· Private foundation
The Kennedy-Herterich Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k9 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $181k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $118k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HIGH COUNTRY CAREGIVERS FOUNDATION | $62,828 |
| KIDS ON POINT | $55,000 |
| OLE MISS ATHLETIC FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| THE VILLAGE FDT OF BLOWING ROCK | $25,000 |
| CHARLESTON GAILLARD CENTER | $25,000 |
| CHRIST SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON ATHLETIC FUND | $16,000 |
| THE GREEN HEART PROJECT INC | $15,000 |
| CAMP HAPPY DAYS | $15,000 |
| DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS | $7,500 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $5,000 |
| THE PROJECT DANCE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CHARLESTON BOXING FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ROTARY CLUB OF BLOWING ROCK | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $394k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, 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.
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.
38 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- HCHIGH COUNTRY CAREGIVER FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · $335k · revenue ×15 · 32% of their budget
- KOKIDS ON POINT INC5× · 2020–2024 · $248k · revenue +162%
- CSCHRIST SCHOOL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $179k · revenue +147%
Funded once
- AFASU FDN OFFICE OF CULTURAL AFFAIRSone grant, 2019 · $21k
- MSMABEL SCHOOL PTAone grant, 2019 · $17k
- ASAPPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.
Charleston Collegiate Schools mission is to inspire students to become passionate, lifelong learners by empowering them with knowledge, creativity, curiosity and confidence to mindfully embrace the opportunities of tomorrow.
Chamber Music Charleston is dedicated to developing the audience for classical music through chamber music concerts and educational programs of the highest caliber.
The association works to build a culture of pride and engagement by ensuring alumni from the college of charleston stay informed, get involved, and give back.
To educate Charleston area residents and visitors about the natural and cultural history of the South Carolina Lowcountry through collections, exhibitions, preservation, conservation, research and related programming.
The mission of the charleston school of law foundation inc is to encourage and assist the study, teaching, promoting and research of the rule of law in charleston, south carolina and all related subject areas as determined by the board of…
The mission of Carolina Children's Home is to meet the under-served mental and physical health needs of children, young adults, and their families
We provide a classical Christian education to children in grades K through Grade 5
The confederate home and college is dedicated to preserving its structures for their humanitarian use as homes for people in need, for the cultural benefits of assisting local artists and writers, and for their historic value to the city…
The mission of the gibbes museum of art is to enhance lives through art by engaging people of every background and experience with art and artists of enduring quality; collect and preserve the art that touches charleston; and provide…
Inspiring philanthropy and strengthening our region through innovative community initiatives and quality services to donors and constituents.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids On Point Inc and the most unlike its peers is American College of the Building Arts. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 52 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 HIGH COUNTRY CAREGIVER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KIDS ON POINT INC ↗
- Who funds CHRIST SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE VILLAGE FOUNDATION OF BLOWING R ↗
- Who funds CAMP HAPPY DAYS INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON GAILLARD MANAGEMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Green Heart Project Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COLLEGE OF THE BUILDING ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON ATHLETIC FUND ATHLETIC FUND ↗
- Who funds PROJECT DANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds OLE MISS ATHLETIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Womens Fund of the Blue Ridge Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds The Children's Playhouse Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BLOWING ROCK ART & HISTORY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BLOWING ROCK CIVIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds FIRST TEE GREATER CHARLESTON ↗
- Who funds YOUTH AMERICA GRAND PRIX INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTL WATAUGA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON BOXING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Oasis Shriners ↗
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 · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Mark Elliott Motley Foundation Inc · The Joanna Foundation · Kuznik Charitable Foundation · Trident United Way · Foundation for the Carolinas · Central Carolina Community Foundation · T-Bonz Foundation Inc · Womens Fund of the Blue Ridge Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund
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 Kennedy-Herterich 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% 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.
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