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United Way of Horry County Inc

To unite people, ideas, and resources to advance the common good in horry county

$396k
Granted FY2023
18
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$39k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.

Human Services$966kHealth$759kHousing & Shelter$487kCrime & Legal$289kEducation$279kPublic Safety & Disaster$165kFood & Nutrition$145kYouth Development$124kOther$0
02FY2023 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 18 grants below total $371,271 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $396,199 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $24,928 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 · $22k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $349k
$19,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDSHIP MEDICAL CENTER$38,969
A FATHER'S PLACE$38,000
SOS HEALTHCARE$35,000
HELPING HANDS OF MYRTLE BEACH$34,277
NEW DIRECTIONS$30,000
FREEDOM READERS$22,600
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB - GRAND STRAND$22,325
SALT LIFE CHURCH$20,849
SEA HAVEN$19,500
RAPE CRISIS CENTER$18,000
CLAIRE CHAPIN EPPS FAMILY YMCA$17,500
CATHOLIC CHARITIES$16,451
CHILDRENS RECOVERY CENTER$16,000
LIONS VISION SERVICES$10,000
FAMILY OUTREACH$10,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $769k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%CLASSY SMILES: $23k → 15%LOWER CAPE FEAR MERCY HOSPICE: $8k → 12%CLASSY SMILES: $18k → 15%CLASSY SMILES: $18k → 15%CLASSY SMILES: $10k → 15%NEW DIRECTIONS: $75k → 13%NEW DIRECTIONS: $75k → 13%NEW DIRECTIONS: $75k → 13%NEW DIRECTIONS: $67k → 13%NEW DIRECTIONS: $57k → 13%NEW DIRECTIONS: $30k → 13%HORRY COUNTY DISABILITIES AND SPECIAL NEEDS: $25k → 13%HORRY COUNTY DISABILITIES AND SPECIAL NEEDS: $25k → 13%HORRY COUNTY DISABILITIES AND SPECIAL NEEDS: $25k → 13%HORRY COUNTY DISABILITIES AND SPECIAL NEEDS: $20k → 13%THE SHEPHERD'S TABLE: $9k → 13%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $40k → 13%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $30k → 13%CLAIRE CHAPIN EPPS FAMILY YMCA: $27k → 13%CLAIRE CHAPIN EPPS FAMILY YMCA: $25k → 13%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $20k → 13%CLAIRE CHAPIN EPPS FAMILY YMCA: $19k → 13%CLAIRE CHAPIN EPPS FAMILY YMCA: $18k → 13%CLAIRE CHAPIN EPPS FAMILY YMCA: $16k → 13%CLAIRE CHAPIN EPPS FAMILY YMCA: $16k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.1M · 30 repeat orgs$116k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

30 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2023, 15 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
5

Total granted

$3.1M
$81k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+11%

Still filing today

87%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentReligionFood & NutritionOther

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

  • ND
    NEW DIRECTIONS OF HORRY COUNTY INC
    6× · 2018–2023 · $379k · revenue +18%
  • FM
    FRIENDSHIP MEDICAL CLINIC INC
    6× · 2018–2023 · $296k · revenue +45%
  • HH
    Helping Hand of Myrtle Beach Inc
    6× · 2018–2023 · $227k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF HORRY COUNTY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $37k · revenue +80%
  • TH
    Tara Hall School Inc DBA Mingo Creek Academy
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -60%
  • LC
    Lower Cape Fear Hospice Incorporated dba Lower Cape Fear LifeCaregraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +27%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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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2
Family Services Inc

Origin sc empowers individuals to achieve financial, housing and mental health stability through advocacy, counseling, and education.

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3
South Carolina Network of Children's Advocacy Centers

Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse

Youth Development
4
Carolina Family Health Centers Inc

Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST

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5
Carolina Childrens Home

The mission of Carolina Children's Home is to meet the under-served mental and physical health needs of children, young adults, and their families

Human Services
6
Fostering Hope Inc

Provide facility, clothing and personal care items to numerous displaced children of Horry County. Create foster care awareness. Multiple organizations are visited monthly.

Human Services
7
York County Board of Disabilities and Special Needs

Serve clients with intellectual and developmental disabilities within york county, south carolina.

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8
Coastal Horizons Center Inc

To provide a continuum of professional services to promote healthier lives, stronger families, and safer communities.

Health
9
Carolina Therapeutic Services Community Development Inc

CTS Community Development is a behavioral health provider committed to helping individuals from underserved communities to live safe, productive, and meaningful lives

Human Services
10
Food for Little Rascals Inc

Food for Little Rascals Inc (FFLR) is operated exclusively to improve the health, welfare, and care of children in the State of South Carolina.

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11
Carolina Community Care Inc

The mission of hospice & community care is to give hope, comfort, and compassion to those that need it most. hospice & community care is a nonprofit healthcare organization providing hospice and palliative care to residents of york,…

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12
Eastern Carolina Homelessness Org Inc Echo

Services for homeless individuals including development and maintenance of databases for the purposes of providing assistance in obtaining proper and necessary identification documents and providing temporary and permament supportive…

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Helping Hand of Myrtle Beach Inc and the most unlike its peers is Toomeys Kids Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number27%0%<5yr16%7%5–10yr16%19%10–20yr12%22%20–35yr9%41%35–55yr20%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value27%0%<5yr16%1%5–10yr16%16%10–20yr12%29%20–35yr9%46%35–55yr20%8%55yr+

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/38
the rest of the field
14%
187/1,325

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.

04the grantee network

33 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. 33 of the 38 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
28/33
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NEW DIRECTIONS OF HORRY COUNTY INC — $379,000 · Human ServicesNEW DIRECTIONS OF HORRY COUNTY INCHelping Hand of Myrtle Beach Inc — $226,777 · Human ServicesHelping Hand of Myrtle Beach IncCHILDREN'S RECOVERY CENTER INC — $122,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S RECOVERY CENTER INCYMCA OF COASTAL CAROLINA — $119,350 · Human ServicesYMCA OF COASTAL CAROLINAHorry County Disabilities & Special Needs Board — $95,000 · Human ServicesHorry County Disabilities & Special Needs BoardAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $90,099 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent C…NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC — $79,000 · Human ServicesNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR OF SOUTH CAROLINA INCFAMILY JUSTICE CENTER OF GEORGETOWN AND HORRY COUNTIES — $72,500 · Human ServicesFAMILY JUSTICE CENTER OF GEORGETOWN AND HORRY C…CLASSY SMILES INC — $69,000 · Human ServicesCoastal Samaritan Counseling Center — $53,500 · Human Services+3 more — $41,500 · Human ServicesCHURCHES ASSISTING PEOPLE INC — $145,000 · OtherCHURCHES ASSISTING PEOPLE INCNORTH STRAND HELPING HAND — $143,000 · OtherNORTH STRAND HELPING HANDSOS HEALTH CARE INC — $131,000 · OtherSOS HEALTH CARE INCFAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES OF HORRY CO — $80,000 · OtherFAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES OF HOR…Mobile Meals of the Grand Strand Inc — $78,822 · OtherMobile Meals of the Grand Stra…RAPE CRISIS CENTER — $65,000 · OtherRAPE CRISIS CENTERSOUTH STRAND HELPING HAND INC — $60,000 · OtherSOUTH STRAND HELPING HAND INCCatholic Charities of South Carolina — $54,116 · OtherCatholic Charities of South Ca…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF HORRY COUNTY INC — $37,000 · OtherSEA HAVEN INC — $29,500 · Other+3 more — $54,849 · Other+3 moreFRIENDSHIP MEDICAL CLINIC INC — $295,969 · HealthFRIENDSHIP MED…Center for Counseling & Wellness Inc — $95,000 · HealthCenter for Cou…LIONS VISION SERVICES A SOUTH CAROLINA CHARITY — $20,000 · HealthA Father's Place — $154,000 · EducationA Father's P…FREEDOM READERS INC — $149,100 · EducationFREEDOM READ…REACH OUT AND READ INC — $25,150 · EducationREACH OUT AN…HORRY COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP — $20,000 · EducationHORRY COUNTY…+2 more — $10,300 · EducationBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE GRAND STRAND INC — $124,325 · Youth DevelopmentTHE COMPASS COMMUNITY — $70,500 · ReligionCOMMUNITY KITCHEN INC OF MYRTLE BEACH — $51,244 · Food & Nutrition
Human Services$1,347,726Other$878,287Health$410,969Education$358,550Youth Development$124,325Religion$70,500Food & Nutrition$51,244

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNEW DIRECTIONS OF HORRY COUNTY INC — $379,000 over 6y, 7.3% of budgetFRIENDSHIP MEDICAL CLINIC INC — $295,969 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetHelping Hand of Myrtle Beach Inc — $226,777 over 6y, 12% of budgetA Father's Place — $154,000 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetFREEDOM READERS INC — $149,100 over 7y, 17% of budgetSOS HEALTH CARE INC — $131,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE GRAND STRAND INC — $124,325 over 6y, 5.9% of budgetCHILDREN'S RECOVERY CENTER INC — $122,000 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetYMCA OF COASTAL CAROLINA — $119,350 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetHorry County Disabilities & Special Needs Board — $95,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCenter for Counseling & Wellness Inc — $95,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $90,099 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES OF HORRY CO — $80,000 over 4y, 21% of budgetNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC — $79,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetMobile Meals of the Grand Strand Inc — $78,822 over 5y, 12% of budgetFAMILY JUSTICE CENTER OF GEORGETOWN AND HORRY COUNTIES — $72,500 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetTHE COMPASS COMMUNITY — $70,500 over 5y, 9.3% of budgetCLASSY SMILES INC — $69,000 over 4y, 62% of budgetSOUTH STRAND HELPING HAND INC — $60,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetCatholic Charities of South Carolina — $54,116 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCoastal Samaritan Counseling Center — $53,500 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY KITCHEN INC OF MYRTLE BEACH — $51,244 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF HORRY COUNTY INC — $37,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSEA HAVEN INC — $29,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ INC — $25,150 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTara Hall School Inc DBA Mingo Creek Academy — $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetLIONS VISION SERVICES A SOUTH CAROLINA CHARITY — $20,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetHORRY COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP — $20,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetSHEPHERDS TABLE A SC ELEEMOS CORP — $9,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetLower Cape Fear Hospice Incorporated dba Lower Cape Fear LifeCare — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPALMETTO LITERACY COUNCIL — $5,300 over 1y, 6.4% of budget
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.

Coastal Community Fou…Chapin Foundation of …Waccamaw Community Fo…Frances P Bunnelle Fo…Lowcountry Food Bank …Central Carolina Comm…Ocean View Memorial F…Sisters of Charity Fo…The K FoundationDominion Energy Chari…Mike & Carolyn Jones …Frugal Princess Inc
Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina IncSC39.1× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Chapin Foundation of Myrtle Beach Sc · Waccamaw Community Foundation · Frances P Bunnelle Foundation Coastal Community Foundation of Sc · Lowcountry Food Bank Inc · Central Carolina Community Foundation · Ocean View Memorial Foundation Inc · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · The K Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Mike & Carolyn Jones Foundation · Frugal Princess Inc

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 United Way of Horry County 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 38 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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