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Whitfield Family Charitable Trust
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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $115k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHARLESTON SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY | $125,000 |
| GRACE ON THE ASHELY (LOTTIE MOON) | $45,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS | $20,000 |
| MISSIONS AROUND THE WORLD | $20,000 |
| STAR GOSPEL MISSION | $10,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIORS | $10,000 |
| THE FAITH AND LEARNING INTERNATIONAL | $10,000 |
| WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL | $5,000 |
| CONNIE MAXWELL CHILDRENS HOME | $5,000 |
| LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| FAITH HOME | $5,000 |
| CHARLESTON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| HEART CRY MISSIONARY SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| MY SISTERS HOUSE | $5,000 |
| CRESCENT HOSPICE | $3,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 69% 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 +62% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 4 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; $3k 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
- CSCHARLESTON SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY7× · 2019–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +33%
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $68k · revenue +392%- WMWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL7× · 2019–2025 · $45k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $25k
- GOGRACE ON THE ASHLEY BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $15k
- MAMISSIONS AROUND THE WORLDone grant, 2019 · $10k
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.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
Covenant HomeCare provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
Claiborne Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.
To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Through christian love and excellence, we are dedicated to providing a fulfilling lifestyle and promoting independence to those we serve.
Samaritan's purse is a nondenominational evangelical christian organization providing spiritual and physical aid to hurting people around the world. since 1970, samaritan's purse has helped meet the needs of people who are victims of war,…
Thompson Cancer Survival Center provides support services for cancer patients, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to…
We, saint joseph's health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. honoring the heritage and advancing the ministry of the sisters of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Water Missions International and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 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 CHARLESTON SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MISSIONS AROUND THE WORLD ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STAR GOSPEL MISSION ↗
- Who funds WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Connie Maxwell Children's Ministries ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Faith and Learning International NFP ↗
- Who funds FAITH HOME INC ↗
- Who funds My Sister's House Inc ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds PET HELPERS INC ↗
- Who funds Josiah Venture ↗
- Who funds BERKELEY SENIORS INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY PREGNANCY CENTER ↗
- Who funds OneWorld Health ↗
- Who funds BIBLE BROADCASTING NETWORK INCORPORATED ↗
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: Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Advanced Technology International · Davis Family Foundation Inc · Trident United Way · South Carolina Christian Foundation · Central Carolina Community Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Edward Jones Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · AbbVie Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Whitfield Family Charitable Trust 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 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.
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