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Trident United Way
TRIDENT UNITED WAY is uniting the tri-county to uplift families out of poverty
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.
The 48 grants below total $849,814 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,150,052 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $300,238 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $115k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $438k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $296k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SOUTH CAROLINA | $180,056 |
| FAMILY SERVICES INC DBA ORIGIN SC | $66,431 |
| CHARLESTON TRIDENT URBAN LEAGUE | $50,000 |
| MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION | $36,250 |
| JEWISH FAMILY OF SERVICES OF GREATER CHARLESTON | $20,000 |
| UNITED CHARITABLE | $20,000 |
| MY SISTER'S HOUSE INC | $17,906 |
| BARRIER ISLAND FREE MEDICAL CLINIC-103123-BARRIER ISLAND FREE MEDICAL CLINI | $17,500 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS | $16,463 |
| HELPING AND LENDING OUTREACH SUPPORT | $16,303 |
| TRIDENT LITERACY ASSOCIATION INC | $16,080 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER RICHMOND AND PETERSBURG | $15,819 |
| WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL | $15,338 |
| CHARLESTON HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $15,000 |
| AMOR HEALING KITCHEN | $15,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $3.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against -23% for the ones you funded once.
109 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2025, 75 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $112k 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
- LFLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC9× · 2017–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +72%
- DNDEE NORTON LOWCOUNTRY CHILDREN'S CENTER7× · 2017–2024 · $713k · revenue +140%
- OPOne-Eighty Place6× · 2017–2022 · $660k · revenue +149%
Funded once
- LSLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE GREATER CHARLESTON AREA DBA TRICOUNTY FAMILone grant, 2017 · $138k
- CDCHARLESTON DORCHESTER COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CTRone grant, 2017 · $120k
- CICHILDREN IN CRISIS OF DORCHESTER COUNTY INC DBA DORCHESTER CHILDREN'S CENone grant, 2017 · $118k
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.
Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse
Conway hospital community services provides outpatient health care services to horry county and the surrounding community in conjunction with conway hospital, inc., a non-profit acute care hospital system.
Mobilizing the power of our community to break the cycle of poverty.
The united way of coastal carolina, inc. strives to meet the current and emerging human needs in craven, carteret, jones, and pamlico counties by mobilizing the resources of community organizations, agencies, recipients, and volunteers.
Facilitate networking among hospitals
The south carolina council on competitiveness is a nonpartisan, business-led non-profit organization committed to advancing the long term competitiveness of south carolina through actionable research, support of industry clusters and…
Communityworks is a publicly supported organization and certified community development financial institution that provides funding to promote affordable housing and community development to help stabilize low wealth families and…
South carolina legal services is a statewide law firm that provides civil legal services to protect the rights and represent the interests of low income south carolinians.
To strengthen families, organizations, and communities to prevent child abuse and neglect.
Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of the Coastal Empire and the most unlike its peers is The Wagnalls Memorial Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
137 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. 137 of the 202 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE CHARLESTON AREA INC ↗
- Who funds DEE NORTON LOWCOUNTRY CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds One-Eighty Place ↗
- Who funds East Cooper Community Outreach ↗
- Who funds OUR LADY OF MERCY COMMUNITY OUTREACH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Florence Crittenton Programs of South Carolina Inc ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY AIDS SERVICES CHILDS ↗
- Who funds Windwood Farm Home For Children Inc ↗
- Who funds READING PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds Neighbors Together Inc ↗
- Who funds METANOIA ↗
- Who funds SC Thrive ↗
- Who funds Landmarks for Families Inc ↗
- Who funds The Charleston Promise Neighborhood ↗
- Who funds KAY PHILLIPS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Roper St Francis Foundation ↗
- Who funds WINGS FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds Communities in Schools of South Carolina ↗
- Who funds DORCHESTER SENIORS INC ↗
- Who funds BERKELEY SENIORS INC ↗
- Who funds TURN90 ↗
- Who funds REACH OUT AND READ INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS OF GOOSE CREEK INC ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY HEALTH NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Charleston Legal Access ↗
- Who funds ROPER ST FRANCIS HEALTHCARE ↗
- Who funds SUMMERVILLE FAMILY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PALMETTO GOODWILL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
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: Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc · The Joanna Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · Central Carolina Community Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Employees Community Fund of Boeing-Puget Sound · Post and Courier Foundation · Daniel Island Community Fund Inc · The Leon Levine Foundation · Kuznik Charitable Foundation · Campaigning for Charities
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 Trident United Way 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.
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
- United Way of Marion County Inc — 4% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.