South Carolina · Nonprofit
THE HUNGER COALITION OF THE LOWCOUNTRY
THE HUNGER COALITION OF THE LOWCOUNTRY (South Carolina) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $474,471 to it, the largest being Community Foundation of the Lowcountry ($197,931). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $169k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $474k
- Net assets
- $274k
What The Hunger Coalition of the Lowcountry does
Mission
The primary purpose of the organization is to end childhood hunger in the hilton head island community. The organization, through its backpack buddies and fresh produce programs, provides food, snacks, and fresh produce to early childhood, elementary, middle, and high school children during the school year. During the summer and at after-school programs, it provides fresh produce for the children to take home to their families and healthy snacks at summer school programs. In addition, it provides holiday gift bags, grocery gift cards, and scholastic books to the children and their families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The backpack buddies program provides approximately 6,600 food packs during the 2023-2024 school year to elementary and early childhood schools in the hilton head island area. The organization also provided after school snacks and fruits to these participating children as well. In the spring, the organization donated approximately 400 scholastic books to these children.
$70,335 spentof which $71,958 as grants45% of program spendingThe fresh produce program provided fruit, vegetables, and grocery gift cards for approximately 170 children at after school programs and schools during the 2023-2024 school year and summer. The organization provided approximately $33,000 of grocery gift cards to needy students and their families during the extended winter break. Middle and high school students received thak-home packages throughout the school year.
$83,221 spentof which $83,940 as grants54% of program spendingOther direct expenses to administer food program.
$1,664 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $155,220.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $211k to $271k (+28%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
92% of THE HUNGER COALITION OF THE LOWCOUNTRY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Jackson Massey
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $17k → $80k.
3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of THE HUNGER COALITION OF THE LOWCOUNTRY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 11 of 12 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
THE HUNGER COALITION OF THE LOWCOUNTRY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
95% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund THE HUNGER COALITION OF THE LOWCOUNTRY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 69% · 2019 61% · 2020 57% · 2021 59% · 2022 48% · 2023 59% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
57% of THE HUNGER COALITION OF THE LOWCOUNTRY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
88% of THE HUNGER COALITION OF THE LOWCOUNTRY's grant income comes from South Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $217k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
THE HUNGER COALITION OF THE LOWCOUNTRY has grown faster than half of the 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like THE HUNGER COALITION OF THE LOWCOUNTRY
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE HUNGER COALITION OF THE LOWCOUNTRY?
- THE HUNGER COALITION OF THE LOWCOUNTRY (South Carolina) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $474,471 to it, the largest being Community Foundation of the Lowcountry ($197,931). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE HUNGER COALITION OF THE LOWCOUNTRY have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $474,471 in grants to THE HUNGER COALITION OF THE LOWCOUNTRY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE HUNGER COALITION OF THE LOWCOUNTRY?
- Community Foundation of the Lowcountry is the largest funder on record, with $197,931 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE HUNGER COALITION OF THE LOWCOUNTRY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 12 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing