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Roper St Francis Healthcare

Healing all people with compassion, faith, and excellence.

$617k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$6.1MHuman Services$457kCommunity Improvement$352kHousing & Shelter$138kFood & Nutrition$112kEducation$110kInternational$56kPhilanthropy$53kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 8 grants below total $96,286 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $617,052 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $520,766 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $85k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.4B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHARLESTON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY$30,000
LOWCOUNTRY STREET GROCERY$15,000
GREEN HEART PROJECT INC$10,000
NEIGHBORS TOGETHER INC$10,000
OPERATION HOME$10,000
TRI COUNTY PLAY COLLABORATIVE$10,000
LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK$5,786
PARTNERS 4 GLOBAL HEALTH INC$5,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $145k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TRI COUNTY PLAY COLLABORATIVE: $10k → 11%EAST COOPER COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $30k → 12%East Cooper Community Outreach: $30k → 12%East Cooper Community Outreach: $25k → 12%EAST COOPER COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $20k → 12%FB FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%NEIGHBORS TOGETHER INC: $10k → 12%OPERATION HOME: $10k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 91% of Roper St Francis Healthcare’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in SC; read by stated purpose it is 11% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Roper St Francis Healthcarelessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

17%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.3M · 21 repeat orgs$6.2M to everyone else

21 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
24

Total granted

$1.3M
$6.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+32%

Still filing today

81%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentInternationalHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    4× · 2017–2020 · $160k · revenue +33%
  • CR
    CHARLESTON REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE
    3× · 2017–2019 · $125k · revenue +21%
  • OP
    One-Eighty Place
    4× · 2017–2021 · $120k · revenue +149%

Funded once

  • RH
    Roper Hospital Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $2.5M · revenue +32%
  • RS
    Roper St Francis Physicians Networkgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1.2M · revenue +26%
  • BS
    Bon Secours-St Francis Xavier Hospital Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1.2M · revenue +147%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Roper St Francis Healthcare

Healing all people with compassion, faith, and excellence.

Health
2
Alliance for a Healthier South Carolina

Convene and connect diverse stakeholders to align and catalyze efforts to improve health and well-being for communities across South Carolina.

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3
Clinical Biotechnology Research Institute at Rsfh

Healing all people with compassion, faith, and excellence.

Health
4
Charleston Hospital Inc

To provide a broad continuum of quality health care services to enhance the well-being of the people of Charleston the surrounding communities. Drawing its inspiration from Christs healing love, this mission compels us to continuously…

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5
Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence Found ation
Health
6
Coastal Carolinas Health Alliance

Facilitate networking among hospitals

Health
7
Roper St Francis Foundation

The Roper St. Francis Foundation's mission is to advance the Roper St. Francis Healthcare mission of healing all people with compassion, faith and excellence through philanthropy.

Health
8
Genesis Healthcare Inc

To provide timely, affordable, compassionate, and quality primary and preventative medical, dental, and pharmaceutical services to South Carolina's economically and culturally diverse communities.

Health
9
Roper St Francis Ancillary Services

As an operating subsidiary of Roper St. Francis Healthcare (RSFH), Roper St. Francis Ancillary Services (RSFAS) provides a wide range of healthcare services to support the work of the four hospitals that are part of the RSFH System. The…

Health
10
Bon Secours Medical Group Greenville Specialty Care Llc

The mission is to bring compassion to health care and to be good help to those in need, especially those who are poor and dying. as a system of caregivers, we commit ourselves to help bring people and communities to health and wholeness.…

Health
11
South Carolina Public Interest Foundation
Crime & Legal
12
Conway Hospital Community Services

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.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of South Carolina and the most unlike its peers is Green Heart Project Inc. 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 30 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number28%3%<5yr17%3%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr15%31%20–35yr8%17%35–55yr13%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value28%0%<5yr17%0%5–10yr19%27%10–20yr15%23%20–35yr8%1%35–55yr13%49%55yr+

The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/50
the rest of the field
14%
347/2,394

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.

05the grantee network

45 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. 45 of the 50 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/45
Grantees still filing
30/45
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Roper Hospital Inc — $2,456,412 · HealthRoper Hospital IncRoper St Francis Physicians Network — $1,217,391 · HealthRoper St Francis Physicians NetworkBon Secours-St Francis Xavier Hospital Inc — $1,150,134 · HealthBon Secours-St Francis Xavier Hospital IncRoper St Francis Hospital - Berkeley Inc — $459,749 · HealthRoper St Francis Hospital - Berkeley IncRoper St Francis Mt Pleasant Hospital — $420,310 · HealthRoper St Francis Mt Pleasant Hospital+9 more — $279,000 · HealthCITY OF CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA — $258,000 · OtherCITY OF CHARLE…CHARLESTON METRO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $204,250 · OtherCHARLESTON MET…CHARLESTON REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE — $125,000 · OtherCHARLESTON REG…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY HOPE LODGE — $67,500 · OtherAMERICAN CANCE…CHARLESTON COUNTY ADULT DRUG COURT FOUNDATION — $40,000 · OtherCHARLESTON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY — $40,000 · OtherOUR LADY OF MERCY COMMUNITY OUTREACH SERVICES — $31,600 · OtherICNA RELIEF USA PROGRAMS INC — $31,800 · Other+11 more — $133,434 · Other+11 moreEast Cooper Community Outreach — $105,000 · Human ServicesFB Foundation — $20,000 · Human ServicesNeighbors Together Inc — $10,000 · Human ServicesOPERATION HOME INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesTri-County Play Collaborative — $10,000 · Human ServicesMy Sister's House Inc — $10,000 · Human ServicesBRIDGES OF HOPE — $7,500 · Human ServicesFlorence Crittenton Programs of South Carolina Inc — $7,500 · Human ServicesOne-Eighty Place — $120,000 · Housing & ShelterCHARLESTON SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY — $50,000 · EducationTRI-COUNTY CRADLE TO CAREER COLLABORATIVE — $20,000 · EducationCHARLESTON HOPE — $10,000 · EducationThe Charleston Promise Neighborhood — $10,000 · EducationTRIDENT UNITED WAY — $52,700 · PhilanthropyCOASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC — $10,300 · PhilanthropyGreen Heart Project Inc — $50,500 · EnvironmentSouth Carolina Coastal Conservation League Inc — $10,800 · Environment
Health$5,982,996Other$931,584Human Services$180,000Housing & Shelter$120,000Education$90,000Philanthropy$63,000Environment$61,300

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetRoper Hospital Inc — $2,456,412 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetRoper St Francis Physicians Network — $1,217,391 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBon Secours-St Francis Xavier Hospital Inc — $1,150,134 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRoper St Francis Hospital - Berkeley Inc — $459,749 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRoper St Francis Mt Pleasant Hospital — $420,310 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHARLESTON METRO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $204,250 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $160,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLESTON REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE — $125,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetOne-Eighty Place — $120,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetEast Cooper Community Outreach — $105,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetTRIDENT UNITED WAY — $52,700 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGreen Heart Project Inc — $50,500 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetCHARLESTON SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetICNA RELIEF USA PROGRAMS INC — $31,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOUR LADY OF MERCY COMMUNITY OUTREACH SERVICES — $31,600 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSHARE OUR SUZY (SOS) — $30,000 over 3y, 89% of budgetCLOSING THE GAP IN HEALTH CARE INC — $28,500 over 4y, 14% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC — $25,786 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRI-COUNTY CRADLE TO CAREER COLLABORATIVE — $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFB Foundation — $20,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetBEAUTIFUL GATE CENTER — $17,500 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetMEDSHARE INTERNATIONAL INC — $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLACK PAGES INTERNATIONAL INC — $12,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSouth Carolina Coastal Conservation League Inc — $10,800 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC — $10,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLESTON HOPE — $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetThe Charleston Promise Neighborhood — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetARM IN ARM — $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetNorth Charleston Dental Outreach Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetThe ARK of SC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNeighbors Together Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetOPERATION HOME INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMy Sister's House Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCAMP HAPPY DAYS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCharleston Habitat for Humanity Inc — $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBRIDGES OF HOPE — $7,500 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetFlorence Crittenton Programs of South Carolina Inc — $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAST COOPER MEALS ON WHEELS INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDEE NORTON LOWCOUNTRY CHILDREN'S CENTER — $5,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERS 4 GLOBAL HEALTH INC — $5,500 over 1y, 3.0% of budget
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.

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.

Coastal Community Fou…The Joanna FoundationTrident United WayDominion Energy Chari…Medical Society of So…Henry & Sylvia Yaschi…Sisters of Charity Fo…Kuznik Charitable Fou…Post and Courier Foun…Central Carolina Comm…The Birk Family Found…Beyond Our Gates Foun…
Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina IncSC45.4× affinity20 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 · Trident United Way · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Medical Society of South Carolina · Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · Kuznik Charitable Foundation · Post and Courier Foundation · Central Carolina Community Foundation · The Birk Family Foundation Inc · Beyond Our Gates Foundation of Kiawah & Seabrook

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 Roper St Francis Healthcare 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    23report 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

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 50 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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