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Seabrook Swan Family Foundation at a glance

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Seabrook Swan Family Foundation

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.

$116k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$105kHuman Services$104kFood & Nutrition$33kEducation$25kEmployment$21kEnvironment$8kHealth$1k
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $88k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Our Lady of Mercy - Community Outreach$35,000
Congaree Foundation$20,000
Our Lady of Mercy - Community Outreach$18,000
The Citadel Foundation$15,000
Backpack Buddies Seabrook Island$5,000
The Citadel Foundation$5,000
Nemours Wildlife Foundation$5,000
The Citadel Foundation$5,000
Our Lady of Mercy - Community Outreach$5,000
Seabrook Island Employee Assistance Fund$3,000
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 (FY24–25, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Seabrook Island Employee Assistance Fund: $18k → 12%Seabrook Island Employee Assistance Fund: $3k → 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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$250k · 4 repeat orgs$47k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
5

Total granted

$250k
$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+92%

Still filing today

75%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesFood & NutritionHealthOther
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

  • OL
    Our Lady of Mercy - Community Outreach
    3× · 2023–2025 · $149k
  • CF
    Congaree Foundation
    3× · 2023–2025 · $60k · revenue +17%
  • SI
    Seabrook Island Club Employee Assistance Fund
    2× · 2024–2025 · $21k · revenue -24%

Funded once

  • SI
    Sea Island Hunger Awareness Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $13k · revenue +52%
  • SI
    Seabrook Island Green Space Conservancy
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -74%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $1k
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
Conestee Foundation Inc

Through responsible stewardship of our unique ecological resource, we provide inclusive opportunities for meaningful connection, discovery, and education in nature.

Environment
2
The Sargasso Sea Project Inc

The mission of the organization is to achieve international recognition of the importance of the Sargasso Sea and to develop protection measures for it through competent regional and international organizations.

Environment
3
Sea Island Habitat for Humanity Inc

Seeking to put God's love into action, Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.

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4
Saluda Shoals Foundation

The Saluda Shoals Foundation is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization which serves as an advocate for the preservation and sustainability of Saluda Shoals Park through financial support, fostering partnerships, supporting programs and…

Recreation & Sports
5
Santa Catalina Island Conservancy

The catalina island conservancy protects and stewards 88% of catalina island. more than 42,000 acres of wildlands, coves and coastal habitats. founded to preserve the island's natural resources, the conservancy advances a mission rooted in…

—
6
The Kiawah Island Natural Habitat Conservancy Inc

The Kiawah Conservancy provides the vision, leadership and resources necessary to preserve and enhance Kiawah Island's unique balance of nature and development. We are an independent, research driven non-political, not-for-profit…

Environment
7
Beyond Our Gates Foundation of Kiawah & Seabrook

Support those in need, especially in the marginalized and impoverished Charleston Sea Island communities located near Kiawah and Seabrook Islands, by promoting charitable initiatives within the meaning of Section 501(c)(3).

Philanthropy
8
Hilton Head Students Incentive Fund
—
9
Siesta Key Environmental Defense Fund Inc

Educate and advocate for the protection and preservation of the environmentally sensitive structures and areas of Siesta Key.

—
10
South Carolina Public Interest Foundation
Crime & Legal
11
Coastal Prairie Conservancy

The Coastal Prairie Conservancy (CPC) works to sustain a resilient Texas by preserving coastal prairies, wetlands, farms, and ranches to benefit people and wildlife forever. Continued on Schedule OCPC conserves land, restores and enhances…

Environment
12
Cape Fear Garden Club Inc

To stimulate knowledge and the love of gardening; to study in all its aspects, the art of gardening, particularly horticulture, and to cooperate with other agencies furthering such interests; to encourage environmental improvement through…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seabrook Island Green Space Conservancy; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Six Mile Cypress Slough Preserve Corporation. 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

8 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. 8 of the 11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Our Lady of Mercy - Community Outreach: $148,500 · OtherOur Lady of Mercy - Community Outreach+2 more: $6,000 · OtherCongaree Foundation: $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentCongaree FoundationTHE CITADEL FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationTHE CITADEL FOUND…BACKPACK BUDDIES SEABROOK ISLAND: $20,000 · EducationBACKPACK BUDDIES …Seabrook Island Club Employee Assistance Fund: $21,000 · Human ServicesSea Island Hunger Awareness Foundation: $12,500 · Food & NutritionSeabrook Island Green Space Conservancy: $2,800 · EnvironmentFriends of Six Mile Cypress Slough Preserve Corporation: $500 · EnvironmentRESIDENTIAL HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $250 · Health
Other$154,500Youth Development$60,000Education$45,000Human Services$21,000Food & Nutrition$12,500Environment$3,300Health$250

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCongaree Foundation: $60,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSeabrook Island Club Employee Assistance Fund: $21,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetBACKPACK BUDDIES SEABROOK ISLAND: $20,000 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetSea Island Hunger Awareness Foundation: $12,500 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetSeabrook Island Green Space Conservancy: $2,800 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFriends of Six Mile Cypress Slough Preserve Corporation: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRESIDENTIAL HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.3% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 11 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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