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· 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.

$402k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$68k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$2.5MCrime & Legal$1.1MYouth Development$846kReligion$590kHousing & Shelter$518kHealth$455kFood & Nutrition$437kEnvironment$320kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $316k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $68k
$26,250
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

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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Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%AGAPE FAMILY LIFE CENTER: $121k → 17%AGAPE FAMILY LIFE CENTER: $68k → 17%AGAPE FAMILY LIFE CENTER: $38k → 17%AGAPE FAMILY LIFE CENTER INC: $30k → 17%AGAPE FAMILY LIFE CENTER INC: $26k → 17%AGAPE FAMILY LIFE CENTER: $23k → 17%AGAPE FAMILY LIFE CENTER: $20k → 17%AGAPE FAMILY LIFE CENTER: $17k → 17%JASPER COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $34k → 17%JASPER COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $34k → 17%THE CHILDREN'S CENTER: $36k → 10%THE CHILDREN'S CENTER: $36k → 10%THE CHILDREN'S CENTER: $36k → 10%THE CHILDREN'S CENTER: $30k → 10%THE CHILDREN'S CENTER: $24k → 10%PROGRAMS FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE: $16k → 10%PROGRAMS FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE: $13k → 10%THE CHILDREN'S CENTER: $10k → 10%THE CHILDREN'S CENTER: $10k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF BEAUFORT COUNTY: $84k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF BEAUFORT COUNTY: $40k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF BEAUFORT COUNTY: $34k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF BEAUFORT COUNTY: $31k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF BEAUFORT COUNTY: $26k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF BEAUFORT COUNTY: $26k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF BEAUFORT COUNTY: $24k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF BEAUFORT COUNTY: $21k → 10%ABLE FOUNDATION: $18k → 10%ABLE FOUNDATION: $18k → 10%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.6M · 32 repeat orgs$616k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +2% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
13

Total granted

$6.6M
$580k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+2%

Still filing today

84%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesCrime & LegalEnvironmentHealthEducationReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CA
    CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION ASSOCIATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $504k · revenue +129%
  • HH
    HOPEFUL HORIZONS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $474k · revenue +42%
  • LL
    LOWCOUNTRY LEGAL VOLUNTEERS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $423k · revenue +405% · 28% of their budget

Funded once

  • BO
    BOARD OF VOTER REGISTRATION AND ELECTIONS OF BEAUFORT COUNTY
    one grant, 2023 · $115k
  • BE
    BEAUFORT-JASPER EOC INC
    one grant, 2023 · $95k · revenue +2%
  • BH
    BEAUFORT HOUSING AUTHORITY
    one grant, 2023 · $73k
How this is measured

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

04Its 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
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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2
Good Friends of the Lowcountry

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

Philanthropy
3
Beaufort-Jasper-Hampton Comprehensive Health Services Inc

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

Health
4
Carolina Teen Center

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,…

Health
5
Carolina Family Connections

Recruit and train and license foster parents to receive foster children from county government agencies.

Human Services
6
Compass of Carolina Inc

Our mission is to provide compassionate direction to individuals and families in need through counseling, education and financial benefits management.

Education
7
Beyond Housing

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…

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8
Family Services Inc

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

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9
Darlington County Habitat for Humanity Inc

To provide affordable housing for low-income families in darlington county, sc

Housing & Shelter
10
Habitat for Humanity of Berkeley County

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…

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11
C4 Ministries of Laurens County

General assistance to help families experiencing homelessness and low-income families achieve sustaiinable independence through a community-based response.

Human Services
12
Beaufort County Developmental Cente

Assist developmentally disadvantaged

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of the Lowcountry; 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.
04the grantee network

36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
24/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YMCA OF THE LOWCOUNTRY INC: $667,582 · OtherYMCA OF THE LOWCOUNTRY INCBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY INC: $621,058 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY INCCONSUMER CREDIT COUNSELING SERVICE OF THE SAVANNAH AREA INC: $387,970 · OtherCONSUMER CREDIT COUNSELING SERVICE OF THE SAVANNAH ARE…LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC: $161,910 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE COASTAL EMPIREINC: $156,450 · OtherBLUFFTON SELF HELP INC: $154,024 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY: $119,550 · OtherLOWCOUNTRY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $158,310 · OtherBORN TO READ INC: $122,051 · Other+19 more: $914,310 · Other+19 moreAgape Family Life Center Inc: $341,827 · Human ServicesAgape Family Life Cen…FAMILY PROMISE OF THE LOWCOUNTRY: $286,380 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF THE…SECOND HELPINGS: $242,360 · Human ServicesSECOND HELPINGSTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $182,923 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER…HELP OF BEAUFORT: $139,534 · Human ServicesHELP OF BEAUFORTJASPER COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $68,000 · Human Services+3 more: $105,626 · Human Services+3 moreCHILD ABUSE PREVENTION ASSOCIATION: $504,206 · Crime & LegalCHILD ABUSE PRE…LOWCOUNTRY LEGAL VOLUNTEERS: $422,689 · Crime & LegalLOWCOUNTRY LEGA…FRESH START HEALING HEART: $40,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $22,950 · Crime & LegalHOPEFUL HORIZONS: $473,855 · ReligionHILTON HEAD ISLAND DEEP WELL PROJECT INC: $319,560 · EnvironmentSOUTH CAROLINA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION: $45,000 · EnvironmentGOOD NEIGHBOR FREE MEDICAL CLINIC OF BEAUFORT: $254,265 · HealthBEAUFORT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $50,000 · HealthRESOURCE FOUNDATION FOR JASPER COUNTY: $297,465 · Public Benefit
Other$3,463,215Human Services$1,366,650Crime & Legal$989,845Religion$473,855Environment$364,560Health$304,265Public Benefit$297,465

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYMCA OF THE LOWCOUNTRY INC: $667,582 over 9y, 3.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY INC: $621,058 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetCHILD ABUSE PREVENTION ASSOCIATION: $504,206 over 9y, 5.4% of budgetHOPEFUL HORIZONS: $473,855 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY LEGAL VOLUNTEERS: $422,689 over 9y, 28% of budgetCONSUMER CREDIT COUNSELING SERVICE OF THE SAVANNAH AREA INC: $387,970 over 9y, 18% of budgetAgape Family Life Center Inc: $341,827 over 8y, 62% of budgetHILTON HEAD ISLAND DEEP WELL PROJECT INC: $319,560 over 9y, 4.2% of budgetRESOURCE FOUNDATION FOR JASPER COUNTY: $297,465 over 7y, 89% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF THE LOWCOUNTRY: $286,380 over 8y, 15% of budgetGOOD NEIGHBOR FREE MEDICAL CLINIC OF BEAUFORT: $254,265 over 9y, 9.0% of budgetSECOND HELPINGS: $242,360 over 9y, 4.6% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $182,923 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC: $161,910 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $158,310 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE COASTAL EMPIREINC: $156,450 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetBLUFFTON SELF HELP INC: $154,024 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetHELP OF BEAUFORT: $139,534 over 7y, 28% of budgetBORN TO READ INC: $122,051 over 9y, 37% of budgetBEAUFORT-JASPER EOC INC: $95,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCOASTAL CAROLINA COUNCIL BSA: $85,550 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetJASPER COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $68,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetREAL CHAMPIONS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetBEAUFORT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION: $45,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNeighborhood Outreach Connection: $40,951 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetFRESH START HEALING HEART: $40,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetTHE DISABILITIES FOUNDATION OF BEAUFORT COUNTY INC: $36,000 over 2y, 79% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS BLUFFTON/HILTON HEAD: $32,583 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetPROGRAMS FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE: $28,675 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetThumbs Up Inc: $26,168 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetAMIKIDS INC (GROUP): $22,950 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA Father's Place: $9,375 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetALZHEIMERS FAMILY SERVICES OF GREAT: $9,350 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE LOWCOUNTRY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Coastal Community Fou…Community Foundation …The Bargain BoxPalmetto Electric Tru…Heritage Classic Foun…The Church Mouse Thri…The Berkeley Hall Cha…Wexford FoundationCentral Carolina Comm…The Richard M Schulze…Dominion Energy Chari…Lowcountry Food Bank …
Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina IncSC66.4× affinity31 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 · 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

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 United Way of the Lowcountry funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of the Lowcountry. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 47 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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