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The Point Is Dba the Point

To promote and empower women in all phases of life, including education and general living.

$169k
Granted FY2023
9
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it funds
01FY2023 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $163,619, the rows itemized in this filing. The $168,964 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $5,345 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k3 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $90k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$12,600
Median grant
1
States reached
$18k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROPER ST FRANCIS HEALTHCARE$50,000
SHARE OUR SUZY LOWCOUNTRY$36,542
BARRIER ISLANDS FREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC$15,000
JEANS ANGELS$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
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JEANS ANGELS: $15k → 9%ROPER ST FRANCIS HEALTHCARE: $50k → 12%MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $11k → 12%BARRIER ISLANDS FREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $15k → 12%WAKE UP CAROLINA: $9k → 12%LOWCOUNTRY FIREFIGHTER SUPPORT TEAM: $6k → 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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 100% of The Point Is Dba the Point’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in SC; by stated purpose, 0%.

The Point Is Dba the Pointlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its 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
My Sister's House Inc

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.

Human Services
2
Shalom House Ministries Inc

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.

Health
3
Lowcountry Veterans Home

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…

Health
4
Good Friends of the Lowcountry

To provide emergency assistance to low income individuals and families in the lowcountry of south carolina.

Philanthropy
5
The Life House Women's Shelter Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
6
Duffy Health Center Inc

The mission of duffy health center is to improve the quality of life for persons who are homeless or at risk of homelessness on cape cod through community collaborations and the provision of integrated medical, mental health, addiction…

Health
7
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
8
Hope Harbor Home Inc

Hope Harbor Home strives to break the cycle of domestic and sexual violence in Brunswick County, North Carolina.

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9
Southern Women in Motion Foundation Inc

our mission is to provide housing & economic stability, wrap-around support to homeless women and girls as they reintegrate from systems of confinement, rehab, domestic violence, or unhoused circumstances.

Crime & Legal
10
Bartow Health Access Inc

Provide medical, dental, behavioral, and specialty care for the working poor, uninsured and homeless of bartow county, georgia.

Health
11
Beaufort-Jasper-Hampton Comprehensive Health Services Inc

Provide community healthcare services to the citizens in the low country of south carolina.

Health
12
Meals On Wheels Bluffton Hilton Head Inc

To deliver nutritious meals and reduce isolation for elderly, ill, disabled, and homebound individuals in bluffton and hilton head, on a temporary or long-term basis.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Our Lady of Mercy Community Outreach Services; 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.
04the grantee network

12 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROPER ST FRANCIS HEALTHCARE: $50,000 · HealthROPER ST FRANCIS HEALTHCAREBARRIER ISLANDS FREE MEDICAL CLINIC: $15,000 · HealthBARRIER ISLANDS FREE MEDICAL CLINICWAKE UP CAROLINA: $8,700 · HealthWAKE UP CAROLINASHARE OUR SUZY LOWCOUNTRY: $36,542 · Human ServicesSHARE OUR SUZY LOWCOUNTRYMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $10,600 · OtherMEALS ON WHEE…BLESSING BASKETS: $9,100 · OtherBLESSING BASK…JEANS ANGELS: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentJEANS ANGE…Compass Harbor: $12,600 · Housing & ShelterLOWCOUNTRY FIREFIGHTER SUPPORT TEAM: $6,077 · Public Safety & Disaster
Health$73,700Human Services$36,542Other$19,700Youth Development$15,000Housing & Shelter$12,600Public Safety & Disaster$6,077

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetROPER ST FRANCIS HEALTHCARE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR SUZY LOWCOUNTRY: $36,542 over 3y, 16% of budgetJEANS ANGELS: $15,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetBARRIER ISLANDS FREE MEDICAL CLINIC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCompass Harbor: $12,600 over 3y, 16% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $10,600 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWAKE UP CAROLINA: $8,700 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY FIREFIGHTER SUPPORT TEAM: $6,077 over 3y, 9.2% 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.

Medical Society of South CarolinaSC15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Point Is Dba the Point funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Point Is Dba the Point. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Point Is Dba the Point?

    Find your warmest path to The Point Is Dba the Point through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 9 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $165k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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