· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| CHARLESTON AREA SENIOR CITIZENS | $6,000 |
| EAST COOPER MEALS ON WHEELS | $6,000 |
| ONE80 PLACE | $6,000 |
| THE FORMATION PROJECT | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 15 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Ladies' Benevolent Society funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ladies' Benevolent Society. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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