· Public charity
Wexford Foundation
To provide financial and resource support to local non-profit organizations that provide social service for humanitarian needs.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (FY17–25, $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.
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 +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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER INC8× · 2017–2025 · $261k · revenue +49%
- TVTHE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC8× · 2018–2025 · $240k · revenue +136%
- SHSECOND HELPINGS8× · 2018–2025 · $235k · revenue +694%
Funded once
- OGOTHER GRANTS LESS THAN 5000one grant, 2022 · $29k
- MHMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF BEAUFORT-JASPERone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue -3%
- UWUNITED WAY OF THE LOWCOUNTRYone 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.
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 provide emergency assistance to low income individuals and families in the lowcountry of south carolina.
To provide one week dream vacations for families with terminally ill children on hilton head isalnd, sc
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…
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.
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…
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…
Provide community healthcare services to the citizens in the low country of south carolina.
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.
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…
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
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.
The mission of meals on wheels plus of manatee, inc. is to assist individuals to live independently by providing nutrition and caring supportive services.
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 field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
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 2017–2025, 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.
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 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.
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.
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.