· Public charity
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
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
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- $10k–50k18 grants · $345k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BLUFFTON SELF HELP | $75,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $50,000 |
| HOSPICE CARE OF THE LOWCOUNTRY | $25,000 |
| BLUFFTON COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN | $25,000 |
| BEAUFORT JASPER VIM | $25,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $25,000 |
| NOC | $25,000 |
| MEMORY MATTERS | $25,000 |
| SECOND HELPINGS | $22,500 |
| PROGRAMS FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE | $22,500 |
| LOWCOUNTRY LEGAL VOLUNTEERS | $20,000 |
| BACKPACK BUDDIES OF BLUFFTON | $18,983 |
| DEEP WELL PROJECT | $16,000 |
| HOPEFUL HORIZONS | $15,000 |
| CAPA | $15,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–22, $229k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
22 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2022, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2022, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- BSBLUFFTON SELF HELP INC5× · 2018–2022 · $161k · revenue +48%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY INC5× · 2018–2022 · $142k · revenue +4%
- VPVANTAGE POINT FOUNDATION5× · 2018–2022 · $94k · revenue +109%
Funded once
- OPOPERATION PATRIOTS FOB INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $13k · revenue +440%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To provide emergency assistance to low income individuals and families in the lowcountry of south carolina.
Provide community healthcare services to the citizens in the low country of south carolina.
Lowcountry Veterans Home provides transitional housing and individualized support for homeless veterans, working to restore stability, dignity, and independence. Through case management, peer support, transportation, and strong community…
Onslow community outreach, inc. seeks to be a helping hand to families and individuals by meeting the basic needs of the vulnerable populations in onslow county, north carolina. its vision is to inspire, empower and change lives
Harvest hope is on a mission to eliminate hunger and food insecurity in south carolina. we rescue nutritious food from stores throughout the state and distribute it to food pantries, shelters, and soup kitchens. we operate programs that…
The south carolina victim assistance network's mission is to ensure crime victims receive access to, and assistance from the criminal and juvenile justice systems and related social service providers; to improve the quality of services…
To provide emergency and supplemental food to disadvantaged and low income residents of oconee county, south carolina.
The mission is to feed the hungry and eliminate hunger in our community. last year, we fed over 101,000 adults in our general feeding program and nourished 32,644 children in our childrens hunger initiative program (chip). every person who…
Food for Little Rascals Inc (FFLR) is operated exclusively to improve the health, welfare, and care of children in the State of South Carolina.
To reduce hunger and poverty in the Tri-County Area by providing individuals and families with food, clothing, shelter, resource and spiritual support while striving to employ, educate and empower.
Our mission is to provide compassionate direction to individuals and families in need through counseling, education and financial benefits management.
Operation home's mission is to help people remain in their homes by increasing safety and accessibility by facilitating critical home repairs in charleston, dorchester, and berkeley counties in the south carolina lowcountry.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bluffton Self Help Inc and the most unlike its peers is Heroes On Horseback. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Community Foundation of the Lowcountry ↗
- Who funds BLUFFTON SELF HELP INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds VANTAGE POINT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROGRAMS FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds MEMORY MATTERS ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS BLUFFTON/HILTON HEAD ↗
- Who funds CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY AUTISM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HELPINGS ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY LEGAL VOLUNTEERS ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood Outreach Connection ↗
- Who funds BACKPACK BUDDIES OF GREATER BLUFFTON AND HARDEEVILLE ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF THE LOWCOUNTRY ↗
- Who funds HILTON HEAD ISLAND DEEP WELL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HOPEFUL HORIZONS ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BLUFFTON-JASPER COUNTY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE INC ↗
- Who funds MIRASOL HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds Bluffton Community Soup Kitchen ↗
- Who funds THE LITERACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds HEROES ON HORSEBACK ↗
- Who funds OPERATION PATRIOTS FOB INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Berkeley Hall Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.