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Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina
The Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina (SCF) is dedicated to furthering the mission, ministry, and purpose of the Sisters of Charity of St.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 104 grants below total $2,248,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,872,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $623,500 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 $10k17 grants · $134k
- $10k–50k85 grants · $1.9M
- $50k–250k2 grants · $165k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Healthy Learners | $100,000 |
| South Carolina Center for Fathers and Families | $65,000 |
| United Way of Greenville County | $35,500 |
| Homeless No More | $35,000 |
| Midlands Housing Alliance | $35,000 |
| The Aspen Institute Criminal Justice Reform Initiative | $35,000 |
| Metanoia Community Development Corporation | $35,000 |
| Homes of Hope | $35,000 |
| Lowcountry Youth Services | $30,500 |
| Northside Development Corporation | $30,500 |
| CommunityWorks | $30,000 |
| Turn90 | $30,000 |
| E3 Educate Empower Elevate | $27,000 |
| Middle Tyger Community Center | $25,500 |
| Anderson Interfaith Ministries | $25,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $5.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
133 repeat relationships — 84 still active in FY2024, 49 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k 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
- HLHEALTHY LEARNERS7× · 2018–2024 · $958k · revenue +122%
- HAHELPING AND LENDING OUTREACH SUPPORT8× · 2017–2024 · $395k · revenue +132%
- HNHomeless No More Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $395k · revenue +110%
Funded once
- HLHealthy Learnersone grant, 2017 · $262k
- SASC Association of Nonprofit Organizationsone grant, 2017 · $45k
- FSFAMILY SHELTER INCone grant, 2017 · $30k
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.
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Social welfare advocacy organization
We are independent, community based, nonprofit with a Mission to enhance communities by providing quality, safe, decent and affordable housing, and other forms of economic opportunities that benefit low to moderate income individuals…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Compass of Carolina Inc and the most unlike its peers is Thumbs Up 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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
194 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. 194 of the 212 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 SOUTH CAROLINA CENTER FOR FATHERS AND FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY LEARNERS ↗
- Who funds University of South Carolina Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds HELPING AND LENDING OUTREACH SUPPORT ↗
- Who funds Homeless No More Inc ↗
- Who funds HOMES OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds METANOIA ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABILITY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITYWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW DIRECTIONS OF HORRY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WINGS FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds TEACH MY PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds TURN90 ↗
- Who funds NORTHSIDE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ROOT & REBOUND ↗
- Who funds UNITED MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds STUDENT ACTION WITH FARMWORKERS ↗
- Who funds Midlands Housing Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON INTERFAITH MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE TYGER COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS OF GEORGETOWN INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds The Charleston Promise Neighborhood ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER SC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR THE COLLABORATION WITH THE HISPANIC COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR CHILD SUCCESS INC ↗
- Who funds FELICIAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MISS RUBY'S KIDS ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA APPLESEED LEGAL JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Village Group ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE PIEDMONT INC ↗
- Who funds SOTERIA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of South Carolina ↗
- Who funds Florence Crittenton Programs of South Carolina Inc ↗
- Who funds SERVE AND CONNECT ↗
- Who funds Lowcountry Local First ↗
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: Central Carolina Community Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · The Leon Levine Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Jolley Foundation · Dabo's All in Team Foundation · Hollingsworth Funds Inc · United Way of the Midlands · Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc · United Way of Greenville County Inc · The Duke Endowment · Trident United Way
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 Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
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.