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South Carolina Association for Community Economic Development

Through our network of members and partner organizations, SCACED strives to improve the quality of life for low-wealth families and communities by advancing community economic development and public policy in South Carolina.

$659k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$143k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Community Improvement$2.3MHousing & Shelter$1.2MHuman Services$440kFood & Nutrition$354kEducation$235kCrime & Legal$51kEmployment$30kArts & Culture$24kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 19 grants below total $435,850, the rows itemized in this filing. The $659,041 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $223,191 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $60k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $104k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $272k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Gullah Farmers Cooperative Association$142,500
CLIMB Fund$71,000
Increasing Hope$58,000
Lincoln Preservation and Historical Society$23,600
Homes of Hope$20,750
Ross Family Farm LLC$10,000
South Carolina Empowerment Centre$10,000
Natramedics LLC$10,000
Session Farm LLC$10,000
Saxmore Farms LLC$10,000
The Smart Box$10,000
Charleston Chamber Foundation$7,500
Neighbors Together$7,500
Genesis Homes$7,500
BlacQuity SC$7,500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $541k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 10% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%The Grace Impact Dev Center: $10k → 9%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $61k → 11%ACADEMIC TECHNOLOGY WELLNESS ACADEMY: $45k → 17%THE GRACE IMPACT DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $8k → 9%East Cooper Community Outreac: $15k → 12%East Cooper Community Outreac: $10k → 12%East Cooper Community Outreac: $8k → 12%PRIME COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $8k → 15%Mill Community Ministries: $10k → 10%INCREASING HOPE: $141k → 12%INCREASING HOPE: $114k → 12%Increasing Hope: $58k → 12%THE OPPORTUNITY CENTER: $20k → 12%Neighbors Together: $8k → 12%MICAH PROGRAM INC: $8k → 10%Palmetto CAP: $10k → 12%Palmetto CAP: $8k → 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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.9M · 29 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

29 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
51

Total granted

$2.9M
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+3%

Still filing today

83%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $101k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Community ImprovementHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesEducationCrime & LegalFood & NutritionOther
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

  • CF
    CLIMB Fund
    3× · 2022–2024 · $453k · revenue +10%
  • IH
    Increasing HOPE
    5× · 2019–2024 · $343k · revenue +754%
  • CI
    COMMUNITYWORKS INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $238k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • SC
    SOUTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY CAPITAL ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2023 · $336k · revenue -40% · 50% of their budget
  • SC
    SOUTH CAROLINA HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
    one grant, 2023 · $165k
  • SC
    SOUTH CAROLINA HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
    one grant, 2022 · $125k
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
Colleton County Fuller Center for Housing Inc

Collleton Fuller Center work in partenrship with God and People everywhere from all walks of life to develope decent communities. We will establish collaborate efforts with any and all agencies and individuals who can play a role in…

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2
Habitat for Humanity of Berkeley County

Habitat for Humanity of Berkeley County (HFHBC) is a community-level Habitat for Humanity organization that acts in partnership with and on behalf of Habitat for Humanity International. HFHBC seeks to put Gods love into action by brings…

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3
Auxilium Community Development Corp
Community Improvement
4
Sumter Habitat for Humanity Inc

To create decent, affordable housing for those in need and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience with people everywhere.

Housing & Shelter
5
Bridge North Charleston

None

Housing & Shelter
6
Black Economic Mobility Coalition

Identify and develop talent to increase the number of sustainable Black-owned business in the Upstate

Community Improvement
7
Carolina Teen Center

Carolina Teen Center is a prevention and education year-round after-school and summer program that services youth and their families. Literacy programs, tutoring, life skills, mentoring, positive peer groups, conflict resolution skills,…

Health
8
Affordable Housing for the Carolinas

Helping Carolina residents overcome barriers to affordable housing and increase their quality of life by providing home inspections home repairs and homeowner education to low- and moderate-income households. The organization preserves…

Community Improvement
9
Tri County Regional Development Corporation

To study the characteristics and market trends in relation to economic housing issues within the Waccamaw housing services to special needs population.

Housing & Shelter
10
Charleston Hispanic Association
Community Improvement
11
Housing Development Corporation of Rock Hill

The organization helps low and moderate income persons become homeowners by buying homes, selling them to income-qualified buyers and reusing sales proceeds to build more homes. the organization also conducts pre-purchase financial…

Housing & Shelter
12
Community Industry Value Interactionist League

NC CIVIL is a nonprofit community impact organization that develops grassroots approaches to structural disparities. Our mission is to increase resident involvement, improve organization of resources, and help institutions partner…

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Habitat for Humanity of Greenville County Sc Inc; the most unlike its peers is Smart Box. 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

56 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. 56 of the 90 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/56
Grantees still filing
38/56
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OPTUS BANK: $239,583 · OtherOPTUS BANKDESA INC: $232,318 · OtherDESA INCUSC School of Medicine Greenville: $191,261 · OtherUSC School of Medicine GreenvilleThe Gullah Farmers Cooperative Association: $162,500 · OtherThe Gullah Farmers Cooperative Assoc…SOUTH CAROLINA HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $125,000 · OtherSOUTH CAROLINA HISPANIC CHAMBER OF C…TRINITY TRANSITIONAL HOUSING: $81,540 · OtherTRINITY TRANSITIONAL HOUSINGTOWN OF ANDREWS COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION: $59,000 · Other+33 more: $394,377 · Other+33 moreCLIMB Fund: $453,376 · Community ImprovementCLIMB FundSOUTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY CAPITAL ALLIANCE: $336,000 · Community ImprovementSOUTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY CAPITAL A…ALLENDALE COUNTY ALIVE: $170,174 · Community ImprovementALLENDALE COUNTY ALIVESOUTH CAROLINA HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $164,835 · Community ImprovementSOUTH CAROLINA HISPANIC CHAMBER OF…SC UPLIFT COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $51,500 · Community ImprovementBEAUFORT COUNTY BLACK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $50,000 · Community Improvement+11 more: $161,824 · Community Improvement+11 moreCOMMUNITYWORKS INC: $237,763 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITYWORKS INCSantee Lynches Affordable Housing and Community Development Corporat: $136,588 · Housing & ShelterSantee Lynches Affo…SOUTHEASTERN HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $94,992 · Housing & ShelterSOUTHEASTERN HOUSIN…I58 INC: $83,358 · Housing & ShelterI58 INCCalvary Life Inspirations Comm Dev Corp: $72,000 · Housing & ShelterCalvary Life Inspir…HOMES OF HOPE INC: $70,750 · Housing & ShelterHOMES OF HOPE INC+8 more: $109,750 · Housing & Shelter+8 moreIncreasing HOPE: $343,077 · Human ServicesIncreasing HOP…COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $60,812 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY RESO…NANCYS COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $45,494 · Human ServicesNANCYS COMMUNI…East Cooper Community Outreach: $33,556 · Human ServicesEast Cooper Co…ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CENTER: $20,025 · Human Services+6 more: $68,000 · Human Services+6 moreBENEDICT COLLEGE: $196,394 · EducationA Father's Place: $21,000 · EducationSMART BOX: $17,500 · EducationCAROLINA HUMAN REINVESTMENT: $32,300 · Crime & LegalSOTERIA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $31,000 · Crime & LegalLOWCOUNTRY LEGAL VOLUNTEERS: $7,500 · Crime & LegalHUB CITY ROOTS: $15,000 · Food & NutritionFRESH FUTURE FARM INC: $10,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,485,579Community Improvement$1,387,709Housing & Shelter$805,201Human Services$570,964Education$234,894Crime & Legal$70,800Food & Nutrition$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCLIMB Fund: $453,376 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetIncreasing HOPE: $343,077 over 5y, 22% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY CAPITAL ALLIANCE: $336,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetCOMMUNITYWORKS INC: $237,763 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetBENEDICT COLLEGE: $196,394 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetALLENDALE COUNTY ALIVE: $170,174 over 3y, 79% of budgetSantee Lynches Affordable Housing and Community Development Corporat: $136,588 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetSOUTHEASTERN HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $94,992 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetI58 INC: $83,358 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetCalvary Life Inspirations Comm Dev Corp: $72,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetHOMES OF HOPE INC: $70,750 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSC UPLIFT COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $51,500 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetBEAUFORT COUNTY BLACK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $50,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetNANCYS COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $45,494 over 1y, 11% of budgetEast Cooper Community Outreach: $33,556 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY UPLIFTING ALLIANCE PROJECT: $32,768 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetCAROLINA HUMAN REINVESTMENT: $32,300 over 2y, 11% of budgetSOTERIA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $31,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetSOUTHERN CAROLINA REGIONAL - CDC: $28,306 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetLincolnville Preservation & Historical Society Inc: $23,600 over 1y, 45% of budgetLIMITLESS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $23,500 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetA Father's Place: $21,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetREBUILD UPSTATE: $20,444 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CENTER: $20,025 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetMIDLANDS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $20,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCHARLESTON COUNTY HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION INC: $18,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGRACE IMPACT DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $17,500 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetSMART BOX: $17,500 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetFIRST IMPRESSION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC: $17,500 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA EMPOWERMENT CENTRE: $16,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetHUB CITY ROOTS: $15,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetGenesis Homes Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSumter County Community Development Corporation: $13,750 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetSTEP BY STEP MINISTRY HOPE PROJECT INCORPORATED: $11,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetSUSTAINING WAY: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCenter for Community Self-Help: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHomeless No More Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGreen Heart Project Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of York County Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFRESH FUTURE FARM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY LEGAL VOLUNTEERS: $7,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNeighbors Together Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWilliamsburg Enterprise Community Commission: $7,500 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetCharity Foundation: $7,500 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetPRIME COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $7,500 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetBlacquity SC: $7,500 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY FIRST LAND TRUST: $7,500 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetCHARLESTON CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Central Carolina Comm…Coastal Community Fou…United Way of Greenvi…The Jolley FoundationSisters of Charity Fo…Truist Foundation IncTd Charitable Foundat…United Community Bank…Hollingsworth Funds I…Wells Fargo FoundationDaniel-Mickel Foundat…Scansource Charitable…
Central Carolina Community FoundationSC47.1× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Central Carolina Community Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · United Way of Greenville County Inc · The Jolley Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · Truist Foundation Inc · Td Charitable Foundation · United Community Bank Foundation · Hollingsworth Funds Inc · Wells Fargo Foundation · Daniel-Mickel Foundation · Scansource Charitable Foundation

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 South Carolina Association for Community Economic Development funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from South Carolina Association for Community Economic Development. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 90 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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