· Public charity
Rotary Club of Hilton Head Island-Sunset
Our primary mission is to promote goodwill and friendship both in our local community, our state, and around the world.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE ROTARY FOUNDATION | $5,390 |
| HERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF BEAUFORT COUNTY | $3,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $2,269 |
| HHIHS-PTSO | $1,500 |
| HILTON HEAD HEROES | $1,000 |
| HEROES OF THE LOW COUNTRY | $1,000 |
| THE CART FUND | $629 |
| BORN TO READ | $500 |
| PAT CONROY LIBRARY CENTER | $250 |
| RISE AGAINST HUNGER | $100 |
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 (FY17–19, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
8 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2019, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (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 FY2019, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- FPFAMILY PROMISE OF THE LOWCOUNTRY3× · 2017–2019 · $12k · revenue +65%
- TCTHE CART FUND INC3× · 2017–2019 · $7k · revenue +239%
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER INC2× · 2017–2018 · $5k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- UMUNIVERSITY MEDICAL ASSOCIATES OF THE MEDICAL UNIV OF SOUTH CAROLINAone grant, 2017 · $7k
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY INCone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -1%
- BRBLUFFTON ROTARY CLUBone grant, 2017 · $1k
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.
Our primary mission is to promote goodwill and friendship both in our local community, our state, and around the world.
Organization that seeks to provide relief to families impacted by hurricanes in order for families to rebuild after disaster.
The mission is to feed the hungry and eliminate hunger in our community. last year, we fed over 101,000 adults in our general feeding program and nourished 32,644 children in our childrens hunger initiative program (chip). every person who…
To provide affordable housing for low-income families in darlington county, sc
To render aid, assistance & comfort to the patients of hilton head hospital and coastal carolina hospital and to their families and friends through an in-service volunteer program, and to enrich the quality of life, health and education of…
The rotary club of hilton head island charitable foundation is the funding arm of all of the community projects and charitable efforts of the rotary club of hilton head island. it provides a simple, tax efficient way for everyone - club…
To support and promote the town of hilton head island.
The concours event is held annually on hilton head island, sc and displays historical and significant automobiles for the purpose of educating the public on the automotive industry origin, development and contribution to history
Provide for community, national and international programs which advance understanding, goodwill and peace, provide humanitarian services and encourage high ethical standards.
The hilton head reef foundation, a subsidiary of the hilton head island sportfishing club is dedicated to the enhancement and protection of marine fisheries that are significant to the recreational and charter fishing communities. the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heritage Classic Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Cart Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
24 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. 24 of the 30 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 THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF THE LOWCOUNTRY ↗
- Who funds THE CART FUND INC ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Hhi Seahawks Ptso Inc ↗
- Who funds TUMAINI FUND USA INC ↗
- Who funds HILTON HEAD HEROES INC ↗
- Who funds Heroes of the Low Country ↗
- Who funds HILTON HEAD ISLAND RECREATION ↗
- Who funds SANDALWOOD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds COASTAL DISCOVERY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HILTON HEAD ISLAND SAFE HARBOURINC ↗
- Who funds BORN TO READ INC ↗
- Who funds ROTARY INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT 7550 ↗
- Who funds THE PAT CONROY LITERARY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RISE AGAINST HUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation of the Lowcountry ↗
- Who funds NAMI LOWCOUNTRY ↗
- Who funds MIRASOL HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds THE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC ↗
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: Community Foundation of the Lowcountry · Heritage Classic Foundation · The Bargain Box · Wexford Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Hilton Head Firefighters Association Inc · The Church Mouse Thrift Shop Inc · Breedlove Foundation Im 020120186528 · Edward a Bond Foundation · The Thorpe Family Foundation Inc · The Berkeley Hall Charitable Foundation · The Gleason Family Foundation Inc
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 Rotary Club of Hilton Head Island-Sunset 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.