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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
1
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

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

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

01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2022 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • $10k–50k18 grants · $345k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
$22,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE CHILDRENS CENTER: $12k → 10%THE CHILDRENS CENTER: $12k → 10%THE CHILDRENS CENTER: $10k → 10%THE CHILDRENS CENTER: $10k → 10%THE CHILDRENS CENTER: $10k → 10%BLUFFTON COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN: $25k → 10%PROGRAMS FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE: $23k → 10%PROGRAMS FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE: $18k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE: $17k → 10%BLUFFTON COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN: $15k → 10%PROGRAMS FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE: $15k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE: $14k → 10%PROGRAMS FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE: $12k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE: $11k → 10%PROGRAMS FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE: $10k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE: $9k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE: $7k → 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 22 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
1

Total granted

$1.5M
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+105%
+440%

Still filing today

95%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22
Human ServicesCrime & LegalHealthEmploymentReligionEnvironmentOther
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

  • BS
    BLUFFTON SELF HELP INC
    5× · 2018–2022 · $161k · revenue +48%
  • VP
    VANTAGE POINT FOUNDATION
    5× · 2018–2022 · $94k · revenue +109%
  • PF
    PROGRAMS FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE
    5× · 2018–2022 · $78k · revenue +108%

Funded once

  • OP
    OPERATION PATRIOTS FOB INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $13k · revenue +440%
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
Good Friends of the Lowcountry

To provide emergency assistance to low income individuals and families in the lowcountry of south carolina.

Philanthropy
2
Beaufort-Jasper-Hampton Comprehensive Health Services Inc

Provide community healthcare services to the citizens in the low country of south carolina.

Health
3
Lowcountry Veterans Home

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…

Health
4
Onslow Community Outreach Inc

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

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5
Harvest Hope Food Bank

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…

Food & Nutrition
6
South Carolina Victim Assistance Network

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…

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7
Sos Health Care Inc

To partner and inform the community by providing hope, care, and assistance to individuals with autism and intellectual disabilities

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8
Community Kitchen Inc of Myrtle Beach

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 & Nutrition
9
Golden Corner Food Pantry

To provide emergency and supplemental food to disadvantaged and low income residents of oconee county, south carolina.

Human Services
10
Food for Little Rascals Inc

Food for Little Rascals Inc (FFLR) is operated exclusively to improve the health, welfare, and care of children in the State of South Carolina.

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11
House of Hope North Charleston

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.

Food & Nutrition
12
Compass of Carolina Inc

Our mission is to provide compassionate direction to individuals and families in need through counseling, education and financial benefits management.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bluffton Self Help Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

24 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
23/24
Grantees still filing
21/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BLUFFTON SELF HELP INC: $161,000 · OtherBLUFFTON SELF HELP INCBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY INC: $142,035 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY…VANTAGE POINT FOUNDATION: $94,000 · OtherVANTAGE POINT FOUNDATIONMEALS ON WHEELS BLUFFTON/HILTON HEAD: $76,450 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS BLUFFTON/HILTON HEADMIRASOL HEALTH INC: $40,000 · OtherMIRASOL HEALTH INCTHE LITERACY CENTER: $32,000 · OtherHILTON HEAD ISLAND DEEP WELL PROJECT INC: $57,000 · OtherHILTON HEAD ISLAND DEEP WELL PROJECT…+2 more: $33,000 · OtherCommunity Foundation of the Lowcountry: $527,062 · PhilanthropyCommunity Foundation of the Lo…+1 more: $12,500 · PhilanthropyPROGRAMS FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE: $78,210 · Human ServicesPROGRAMS FOR EXCEPTIONAL…MEMORY MATTERS: $77,733 · Human ServicesMEMORY MATTERSSECOND HELPINGS: $69,500 · Human ServicesSECOND HELPINGSNeighborhood Outreach Connection: $60,000 · Human ServicesNeighborhood Outreach Co…FAMILY PROMISE OF THE LOWCOUNTRY: $57,200 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF THE LO…THE CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $54,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER IN…Bluffton Community Soup Kitchen: $40,000 · Human ServicesBluffton Community Soup …CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION ASSOCIATION: $75,000 · Crime & LegalLOWCOUNTRY LEGAL VOLUNTEERS: $67,000 · Crime & LegalLOWCOUNTRY AUTISM FOUNDATION INC: $72,000 · HealthBLUFFTON-JASPER COUNTY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE INC: $52,000 · HealthBACKPACK BUDDIES OF GREATER BLUFFTON AND HARDEEVILLE: $57,983 · EmploymentHOPEFUL HORIZONS: $57,000 · Religion
Other$635,485Philanthropy$539,562Human Services$436,643Crime & Legal$142,000Health$124,000Employment$57,983Religion$57,000

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 budgetCommunity Foundation of the Lowcountry: $527,062 over 2y, 3.5% of 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
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.

Community Foundation …Wexford FoundationCoastal Community Fou…The Bargain BoxHeritage Classic Foun…Palmetto Electric Tru…The Church Mouse Thri…United Way of the Low…Breedlove Foundation …Hilton Head Firefight…Worldwide Small Chang…Central Carolina Comm…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Berkeley Hall Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Berkeley Hall Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 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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