· Public charity
Sc Launch Inc
Fuel south carolina's innovation economy by accelerating technology-enabled growth in research, academia, entrepreneurship and industry.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
- $250k+7 grants · $1.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TESTED HQ LLC | $300,000 |
| SCOPESTACK CORP | $250,000 |
| NEW FORGE LLC | $250,000 |
| VIRTUE TECHNOLOGIES | $250,000 |
| CARBON CENTS INC | $250,000 |
| RUFFIAN SOFTWARE | $250,000 |
| HERON FARMS INC | $250,000 |
| MITOCHEM THERAPEUTICS INC | $200,000 |
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 (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 51% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2023, 13 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TITFORM Inc2× · 2020–2022 · $600k
- BIBandwagonfanclub Inc2× · 2020–2021 · $573k
- RIREsimplifi Inc3× · 2017–2020 · $525k
Funded once
- ZZverseone grant, 2018 · $500k
- CCCarbon Conversions Incone grant, 2020 · $336k
- ETElastrin Therapeutics Incone grant, 2022 · $300k
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.
0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2023.
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 2023, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 67 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.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
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