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Waccamaw Community Foundation
The foundation is committed to providing the highest level of services to donors, grant recipients and the community; thus, furthering its mission of improving the quality of life in horry and georgetown counties.
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.
The 77 grants below total $1,631,621 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,319,523 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $687,902 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $128k
- $10k–50k51 grants · $854k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $300k
- $250k+1 grant · $350k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $350,000 |
| GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATIONS INC | $100,000 |
| ALL SAINTS CHURCH - WACCAMAW | $75,003 |
| CITY OF CONWAY | $75,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF MYRTLE BEACH | $50,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF HORRY COUNTY INC | $44,795 |
| MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA | $40,000 |
| WACCAMAW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| COASTAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC | $30,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF NORTH MYRTLE BEACH INC | $30,000 |
| PALMETTO SHORES CHURCH | $26,000 |
| MYRTLE BEACH DOWNTOWN ALLIANCE | $25,833 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF HORRY COUNTY | $25,000 |
| SUSTAIN SC | $25,000 |
| NORTH MYRTLE BEACH AREA FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $620k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% 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 +34% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
107 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2024, 69 since wound down; 19 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $347k 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
- UWUNITED WAY OF HORRY COUNTY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $622k · revenue +26%
- BGBROOKGREEN GARDENS6× · 2017–2024 · $493k · revenue +52%
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE2× · 2017–2024 · $391k · revenue +134%
Funded once
- COCITY OF MYRTLE BEACHone grant, 2021 · $128k
- HHHelping Hand of Myrtle Beach Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +33%
- SDSPARTANBURG DAY SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $75k · revenue +74%
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.
Carolina college of biblical studies exists to disciple christ-followers, through biblical higher education, for a lifetime of effective servant leadership.
To unify christians in south carolina by connecting commerce and community to positively impact our culture for christ.
Southern wesleyan university is a christ-centered, student-focused learning community devoted to transforming lives by challenging students to be dedicated scholars and servant-leaders who impact the world for christ.
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
North greenville university exists to glorify god by cultivating graduates who are equipped to serve as transformational leaders for church and society.
An interdenominational college ministry on seven college campuses across north and south carolina. goal is to see students leave college equipped and passionate to walk with jesus in the church and spread his love to others.
Inspiring philanthropy and strengthening our region through innovative community initiatives and quality services to donors and constituents.
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.
To promote the gospel message by placing christian personnel in prisons for the purpose of relating to the spiritual needs of the inmates on an ongoing basis.
A christ-centered university committed to exceptional teaching, scholarly research, creative innovation, and professional collaboration.
Educational instruciton for students in prek-12th grades.
A Baptist ministry for children and families of South Carolina that provides residential care for children in need along with counseling, educational, and referral services while developing and strengthening positive relationships in a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc and the most unlike its peers is Nmb Area Museum Foundation. 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 33 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
151 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. 151 of the 209 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 SOUTH CAROLINA CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF HORRY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Sustain South Carolina Intersection of Commerce and Conservation ↗
- Who funds COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKGREEN GARDENS ↗
- Who funds COASTAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds THE FRANKLIN G BURROUGHS SIMEON B CHAPIN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds VETERANS WELCOME HOME AND RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds MCLEOD HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEACH MY PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds WACCAMAW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Impact Ministries of Myrtle Beach ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of South Carolina ↗
- Who funds CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF HORRY AND GEORGETOWN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ORANGEBURG-CALHOUN TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW DIRECTIONS OF HORRY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Ground Zero Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds HELP 4 KIDS ↗
- Who funds 836 INC ↗
- Who funds Helping Hand of Myrtle Beach Inc ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Frances P Bunnelle Foundation Coastal Community Foundation of Sc · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · South Carolina Christian Foundation · Chapin Foundation of Myrtle Beach Sc · Central Carolina Community Foundation · United Way of Horry County Inc · The K Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Moglia Family Foundation · Georgetown Memorial Hospital · Frugal Princess Inc · Lowcountry Food Bank Inc
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 Waccamaw Community 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 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.