· Private foundation
The Ladies' Benevolent Society
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $88k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BARRIER ISLAND FREE MEDICAL CLINIC | $26,000 |
| RESPITE CARE MINISTRIESST MATTHEWS CHURCH | $18,250 |
| DISABILITIES BOARD OF CHARLESTON COUNTY | $16,250 |
| WINDWOOD FARM | $16,000 |
| NORTH CHARLESTON DENTAL OUTREACH | $11,000 |
| ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND | $6,071 |
| ONE80 PLACE | $6,000 |
| CHARLESTON AREA SENIOR CITIZENS | $6,000 |
| EAST COOPER MEALS ON WHEELS | $6,000 |
| THE FORMATION PROJECT | $2,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of your 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.
12 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- BIBARRIER ISLANDS FREE MEDICAL CLINIC8× · 2017–2024 · $273k · revenue +94%
- OPOne-Eighty Place7× · 2018–2024 · $80k · revenue +157%
- CACHARLESTON AREA SENIOR CITIZENS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $55k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $34k
- CHCAROLINA HEARING BANKone grant, 2017 · $7k
- WFWINDWOOD FARMSone grant, 2017 · $7k
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.
Provide health care for indigent people of anderson, sc
Prepare and serve congregate and home delivered meals to persons 60 years of age and older as well as disabled persons. Provide social activities for senior citizens.
To provide transportation 24/7 to seniors 60 years and older and to visually impaired individuals of any age
To serve individuals in need in aiken county sc who do not have health insurance, medicaid or any other form of medical assistance.
Provide no-cost volunteer medical, pharmacy and wellness services to the under-served in charlotte county
Servants For Sight's mission is to help disadvantaged people, in South Carolina and in third world countries, get the eye care they need to lead productive lives. We provide eye exams, eyeglasses and surgery to poverty stricken and…
To provide free healthcare services to low-income, uninsured adults in georgetown county, sc. the clinic envisions a healthier community where healthcare services are available to all regardless of their financial capability.
The organization provides hot, noontime meals delivered to the homes of senior citizens living in pickens county, south carolina who are unable to prepare and provide the meals for themselves as well as providing senior living experiences.
Macon Volunteer Clinic (MVC)provides free primary medical and dental care, as well as medication assistance, to uninsured, working adult residents of Middle Georgia. All patients live at or below 200% of federal poverty level.
To provide free medical care and discount prescriptions to those in need in pickens county
Provide free medical care, medications, & pastoral counsel to laurens county, sc residents without government help or private insurance who are unable to afford care.
Meals on wheels of greenville, inc. enhances the quality of life of homebound individuals by providing nutritious meals, personal contact, and related services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Barrier Islands Free Medical Clinic and the most unlike its peers is One-Eighty Place. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 15 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 BARRIER ISLANDS FREE MEDICAL CLINIC ↗
- Who funds One-Eighty Place ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON AREA SENIOR CITIZENS INC ↗
- Who funds EAST COOPER MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds North Charleston Dental Outreach Inc ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED SOUTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds THE FORMATION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SUMPTER FREE HEALTH CLINIC ↗
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: Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc · Medical Society of South Carolina · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Trident United Way · The Joanna Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 The Ladies' Benevolent Society 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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