· Private foundation
Small Change Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KIDS ON POINT | $17,775 |
| GOOD FRIENDS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY | $3,000 |
| PORTER GAUD SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| ST LUKES EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $1,000 |
| HEATHWOOD HALL EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| CREATE NEWBERRY INC | $500 |
| YOUNG LIFE OF NEWBERRY | $500 |
| THE WOODLANDS GARDEN | $500 |
| MARY BALDWIN UNIVERSITY | $500 |
| MUGS FOR MOMS | $250 |
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 (FY24–24, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $750 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
- GFGOOD FRIENDS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY6× · 2020–2025 · $36k · revenue +53%
- KOKIDS ON POINT INC2× · 2023–2025 · $28k · revenue +6%
- TFTHE FORMATION PROJECT2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- EPEnough Pieone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -82%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE LOWLINEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue ×18
- FPFAMILY PROMISE GREATER CHARLESTONone grant, 2023 · $8k
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.
Advances and promotes the arts for all south carolinians through advocacy, leadership, development and public awareness.
To educate Charleston area residents and visitors about the natural and cultural history of the South Carolina Lowcountry through collections, exhibitions, preservation, conservation, research and related programming.
Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse
Empowering and inspiring a new generation of changemakers through theatre. at scct, we define a changemaker as: someone who has empathy for others and is driven to make the world a better place. someone who is inquisitive, open minded, and…
The Museum is a non-profit organization whose mission is to spark imagination, stimulate curiosity and encourage problem solving through the power of play in families from all backgrounds with young children.
Promoting and protecting the free private and competitive enterprise system through research and education.
The mission of engaging creative minds is to inspire the creative and innovative potential of all students to achieve academically and become imaginative, adaptable, and productive adults resulting in stronger communities and an…
Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.
The mission of the gibbes museum of art is to enhance lives through art by engaging people of every background and experience with art and artists of enduring quality; collect and preserve the art that touches charleston; and provide…
Charleston stage's vision is to be a leading professional theater company, engaging the broad community through high quality productions, with leading artists, and excellent production values. the organization provides the community access…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids On Point Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 24 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 GOOD FRIENDS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY ↗
- Who funds KIDS ON POINT INC ↗
- Who funds THE FORMATION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MARY BALDWIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NEWBERRY OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Heathwood Hall Episcopal School ↗
- Who funds Enough Pie ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LOWLINE ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF GREATER CHARLESTON ↗
- Who funds Art Pot ↗
- Who funds BE A MENTOR INC ↗
- Who funds DEE NORTON LOWCOUNTRY CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds University of South Carolina Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds EPWORTH CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds CREATE Newberry Inc ↗
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: Elhapa Foundation Inc · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Central Carolina Community Foundation · Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc · The Joanna Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Patrick Family Foundation · The Harvey-McNairy Foundation Inc · Post and Courier Foundation · Trident United Way · Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation
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 Small Change Foundation 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.