· Public charity
United Way of the Lowcountry
To educate and encourage our community to make investments that enable individuals and families to achieve self-sufficiency.
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 $10k2 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $316k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $68k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BEAUFORT-JASPER YMCA OF THE | $67,575 |
| LOWCOUNTRY LEGAL VOLUNTEERS | $43,713 |
| HOPEFUL HORIZONS | $41,250 |
| RESOURCE FOUNDATION FOR JASPER | $37,875 |
| AGAPE FAMILY LIFE CENTER | $37,533 |
| SECOND HELPINGS | $26,250 |
| CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION ASSOCIATION | $26,250 |
| MORRIS CENTER FOR LOWCOUNTRY HERIT | $26,250 |
| AMI KIDS BEAUFORT | $22,971 |
| CONSUMER CREDIT COUNSELING SERVICES | $19,125 |
| BORN TO READ | $13,500 |
| HILTON HEAD ISLAND DEEP WELL PROJEC | $11,250 |
| BOY SCOUTS COASTAL CAROLINA | $10,000 |
| GOOD NEIGHBOR FREE MEDICAL | $9,375 |
| A FATHER'S PLACE | $9,375 |
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, $944k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 43% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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 +42% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 2 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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
- CACHILD ABUSE PREVENTION ASSOCIATION9× · 2017–2025 · $504k · revenue +129%
- HHHOPEFUL HORIZONS9× · 2017–2025 · $474k · revenue +42%
- LLLOWCOUNTRY LEGAL VOLUNTEERS9× · 2017–2025 · $423k · revenue +405% · 28% of their budget
Funded once
- BOBOARD OF VOTER REGISTRATION AND ELECTIONS OF BEAUFORT COUNTYone grant, 2023 · $115k
- BEBEAUFORT-JASPER EOC INCone grant, 2023 · $95k · revenue +2%
- BHBEAUFORT HOUSING AUTHORITYone grant, 2023 · $73k
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.
Food for Little Rascals Inc (FFLR) is operated exclusively to improve the health, welfare, and care of children in the State of South Carolina.
To provide emergency assistance to low income individuals and families in the lowcountry of south carolina.
Provide community healthcare services to the citizens in the low country of south carolina.
Carolina Teen Center is a prevention and education year-round after-school and summer program that services youth and their families. Literacy programs, tutoring, life skills, mentoring, positive peer groups, conflict resolution skills,…
Recruit and train and license foster parents to receive foster children from county government agencies.
Our mission is to provide compassionate direction to individuals and families in need through counseling, education and financial benefits management.
We strive to serve the community by constructing and rehabilitating homes for affordable homeownership, providing new housing rentals for low to moderate wealth families in south carolina, and providing services that aid in all aspects of…
Origin sc empowers individuals to achieve financial, housing and mental health stability through advocacy, counseling, and education.
To provide affordable housing for low-income families in darlington county, sc
Habitat for Humanity of Berkeley County (HFHBC) is a community-level Habitat for Humanity organization that acts in partnership with and on behalf of Habitat for Humanity International. HFHBC seeks to put Gods love into action by brings…
General assistance to help families experiencing homelessness and low-income families achieve sustaiinable independence through a community-based response.
Assist developmentally disadvantaged
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of the Lowcountry and the most unlike its peers is The Daniel O Morris South Carolina Low Country Heritage Trust. 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 37 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 47 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.
- Who funds YMCA OF THE LOWCOUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HOPEFUL HORIZONS ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY LEGAL VOLUNTEERS ↗
- Who funds CONSUMER CREDIT COUNSELING SERVICE OF THE SAVANNAH AREA INC ↗
- Who funds Agape Family Life Center Inc ↗
- Who funds HILTON HEAD ISLAND DEEP WELL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds RESOURCE FOUNDATION FOR JASPER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF THE LOWCOUNTRY ↗
- Who funds GOOD NEIGHBOR FREE MEDICAL CLINIC OF BEAUFORT ↗
- Who funds SECOND HELPINGS ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE COASTAL EMPIREINC ↗
- Who funds BLUFFTON SELF HELP INC ↗
- Who funds HELP OF BEAUFORT ↗
- Who funds BORN TO READ INC ↗
- Who funds BEAUFORT-JASPER EOC INC ↗
- Who funds COASTAL CAROLINA COUNCIL BSA ↗
- Who funds JASPER COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds REAL CHAMPIONS INC ↗
- Who funds BEAUFORT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood Outreach Connection ↗
- Who funds FRESH START HEALING HEART ↗
- Who funds THE DISABILITIES FOUNDATION OF BEAUFORT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS BLUFFTON/HILTON HEAD ↗
- Who funds PROGRAMS FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE ↗
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 · Community Foundation of the Lowcountry · The Bargain Box · Palmetto Electric Trust · Heritage Classic Foundation · The Church Mouse Thrift Shop Inc · The Berkeley Hall Charitable Foundation · Wexford Foundation · Central Carolina Community Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Lowcountry Food Bank 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 the Lowcountry 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.