· Private foundation
The Saluda Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $151k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOCTORS ON MISSION | $46,000 |
| MYSCGOPCOM | $30,000 |
| NORTH CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $14,381 |
| BLUE RIBBON COALITION | $10,500 |
| TREAD LIGHTLY INC | $10,500 |
| PALMETTO STATE WATCH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| LESSTHAN3SC | $10,000 |
| CAROLINA PREGNANCY CENTER | $5,000 |
| SECOND SATURDAY | $5,000 |
| FRONTLINE MINISTRIES INC | $2,500 |
| PUT DOWN THE GUNS NOW YOUNG PEOPLE | $1,100 |
| BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF SC | $500 |
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 US giving — 78% of grant dollars ($437k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 22% that went abroad ($126k) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Beyond the US — 22% of all-years giving ($126k)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
6 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $82k 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
- DDOCTORSONMISSIONORG9× · 2017–2025 · $223k · revenue +4% · 49% of their budget
- IGIndividual grant recipient9× · 2017–2025 · $126k
- TLTREAD LIGHTLY INC2× · 2024–2025 · $16k · revenue 0%
Funded once
- BCBAT CAVE VOL FIRE & RESCUEone grant, 2024 · $30k
- BCBOLEN'S CREEK BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $20k
- SLST LUKE METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $15k
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.
To be a state-focused, biblical organization that could tactfully address issues of life, religious freedom, educational opportunity, Gods design, human dignity, free speech, and principled government.
The south carolina policy council was founded in 1986 as an independent, private, non-partisan research organization to promote the principles of limited government, free enterprise, and individual liberty and responsibility in the state…
The mission of the south carolina boating and fishing alliance (scbfa) is to be a positive influence for the protection and growth of south carolina's boating and fishing industry through advocacy, education, and stewardship.
To raise awareness for and advocate on behalf of persons with bleeding disorders and their families provide education and supportive services and promote ongoing research to improve the quality of life for those affected.
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…
The mission of Frontline Policy Action, Inc. is to fulfill the biblical mandate to love God and love our neighbor by electing statesmen, boldly engaging the culture, and advocating for God-honoring public policy.
In 2024, biscayne bay waterkeeper (d/b/a miami waterkeeper) built on our reputation by navigating challenges, seizing opportunities, and continuing our unwavering commitment to safeguarding our precious waterways and finding local…
forage and grazing land coalition
The mission of the pfsc is to protect and promote hunting, fishing, trapping and realted sportsmen's rights and privileges, to secure and defend our 2nd amendment rights as guaranteed by the constitution of the united states of america; to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brain Injury Association of Sc and the most unlike its peers is Carolina Pregnancy Center. 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 22 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.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 Saluda Charitable Foundation Inc 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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