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Rowland Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$67k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$23k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$191kHealth$83kEducation$45kFood & Nutrition$40kArts & Culture$38kAnimals$25kPhilanthropy$10kYouth Development$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$18,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$182k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
North Charleston Dental Outreach$23,000
USS Yorktown Foundation$18,000
East Cooper Community Outreach$16,000
East Cooper Meals on Wheels$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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $136k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%EAST COOPER COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $30k → 12%EAST COOPER CUMMUNITY OUTREACH: $20k → 12%East Cooper Community Outreach: $16k → 12%EAST COOPER COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $15k → 12%East Cooper Community Outreach: $15k → 12%INCREASING HOPE: $20k → 12%Increasing Hope: $10k → 12%CAROLINA YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $10k → 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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$337k · 8 repeat orgs$120k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
10

Total granted

$337k
$120k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+27%

Still filing today

100%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationAnimalsHealthArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther
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

  • EC
    East Cooper Community Outreach
    5× · 2020–2024 · $96k · revenue +64%
  • NC
    North Charleston Dental Outreach Inc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $68k · revenue +48%
  • MS
    My Sister's House Inc
    2× · 2020–2022 · $35k · revenue +88%

Funded once

  • MF
    MUSC FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • MC
    MUSC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
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
House of Hope North Charleston

To reduce hunger and poverty in the Tri-County Area by providing individuals and families with food, clothing, shelter, resource and spiritual support while striving to employ, educate and empower.

Food & Nutrition
2
Dorchester Paws

Dorchester Paws strives to instill humane principles into society through the prevention of cruelty to animals.

Animals
3
South Carolina Public Interest Foundation
Crime & Legal
4
Charleston Legal Access

To expand access to legal representation and rights in South Carolina.

Crime & Legal
5
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
6
The Life House Women's Shelter Inc

Safe Shelter - The LHWS provides unhoused single women and unhoused women with children safe shelter by providing onsite security at all three shelter locations. Keeping these shelters up to date with their proprety maintenance and basic…

Housing & Shelter
7
Charleston Hispanic Association
Community Improvement
8
Carolina Comfort Coalition

Serenity House is a community organization that bridges the gap for hospice families by providing a three bed group home setting at no charge for short term end of life care by trained volunteers and nurses.

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9
East Cooper Habitat for Humanity Inc

To implement the Gospel of Jesus Christ in South Carolina and throughout the United States and the world by working with economically disadvantaged people to help them create a better human habitat in which to live and work.

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10
Lowcountry Veterans Home

Lowcountry Veterans Home provides transitional housing and individualized support for homeless veterans, working to restore stability, dignity, and independence. Through case management, peer support, transportation, and strong community…

Health
11
Feeding the Carolinas

The mission of the Organization is to coordinate, support, and advocate for member Food Banks across the Carolinas to create lasting solutions to address hunger.

Food & Nutrition
12
Charleston Nutrition Center

Prepare and serve congregate and home delivered meals to persons 60 years of age and older as well as disabled persons. Provide social activities for senior citizens.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Increasing Hope; the most unlike its peers is American College of the Building Arts. 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

12 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. 12 of the 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
11/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

East Cooper Community Outreach: $96,000 · Human ServicesEast Cooper Community OutreachMy Sister's House Inc: $35,000 · Human ServicesMy Sister's House IncIncreasing HOPE: $30,000 · Human ServicesIncreasing HOPELandmarks for Families Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesLandmarks for Families IncMUSC FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherMUSC FOUNDATIONRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $20,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSEMUSC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $15,000 · OtherMUSC CHILDREN'S HOSPITALMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $10,000 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS INCCAROLINA YOUTH DEVELOPMENT: $10,000 · OtherCAROLINA YOUTH DEVELOPMENTLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC: $10,000 · OtherLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INCTHE YORKTOWN FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherTHE YORKTOWN FOUNDATION180 PLACE: $10,000 · Other180 PLACENorth Charleston Dental Outreach Inc: $68,000 · HealthNorth Charleston…USS YORKTOWN FOUNDATION: $33,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN COLLEGE OF THE BUILDING ARTS: $30,000 · EducationCHARLESTON ANIMAL SOCIETY: $25,000 · AnimalsEAST COOPER MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $20,000 · Food & NutritionOne-Eighty Place: $5,000 · Housing & Shelter
Human Services$171,000Other$105,000Health$68,000Arts & Culture$33,000Education$30,000Animals$25,000Food & Nutrition$20,000Housing & Shelter$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEast Cooper Community Outreach: $96,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetNorth Charleston Dental Outreach Inc: $68,000 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetMy Sister's House Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetUSS YORKTOWN FOUNDATION: $33,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetAMERICAN COLLEGE OF THE BUILDING ARTS: $30,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetIncreasing HOPE: $30,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCHARLESTON ANIMAL SOCIETY: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEAST COOPER MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLandmarks for Families Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOne-Eighty Place: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Henry & Sylvia Yaschi…The Joanna FoundationCoastal Community Fou…Trident United WayKuznik Charitable Fou…Td Charitable Foundat…Dominion Energy Chari…Roper St Francis Heal…Advanced Technology I…Central Carolina Comm…The Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…
Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation IncSC22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc · The Joanna Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Trident United Way · Kuznik Charitable Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Roper St Francis Healthcare · Advanced Technology International · Central Carolina Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%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
    8report 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 Rowland Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Rowland Family 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 18 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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