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The Berkeley Hall Charitable Foundation

To improve the quality of life of bluffton, sc community residents and residents of neighboring beaufort county, especially those who are most vulnerable, promote philanthropy, and act as an effective steward of charitable funds.

$473k
Granted FY2022
20
Grants FY2022
20
Organizations funded FY2022
5%
First-time grantees FY2022
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100% of The Berkeley Hall Charitable Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Community Foundation Of The Lowcountry Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year The Berkeley Hall Charitable Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 20 organizations, $470k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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’22
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’23
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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2022
$22,500
Largest grant, FY2022
$75,000
Organizations funded a year
17 to 20
FY2018 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
1

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 5% of the organizations The Berkeley Hall Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202220$470k5%
FY202119$295k11%
FY202017$224k0%
FY201918$241k11%
FY201818$235kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Philanthropy$540kHuman Services$502kHealth$262kFood & Nutrition$204kYouth Development$142kCrime & Legal$67kInternational$60kHousing & Shelter$57kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 23 grantees

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Berkeley Hall Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBluffton Self Help Inc: $161,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of the Lowcountry Inc: $142,035 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetVantage Point Foundation: $94,000 over 5y, 9.3% of budgetPrograms for Exceptional People: $78,210 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetMemory Matters: $77,733 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetMeals on Wheels Bluffton/Hilton Head: $76,450 over 5y, 8.4% of budgetChild Abuse Prevention Association: $75,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetLowcountry Autism Foundation Inc: $72,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetSecond Helpings: $69,500 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetLowcountry Legal Volunteers: $67,000 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetNeighborhood Outreach Connection: $60,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetBackpack Buddies of Greater Bluffton and Hardeeville: $57,983 over 5y, 9.4% of budgetFamily Promise of the Lowcountry: $57,200 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetHopeful Horizons: $57,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetHilton Head Island Deep Well Project Inc: $57,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetThe Children's Center Inc: $54,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetBluffton-Jasper County Volunteers in Medicine Inc: $52,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetMirasol Health Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBluffton Community Soup Kitchen: $40,000 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetThe Literacy Center: $32,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetThe Volunteers in Medicine Clinic: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHeroes on Horseback: $13,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetOperation Patriots Fob Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 2.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.

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.

Community Foundation of the LowcountrySC53.2× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Lowcountry · Wexford Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · The Bargain Box · Heritage Classic Foundation · Palmetto Electric Trust · The Church Mouse Thrift Shop Inc · United Way of the Lowcountry · Breedlove Foundation Im 020120186528 · Hilton Head Firefighters Association Inc · Worldwide Small Change Foundation Co Roy Kaufmann · Central Carolina Community 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.

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About The Berkeley Hall Charitable Foundation

How much does The Berkeley Hall Charitable Foundation give?
The Berkeley Hall Charitable Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $472,983 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2022.
What does The Berkeley Hall Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2022, its largest causes are Philanthropy (27%), Human Services (25%), Health (13%).
Who are The Berkeley Hall Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2022: Bluffton Self Help Inc ($161k), Boys & Girls Clubs of the Lowcountry Inc ($142k), Vantage Point Foundation ($94k).
Does The Berkeley Hall Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Berkeley Hall Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of the Lowcountry, Wexford Foundation, Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc.
Where is The Berkeley Hall Charitable Foundation based?
The Berkeley Hall Charitable Foundation is based in SC.

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 24 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 but names no grant recipient (grants abroad are filed by region only, and grants under $5,000 are not itemized), so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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