· Private foundation
The J H Walker Legacy Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k15 grants · $435k
- $50k–250k19 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE LOWCOUNTRY | $65,000 |
| COASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC | $60,000 |
| MEETING STREET SCHOOLS | $60,000 |
| DEE NORTON LOWCOUNTRY CHILDREN'S CENTER INC | $60,000 |
| CHARLESTON PROMISE NEIGHBORHOOD | $60,000 |
| REGINALD S LOURIE CENTER FOR INFANTS AND YOUNG CHILDREN (LOURIE CENTER) | $50,000 |
| READING PARTNERS SOUTH CAROLINA | $50,000 |
| OPEN ARMS CHILD CARE MINISTRIES | $50,000 |
| A21 USA INC | $50,000 |
| NEW MORNING | $50,000 |
| LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC | $50,000 |
| FLORENCE CRITTENTON PROGRAMS OF SOUTH CAROLINA | $50,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC | $50,000 |
| METHODIST HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC | $50,000 |
| BOYS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY INC | $50,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $625k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 11% of The J H Walker Legacy Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.
38 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $275k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MSMEETING STREET SCHOOLS8× · 2017–2025 · $520k · revenue +454%
- ASAMERICA'S SECOND HARVEST OF COASTAL GEORGIA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $450k · revenue +230%
- DNDEE NORTON LOWCOUNTRY CHILDREN'S CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $450k · revenue +140%
Funded once
- OAOPEN ARMS CHILDCAREone grant, 2017 · $80k
- FCFLORENCE CRITTENTON PROGRAMone grant, 2017 · $60k
- ACA21 COMPAIGN OF CHARLOTTEone grant, 2018 · $50k
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.
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.
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…
Food for Little Rascals Inc (FFLR) is operated exclusively to improve the health, welfare, and care of children in the State of South Carolina.
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…
To strengthen families, organizations, and communities to prevent child abuse and neglect.
Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse
NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community
Recruit and train and license foster parents to receive foster children from county government agencies.
Early years leads efforts to strengthen accessible and affordable quality early care and education by providing support for families, communities and the workforce. early years 's primary purpose is to provide services, research and…
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.
Carolina Teen Center is a prevention and education year-round after-school and summer program that services youth and their families. Literacy programs, tutoring, life skills, mentoring, positive peer groups, conflict resolution skills,…
Our mission is that every south carolina child will arrive at kindergarten ready to succeed.
How this is measured
40 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. 40 of the 65 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 MEETING STREET SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds AMERICA'S SECOND HARVEST OF COASTAL GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds DEE NORTON LOWCOUNTRY CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds COASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Museum of the Lowcountry ↗
- Who funds Open Arms Childcare Ministries ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds The Charleston Promise Neighborhood ↗
- Who funds READING PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Florence Crittenton Programs of South Carolina Inc ↗
- Who funds South Carolina Aquarium ↗
- Who funds BOYS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Windwood Farm Home For Children Inc ↗
- Who funds Landmarks for Families Inc ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY ORPHAN RELIEF ↗
- Who funds METHODIST HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Tulsa Hills Youth Ranch Foundation ↗
- Who funds NEW MORNING ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds DORCHESTER COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM READERS INC ↗
- Who funds TRIDENT UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BLAND MINISTRY CENTER ↗
- Who funds A21 USA INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · The Mark Elliott Motley Foundation Inc · Daniel Island Community Fund Inc · Post and Courier Foundation · Elhapa Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Central Carolina Community Foundation · Trident United Way · The Joanna Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The J H Walker Legacy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The J H Walker Legacy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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