· Private foundation
Virginia B Gourdin Char Tr
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SC FOUNDATION | $7,143 |
| TRIDENT TECHNICAL COLLEGE FND INC | $7,143 |
| CHARLESTON SCHOOL OF LAW | $7,143 |
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY | $4,000 |
| FIRST SCOTS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $3,571 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA | $3,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA | $3,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA | $3,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA | $3,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA | $3,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA | $3,000 |
| CHARLESTON ANIMAL SOCIETY | $1,786 |
| INTL PRIMATE PROTECTION LEAGUE | $893 |
| PEOPLE FOR THE ETH TRTMNT OF ANIMALS | $893 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 15% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
11 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CSCharleston School of Law9× · 2017–2025 · $67k · revenue ×254
- MUMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $67k · revenue +107%
- CACHARLESTON ANIMAL SOCIETY9× · 2017–2025 · $17k · revenue +87%
Funded once
- CFCENTER FOR SCHOLARSHIP ADMINone grant, 2017 · $21k
- SSSARAH SMITH CO CLEMSON UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $8k
- SMSARAH MILEY CO CLEMSON UNIVERSITYone grant, 2021 · $8k
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.
Charleston southern university (csu) is a private, four-year co-educational institution organized under the laws of the state of south carolina as a non-profit organization and sponsored by the south carolina baptist convention. the…
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
To generate research funding opportunities for clemson university to support research initiatives that advance university discoveries to create new products and services for public use and benefit.
The schs mission is to expand, preserve, and make accessible our invaluable collection, and to encourage interest and pride in the rich history of our state.
The university is a comprehensive university affiliated with the south carolina baptist convention offering bachelors, masters, and doctorate degrees. located on approximately 398 acres in the upstate region of south carolina near the…
Panthera's mission is the conservation of the world's 40 wild cat species, many of which are endangered or threatened. panthera develops, implements and oversees wild cat conservation strategies on a global scale.
To provide support to coastal carolina university through charitable donations received primarily from individual donors.
The foundation's mission is to generate private financial support to further the mission of central piedmont community college.
Scad prepares talented students for creative professions through engaged teaching and learning in a positively oriented university environment.
Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…
Ceu is committed to promoting the values of open society and self-reflective critical thinking. it aims at excellence in the mastery of established knowledge, courage to pursue the creation of new knowledge in the humanities, the social…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Clemson University Foundation and the most unlike its peers is International Primate Protection League. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 48 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 Charleston School of Law ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRIDENT TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL PRIMATE PROTECTION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Virginia B Gourdin Char Tr 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.