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South Carolina Federal Credit Union Foundation

We exist for charitable and educational purposes.

$262k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What you fund
0186% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20192024.

Health$554kHuman Services$209kYouth Development$93kInternational$46kPhilanthropy$24kAnimals$21kEducation$11kOther$156k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 7 grants below total $200,612 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $261,699 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $61,087 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $139k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
$26,070
Median grant
1
States reached
$253k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALZHEIMERS ASSOC$54,792
CMN MUSC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$42,222
LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK$37,317
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB$26,070
LOWCOUNTRY AMERICAN RED CROSS$18,280
PRISMA HEALTH UPSTATE$14,808
AMERICAN RED CROSS UPSTATE$7,123
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $101k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS UPSTATE: $7k → 10%LOWCOUNTRY AMERICAN RED CROSS: $26k → 12%LOWCOUNTRY AMERICAN RED CROSS: $18k → 12%LOWCOUNTRY AMERICAN RED CROSS: $17k → 12%LOWCOUNTRY AMERICAN RED CROSS: $12k → 12%LOWCOUNTRY AMERICAN RED CROSS: $11k → 12%LOWCOUNTRY AMERICAN RED CROSS: $9k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 9 repeat orgs$51k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
3

Total granted

$1.1M
$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+88%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyAnimalsEducationOther

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

  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $302k · revenue +17%
  • MU
    MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $195k · revenue +187%
  • LF
    LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $156k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • CA
    CHARLESTON ANIMAL SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $21k · revenue +79%
  • MS
    My Sister's House Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $19k · revenue +88%
  • PA
    PATTISON'S ACADEMYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $11k · revenue +411%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
2
North Carolina State University Alumni Association Inc

The nc state alumni association engages alumni and friends through programs and services that foster pride and enhance a lifelong connection to nc state university ("nc state").

3
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
4
Multicare South King Health Foundation

Partnering for healing and a healthy future through philanthropy.

5
Gaston Memorial Hospital Inc

To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.

Health
6
East Carolina Health

To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.

Health
7
Mcleod Health

To operate a health care system providing medical excellence to the eastern region of south carolina and the extreme southeastern region of north carolina.

Health
8
University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina Inc

To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.

Health
9
Musc Strategic Ventures

To promote and support the educational, medical, scientific, and research purposes of the medical university of south carolina "musc", and university medical associates of the medical university of south carolina "uma", including their…

Health
10
Medical Center of Central Georgia Inc

To enhance the health status of those we serve in partnership with medical staff and other community organizations by providing wellness services, health education, training, and access to safe high quality health care services.

Health
11
The Outer Banks Hospital Inc

To enhance the quality of life for the residents and visitors of dare county and the surrounding region by promoting wellness and providing the highest quality healthcare services.

Health
12
Tandem Health Sc

Tandem health sc is a comprehensive primary healthcare practice dedicated to building a healthy community and improving the health, well-being, and quality of life of each person served.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Water Missions International and the most unlike its peers is My Sister's House Inc. 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

12 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
11/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $301,680 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INCMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION — $195,294 · HealthMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATIONPrisma Health-Upstate — $56,974 · HealthPrisma Health-UpstateAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $101,033 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red…LOWCOUNTRY ORPHAN RELIEF — $88,744 · Human ServicesLOWCOUNTRY ORPHAN REL…My Sister's House Inc — $18,775 · Human ServicesMy Sister's House IncLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC — $156,334 · OtherLOWCOUNTRY FOOD…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA — $92,768 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GI…WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL — $46,107 · InternationalTRIDENT UNITED WAY — $23,634 · PhilanthropyCHARLESTON ANIMAL SOCIETY — $20,789 · AnimalsPATTISON'S ACADEMY — $10,995 · Education
Health$553,948Human Services$208,552Other$156,334Youth Development$92,768International$46,107Philanthropy$23,634Animals$20,789Education$10,995

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $301,680 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION — $195,294 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC — $156,334 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $101,033 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA — $92,768 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY ORPHAN RELIEF — $88,744 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetPrisma Health-Upstate — $56,974 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL — $46,107 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTRIDENT UNITED WAY — $23,634 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHARLESTON ANIMAL SOCIETY — $20,789 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMy Sister's House Inc — $18,775 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPATTISON'S ACADEMY — $10,995 over 1y, 1.3% of budget
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.

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.

Dominion Energy Charitable FoundationVA13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 South Carolina Federal Credit Union 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to South Carolina Federal Credit Union Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to South Carolina Federal Credit Union Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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