· Private foundation
Vandy Charitable Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k38 grants · $150k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $127k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $103k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PRINCE GEORGE WINYAH EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $103,000 |
| DUCKS UNLIMITED | $21,500 |
| ST FRANCES HUMANE SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| MUSC CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FUND | $20,000 |
| SMITH MEDICAL CLINIC | $15,000 |
| MUSC FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $10,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $10,000 |
| DANNY & RON'S RESCUE | $10,000 |
| ST JUDE'S CHILDREN RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| WALLACE PATE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| VILLAGE MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| HARBOR HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–26, $63k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.
45 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2026, 11 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DUDucks Unlimited Inc6× · 2021–2026 · $166k · revenue +77%
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY6× · 2021–2026 · $70k · revenue +40%- SMSMITH MEDICAL CLINIC INC6× · 2021–2026 · $65k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- THTara Hall School Inc DBA Mingo Creek Academygraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +49%
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2025 · $5k · revenue 0%- CECOASTAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION - COASTAL CAROLINA UNIVERSITYone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
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.
To promote and support the educational, medical, scientific, and research purposes of the medical university of south carolina "musc", and university medical associates of the medical university of south carolina "uma", including their…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
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,…
At unc health foundation, we inspire philanthropic support for unc health and unc school of medicine that transforms healthcare and provides hope to the people of north carolina and communities around the world.
Partnering for healing and a healthy future through philanthropy.
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.
The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.
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.
To improve the health of our community through clinical excellence.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Partnering for healing and a healthy future through philanthropy.
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
How this is measured
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 71 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SMITH MEDICAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds DANNY & RONS RESCUE ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY LEARNERS ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds TIDELANDS COMMUNITY HOSPICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MCCLELLANVILLE ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds ALL 4 PAWS ↗
- Who funds MISS RUBY'S KIDS ↗
- Who funds THE VILLAGE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CIRCUS FLORA INC ↗
- Who funds TEACH MY 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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Vandy Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vandy Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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