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South Carolina Student Loan Corp at a glance

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South Carolina Student Loan Corp

Scslc aids in the fulfillment of the desire and direction of the people of south carolina in making loans available to residents to enable them to attend eligible institutions which are beyond the public-school level.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

Education$1.2MYouth Development$507kHuman Services$189kHealth$160kInternational$100kPhilanthropy$100kCrime & Legal$97kEmployment$95kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 21 grants below total $1,224,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,392,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $167,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $175k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.0M
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$892M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLUMBIA COLLEGE$100,000
HELPING HANDS OF GEORGETOWN$100,000
FRANCIS MARION UNIVERSITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION$100,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE LOWCOUNTRY FA FOR SC NURSE RETENTION INITIATIVE$100,000
IMPACT JUSTICE$97,000
A FATHER'S PLACE$95,000
SIGHT SAVERS AMERICA$80,000
CYPRESS ADVENTURES INC$59,000
TRENT HILL CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES$59,000
ANMED FOUNDATION$52,000
THE BIG PICTURE COMPANY DBA BIG PICTURE LEARNING$50,000
CONVERSE UNIVERSITY$50,000
SOUTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC$50,000
SOUTH CAROLINA GOVERNOR'S SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE & MATHEMATICS FOUNDATION$50,000
THE VILLAGE GROUP$40,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $94k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 63% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TRENT HILL CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $59k → 21%FOSTERING GREAT IDEAS: $35k → 10%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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 11% of South Carolina Student Loan Corp’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in SC; by stated purpose, 82%.

South Carolina Student Loan Corplessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 12% directed abroad (not shown)
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.

29%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$674k · 7 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
16

Total granted

$674k
$890k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $786k went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentInternationalOther
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

  • SC
    SOUTH CAROLINA GOVERNORS SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE & MATHEMATICS FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $100k · revenue +16%
  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER SOUTH CAROLINA INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $100k · revenue +41%
  • TB
    THE BIG PICTURE COMPANY
    2× · 2024–2025 · $75k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • University of South Carolina Educational Foundation
    one grant, 2024 · $300k · revenue +0%
  • CI
    Communities in Schools of South Carolina
    one grant, 2024 · $90k · revenue +13%
  • GL
    GREENVILLE LITERACY ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2024 · $53k · revenue +17%
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 Council On Economic Education

Sc economics is the only sc non-profit organization exclusively dedicated to improving economic education and financial literacy by preparing teachers and students to be active, successful, and prosperous members of our global economy.

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2
South Carolina Council On Competitiveness

The south carolina council on competitiveness is a nonpartisan, business-led non-profit organization committed to advancing the long term competitiveness of south carolina through actionable research, support of industry clusters and…

Community Improvement
3
Greenville College

Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.

Education
4
Sc Chamber of Commerce

Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.

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5
Leadership South Carolina

To provide South Carolinians an opportunity to advance their leadership skills while broadening their understanding of issues and opportunities facing the State.

Education
6
South Carolina Business & Industry Political Education Committee

Promoting and protecting the free private and competitive enterprise system through research and education.

—
7
Coker University

Coker university is a student-centered, comprehensive university. it is dedicated to providing every student an academic curriculum based upon a uniformly excellent liberal arts core that enhances the structured development of key personal…

Education
8
The University of Charleston Inc

Educate each student for a life of productive work, enlightened living, and community involvement.

Education
9
South Carolina Childrens Fund

To make strategic, catalytic investments and provide expertise and technical assistance to educational organizations across south carolina.

Education
10
Engaging Creative Minds

The mission of engaging creative minds is to inspire the creative and innovative potential of all students to achieve academically and become imaginative, adaptable, and productive adults resulting in stronger communities and an…

Education
11
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
12
Spartanburg Methodist College

SMC Delivers an exceptional education that fuses the empowerment of the liberal arts with crucial career skills. Our mission is to equip our students with the knowledge, skills, virtues, and mindset needed to thrive personally, create…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Columbia College; the most unlike its peers is Columbia International University. 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

38 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/38
Grantees still filing
15/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of South Carolina Educational Foundation: $300,000 · EducationUniversity of South Carolina Educational FoundationSOUTH CAROLINA GOVERNORS SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE & MATHEMATICS FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · EducationSOUTH CAROLINA GOVERNORS SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE & MATHEMATI…South Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities: $100,000 · EducationSouth Carolina Independent Colleges and UniversitiesColumbia College: $100,000 · EducationColumbia CollegeFRANCIS MARION UNIVERSITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $100,000 · EducationFRANCIS MARION UNIVERSITY EDUCATION FOUNDATIONA Father's Place: $95,000 · EducationA Father's PlaceCommunities in Schools of South Carolina: $90,000 · EducationCommunities in Schools of South CarolinaTHE BIG PICTURE COMPANY: $75,000 · EducationTHE BIG PICTURE COMPANYGREENVILLE LITERACY ASSOCIATION: $53,000 · EducationCONVERSE UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · Education+6 more: $153,500 · Education+6 moreHELPING HANDS OF GEORGETOWN INC: $130,000 · OtherHELPING HANDS OF GEORGETOW…SOUTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · OtherSOUTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVE…GREENVILLE CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · OtherGREENVILLE CHAMBER FOUNDAT…HOSPITAL AUXILIARY: $30,000 · OtherTHE ORIGINAL SIX FOUNDATION: $38,000 · OtherTHE ORIGINAL SIX FOUNDATIO…Dorchester Economic Development Corporation: $25,000 · OtherDYSLEXIA RESOURCE CENTER: $25,000 · OtherThe Village Group: $40,000 · OtherThe Village GroupDREAMS IMAGINATION & GIFT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM DIG: $40,000 · OtherDREAMS IMAGINATION & GIFT …TEACH MY PEOPLE: $60,000 · OtherTEACH MY PEOPLEKIDS ON POINT INC: $50,000 · OtherKIDS ON POINT INCLOWCOUNTRY YOUTH SERVICES: $40,000 · OtherLOWCOUNTRY YOUTH SERVICESCypress Adventures Inc: $109,000 · Human ServicesCypress A…Trent Hill Center for Children & Families: $59,000 · Human ServicesTrent Hil…FOSTERING GREAT IDEAS: $35,000 · Human ServicesFOSTERING…SIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA INC: $80,000 · HealthANMED HEALTH SYSTEM: $52,000 · HealthTHE BARBARA STONE FOUNDATION: $30,000 · HealthUpper Midlands Rural Health Network: $28,000 · HealthCommunity Foundation of the Lowcountry: $100,000 · PhilanthropyJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER SOUTH CAROLINA INC: $100,000 · InternationalIMPACT JUSTICE: $97,000 · Civil Rights
Education$1,216,500Other$568,000Human Services$203,000Health$190,000Philanthropy$100,000International$100,000Civil Rights$97,000

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 budgetUniversity of South Carolina Educational Foundation: $300,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHELPING HANDS OF GEORGETOWN INC: $130,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetCypress Adventures Inc: $109,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA GOVERNORS SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE & MATHEMATICS FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetSouth Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities: $100,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetCommunity Foundation of the Lowcountry: $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetColumbia College: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRANCIS MARION UNIVERSITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER SOUTH CAROLINA INC: $100,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetA Father's Place: $95,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetCommunities in Schools of South Carolina: $90,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA INC: $80,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE BIG PICTURE COMPANY: $75,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTEACH MY PEOPLE: $60,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetGREENVILLE LITERACY ASSOCIATION: $53,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetCONVERSE UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS ON POINT INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetSouth Carolina Technical College System Foundation: $40,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY YOUTH SERVICES: $40,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetThe Village Group: $40,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetGREENVILLE CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetDREAMS IMAGINATION & GIFT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM DIG: $40,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetTHE ORIGINAL SIX FOUNDATION: $38,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetFOSTERING GREAT IDEAS: $35,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetHOSPITAL AUXILIARY: $30,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetTHE BARBARA STONE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetRichland County Public Library: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUpper Midlands Rural Health Network: $28,000 over 1y, 70% of budgetFriends and Foundation of Richland Library: $26,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetDorchester Economic Development Corporation: $25,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetASHLEY HALL FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLUMBIA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDYSLEXIA RESOURCE CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetLIBERTY STEAM CHARTER SCHOOL: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Central Carolina Comm…Dominion Energy Chari…Coastal Community Fou…Sisters of Charity Fo…Frances P Bunnelle Fo…Waccamaw Community Fo…Duke Energy FoundationTruist Foundation IncM B Kahn Foundation I…Spartanburg County Fo…International Paper C…The Charles W & Eliza…
Central Carolina Community FoundationSC46.2× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Central Carolina Community Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · Frances P Bunnelle Foundation Coastal Community Foundation of Sc · Waccamaw Community Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · M B Kahn Foundation Inc · Spartanburg County Foundation · International Paper Company Foundation · The Charles W & Elizabeth H Coker 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 Student Loan Corp funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from South Carolina Student Loan Corp. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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 38 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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