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Wexford Foundation

To provide financial and resource support to local non-profit organizations that provide social service for humanitarian needs.

$845k
Granted FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$145k
Largest
01What you fund
0165% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20172025.

Human Services$1.1MHealth$219kReligion$205kFood & Nutrition$193kCrime & Legal$117kEducation$112kEnvironment$85kEmployment$71kPhilanthropy$45kOther$1.2M
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $352k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $460k
$16,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE CHILDREN'S CENTER$145,000
VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE-HILTON HEAD$90,000
SECOND HELPINGS$89,885
HOPEFUL HORIZONS$85,000
CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION ASSOCIATION$50,208
MEALS ON WHEELS$30,000
BLUFFTON SELF HELP$25,000
FAMILY PROMISE$25,000
HEROES OF THE LOWCOUNTRY$23,000
HHI DEEP WELL PROJECT$20,000
NEIGHBORHOOD OUTREACH CONNECTION$19,000
PROGRAM FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE$18,750
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HILTON HEAD$18,000
HUNGER COALITION OF THE LOWCOUNTRY$18,000
BACKPACK BUDDIES OF BLUFFTON$16,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $654k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE CHILDREN'S CENTER: $145k → 10%SAFE HARBOUR: $6k → 20%NEIGHBORHOOD OUTREACH CONNECTION: $70k → 10%CHILDREN'S CENTER: $28k → 10%CHILDREN'S CENTER: $25k → 10%CHILDREN'S CENTER: $22k → 10%NEIGHBORHOOD OUTREACH CONNECTION: $19k → 10%NEIGHBORHOOD OUTREACH CONNECTION: $18k → 10%THE CHILDREN'S CENTER: $15k → 10%NEIGHBORHOOD OUTREACH CONNECTION: $12k → 10%CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $11k → 10%NEIGHBORHOOD OUTREACH CONNECTION: $11k → 10%CHILDREN'S CENTER: $10k → 10%CHILDREN'S CENTER: $8k → 10%PROGRAM FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE: $8k → 10%CHILDREN'S CENTER: $8k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF BEAUFORT COUNTY: $33k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF BEAUFORT COUNTY: $21k → 10%PROGRAM FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE: $20k → 10%PROGRAM FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE: $19k → 10%PROGRAM FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE: $15k → 10%BLUFFTON COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN: $15k → 10%BLUFFTON COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN: $15k → 10%PROGRAM FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE: $13k → 10%PROGRAM FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE: $12k → 10%PROGRAM FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE: $12k → 10%BLUFFTON COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN: $10k → 10%PROGRAM FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE: $10k → 10%BLUFFTON COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN: $10k → 10%PROGRAM FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE: $10k → 10%MED-I-ASSIST: $8k → 10%MED-I-ASSIST: $8k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF BEAUFORT COUNTY: $8k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.2M · 34 repeat orgs$57k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

34 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
4

Total granted

$3.2M
$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+13%

Still filing today

88%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationFood & NutritionCrime & LegalReligionOther

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

  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S CENTER INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $261k · revenue +49%
  • TV
    THE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $240k · revenue +136%
  • SH
    SECOND HELPINGS
    8× · 2018–2025 · $235k · revenue +694%

Funded once

  • OG
    OTHER GRANTS LESS THAN 5000
    one grant, 2022 · $29k
  • MH
    MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF BEAUFORT-JASPER
    one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue -3%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF THE LOWCOUNTRY
    one grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue +13%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Good Friends of the Lowcountry

To provide emergency assistance to low income individuals and families in the lowcountry of south carolina.

Philanthropy
2
Hilton Head Heroes Inc

To provide one week dream vacations for families with terminally ill children on hilton head isalnd, sc

Philanthropy
3
Harvest Hope Food Bank

Harvest hope is on a mission to eliminate hunger and food insecurity in south carolina. we rescue nutritious food from stores throughout the state and distribute it to food pantries, shelters, and soup kitchens. we operate programs that…

Food & Nutrition
4
House of Hope North Charleston

To reduce hunger and poverty in the Tri-County Area by providing individuals and families with food, clothing, shelter, resource and spiritual support while striving to employ, educate and empower.

Food & Nutrition
5
South Carolina Victim Assistance Network

The south carolina victim assistance network's mission is to ensure crime victims receive access to, and assistance from the criminal and juvenile justice systems and related social service providers; to improve the quality of services…

6
Lowcountry Veterans Home

Lowcountry Veterans Home provides transitional housing and individualized support for homeless veterans, working to restore stability, dignity, and independence. Through case management, peer support, transportation, and strong community…

Health
7
Beaufort-Jasper-Hampton Comprehensive Health Services Inc

Provide community healthcare services to the citizens in the low country of south carolina.

Health
8
Hatteras Island Meals Inc

To eliminate food insecurity and to fight hunger by providing access to nutritional food and meals to those who need our services on Hatteras Island.

Food & Nutrition
9
Community Kitchen Inc of Myrtle Beach

The mission is to feed the hungry and eliminate hunger in our community. last year, we fed over 101,000 adults in our general feeding program and nourished 32,644 children in our childrens hunger initiative program (chip). every person who…

Food & Nutrition
10
Onslow Community Outreach Inc

Onslow community outreach, inc. seeks to be a helping hand to families and individuals by meeting the basic needs of the vulnerable populations in onslow county, north carolina. its vision is to inspire, empower and change lives

11
Onslow Commission for Persons With Disabilities

The mission of the Onslow Commission for Persons with Disabilities is to improve and enhance the quality of life for citizens with disabilities who live in Jacksonville and Onslow County area.

12
Meals On Wheels Plus of Manatee Inc

The mission of meals on wheels plus of manatee, inc. is to assist individuals to live independently by providing nutrition and caring supportive services.

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of the Lowcountry and the most unlike its peers is Inter-America Mission. 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 26 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%5%<5yr16%5%5–10yr22%35%10–20yr16%30%20–35yr10%25%35–55yr11%0%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%3%<5yr16%3%5–10yr22%26%10–20yr16%42%20–35yr10%26%35–55yr11%0%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/37
the rest of the field
15%
127/851

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.

04the grantee network

36 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 36 of the 39 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/36
Grantees still filing
29/36
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC — $240,200 · OtherTHE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINICBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY INC — $172,350 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY INCMEALS ON WHEELS BLUFFTON/HILTON HEAD — $155,552 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS BLUFFTON/HILTON HEADBLUFFTON SELF HELP INC — $146,500 · OtherBLUFFTON SELF HELP INCHILTON HEAD ISLAND RECREATION — $86,000 · OtherHILTON HEAD ISLAND RECREATIONFAMILY PROMISE — $75,200 · OtherFAMILY PROMISEGRANTS 5000 OR LESS — $73,500 · OtherMIRASOL HEALTH INC — $50,000 · OtherTHE LITERACY CENTER — $49,500 · OtherHILTON HEAD ISLAND DEEP WELL PROJECT INC — $85,000 · OtherHILTON HEAD ISLAND DEEP WELL PROJECT INCBACKPACK BUDDIES OF GREATER BLUFFTON AND HARDEEVILLE — $70,850 · Other+6 more — $183,000 · Other+6 moreTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER INC — $260,800 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER INCSECOND HELPINGS — $234,885 · Human ServicesSECOND HELPINGSNeighborhood Outreach Connection — $171,000 · Human ServicesNeighborhood Outreach ConnectionMEMORY MATTERS — $118,000 · Human ServicesMEMORY MATTERSPROGRAMS FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE — $117,750 · Human ServicesPROGRAMS FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLEFAMILY PROMISE OF THE LOWCOUNTRY — $61,775 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF THE LOWCOUNTRYBluffton Community Soup Kitchen — $50,200 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND — $41,300 · Human Services+1 more — $6,000 · Human ServicesLOWCOUNTRY AUTISM FOUNDATION INC — $101,850 · HealthMed-I-Assist Inc — $43,300 · HealthBLUFFTON-JASPER COUNTY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE INC — $37,500 · HealthNAMI LOWCOUNTRY — $28,000 · HealthMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF BEAUFORT-JASPER — $8,000 · HealthHOPEFUL HORIZONS — $205,169 · ReligionSANDALWOOD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY — $138,139 · Food & NutritionTHE HUNGER COALITION OF THE LOWCOUNTRY — $54,500 · Food & NutritionCHILD ABUSE PREVENTION ASSOCIATION — $94,208 · Crime & LegalLOWCOUNTRY LEGAL VOLUNTEERS — $22,500 · Crime & LegalHeroes of the Low Country — $87,000 · EducationFoundation for Educational Excellence — $18,000 · EducationLOVE HOUSE LEARNING ACADEMY — $6,600 · Education
Other$1,387,652Human Services$1,061,710Health$218,650Religion$205,169Food & Nutrition$192,639Crime & Legal$116,708Education$111,600

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER INC — $260,800 over 8y, 6.8% of budgetTHE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC — $240,200 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetSECOND HELPINGS — $234,885 over 8y, 9.4% of budgetHOPEFUL HORIZONS — $205,169 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY INC — $172,350 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetNeighborhood Outreach Connection — $171,000 over 8y, 14% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS BLUFFTON/HILTON HEAD — $155,552 over 9y, 6.7% of budgetBLUFFTON SELF HELP INC — $146,500 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetSANDALWOOD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY — $138,139 over 6y, 12% of budgetMEMORY MATTERS — $118,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetPROGRAMS FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE — $117,750 over 9y, 2.3% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY AUTISM FOUNDATION INC — $101,850 over 7y, 9.8% of budgetCHILD ABUSE PREVENTION ASSOCIATION — $94,208 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetHeroes of the Low Country — $87,000 over 8y, 42% of budgetHILTON HEAD ISLAND RECREATION — $86,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetHILTON HEAD ISLAND DEEP WELL PROJECT INC — $85,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetBACKPACK BUDDIES OF GREATER BLUFFTON AND HARDEEVILLE — $70,850 over 6y, 7.2% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF THE LOWCOUNTRY — $61,775 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetTHE HUNGER COALITION OF THE LOWCOUNTRY — $54,500 over 6y, 11% of budgetBluffton Community Soup Kitchen — $50,200 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetMIRASOL HEALTH INC — $50,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE LITERACY CENTER — $49,500 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetOPERATION PATRIOTS FOB INC — $45,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTH CAROLINA — $43,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMed-I-Assist Inc — $43,300 over 5y, 31% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND — $41,300 over 4y, 8.9% of budgetBLUFFTON-JASPER COUNTY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE INC — $37,500 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetNAMI LOWCOUNTRY — $28,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY LEGAL VOLUNTEERS — $22,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetHEROES ON HORSEBACK — $19,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetFoundation for Educational Excellence — $18,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF BEAUFORT-JASPER — $8,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE LOWCOUNTRY — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLOVE HOUSE LEARNING ACADEMY — $6,600 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetHILTON HEAD ISLAND SAFE HARBOURINC — $6,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budget
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 THE CHILDREN'S CENTER INC
  • Who funds THE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC
  • Who funds SECOND HELPINGS
  • Who funds HOPEFUL HORIZONS
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY INC
  • Who funds Neighborhood Outreach Connection
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS BLUFFTON/HILTON HEAD
  • Who funds BLUFFTON SELF HELP INC
  • Who funds SANDALWOOD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY
  • Who funds MEMORY MATTERS
  • Who funds PROGRAMS FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE
  • Who funds LOWCOUNTRY AUTISM FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds Heroes of the Low Country
  • Who funds HILTON HEAD ISLAND RECREATION
  • Who funds HILTON HEAD ISLAND DEEP WELL PROJECT INC
  • Who funds BACKPACK BUDDIES OF GREATER BLUFFTON AND HARDEEVILLE
  • Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF THE LOWCOUNTRY
  • Who funds THE HUNGER COALITION OF THE LOWCOUNTRY
  • Who funds Bluffton Community Soup Kitchen
  • Who funds MIRASOL HEALTH INC
  • Who funds THE LITERACY CENTER
  • Who funds OPERATION PATRIOTS FOB INC
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTH CAROLINA
  • Who funds Med-I-Assist Inc
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND
  • Who funds Inter-America Mission
  • Who funds BLUFFTON-JASPER COUNTY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE INC
  • Who funds NAMI LOWCOUNTRY
  • Who funds LOWCOUNTRY LEGAL VOLUNTEERS
  • Who funds HEROES ON HORSEBACK
  • Who funds Foundation for Educational Excellence
  • Who funds MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF BEAUFORT-JASPER
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE LOWCOUNTRY
  • Who funds LOVE HOUSE LEARNING ACADEMY
  • Who funds HILTON HEAD ISLAND SAFE HARBOURINC

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.

Community Foundation of the LowcountrySC75.5× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Lowcountry · The Bargain Box · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Heritage Classic Foundation · The Berkeley Hall Charitable Foundation · The Church Mouse Thrift Shop Inc · Palmetto Electric Trust · Hilton Head Firefighters Association Inc · United Way of the Lowcountry · Rotary Club of Hilton Head Island-Sunset · Central Carolina Community Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation

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 Wexford 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 39 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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