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South Carolina National Heritage Corridor

The organization's primary mission is a grassroots initiative that advances sustainable development of natural, cultural and historic resources for enhanced quality of life and economic revitalization of communities in south carolina.

$14k
Granted FY2022
1
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$14k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Arts & Culture$559kPublic Benefit$394kEnvironment$240kRecreation & Sports$151kCommunity Improvement$100k
02FY2022 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$14,207
Median grant
1
States reached
$342k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SWEETWATER COUNTRY CLUB$14,207
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–18, $180k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 28% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%DRAYTON HALL: $130k → 12%EDGEFIELD COUNTY: $50k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of South Carolina National Heritage Corridor’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in SC; by stated purpose, 93%.

South Carolina National Heritage Corridorlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$843k · 8 repeat orgs$601k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +185% since the first grant, against -6% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2022, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
12

Total granted

$843k
$601k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+185%
-6%

Still filing today

25%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentCommunity 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • DC
    DORCHESTER COUNTY
    3× · 2017–2019 · $212k
  • PT
    PALMETTO TRAIL
    2× · 2018–2019 · $150k · revenue +185%
  • CO
    CITY OF GREENWOOD
    3× · 2017–2019 · $150k

Funded once

  • DH
    DRAYTON HALL PRESERVATION TRUST
    2× · 2018–2019 · $130k · revenue -6%
  • CC
    Charleston County Parks Foundation Incgraduated
    2× · 2018–2019 · $100k · revenue +230%
  • TO
    TOWN OF ST GEORGE
    2× · 2018–2019 · $70k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
South Carolina Public Interest Foundation
Crime & Legal
2
The Palmetto Trust for Historic Preservation Inc

To protect and preserve buildings of architectural and historial significance in South Carolina.

Arts & Culture
3
The South Carolina Historical Society

The schs mission is to expand, preserve, and make accessible our invaluable collection, and to encourage interest and pride in the rich history of our state.

Arts & Culture
4
Palmetto Historical Commission Inc
Arts & Culture
5
South Carolina Archives and History Foundation

The Foundation promotes and funds various educational programs at the SC Department of Archives and History and works to stimulate interest in the state's history through various programs and activities. The Founation works to educate and…

Arts & Culture
6
Naturaland Trust

Performing activities pursuant to the maintenance and preservation of natural areas for the benefit of the public

Environment
7
Upcountry History Museum

The upcountry history museum connects people, history and culture.

Arts & Culture
8
Southampton County Historical Society
Arts & Culture
9
The Carolina Trust
Philanthropy
10
South Carolina National Heritage Corridor

The organization's primary mission is a grassroots initiative that advances sustainable development of natural, cultural and historic resources for enhanced quality of life and economic revitalization of communities in south carolina.

Arts & Culture
11
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
12
South Carolina Urban Entomology Charitable Alliance
Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Etv Endowment of South Carolina Inc; the most unlike its peers is Museum of the Cherokee in South Carolina. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 20 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DORCHESTER COUNTY: $211,960 · OtherDORCHESTER COUNTYCITY OF GREENWOOD: $149,994 · OtherCITY OF GREENWOODIndividual grant recipient: $131,870 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTOWN OF ST GEORGE: $70,000 · OtherTOWN OF ST GEORGESWEETWATER COUNTRY CLUB: $50,807 · OtherSWEETWATER COUNTRY CLUBIndividual grant recipient: $49,999 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTOWN OF CALHOUN FALLS: $46,550 · OtherTOWN OF CALHOUN FALLSOCONEE COUNTY: $37,250 · OtherSC DEPARTMENT OF PARKS RECREATION & TOURISM: $34,357 · OtherCITY OF ANDERSON: $30,000 · Other+2 more: $34,182 · OtherCharleston County Parks Foundation Inc: $100,000 · Arts & CultureCharleston County P…ETV Endowment of South Carolina Inc: $52,114 · Arts & CultureETV Endowment of So…MUSEUM OF THE CHEROKEE IN SOUTH CAROLINA: $50,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF THE CHERO…SALUDA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $45,000 · Arts & CultureSALUDA COUNTY HISTO…DRAYTON HALL PRESERVATION TRUST: $130,000 · Human ServicesDRAYTON HALL P…Edgefield County Public Facilities Corp: $50,000 · Human ServicesEdgefield Coun…PALMETTO TRAIL: $150,000 · EnvironmentPALMETTO TR…BELTON ALLIANCE INC: $20,000 · Community Improvement
Other$846,969Arts & Culture$247,114Human Services$180,000Environment$150,000Community Improvement$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPALMETTO TRAIL: $150,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetDRAYTON HALL PRESERVATION TRUST: $130,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetETV Endowment of South Carolina Inc: $52,114 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE CHEROKEE IN SOUTH CAROLINA: $50,000 over 2y, 49% of budgetSALUDA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $45,000 over 2y, 39% of budgetBELTON ALLIANCE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 64% of budget
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 PALMETTO TRAIL ↗
  • Who funds DRAYTON HALL PRESERVATION TRUST ↗
  • Who funds Charleston County Parks Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds ETV Endowment of South Carolina Inc ↗
  • Who funds Edgefield County Public Facilities Corp ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF THE CHEROKEE IN SOUTH CAROLINA ↗
  • Who funds SALUDA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds BELTON ALLIANCE INC ↗

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.

Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina IncSC13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization South Carolina National Heritage Corridor funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from South Carolina National Heritage Corridor. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 20 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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