· Private foundation
Vandy Charitable Foundation
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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k35 grants · $121k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $111k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PRINCE GEORGE WINYAH EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $45,000 |
| DUCKS UNLIMITED | $21,250 |
| MUSC SHAWN JENKINS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $15,000 |
| ST FRANCES HUMANE SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| MUSC FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SMITH MEDICAL CLINIC | $10,000 |
| LOWCOUNTRY PREP SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| CAPE ROMAIN LIGHTHOUSE PRESERVATION FUND | $5,000 |
| JOHN'S HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| ACLU FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| DANNY & RON'S RESCUE | $5,000 |
| TIDELANDS HEALTH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| WALLACE PATE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 91% 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 +35% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 8 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $72k 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
- DUDucks Unlimited Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $144k · revenue +77%
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY5× · 2021–2025 · $65k · revenue +40%- SMSMITH MEDICAL CLINIC INC5× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- THTara Hall School Inc DBA Mingo Creek Academygraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +49%
- CECOASTAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION - COASTAL CAROLINA UNIVERSITYone grant, 2021 · $5k
- TATHE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIAone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +17%
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.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
To operate a health care system providing medical excellence to the eastern region of south carolina and the extreme southeastern region of north carolina.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…
Mcleod physician associates ii operates as a part of the mcleod health system. the mission of mcleod health is to improve the overall health and well being of people living within south carolina and eastern north carolina by providing…
The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.
Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education
The mission of the gibbes museum of art is to enhance lives through art by engaging people of every background and experience with art and artists of enduring quality; collect and preserve the art that touches charleston; and provide…
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
Leading the creation and advancement of health equity we exist to improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities, increase the diversity of the health professional and scientific workforce, and address primary health care…
Johns hopkins health system corporation provides centralized management of a multi-hospital healthcare system. it is a key component of johns hopkins medicine, a collaboration with the johns hopkins university school of medicine.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Justice Center of Georgetown and Horry Counties and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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 45 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) — 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 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.
28 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. 28 of the 57 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 Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SMITH MEDICAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DANNY & RONS RESCUE ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY LEARNERS ↗
- Who funds TIDELANDS COMMUNITY HOSPICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds ALL 4 PAWS ↗
- Who funds MCCLELLANVILLE ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds MISS RUBY'S KIDS ↗
- Who funds TEACH MY PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds THOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CIRCUS FLORA INC ↗
- Who funds Tara Hall School Inc DBA Mingo Creek Academy ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE VILLAGE MUSEUM ↗
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 · Frances P Bunnelle Foundation Coastal Community Foundation of Sc · Waccamaw Community Foundation · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · International Paper Company Foundation · The K Foundation · Central Carolina Community Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Rebecca C Parsons Foundation · South Carolina Humanities Council Inc · South Carolina Christian Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation
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 Vandy Charitable Foundation 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.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Americares Foundation 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.