· Private foundation
Richard and Susan Leadem Family
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| MIDDLETON PLACE | $7,500 |
| CHARLESTON DAY SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| A FRIEND OF JACK RESCUE | $1,000 |
| FRENCH HUGUENOT CHURCH | $1,000 |
| PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF CHARLESTON | $1,000 |
| CHARLESTON LIBRARY SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| STOWE LAND TRUST | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 2 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2025 · $223k · revenue +30%- SLSTOWE LAND TRUST8× · 2018–2025 · $21k · revenue +184%
- MSMEETING STREET SCHOOLS3× · 2017–2020 · $13k · revenue +454%
Funded once
- DODIOCESE OF CHARLESTONone grant, 2017 · $4k
- SPSPRUCE PEAK PERFORMING ARTS CENTERone grant, 2022 · $1k
- COColour of Musicgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +241%
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.
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.
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.
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.
The mission of the charleston school of law foundation inc is to encourage and assist the study, teaching, promoting and research of the rule of law in charleston, south carolina and all related subject areas as determined by the board of…
Charleston Collegiate Schools mission is to inspire students to become passionate, lifelong learners by empowering them with knowledge, creativity, curiosity and confidence to mindfully embrace the opportunities of tomorrow.
Brookgreen gardens was formed in 1931 to collect, preserve and exhibit american sculpture, and the flora and fauna native to south carolina.
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 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…
Charleston Literary Festival, Inc. produces a curated, annual program of events with a distinctly international flavor in the historic setting of Charleston, South Carolina. It brings together world class authors and speakers on a variety…
See schedule o for the organization's mission statement.please see description for part i, line 1, above.
The Charleston Academy of Music is committed to providing access to exceptional music education, performance and community outreach to all, regardless of age, skill, gender, ethnicity or income.
The purpose of wofford college is to function as a liberal arts institution of superior quality. its chief concern is the development of an intellectual, spiritual, and aesthetic atmosphere in which serious and inquiring minds of students…
Through excellence in education, charlotte country day school develops the potential of each student by fostering intellectual curiosity, principled character, ethical leadership and a responsibility to serve. the key values and…
How this is measured
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 27 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Middleton Place Foundation ↗
- Who funds STOWE LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds MEETING STREET SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON DAY SCHOOLINC ↗
- Who funds The Charleston Parks Conservancy ↗
- Who funds The Preservation Society of Charleston Inc ↗
- Who funds Charleston Library Society ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds PORTER-GAUD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST ALBANS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS ON POINT INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA ART ASSOCIATION DBA GIBBES MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds A FRIEND OF JACK RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Colour of Music ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Guffey Family Foundation · John M Rivers Jr Foundation · Post and Courier Foundation · Atlantic Services of Charleston Cha · Patrick Family Foundation · Kirby Family Foundation Inc · John Winthrop Charitable Trust · The Stony Point Foundation · Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc · The Joanna Foundation · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Richard and Susan Leadem Family funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard and Susan Leadem Family. Bigger dots raise more.
- St Albans Historical Society Inc: 32% of income from government
- Stowe Land Trust: 10% of income from government
How this is measured
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