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T-Bonz Foundation Inc at a glance

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T-Bonz Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$161k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$58k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Community Improvement$272kEducation$193kHealth$182kFood & Nutrition$180kRecreation & Sports$163kPhilanthropy$156kEmployment$93kYouth Development$24kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $71k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $58k
$9,400
Median grant
2
States reached
$235k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROPER ST FRANCIS FOUNDATION$57,500
TRIDENT TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION$20,000
GREENHEART-URBAN PROJECT$10,500
REACH SAILING PROGRAM$10,380
COASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$10,000
FEED THE NEED$10,000
PLEDGELING FOUNDATION$10,000
MEET THE NEEDS CHARLESTON$9,400
2020 YOUTH ORGANIZATION INCORPORATED$5,000
TURN 90$5,000
THE FLIP LEAGUE$5,000
MISC - SMALL DONATIONS GIVEN TO WIDE VARIETY OF ORGANIZATIONS$2,848
LOWCOUNTRY LOCALS FIRST$2,500
CHANUKAH IN THE SQUARE$1,500
LETS WALK$1,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–23, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HELP 4 KIDS: $2k → 13%NEIGHBORS TOGETHER: $10k → 12%NEIGHBORS TOGETHER: $5k → 12%NEIGHBORS TOGETHER: $3k → 12%PAY IT FORWARD CHARLESTON: $6k → 12%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 25 repeat orgs$379k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +144% since the first grant, against +41% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
38

Total granted

$1.3M
$366k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+144%
+41%

Still filing today

48%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthRecreation & SportsEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionOther
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

  • RS
    Roper St Francis Foundation
    2× · 2023–2024 · $108k · revenue +25%
  • LF
    LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $63k · revenue +72%
  • MT
    Meet The Needs Charleston
    4× · 2017–2024 · $60k · revenue +233%

Funded once

  • MN
    MARK & NOULA CUMINS NURSING SCHOLARSHIP
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $85k
  • MF
    MUSC FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $40k
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
The Carolina Trust
Philanthropy
2
Community Foundation of the Lowcountry

The Community Foundation's mission is strengthening community by connecting people, resources, and needs.

Philanthropy
3
Central Carolina Community Foundation

Central carolina community foundation is a nonprofit community foundation that connects and mobilizes people and resources to strengthen the midlands of south carolina. the foundation partners with donors, nonprofit organizations,…

Philanthropy
4
Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence Found ation
Health
5
Charleston Wine & Food Festival

Charleston Wine + Food is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that supports Charleston and the Lowcountry's diverse culinary + hospitality community. The organization champions the region's unique foodways 365 days a year through…

Food & Nutrition
6
Coastal Family Vacation Foundation Inc
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7
The Mcconnell Foundation
Philanthropy
8
South Carolina Public Interest Foundation
Crime & Legal
9
Charleston Hispanic Association
Community Improvement
10
Coastal Educational Foundation

To provide support to coastal carolina university through charitable donations received primarily from individual donors.

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11
Charleston Habitat for Humanity Inc

Charleston Habitat for Humanitys (CHFH) vision is a world where everyone has a decent place to live. Seeking to put God's love into action, Charleston Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope. By…

—
12
Charleston Animal Society

Since its founding, our mission has always stayed the same: the prevention of cruelty to animals. in 1874, charleston animal society became the first animal organization in south carolina and one of the first in the nation and has never…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ripple Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

34 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. 34 of the 70 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/34
Grantees still filing
25/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EMPOWERING MINDS: $128,124 · OtherEMPOWERING MINDSREACH SAILING PROGRAM: $122,748 · OtherREACH SAILING PROGRAMMARK & NOULA CUMINS NURSING SCHOLARSHIP: $100,000 · OtherMARK & NOULA CUMINS NURSING SCHOLARSHIPIndividual grant recipient: $95,899 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $85,339 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMISC- SMALL DONATIONS GIVEN TO A WIDE VARIETY OF ORGANIZATIONS: $81,068 · OtherMISC- SMALL DONATIONS GIVEN TO A WIDE VARIETY OF ORGANIZATIONSIndividual grant recipient: $74,680 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFEED THE NEED: $63,507 · OtherFEED THE NEEDLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC: $63,398 · OtherLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INCMUSC FOUNDATION: $40,000 · Other+42 more: $325,593 · Other+42 moreRIPPLE FUND: $250,000 · Community ImprovementRIPPLE FUND+1 more: $2,500 · Community ImprovementRoper St Francis Foundation: $107,500 · Health+3 more: $2,384 · HealthCHARLESTON HOPE: $40,250 · EducationTRIDENT TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $27,000 · EducationCOLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION: $2,500 · EducationMeet The Needs Charleston: $60,400 · Food & NutritionAMOR HEALING KITCHEN INC: $5,000 · Food & NutritionCOASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC: $45,000 · PhilanthropyPLEDGELING FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyMULTIPLYING GOOD INC: $4,000 · PhilanthropyCharleston Jewish Federation Inc: $2,950 · Philanthropy+1 more: $852 · PhilanthropyTURN90: $26,146 · Crime & LegalCharleston Legal Access: $14,500 · Crime & Legal
Other$1,180,356Community Improvement$252,500Health$109,884Education$69,750Food & Nutrition$65,400Philanthropy$62,802Crime & Legal$40,646

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRIPPLE FUND: $250,000 over 2y, 80% of budgetRoper St Francis Foundation: $107,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC: $63,398 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMeet The Needs Charleston: $60,400 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetCOASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHARLESTON HOPE: $40,250 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetGreen Heart Project Inc: $38,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetTRIDENT TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $27,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTURN90: $26,146 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetTHE COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON ATHLETIC FUND ATHLETIC FUND: $23,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNeighbors Together Inc: $17,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCharleston Legal Access: $14,500 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetPLEDGELING FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST TEE GREATER CHARLESTON: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL EUROPE CENTER FOR RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION INC: $7,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetPay it Forward Charleston: $6,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetAMOR HEALING KITCHEN INC: $5,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetA TOUCH OF SPEED: $5,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetCHARLESTON BOXING FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetCompass Harbor: $4,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetMULTIPLYING GOOD INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCharleston Jewish Federation Inc: $2,950 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNICK PRICE FOUNDATION INC NICK PRICE: $2,500 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetLowcountry Local First: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVETERANS WELCOME HOME AND RESOURCE CENTER: $2,100 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetGRAND STRAND HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $1,995 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHELP 4 KIDS: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLETS WALK: $1,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARING IN OUR LIFETIME ALISON ROARK: $852 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetPRISMA HEALTH MIDLANDS FOUNDATION F/K/A PALMETTO HEALTH FOUNDATION: $384 over 1y, 0.0% 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 RIPPLE FUND ↗
  • Who funds Roper St Francis Foundation ↗
  • Who funds LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds Meet The Needs Charleston ↗
  • Who funds COASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC ↗
  • Who funds CHARLESTON HOPE ↗
  • Who funds Green Heart Project Inc ↗
  • Who funds TRIDENT TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds TURN90 ↗
  • Who funds THE COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON ATHLETIC FUND ATHLETIC FUND ↗
  • Who funds Neighbors Together Inc ↗
  • Who funds Charleston Legal Access ↗
  • Who funds PLEDGELING FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FIRST TEE GREATER CHARLESTON ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL EUROPE CENTER FOR RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Pay it Forward Charleston ↗
  • Who funds AMOR HEALING KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds A TOUCH OF SPEED ↗

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 Fou…Dominion Energy Chari…The Joanna FoundationCentral Carolina Comm…Henry & Sylvia Yaschi…Kuznik Charitable Fou…The Kennedy-Herterich…Medical Society of So…Southern Imagination …Pathfinder Foundation…Trident United WaySisters of Charity Fo…
Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina IncSC27.2× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Joanna Foundation · Central Carolina Community Foundation · Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc · Kuznik Charitable Foundation · The Kennedy-Herterich Foundation · Medical Society of South Carolina · Southern Imagination Foundation · Pathfinder Foundation Inc · Trident United Way · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina

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 T-Bonz Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from T-Bonz Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to T-Bonz Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to T-Bonz Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 70 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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