· Private foundation
Solon-Andreas Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MT MERCY UNIVERSITY | $4,000 |
| HILTON HEAD RECREATION ASSOCIATION | $3,400 |
| LITTLE ISLAND PRESCHOOL OF HILTON H | $3,000 |
| MORGAN COUNTY CHARTER SCHOOL SYSTEM | $2,000 |
| WILLIAMSBURG ACADEMY | $2,000 |
| SPRING ISLAND TRUST | $2,000 |
| CHARLESTON ANIMAL SOCIETY | $1,500 |
| WILLIAMSBURG COUNTY FIRE DEPT | $1,500 |
| ACADEMIC MAGNET BOOSTER CLUB | $1,500 |
| THE FIRST FREE WILL BAPTIST CHURCH | $1,000 |
| PET HELPERS | $1,000 |
| MEMINGER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $600 |
| THE BUIST ACADEMY FOUNDATION | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 62% of your 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 +60% since the first grant, against +42% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 2 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- CACHARLESTON ANIMAL SOCIETY8× · 2017–2024 · $16k · revenue +87%
- ARAshley River Creative Arts Elementary PTA3× · 2017–2019 · $15k · revenue +28%
- HHHILTON HEAD HUMANE ASSOCIATION6× · 2017–2022 · $14k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- BABUIST ACADEMYone grant, 2021 · $3k
- HHHOPEFUL HORIZONSgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +42%
- HHHILTON HEAD ISLAND EARLY CHILDHOODone grant, 2023 · $2k
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.
To prevent domestic animal overpopulation through spaying and neutering programs, to place animals into proper homes, to educate the public on responsible pet ownership, and assist at the animal shelter.
The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.
To reduce the over population of unwanted pets with a spay and neuter program, assist in the rescue of pets and to protect the well being of pets.
Our goal is to end the euthanasia of adoptable cats and dogs by promoting and supporting programs that have a positive effect on companion animals. Our goals: 1. Increase animal adoption and rehoming of homeless and domesticated pets by…
Dorchester Paws strives to instill humane principles into society through the prevention of cruelty to animals.
APL of SC's mission is to provide a safe home for homeless,abused or abandoned pets in the Columbia, SC area. These pets are given a chance of living a normal happy life through our various adoption programs. If the pet is not adoptable,…
The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…
Promoting healthy responsible lifelong pet ownership by serving the medical and rehabilitative needs of animals while encouraging the humane treatment of animals, preventing overpopulation, and ending animal cruelty.
The mission of the Humane Society of Walton County is to provide asanctuary for underprivileged animals, to place animals intopermanent, loving homes and to support pet owners by offeringresources, education and spay/neuter services.
To work with animals concentrating on animal welfare, adoption, spay/neuter, and community awareness in the wiregrass area. in addition, we work with other shelters throughout the southeast by transporting adoptable animals to locations…
To promote affordable and accessible spay and neuter services to midlands pet owners and support municipal shelters through intake diversion programs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Charleston Animal Society and the most unlike its peers is Williamsburg Academy Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 31 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 CHARLESTON ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Ashley River Creative Arts Elementary PTA ↗
- Who funds HILTON HEAD HUMANE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds South Carolina Aquarium ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMSBURG ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds SPRING ISLAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Buist Academy Foundation ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HOPEFUL HORIZONS ↗
- Who funds PET HELPERS 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: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Solon-Andreas 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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.