION TRUST: $5k → 12%RESPITE CARE CHARLESTON: $8k → 12%RESPITE CARE CHARLESTON: $8k → 12%RESPITE CARE OF CHARLESTON: $5k → 12%RESPITE CARE OF CHARLESTON: $4k → 12%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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.2M · 87 repeat orgs$5.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

87 repeat relationships: 40 still active in FY2025, 47 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

87
68

Total granted

$5.2M
$5.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+19%

Still filing today

66%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $179k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationAnimalsEnvironmentOther
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

  • SG
    STAR GOSPEL MISSION
    7× · 2019–2025 · $779k · revenue +616%
  • LF
    LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $510k · revenue +55%
  • AF
    ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED SOUTH CAROLINA
    6× · 2020–2025 · $329k · revenue +282%

Funded once

  • TF
    Therblig Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $3.9M · revenue -93% · 98% of their budget
  • TP
    The Preservation Society of Charleston Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $750k · revenue -5%
  • FP
    FRENCH PROTESTANT HUGUENOT CHURCH O
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
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 Public Interest Foundation
Crime & Legal
2
The Carolina Trust
Philanthropy
3
The South Carolina Historical Society

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.

Arts & Culture
4
Charleston Hispanic Association
Community Improvement
5
Carolina Art Association Dba Gibbes Museum of Art

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…

Arts & Culture
6
Charleston Stage Company Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
7
South Carolina Urban Entomology Charitable Alliance
Education
8
Charleston Waterkeeper

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…

Environment
9
Post and Courier Foundation
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10
Bishop Gadsden Episcopal Retirement Community

Bishop gadsden, a life care retirement community, embraces god's call to ministry. we affirm positive living for all who live and work here. we serve with integrity. we exercise wise stewardship. we reach out with a generous spirit.

Human Services
11
Charlotte Ballet

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…

Arts & Culture
12
Carolina Teen Center

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,…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lowcountry Land Trust Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

104 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 104 of the 176 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
30
Early backer (in before they grew)
102/104
Grantees still filing
65/104
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STAR GOSPEL MISSION: $778,912 · OtherSTAR GOSPEL MISSIONThe Preservation Society of Charleston Inc: $750,000 · OtherThe Preservation Society of Charleston IncCatholic Charities of South Carolina: $710,492 · OtherCatholic Charities of South CarolinaLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC: $510,466 · OtherLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INCASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED SOUTH CAROLINA: $329,237 · OtherASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED SOUTH …SALVATION ARMY: $188,763 · Other+132 more: $1,768,591 · Other+132 moreTherblig Foundation: $3,886,818 · PhilanthropyTherblig Foundation+3 more: $152,000 · PhilanthropyLandmarks for Families Inc: $214,604 · Human ServicesEast Cooper Community Outreach: $173,063 · Human ServicesOPERATION HOME INC: $165,809 · Human ServicesRESPITE CARE OF CHARLESTON: $24,000 · Human Services+11 more: $78,500 · Human ServicesCHARLESTON LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $251,948 · ReligionLOWCOUNTRY MEDIATION CENTER: $10,000 · ReligionOne-Eighty Place: $233,323 · Housing & ShelterCONFEDERATE HOME AND COLLEGE: $17,000 · Housing & Shelter+2 more: $11,500 · Housing & ShelterLOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST INC: $97,000 · EnvironmentSouth Carolina Coastal Conservation League Inc: $30,000 · EnvironmentSOUTH CAROLINA ENVIRONMENTAL LAW PROJECT INC: $20,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentThe Charleston Parks Conservancy: $9,500 · EnvironmentTRI-COUNTY CRADLE TO CAREER COLLABORATIVE: $25,000 · EducationCOLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationLOWCOUNTRY MARITIME SCHOOL: $23,000 · EducationTRIDENT ACADEMY INC: $16,000 · EducationPATTISON'S ACADEMY: $15,000 · EducationTHE CITADEL FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationBooks in Every Bag: $5,000 · Education+1 more: $3,000 · Education
Other$5,036,461Philanthropy$4,038,818Human Services$655,976Religion$261,948Housing & Shelter$261,823Environment$166,500Education$127,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTherblig Foundation: $3,886,818 over 1y, 98% of budgetSTAR GOSPEL MISSION: $778,912 over 7y, 22% of budgetThe Preservation Society of Charleston Inc: $750,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetCatholic Charities of South Carolina: $710,492 over 7y, 5.3% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC: $510,466 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED SOUTH CAROLINA: $329,237 over 6y, 8.9% of budgetCHARLESTON LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $251,948 over 4y, 36% of budgetOne-Eighty Place: $233,323 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetLandmarks for Families Inc: $214,604 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetEast Cooper Community Outreach: $173,063 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetOPERATION HOME INC: $165,809 over 7y, 3.6% of budgetTRIDENT UNITED WAY: $118,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST INC: $97,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetPORTER-GAUD FOUNDATION: $84,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetTRIDENT LITERACY ASSOCIATION INC: $58,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetCHARLESTON ANIMAL SOCIETY: $43,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBELLE W BARUCH FOUNDATION: $35,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSouth Carolina Coastal Conservation League Inc: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCOASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC: $28,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIONS VISION SERVICES A SOUTH CAROLINA CHARITY: $27,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetSpirit of South Carolina Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetTRI-COUNTY CRADLE TO CAREER COLLABORATIVE: $25,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetCOLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRESPITE CARE OF CHARLESTON: $24,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetThe Charleston Museum: $23,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY MARITIME SCHOOL: $23,000 over 4y, 6.1% of budgetCHARLESTON AREA THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC: $22,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetAVIAN CONSERVATION CENTER: $21,500 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetCharleston County Parks Foundation Inc: $21,000 over 4y, 7.8% of budgetVISION TO LEARN: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA ENVIRONMENTAL LAW PROJECT INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetEnough Pie: $20,000 over 4y, 7.8% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $19,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Heirs' Property Preservation: $18,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetDEE NORTON LOWCOUNTRY CHILDREN'S CENTER: $18,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHARLESTON LEADERS INC: $17,586 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetCONFEDERATE HOME AND COLLEGE: $17,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetTHE TURTLE SURVIVAL ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $16,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLORD BERKELEY CONSERVATION TRUST: $16,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRIDENT ACADEMY INC: $16,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPATTISON'S ACADEMY: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CITADEL FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYMCA OF GREENVILLE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHARLESTON FORUM: $14,000 over 4y, 67% of budgetCHARLESTON MEN'S CHORUS INC: $13,000 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetCoastal Crisis Chaplaincy: $12,000 over 2y, 2.2% 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.

  • Who funds Therblig Foundation ↗
  • Who funds STAR GOSPEL MISSION ↗
  • Who funds The Preservation Society of Charleston Inc ↗
  • 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 One-Eighty Place ↗
  • Who funds Landmarks for Families Inc ↗
  • Who funds East Cooper Community Outreach ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds TRIDENT UNITED WAY ↗
  • Who funds LOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds PORTER-GAUD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TRIDENT LITERACY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CHARLESTON ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds BELLE W BARUCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds South Carolina Coastal Conservation League Inc ↗
  • Who funds COASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC ↗
  • Who funds LIONS VISION SERVICES A SOUTH CAROLINA CHARITY ↗
  • Who funds Spirit of South Carolina Inc ↗
  • Who funds TRI-COUNTY CRADLE TO CAREER COLLABORATIVE ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds RESPITE CARE OF CHARLESTON ↗

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…The Joanna FoundationHenry & Sylvia Yaschi…Dominion Energy Chari…Trident United WaySisters of Charity Fo…Pathfinder Foundation…The Mark Elliott Motl…Central Carolina Comm…Daniel Island Communi…Gaylord and Dorothy D…Patrick Family Founda…
Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina IncSC110.7× affinity57 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 · 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

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 Post and Courier Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Post and Courier Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    29report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Post and Courier Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Post and Courier Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 176 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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