FundersSouth Carolina

Community Partnership Foundation

Rock Hill, SC · EIN 85-3115103. Reported 101 grants totalling $264,642 to 62 organizations across tax years 2020-2023. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$2,000median grant
$264,642granted, 2020-2023
62organizations funded
43%of grantees funded again the next year
$86,795assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Community Partnership Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $2,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,250 and $3,000; the smallest was $500 and the largest $10,714. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
1 grant
$1,000 - $5,000
87 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
9 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
4 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Rock Hill Kappa FoundationRock Hill, SC$13,714222023
Palmetto Community HealthcareRock Hill, SC$12,000222023
The Manna House PantryRock Hill, SC$11,500222023
Children's Attention HomeRock Hill, SC$11,000332023
Omegas of Rock Hill IncRock Hill, SC$10,714112021
Tender Hearts MinistriesRock Hill, SC$10,714112021
Rock Hill Schools Education FoundationRock Hill, SC$10,500332023
Above & Beyond TutoringRock Hill, SC$7,750222023
Adult Enrichment CentersRock Hill, SC$7,500222022
Liv to Gro IncRock Hill, SC$7,500222023
Pilgrim's InnRock Hill, SC$7,500222022
NAMI Piedmont Tri-CountyRock Hill, SC$7,250442023
Defend the FatherlessFort Mill, SC$7,000332023
Early Learning Partnership of York CountyRock Hill, SC$7,000322023
Family Promise of York CountyRock Hill, SC$7,000332023
Showtime Theater CompanyRock Hill, SC$7,000442023
Bethel SheltersRock Hill, SC$6,500112023
Dorothy Day Soup KitchenRock Hill, SC$6,000222022
Girls on the Run Tricounty ScRock Hill, SC$5,500332023
The Haven Men's ShelterRock Hill, SC$5,500332023
Black Economic Leadership League of Rock HillRock Hill, SC$5,000112020
Safe Passage IncRock Hill, SC$5,000222022
United Way of York CountyRock Hill, SC$4,500222023
Hope of Rock HillRock Hill, SC$4,000222021
Jalin's HopeRock Hill, SC$4,000222022
Power of Progeny FoundationRock Hill, SC$4,000332023
York County All on Board CoalitionRock Hill, SC$4,000222021
The Life House Women's ShelterRock Hill, SC$3,500222023
Therapy Resource GroupFort Mill, SC$3,500222023
Rideabilitiy Therapeutic Riding CenterClover, SC$3,000112021
Alston Wilkes SocietyColumbia, SC$2,500112022
Bright Side Youth RanchYork, SC$2,500112023
Chase Huechtker Foundation Chasing the WakeRock Hill, SC$2,500112023
Crime Stoppers of York CountyYork, SC$2,500112023
Habitat for HumanityRock Hill, SC$2,500222023
Hospice and Community CareRock Hill, SC$2,500112021
Love N Cherish Family CenterRock Hill, SC$2,500112023
Palmetto Council BSASpartanburg, SC$2,500112022
A Daughter's LoveRock Hill, SC$2,000112020
Anchor Ministry - Tabetha's HouseRock Hill, SC$2,000112022
Battered But Not Broken MinistryChester, SC$2,000112020
Moms Against RacismRock Hill, SC$2,000112020
Pathways Community CenterRock Hill, SC$2,000222022
The SeedRock Hill, SC$2,000112020
YMCA Camp CherokeeBlacksburg, SC$2,000112021
York County Free ClinicRock Hill, SC$2,000112020
Junior Achievement of Central Carolina'sCharlotte, NC$1,500112021
Keystone Substance Abuse ServicesRock Hill, SC$1,500112021
Nothing PinkFort Mill, SC$1,500112021
Restoration House for ChristRock Hill, SC$1,500112023
The Community CafCharlotte, NC$1,500112021
TwelveFort Mill, SC$1,500112021
Rock Hill Sigmas FoundationRock Hill, SC$1,250112023
York County Pearls of Promise FoundationFort Mill, SC$1,250112023
Fort Mill Care Center IncFort Mill, SC$1,000112021
Hope Inc Dba Hope of Rock HillRock Hill, SC$1,000112022
Mercy HouseHarrisburg, VA$1,000112023
Poy Entertainment IncYork, SC$1,000112021
Rock Hill Symphony OrchestraRock Hill, SC$1,000112021
Steppin HighRock Hill, SC$1,000112023
The Housing Development Corporation of Rock HillRock Hill, SC$1,000112023
Goodwill Industries of the Southern PiedmontCharlotte, NC$500112021

27 of 62 (44%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 43%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 48 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
15 grants
Education
6 grants
Youth Development
4 grants
Mental Health
4 grants
Food & Nutrition
3 grants
Civil Rights
3 grants
Housing & Shelter
3 grants
Community Improvement
2 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202012$30,000$2,000
202135$92,142$2,000
202224$60,000$2,250
202330$82,500$2,500

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 98% of this one's giving went to organizations in South Carolina. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

South Carolina
$260K
North Carolina
$4K
Virginia
$1K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Duke Energy Foundation18 shared recipientsFoundation for the Carolinas16 shared recipientsYork Electric Trust Inc13 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund12 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc10 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc9 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $2,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in South Carolina.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Community Partnership Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 225 W White Street, Rock Hill, SC, 29730. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 85-3115103 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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