· 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k15 grants · $435k
- $50k–250k19 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE LOWCOUNTRY | $65,000 |
| CHARLESTON PROMISE NEIGHBORHOOD | $60,000 |
| DEE NORTON LOWCOUNTRY CHILDREN'S CENTER INC | $60,000 |
| MEETING STREET SCHOOLS | $60,000 |
| COASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC | $60,000 |
| FLORENCE CRITTENTON PROGRAMS OF SOUTH CAROLINA | $50,000 |
| BLAND MINISTRY CENTER | $50,000 |
| READING PARTNERS SOUTH CAROLINA | $50,000 |
| A21 USA INC | $50,000 |
| NEW MORNING | $50,000 |
| OPEN ARMS CHILD CARE MINISTRIES | $50,000 |
| LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC | $50,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF COASTAL GEORGIA INC | $50,000 |
| BOYS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY INC | $50,000 |
| METHODIST HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC | $50,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $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 your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 11% of The J H Walker Legacy Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you 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
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
- 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
- RSREGINALD S LOURIE CENTER FOR INFANTS AND YOUNG CHILDREN INC (LOURIE CENTone grant, 2024 · $50k
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…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is E3 Educate Empower Elevate and the most unlike its peers is Wythe-Bland Foundation. 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 31 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 65 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 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 LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds READING PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds The Charleston Promise Neighborhood ↗
- 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 FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds DORCHESTER COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds NEW MORNING ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM READERS INC ↗
- Who funds TRIDENT UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BLAND MINISTRY CENTER ↗
- Who funds LEAD Girls of NC Inc ↗
- Who funds A21 USA 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: 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
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 J H Walker Legacy 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.
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