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South Carolina Community Loan Fund

SOUTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY LOAN FUND (scclf) is a u.s. Treasury certified community development financial institution (cdfi) whose mission is to advance equitable access to capital by providing loans, technical assistance, and advocacy for affordable housing, health food, community facilities, and community business enterprises to create…

$238k
Granted FY2021
11
Itemized grants FY2021
11
Organizations funded FY2021
100%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Itemized, FY2021
$213k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2021
$12,500
Largest grant, FY2021
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 11
FY2019 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
2
Total assets, FY2021
$50M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 100% of the organizations South Carolina Community Loan Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $213k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21
Community ImprovementOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202111$213k100%
FY20204$63k100%
FY20191$8kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2021.

Housing & Shelter$108kFood & Nutrition$75kHuman Services$70kCommunity Improvement$30k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Palmetto Works Community Development Corporation$30,000133%
Wicks Scents$30,0001n/a
Visa Now$30,0001n/a
The Naked Pantry Company$30,0001n/a
Lighthouse Hydro Mart$30,0001n/a
Finicky Bean LLC$20,0001n/a
Ladybelle LLC$20,0001n/a
Fairy Fresh Foods LLC$12,5001n/a
Glorious Grocery on Wheels$12,5001n/a
Sal's & George's Feed Seed and Supply$10,0001n/a
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All grantees of South Carolina Community Loan Fund by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Palmetto Works Community Development Corporation$30,000133%
Wicks Scents$30,0001n/a
Visa Now$30,0001n/a
The Naked Pantry Company$30,0001n/a
Lighthouse Hydro Mart$30,0001n/a
Finicky Bean LLC$20,0001n/a
Ladybelle LLC$20,0001n/a
Fairy Fresh Foods LLC$12,5001n/a
Glorious Grocery on Wheels$12,5001n/a
Sal's & George's Feed Seed and Supply$10,0001n/a
Dragonfly Creek LLP$10,0001n/a
Fabel Farms LLC$10,0001n/a
1 Am She$10,0001n/a
Delta 4 Security LLC$10,0001n/a
Punch Drunk Designs$10,0001n/a
Dolphin Wood House$8,0671n/a

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About South Carolina Community Loan Fund

How much does South Carolina Community Loan Fund give?
South Carolina Community Loan Fund reported 11 itemized grants totaling $212,500, out of $237,500 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 11 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2021.
What does South Carolina Community Loan Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2021, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (38%), Food & Nutrition (26%), Human Services (25%).
Who are South Carolina Community Loan Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2021: Palmetto Works Community Development Corporation ($30k), Wicks Scents ($30k), Visa Now ($30k).
Does South Carolina Community Loan Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is South Carolina Community Loan Fund based?
South Carolina Community Loan Fund is based in SC.

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 16 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $59k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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