· Public charity
The Point Is Dba the Point
To promote and empower women in all phases of life, including education and general living.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $163,619 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $168,964 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,345 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k3 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROPER ST FRANCIS HEALTHCARE | $50,000 |
| SHARE OUR SUZY LOWCOUNTRY | $36,542 |
| JEANS ANGELS | $15,000 |
| BARRIER ISLANDS FREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC | $15,000 |
| COMPASS HARBOR | $12,600 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS INC | $10,600 |
| BLESSING BASKETS | $9,100 |
| WAKE UP CAROLINA | $8,700 |
| LOWCOUNTRY FIREFIGHTER SUPPORT TEAM | $6,077 |
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 (FY23–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of The Point Is Dba the Point’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. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in SC; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
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.
My Sister's House is a nonprofit organization that provides services, programs, and resources to empower victims of domestic violence and their children to be free from abuse.
Provide services and care to those needing medical care and housing To provide 3 meals a day snacks and medication management while working with doctors and hospitals
Lowcountry Veterans Home provides transitional housing and individualized support for homeless veterans, working to restore stability, dignity, and independence. Through case management, peer support, transportation, and strong community…
Shalom House Ministries Inc operates a treatment center for women struggling with drug and alcohol addition. It also offers transitional dwelling for women who need a safe place after treatment.
To provide emergency assistance to low income individuals and families in the lowcountry of south carolina.
Provide medical, dental, behavioral, and specialty care for the working poor, uninsured and homeless of bartow county, georgia.
Assisting and housing females in recovery
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…
Safe Shelter - The LHWS provides unhoused single women and unhoused women with children safe shelter by providing onsite security at all three shelter locations. Keeping these shelters up to date with their proprety maintenance and basic…
Healing all people with compassion, faith, and excellence.
General assistance to help families experiencing homelessness and low-income families achieve sustaiinable independence through a community-based response.
Provide community healthcare services to the citizens in the low country of south carolina.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Our Lady of Mercy Community Outreach Services and the most unlike its peers is Lowcountry Firefighter Support Team. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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.
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.
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: Medical Society of South Carolina · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Point Is Dba the Point 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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