· Public charity
South Carolina Medical Association Foundation
To encourage worthwhile social and professional activities in the field of medical education, medical research and medical service delivery.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 65% of SOUTH CAROLINA MEDICAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION’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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $298,834 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $330,564 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $31,730 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 · FY2025
- $10k–50k11 grants · $213k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $86k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INTEGRAL LEADERS IN HEALTH PBC | $86,334 |
| TANDEM HEALTH LAFAYETTE STREET | $20,000 |
| HOPE HEALTH OF TIMMONSVILLE | $20,000 |
| COASTAL PEDIATRIC ASSOCIATES WEST ASHLEY OFFICE | $20,000 |
| PRISMA HEALTH FOREST DRIVE | $20,000 |
| SPARTANBURG REGIONAL HEALTHCARE | $20,000 |
| BEAUFORT JASPER HAMPTON COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH SERVICES | $20,000 |
| PELICAN PEDIATRICS | $20,000 |
| PARKSIDE PEDIATRICS FIVE FORKS | $20,000 |
| PALMETTO PEDIATRIC | $20,000 |
| GRAND STRAND PEDIATRICS & ADOLESCENT MEDICINE LITTE RIVER | $20,000 |
| VISTA CONSULTING LLC | $12,500 |
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 (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 51% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
14 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 7 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, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $199k 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
- CHCAROLINA HEALTH CENTERS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $100k · revenue +56%
- LRLITTLE RIVER MEDICAL CENTER INC4× · 2021–2024 · $80k · revenue +27%
- HIHopehealth Inc4× · 2021–2025 · $80k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- SJST JAMES HEALTH AND WELLNESS INCone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +5%
- OLORTHOSC LLCone grant, 2020 · $20k
- CPCOASTAL PEDIATRIC ASSOCIATESone grant, 2024 · $20k
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.
Inspire health. serve with compassion. be the difference.
Inspire health. serve with compassion. be the difference.
Inspire health. serve with compassion. be the difference.
The mission is to bring compassion to health care and to be good help to those in need, especially those who are poor and dying. as a system of caregivers, we commit ourselves to help bring people and communities to health and wholeness.…
The mission is to bring compassion to health care and to be good help to those in need, especially those who are poor and dying. as a system of caregivers, we commit ourselves to help bring people and communities to health and wholeness.…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
To serve as the physician services component of a tax-exempt healthcare delivery network and to thereby promote, support & further the charitable purposes, programs & services of hmh hospitals corp.
Healing all people with compassion, faith and excellence.
The organization provides high quality medical care to the community that it serves and specifically provides cardiology & related professional medical services in conjunction with hmh hospitals corp.
Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
The mission of The University of Virginia Health System is transforming health and inspiring hope for all Virginians and beyond. Its vision is to be the nation's leading public academic health system and a best place to work - while…
Here for you. here for good. to provide exceptional care for our diverse region, to provide the highest quality standards in a safe environment, and to provide compassionate care provided by a committed team.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tandem Health Sc and the most unlike its peers is Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 26 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.
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 CAROLINA HEALTH CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE RIVER MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Hopehealth Inc ↗
- Who funds Prisma Health Medical Group-Midlands ↗
- Who funds Prisma Health-Upstate ↗
- Who funds ST JAMES HEALTH AND WELLNESS INC ↗
- Who funds BEAUFORT-JASPER-HAMPTON COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds TANDEM HEALTH SC ↗
- Who funds Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation ↗
- Who funds MUSC Affiliate Physicians ↗
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: Reach Out and Read Inc · American Cancer Society Inc · BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina Foundation · Children's Trust of South Carolina · Direct Relief · 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 Medical Association 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.
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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