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Vital Care Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JAMES E CLYBURN SCHOLARSHIP & RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| COLUMBIA PARKS & RECREATION FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| IRMO HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETICS | $1,500 |
| MADELYN'S FUND | $1,000 |
| DESIRING GOD | $1,000 |
| SC AFTERSCHOOL ALLIANCE | $1,000 |
| GSSM FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| LEXINGTON DIXIE BASEBALL INC | $550 |
| THETA TAU ZETA DELTA | $500 |
| BROOKLAND CAYCE HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $500 |
| USC EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $500 |
| ST MICHAEL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $200 |
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 (FY17–23, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% 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.
13 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
University of South Carolina Educational Foundation3× · 2022–2024 · $216k · revenue -5%- CECALVARY EPISCOPAL CHURCH4× · 2018–2022 · $85k
- TETRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH4× · 2017–2022 · $82k
Funded once
- OTORANGEBURG TECHNICAL COLLEGEone grant, 2021 · $60k
- TETRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $53k
- SCSOUTH CAROLINA INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTHone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +2%
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 south carolina council on competitiveness is a nonpartisan, business-led non-profit organization committed to advancing the long term competitiveness of south carolina through actionable research, support of industry clusters and…
To make strategic, catalytic investments and provide expertise and technical assistance to educational organizations across south carolina.
Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.
Promoting and protecting the free private and competitive enterprise system through research and education.
Governed by the highest-ranking regional leaders in education, government, and business, engenuitysc is a nonprofit that works to make the columbia, sc region a standout choice for top talent and competitive companies. structured as a…
The foundation is organized to promote the welfare and future development of clemson university in its educational and scientific research purposes and to seek and receive gifts for the benefit of clemson university through endowment…
Inspiring philanthropy and strengthening our region through innovative community initiatives and quality services to donors and constituents.
Scicu seeks to advance higher education in south carolina through fundraising, scholarships, research, as well as facilitating collaborative activities among the member institutions. scicu also enhances a positive public image and…
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.
By focusing on the mission to enhance the development and growth of south carolina's life sciences industry ecosystem and by strengthening the state's workforce, education, innovation, and research infracstructure, the foundation works to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central Carolina Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Lexington Community Fun Day. 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 39 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 100 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 University of South Carolina Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH ↗
- Who funds WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC D/B/A LEXINGTON HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JAMES E CLYBURN SCHOLARSHIP AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHERRY BLOSSOM BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GLENN SPRINGS PRESERVATION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FURMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MIDLANDS TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Palmetto Promise Institute ↗
- Who funds THE COURAGE CENTER ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRISMA HEALTH MIDLANDS FOUNDATION F/K/A PALMETTO HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COASTAL CAROLINA COUNCIL BSA ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE MIDLANDS INC ↗
- Who funds HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK ↗
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: Central Carolina Community Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Michael J Mungo Foundation · Lipscomb Family Foundation · The Nord Family Foundation · Carolina Childrens Home · Kw Beverage Foundation Inc · M B Kahn Foundation Inc · BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina Foundation · Prisma Health · Delta Dental of Missouri · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina
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 Vital Care Charitable Foundation Inc 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.
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