· Private foundation
Wateree Dreams 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $44k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Reformed Theological Seminary | $44,000 |
| Palmetto Womens Center | $6,200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,200 |
| Redeeming Grace PCA | $5,000 |
| Wofford College | $3,000 |
| Medical University of South Carolina | $3,000 |
| The Marlie Dru Sullivan Foundation | $2,200 |
| North Charleston Dental Outreach | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| MWE School of Ministry | $1,000 |
| Atrium Health Foundation | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your 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.
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 +52% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- PWPALMETTO WOMEN'S CENTER8× · 2018–2025 · $40k · revenue +89%
- NCNorth Charleston Dental Outreach Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $20k · revenue +66%
WOFFORD COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $19k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- SGSERGE GLOBAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +32%
- LRLuther Rice Collegeone grant, 2022 · $1k
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.
To operate a health care system providing medical excellence to the eastern region of south carolina and the extreme southeastern region of north carolina.
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…
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.
Organization is 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 excellence in healthcare.
Organization is 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 excellence in health care.
Organization is part of mcleod health system. the mission of mcleodhealth is to improve the overall health and well-being of peopleliving within south carolina and eastern north carolina by providingexcellence in healthcare.
Mcleod health cheraw operates as 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 excellence in…
Operation of county museum and preservation of museum assets
Healing all people with compassion, faith, and excellence.
The Martin Memorial Foundation generates financial support for patient care, education and clinical research for Martin Memorial Health Systems to support its mission: "To provide exceptional health care, hope and compassion to every…
Marion general hospital exists to transform the health of our community through patient-centered, high quality, affordable care. best practices by leading a collaborative approach involving physicians, staff, business leaders and our…
To provide a broad continuum of quality health care services to enhance the well-being of the people of Charleston the surrounding communities. Drawing its inspiration from Christs healing love, this mission compels us to continuously…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atrium Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Marlie Dru Sullivan Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 18 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 PALMETTO WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds North Charleston Dental Outreach Inc ↗
- Who funds WOFFORD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Wilcox Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds SERGE GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds MARLIE DRU SULLIVAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MCCLELLANVILLE ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- 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.
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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 Wateree Dreams 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.
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.