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South Carolina Humanities Council Inc

The mission of south carolina humanities council, inc.

$156k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of SOUTH CAROLINA HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $128k
$13,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA$24,800
COASTAL CAROLINA UNIVERSITY$20,884
CLEMSON UNIVERSITY$19,000
ABLE SOUTH CAROLINA$15,000
BETTER WORLD STUDIOS INC$15,000
BROOKGREEN GARDENS$13,000
LANCASTER COUNTY COUNCIL OF THE ART$10,000
BERKELEY COUNTY MUSEUM$10,000
MATHER MUSEUM & INTERPRETIVE CENTER$9,000
ONE COLUMBIA FOR ARTS AND HISTORY$7,000
MAGNOLIA PLANTATION$6,200
CITY OF GAFFNEY SOUTH CAROLINA$6,000
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 (FY18–24, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%FOUR HOLES INDIAN ORGANIZATION: $14k → 11%DRAYTON HALL PRESERVATION TRUST: $5k → 12%DRAYTON HALL PRESERVATION TRUST: $10k → 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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 47 repeat orgs$793k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

47 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 41 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
75

Total granted

$1.5M
$740k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+13%

Still filing today

68%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentPhilanthropyHuman ServicesCivil RightsOther

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

  • Charleston Literary Festival Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $56k · revenue +384%
  • RC
    Richland County Public Library
    3× · 2021–2024 · $47k · revenue +27%
  • SM
    SIGAL MUSIC MUSEUM
    4× · 2020–2023 · $43k · revenue +130%

Funded once

  • MA
    MCCLELLANVILLE ARTS COUNCIL
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -10%
  • AF
    AFROSOUTH FILM FESTIVAL
    one grant, 2024 · $19k
  • SC
    S C FEDERATION OF BUSINESS & PROFESSIONAL WOMENS CLUBS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $18k

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
The Museum - Greenwood Sc

The mission of the museum is to save, share, and celebrate greenwood history. to that end, the board and staff of the museum are charged to administer, operate and maintain a nonprofit museum in the professional and fiscally responsible…

Arts & Culture
2
The Staunton Augusta County African American Resea

Preserve african american heritage

—
3
Friends of the Lexington County Museum

Fundraising for the lexington county museum

Philanthropy
4
The North Caroliniana Society

To promote interest in, knowledge of, and appreciation for north carolina history and culture through historical preservation, library service, and perpetuation of state literary and cultural heritage.

—
5
Daufuskie Island Lowcountry Museum

To collect, preserve, and maintain accurate information concerning history of the southeastern coastal united states in general, and more particularly the lowcountry of south carolina, especially the coastal islands and primarily daufuskie…

Arts & Culture
6
Sumter County Fine Arts Council

Cultural enrichment through arts programs

Arts & Culture
7
South Carolina Artisans Center

Cultural and educational resource

—
8
Isle of Wight County Museum Foundation Inc
Arts & Culture
9
Summerville Dorchester Museum Inc

To preserve the history of Summerville

Arts & Culture
10
National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Sc

The national society of the colonial dames of america in the state of south carolina is dedicated to furthering knowledge and appreciation of our colonial/national heritage through historic preservation, patriotic service, and educational…

Arts & Culture
11
Greenville Theatre Arts Center
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12
Bechtler Collection Preservation Foundation
Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Carolina State Museum Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Belle W Baruch Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyRegional Performing Arts Or…Lgbtq+ Youth Support Servic…Professional Association Ne…Family FoundationsCommunity Festivals & Chamb…Community Health Care Provi…Regional Land ConservationRegional History Museums
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%6%<5yr15%10%5–10yr18%14%10–20yr13%26%20–35yr10%25%35–55yr19%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%6%<5yr15%14%5–10yr18%10%10–20yr13%20%20–35yr10%28%35–55yr19%22%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.8%1/129
the rest of the field
14%
2,317/16,238

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.

04the grantee network

90 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. 90 of the 129 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
29
Early backer (in before they grew)
86/90
Grantees still filing
61/90
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

USC School of Medicine Greenville — $131,087 · OtherUSC School of Medicine GreenvilleCOASTAL CAROLINA UNIVERSITY — $111,902 · OtherCOASTAL CAROLINA UNIVERSITYFLORENCE COUNTY — $51,900 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA — $47,088 · OtherPENDLETON DISTRICT COMMISSION — $39,410 · OtherCOASTAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $37,200 · Other+51 more — $644,502 · Other+51 moreHistoric Columbia Foundation — $56,695 · Arts & CultureHistoric Columbia FoundationCharleston Literary Festival Inc — $55,700 · Arts & CultureCharleston Literary Festival IncSIGAL MUSIC MUSEUM — $42,539 · Arts & CultureHAGOOD MILL FOUNDATION — $36,900 · Arts & CultureUPCOUNTRY HISTORY MUSEUM — $33,500 · Arts & CultureMiddleton Place Foundation — $33,400 · Arts & CultureETV Endowment of South Carolina Inc — $30,471 · Arts & Culture+49 more — $621,536 · Arts & Culture+49 moreRichland County Public Library — $47,000 · EducationCLAFLIN UNIVERSITY — $33,402 · EducationSOUTHEAST RURAL COMMUNITY OUTREACH — $26,200 · EducationWEGOJA FOUNDATION — $24,500 · EducationHARBOR HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION OF GEORGETOWN — $11,000 · EducationCOKER UNIVERSITY — $9,000 · EducationMIDLANDS TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $7,200 · EducationTHE DANIEL O MORRIS SOUTH CAROLINA LOW COUNTRY HERITAGE TRUST — $26,850 · PhilanthropyABLE SOUTH CAROLINA INC — $23,242 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE INC — $12,450 · PhilanthropyBROOKGREEN GARDENS — $38,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF COASTAL SOUTH CAROLINA — $10,800 · EnvironmentEDISTO ISLAND OPEN LAND TRUST — $6,926 · EnvironmentSOUTH CAROLINA CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM — $40,000 · Social ScienceDRAYTON HALL PRESERVATION TRUST — $15,300 · Human ServicesFOUR HOLES INDIAN ORGANIZATION — $13,500 · Human Services
Other$1,063,089Arts & Culture$910,741Education$158,302Philanthropy$62,542Environment$55,726Social Science$40,000Human Services$28,800

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHistoric Columbia Foundation — $56,695 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetCharleston Literary Festival Inc — $55,700 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetRichland County Public Library — $47,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSIGAL MUSIC MUSEUM — $42,539 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM — $40,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetBROOKGREEN GARDENS — $38,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOASTAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $37,200 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHAGOOD MILL FOUNDATION — $36,900 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetUPCOUNTRY HISTORY MUSEUM — $33,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetCLAFLIN UNIVERSITY — $33,402 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMiddleton Place Foundation — $33,400 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetETV Endowment of South Carolina Inc — $30,471 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetEDISTO HISTORICAL PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC — $30,273 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetDORCHESTER HERITAGE CENTER INC — $29,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetTHE DANIEL O MORRIS SOUTH CAROLINA LOW COUNTRY HERITAGE TRUST — $26,850 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetSOUTHEAST RURAL COMMUNITY OUTREACH — $26,200 over 2y, 23% of budgetHISTORIC CHARLESTON FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOLUMBIA MUSEUM OF ART — $25,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR CREATIVE PARTNERSHIPS — $23,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetABLE SOUTH CAROLINA INC — $23,242 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLANCASTER COUNTY COUNCIL OF THE ARTS — $22,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetARTS AND HERITAGE CENTER OF NORTH AUGUSTA — $22,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE AIKEN COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM — $20,900 over 2y, 16% of budgetHISTORIC CAMDEN FOUNDATION — $20,600 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetMCCLELLANVILLE ARTS COUNCIL — $19,550 over 1y, 23% of budgetCHESTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $19,500 over 2y, 21% of budgetTHE PAT CONROY LITERARY CENTER INC — $17,850 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetSpeaking Down Barriers — $16,925 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetELLOREE HERITAGE MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER INC — $16,865 over 1y, 14% of budgetColumbia Film Society — $16,750 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSOUTHERN DOCUMENTARY FUND — $16,200 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTHE ACTORS' THEATER OF SC — $15,850 over 2y, 58% of budgetDRAYTON HALL PRESERVATION TRUST — $15,300 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBELTON AREA MUSEUM ASSOCIATION — $15,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetOCONEE HISTORY MUSEUM INC — $15,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetSPARTANBURG COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOC — $14,350 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetNEWBERRY OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $14,100 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE CHEROKEE IN SOUTH CAROLINA — $14,000 over 1y, 51% of budgetSanta Elena Foundation — $14,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetSUMTER MUSEUM — $14,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCAROLINA ART ASSOCIATION DBA GIBBES MUSEUM OF ART — $13,900 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFOUR HOLES INDIAN ORGANIZATION — $13,500 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetPure Theatre — $13,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetAmerican Battlefield Trust — $13,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCULTURAL AND HERITAGE COMMISSION — $13,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE INC — $12,450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGreenville Chautauqua Society — $12,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetThe Preservation Society of Charleston Inc — $11,900 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Gaylord and Dorothy D…Central Carolina Comm…Coastal Community Fou…The Joanna FoundationSpartanburg County Fo…Dominion Energy Chari…Guffey Family Foundat…Post and Courier Foun…Frances P Bunnelle Fo…The Stony Point Found…Henry & Sylvia Yaschi…Mills Bee Lane Memori…
Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley FoundationIL49.5× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · Central Carolina Community Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · The Joanna Foundation · Spartanburg County Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Guffey Family Foundation · Post and Courier Foundation · Frances P Bunnelle Foundation Coastal Community Foundation of Sc · The Stony Point Foundation · Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc · Mills Bee Lane Memorial 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 Humanities Council Inc 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your 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
    36report 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

    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.

    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 129 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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