· Public charity
Children's Trust of South Carolina
To strengthen families, organizations, and communities to prevent child abuse and neglect.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $299k
- $50k–250k27 grants · $3.6M
- $250k+12 grants · $7.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MUSC | $1,388,777 |
| CAROLINA HEALTH CENTERS INC | $1,269,500 |
| MCLEOD | $778,175 |
| THE PARENTING PLACE | $686,611 |
| PRISMA HEALTH UPSTATE | $625,256 |
| SPARTANBURG COUNTY FIRST STEPS | $597,244 |
| LEE COUNTY FIRST STEPS | $530,995 |
| SOUTH CAROLINA OFFICE OF RURAL HEALTH | $438,394 |
| CHILDREN'S PLACE | $394,817 |
| EAU CLAIRE COOPERATIVE | $336,387 |
| GROWING HOME SOUTHEAST INC | $286,282 |
| LOW COUNTRY HEALTH CARE SYSTEM | $250,204 |
| ST JAMES SANTEE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER | $248,983 |
| LITTLE RIVER MEDICAL CENTER | $219,461 |
| SAFY OF SOUTH CAROLINA | $206,731 |
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 (FY17–24, $7.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 46% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
64 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $278k 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
- CHCAROLINA HEALTH CENTERS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $9.7M · revenue +32%
- PCPREVENT CHILD ABUSE PICKENS COUNTY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $4.3M · revenue +66% · 69% of their budget
- MHMCLEOD HEALTH FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +70%
Funded once
CITY YEAR INCone grant, 2017 · $113k · revenue +15%- PAParents Anonymous-FamilyCorpsone grant, 2017 · $94k
- AFA Father's Placegraduatedone grant, 2017 · $74k · revenue +103%
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.
Per south carolina code section 59-152-30: "the goals for south carolina first steps to school readiness are to: (1) provide parents with access to the support they might seek and want to strengthen their families and to promote the…
Our mission is that every south carolina child will arrive at kindergarten ready to succeed.
Per south carolina code of laws section 59-152-10: there is established the south carolina first steps to school readiness, a comprehensive, results- oriented initiative for improving early childhood development by providing, through local…
Our mission is that every south carolina child will arrive at kindergarten ready to succeed.
Our mission is that every south carolina child will arrive at kindergarten ready to succeed.
Our vision is that every south carolina child will be prepared for success in school.
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
Our mission is that every south carolina child will arrive at kindergarten ready to succeed.
Recruit and train and license foster parents to receive foster children from county government agencies.
Our vision is that every south carolina child will arrive at kindergarten ready to succeed.
Our mission is that every south carolina child will arrive at kindergarten ready to succeed.
Our mission is that every south carolina child will arrive at kindergarten ready to succeed.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is A Child's Haven Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Lancaster County Partners for Youth. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
65 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. 65 of the 83 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
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 CAROLINA HEALTH CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds PREVENT CHILD ABUSE PICKENS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MCLEOD HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SC Office of Rural Health Inc ↗
- Who funds LEE COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds GROWING HOME SOUTHEAST INC ↗
- Who funds EAU CLAIRE COOPERATIVE HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LOW COUNTRY HEALTH CARE SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE RIVER MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CONNECTION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds Prisma Health-Midlands ↗
- Who funds SPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILI ES & YOUTH OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds JUST SAY SOMETHING INC ↗
- Who funds MCLEOD REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER OF THE PEE DEE INC ↗
- Who funds YORK COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF OCONEE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Prisma Health-Upstate ↗
- Who funds WESTVIEW BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PEE DEE COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds HOPEFUL HORIZONS ↗
- Who funds MARY BLACK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BEAUFORT-JASPER-HAMPTON COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds A Child's Haven Inc ↗
- Who funds CASAFAMILY SYSTEMS ↗
- Who funds DARLINGTON COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds THORNWELL ↗
- Who funds ST JAMES HEALTH AND WELLNESS INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES OF HORRY CO ↗
- Who funds FAIRFIELD BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICE ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES FLORENCE ↗
- Who funds Lutheran Family Services in the Carolinas ↗
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: Central Carolina Community Foundation · The Duke Endowment · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · The Leon Levine Foundation · Reach Out and Read Inc · United Way of Greenville County Inc · BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina Foundation · Fact Forward · Duke Energy Foundation · Spartanburg County Foundation · Scansource Charitable 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 Children's Trust of South Carolina 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
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.