· Public charity
South Carolina Childrens Fund
To make strategic, catalytic investments and provide expertise and technical assistance to educational organizations across south carolina.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2024–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k11 grants · $245k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $330k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIBERTY STEAM CHARTER SCHOOL | $125,000 |
| MOVEMENT SCHOOL BRIDGE VIEW | $75,000 |
| COMPASS COLLEGIATE ACADEMY | $70,000 |
| SPARTANBURG COUNTY FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| MICHIGAN EDUCATOR WORKFORCE | $35,000 |
| DONORSCHOOSEORG | $30,000 |
| LOWCOUNTRY LITERACY PROJECT | $30,000 |
| PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL ALLIANCE | $30,000 |
| GREENVILLE TECH CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| EDUCATOR REFORMERS ACADEMY | $20,000 |
| PALMETTO PROMISE INSTITUTE | $20,000 |
| TEENSHARP | $15,000 |
| NEW VENTURE FUND | $15,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF | $15,000 |
| MIDDLE TYGER COMMUNITY CENTER | $15,000 |
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 (FY24–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 94% 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 +13% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 10 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, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $290k 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
- LSLIBERTY STEAM CHARTER SCHOOL2× · 2024–2025 · $190k · revenue -6%
- CCCOMPASS COLLEGIATE ACADEMY2× · 2024–2025 · $170k · revenue +47%
- CICommunities in Schools of South Carolina2× · 2024–2025 · $30k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- PAPOST AND COURIER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
- GOGRIPTAPE ORG INCone grant, 2024 · $45k · revenue 0%
- LELEGACY EARLY COLLEGEone grant, 2024 · $45k · revenue -5%
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.
The Academy's Mission is to offer a classically based education that is grounded in time-tested fundamentals so that students learn to think, discern, and be prepared to fill a rising need in our changing world.
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
Operation of a public charter school.
The mission of the spartanburg day school is to provide a superior educational experience, in a community of trust, that prepares students for a life well lived. spartanburg day school is dually accredited by southern association of…
The mission of global academy of south carolina is to provide a safe and inclusive learning environment that promotes global citizenship, cultural understanding, and academic excellence. we strive to empower students to become well-rounded…
North east carolina preparatory school is a public charter school serving grades k-12 in tarboro, north carolina.
To operate a private school for pre-kindergarten through grade 12 in Wilmington, NC
All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.
Operation of a north carolina public charter school
Public Education.
East cooper montessori charter school educates the human potential by being a model public montessori program and creates empathetic, innovative, accountable thinkers who foster and advocate for community and diversity.
North carolina charter educational foundation is a north carolina not-for-profit entity organized exclusively for educational purposes. the foundation is comprised of respected leaders in the state of north carolina who are committed to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Empower Schools Inc and the most unlike its peers is Post and Courier Foundation. 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 19 years old; the field is 21. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
22 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.
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 LIBERTY STEAM CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COMPASS COLLEGIATE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MOVEMENT CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Spartanburg County Foundation ↗
- Who funds POST AND COURIER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GRIPTAPE ORG INC ↗
- Who funds LEGACY EARLY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds EMPOWER SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN EDUCATOR WORKFORCE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds Lowcountry Literacy Project ↗
- Who funds Communities in Schools of South Carolina ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION OF PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds NOAA Fitness Association Inc ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY CHARLESTON HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds REFORMERS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE TECHNICAL CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Palmetto Promise Institute ↗
- Who funds TEENSHARP ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE TYGER COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
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 Seminar Network Inc · J M Smith Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 South Carolina Childrens Fund 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Teensharp — 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.
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