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The Joanna Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$178k
Granted FY2025still arriving
40
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$189kAnimals$177kEducation$151kArts & Culture$149kHealth$137kEnvironment$135kReligion$109kCrime & Legal$57kOther$0
02FY2025 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k38 grants · $103k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$2,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Avian Conservation Center$50,000
SC Environmental Law Project$25,000
Joanna-Woodson Elementary School$7,500
Carolina Ocean Alliance$5,000
Awendaw Regional Outreach Center$3,500
The Navigation Center$3,000
Ari Foss Foundation$3,000
Birthday Buds$3,000
Impact Justice$3,000
Lowcountry Center for Academic Equity$3,000
Coastal Conservation League$3,000
Charleston Area Justice Ministry$3,000
Our Lady of Mercy Community Outreach Svcs$2,500
Ebony Myers Hope Foundation$2,500
AMOR Healing Kitchen$2,500
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 (FY17–25, $128k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HISPANIC ALLIANCE: $2k → 16%HEALING SPECIES: $5k → 25%CHESAPEAKE HEALTH EDUCATION PROGRAM: $4k → 10%DORCHESTER CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CTR: $4k → 11%HEALING SPECIES: $3k → 25%CLOSET OF HOPE: $3k → 11%Healing Hurts Ministries: $3k → 9%GRACE IMPACT DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $3k → 9%BEYOND BASIC LIFE SKILLS: $2k → 11%THREE RIVERS RESPITE: $3k → 12%Heal with HeARTS: $3k → 12%EAST COOPER COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $3k → 12%Jewish Family Services of Greater Charleston: $2k → 12%Ari Foss Foundation: $3k → 12%INCREASING HOPE: $3k → 12%YOUTH EMPOWERMENT SERVICES: $3k → 12%TRICOUNTY PLAY COLLABORATIVE: $3k → 12%YOUTH EMPOWERMENT SERVICES YES: $2k → 12%INCREASING HOPE: $2k → 12%FIELDS TO FAMILIES: $4k → 12%TEACHERS' SUPPLY CLOSET: $5k → 12%CAROLINA YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $5k → 12%Neighbors Together: $4k → 12%LOWCOUNTRY ORPHAN RELIEF: $4k → 12%My Sister's House: $3k → 12%OPERATION HOME: $3k → 12%TRICOUNTY FAMILY MINISTRIES: $3k → 12%OPERATION HOME: $3k → 12%NEIGHBORS TOGETHER: $3k → 12%Teachers' Supply Closet: $3k → 12%TEACHERS' SUPPLY CLOSET: $3k → 12%Operation Home: $3k → 12%Bridges of Hope (formerly Bridges for End of Life): $2k → 12%OPERATION HOME: $2k → 12%BRIDGES FOR END-OF-LIFE: $2k → 12%TEACHERS' SUPPLY CLOSET: $2k → 12%FLORENCE CRITTENTON PROGRAMS OF SC: $3k → 12%FLORENCE CRITTENTON PROGRAMS OF SC: $3k → 12%FLORENCE CRITTENTON PROGRAMS OF SC: $3k → 12%CAROLINA YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $4k → 12%RESPITE CARE CHARLESTON: $3k → 12%Respite Care Charleston: $3k → 12%Birthday Buds: $3k → 12%POSTPARTUM SUPPORT CHARLESTON: $2k → 12%RESPITE CARE CHARLESTON: $2k → 12%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.

Which US states its grants reach

CA
KY
MD
NC
SC
DC
AL
FL
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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$881k · 89 repeat orgs$547k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

89 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 69 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

89
148

Total granted

$881k
$493k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+12%

Still filing today

83%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • AC
    AVIAN CONSERVATION CENTER
    4× · 2020–2025 · $130k · revenue +126%
  • DN
    DEE NORTON LOWCOUNTRY CHILDREN'S CENTER
    2× · 2017–2020 · $13k · revenue +140%
  • SC
    South Carolina Aquarium
    2× · 2019–2021 · $12k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • CO
    COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +8%
  • SM
    STELLA MARIS CATHOLIC CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · $30k
  • IA
    INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -33%
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
South Carolina Public Interest Foundation
Crime & Legal
2
Charleston Hispanic Association
Community Improvement
3
Charleston Redevelopment Corporation

To facilitate, develop, and advocate for neighborhood revitalization, affordable housing construction, preservation and economic development in Charleston County.

Community Improvement
4
Center for Heirs' Property Preservation

(See Schedule O)

Crime & Legal
5
Alliance for a Healthier South Carolina

Convene and connect diverse stakeholders to align and catalyze efforts to improve health and well-being for communities across South Carolina.

—
6
Leadership South Carolina

To provide South Carolinians an opportunity to advance their leadership skills while broadening their understanding of issues and opportunities facing the State.

Education
7
South Carolina Legal Services

South carolina legal services is a statewide law firm that provides civil legal services to protect the rights and represent the interests of low income south carolinians.

Crime & Legal
8
Sc Chamber of Commerce

Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.

—
9
South Carolina Urban Entomology Charitable Alliance
Education
10
Santee Lynches Affordable Housing and Community Development Corporat

We are independent, community based, nonprofit with a Mission to enhance communities by providing quality, safe, decent and affordable housing, and other forms of economic opportunities that benefit low to moderate income individuals…

Housing & Shelter
11
Community Foundation of the Lowcountry

The Community Foundation's mission is strengthening community by connecting people, resources, and needs.

Philanthropy
12
Carolina Teen Center

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,…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chesapeake Health Education Program; the most unlike its peers is Pure Theatre. 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

173 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 173 of the 258 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
69
Early backer (in before they grew)
168/173
Grantees still filing
112/173
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OUR LADY OF MERCY COMMUNITY OUTREAC: $60,000 · OtherOUR LADY OF MERCY COMMUNITY OUTREACOUR LADY OF MERCY COMMUNITY: $56,000 · OtherOUR LADY OF MERCY COMMUNITYSC Environmental Law Project: $50,000 · OtherSC Environmental Law ProjectSTELLA MARIS CATHOLIC CHURCH: $30,000 · Other+108 more: $496,120 · Other+108 moreAVIAN CONSERVATION CENTER: $130,000 · AnimalsAVIAN CONSERV…South Carolina Aquarium: $12,000 · AnimalsSouth Carolin…+4 more: $12,000 · Animals+4 moreTEACHERS SUPPLY CLOSET: $12,000 · Human ServicesTEACHERS SU…OPERATION HOME INC: $10,500 · Human ServicesOPERATION H…Neighbors Together Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesNeighbors T…Landmarks for Families Inc: $9,000 · Human ServicesLandmarks f…Florence Crittenton Programs of South Carolina Inc: $8,500 · Human ServicesFlorence Cr…RESPITE CARE OF CHARLESTON: $7,500 · Human ServicesRESPITE CAR…YOUTH EMPOWERMENT SERVICES INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesHEALING SPECIES INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesFIELDS TO FAMILIES: $7,000 · Human ServicesMy Sister's House Inc: $6,500 · Human ServicesBRIDGES OF HOPE: $6,000 · Human Services+14 more: $44,500 · Human Services+14 moreCOLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationCOLLEGE O…CHARLESTON HOPE: $10,000 · EducationCHARLESTO…AMERICAN COLLEGE OF THE BUILDING ARTS: $9,000 · EducationAMERICAN …LOWCOUNTRY MARITIME SCHOOL: $8,500 · EducationLOWCOUNTR…READING PARTNERS: $6,500 · EducationREADING P…Heart Math Tutoring Inc: $6,000 · EducationENGAGING CREATIVE MINDS: $6,000 · Education+6 more: $17,500 · Education+6 moreTHE VILLAGE MUSEUM: $11,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCharleston Jazz: $8,000 · Arts & CultureChildren's Museum of the Lowcountry: $7,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SOUTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $7,000 · Arts & CultureANNEX DANCE COMPANY: $6,500 · Arts & CultureTuffy Tiger Productions: $5,500 · Arts & CultureThe Charleston Museum: $5,000 · Arts & CulturePure Theatre: $5,000 · Arts & CultureVarna International Music Academy: $4,000 · Arts & CultureCharleston Literary Festival Inc: $4,000 · Arts & CultureREDUX CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER: $4,000 · Arts & CultureSPOLETO FESTIVAL USA INC: $3,500 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $11,000 · Arts & CultureCHARLESTON WATERKEEPER: $10,500 · EnvironmentAPPARENT WINDS: $10,000 · EnvironmentThe Charleston Parks Conservancy: $9,500 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF COASTAL SOUTH CAROLINA: $8,000 · EnvironmentPALMETTO TRAIL: $8,000 · EnvironmentCarolina Ocean Alliance: $8,000 · EnvironmentGreen Heart Project Inc: $8,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $7,500 · EnvironmentLOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST INC: $4,500 · Environment+2 more: $5,000 · EnvironmentThe ARK of SC: $11,500 · HealthCHARLESTON AREA THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC: $8,750 · HealthWAVES 4 WOMEN: $5,500 · HealthNorth Charleston Dental Outreach Inc: $5,000 · HealthLETS WALK: $4,500 · HealthCAROLINA CHILDREN'S CHARITY INC: $4,000 · HealthVISION TO LEARN: $4,000 · HealthOPERATION SIGHT: $3,500 · HealthLIONS VISION SERVICES A SOUTH CAROLINA CHARITY: $3,500 · HealthBARRIER ISLANDS FREE MEDICAL CLINIC: $3,000 · HealthEDISTO INDIAN FREE CLINIC: $3,000 · HealthLOWCOUNTRY AUTISM FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · HealthHOLY CITY WELLBEING: $3,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC: $2,500 · HealthSIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA INC: $2,500 · HealthDRAGON BOAT CHARLESTON: $2,500 · Health
Other$692,120Animals$154,000Human Services$135,500Education$113,500Arts & Culture$91,500Environment$79,000Health$69,750

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAVIAN CONSERVATION CENTER: $130,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetCOLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDEE NORTON LOWCOUNTRY CHILDREN'S CENTER: $12,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTEACHERS SUPPLY CLOSET: $12,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetSouth Carolina Aquarium: $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe ARK of SC: $11,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetTHE VILLAGE MUSEUM: $11,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetCHARLESTON WATERKEEPER: $10,500 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetOPERATION HOME INC: $10,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNeighbors Together Inc: $10,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetINTERNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHARLESTON HOPE: $10,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetEnough Pie: $10,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetAPPARENT WINDS: $10,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetCHARLESTON AREA JUSTICE MINISTRY: $9,700 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetThe Charleston Parks Conservancy: $9,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN COLLEGE OF THE BUILDING ARTS: $9,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLandmarks for Families Inc: $9,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPALMETTO PROJECT INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCHARLESTON AREA THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC: $8,750 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetGOING PLACES: $8,500 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetFlorence Crittenton Programs of South Carolina Inc: $8,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetEAST COOPER LAND TRUST: $8,500 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY MARITIME SCHOOL: $8,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF COASTAL SOUTH CAROLINA: $8,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCharleston Legal Access: $8,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetPALMETTO TRAIL: $8,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCarolina Ocean Alliance: $8,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetGreen Heart Project Inc: $8,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTRIDENT LITERACY ASSOCIATION INC: $8,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCharleston Jazz: $8,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE LOWLINE: $7,500 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetLowcountry Local First: $7,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRESPITE CARE OF CHARLESTON: $7,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetYOUTH EMPOWERMENT SERVICES INC: $7,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetChildren's Museum of the Lowcountry: $7,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHEALING SPECIES INC: $7,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetEAST COOPER MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $7,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFIELDS TO FAMILIES: $7,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetTHE SOUTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $7,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCharleston Moves: $7,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetREADING PARTNERS: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANNEX DANCE COMPANY: $6,500 over 3y, 8.0% of budgetMy Sister's House Inc: $6,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NAVIGATION CENTER FKA MILITARY COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS OF SC INC: $6,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetHeart Math Tutoring Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBRIDGES OF HOPE: $6,000 over 3y, 0.8% 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.

Coastal Community Fou…Henry & Sylvia Yaschi…Post and Courier Foun…Dominion Energy Chari…Trident United WayThe Mark Elliott Motl…Employees Community F…Kuznik Charitable Fou…Daniel Island Communi…Medical Society of So…Central Carolina Comm…Gaylord and Dorothy D…
Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina IncSC180× affinity105 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc · Post and Courier Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Trident United Way · The Mark Elliott Motley Foundation Inc · Employees Community Fund of Boeing-Puget Sound · Kuznik Charitable Foundation · Daniel Island Community Fund Inc · Medical Society of South Carolina · Central Carolina Community Foundation · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley 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 Joanna Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Joanna Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    60report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 258 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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