· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
| PELICAN PEDIATRICS | $20,000 |
| SPARTANBURG REGIONAL HEALTHCARE | $20,000 |
| PALMETTO PEDIATRIC | $20,000 |
| GRAND STRAND PEDIATRICS & ADOLESCENT MEDICINE LITTE RIVER | $20,000 |
| BEAUFORT JASPER HAMPTON COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH SERVICES | $20,000 |
| PARKSIDE PEDIATRICS FIVE FORKS | $20,000 |
| VISTA CONSULTING LLC | $12,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 51% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CHCAROLINA HEALTH CENTERS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $100k · revenue +56%
- HIHopehealth Inc4× · 2021–2025 · $80k · revenue +51%
- LRLITTLE RIVER MEDICAL CENTER INC4× · 2021–2024 · $80k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- SJST JAMES HEALTH AND WELLNESS INCone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +5%
- OLORTHOSC LLCone grant, 2020 · $20k
- CPCOASTAL PEDIATRIC ASSOCIATESone grant, 2024 · $20k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CAROLINA HEALTH CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds Hopehealth Inc ↗
- Who funds LITTLE RIVER MEDICAL CENTER 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 ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization South Carolina Medical Association Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from South Carolina Medical Association Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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