FundersSouth Carolina

Kw Beverage Foundation Inc

Columbia, SC · EIN 57-0734278. Reported 79 grants totalling $436,792 to 51 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$3,000median grant
$436,792granted, 2021-2024
51organizations funded
31%of grantees funded again the next year
$872,554assets, 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. Kw Beverage Foundation Inc 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 $3,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $7,500; the smallest was $200 and the largest $36,500. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
9 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
39 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
15 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
13 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
3 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
Fall for GreenvilleGreenville, SC$57,300222024
Folds of HonorSimpsonville, SC$37,800432024
Bmw Charity ProamGreer, SC$36,500112024
Big Red Barn RetreatBlythewood, SC$27,500222024
Metropolitan Arts CouncilGreenville, SC$26,000442024
Five Points Foundation IncColumbia, SC$25,000112024
Habitat for HumanityColumbia, SC$20,000222023
RiverbanksColumbia, SC$20,000442024
South Carolina CharitiesGreenville, SC$20,000222023
Congaree Vista GuildColumbia, SC$17,500332024
Upstate Warrior Solution IncGreenville, SC$15,000222024
Folds of Honor - Palmetto ChapterGreer, SC$11,500112021
Big Red Bam RetreatBlythewood, SC$10,000112022
Main Street Latin FestivalColumbia, SC$10,000222024
Tiger Golf Gathering FoundationClemson, SC$9,500112023
The Applegreen FoundationColumbia, SC$8,000332023
ArtisphereGreenville, SC$7,500332024
Greater Rosewood MerchantsColumbia, SC$7,500112022
Tiger Golf GatheringClemson, SC$7,500112022
Holy Trinity Greek OrthodoxColumbia, SC$5,000112021
Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox CathedralColumbia, SC$5,000112024
Central South Carolina Habitat for HumanityColumbia, SC$4,000112024
March of DimesArlington, VA$3,500222024
Junior League of Columbia IncColumbia, SC$3,000222023
March of DimesColumbia, SC$3,000112021
Saint George Greek Orthodox CathedralGreenville, SC$3,000112024
Sait George Greek Orthodox CathedralGreenville, SC$3,000112022
The Jam Room FoundationColumbia, SC$3,000112024
The Therapy Place IncColumbia, SC$3,000332024
Greenville Arts Festival Dba ArtisphereGreenville, SC$2,500112022
Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic ChurchCamden, SC$2,500112024
Five Points AssociationColumbia, SC$2,000112023
Olympia-Granby Historical FoundationColumbia, SC$2,000222023
Scoa Cares IncColumbia, SC$2,000112021
Blue Ridge Council BSAGreenville, SC$1,500112022
Folds of Honor FoundationSimpsonville, SC$1,500112022
Live Like London FoundationChapin, SC$1,500332024
Garnet Trust FoundationColumbia, SC$1,262112024
Sc State Guard Mission and OperationsColumbia, SC$1,200112022
Columbia Mueseum of ArtColumbia, SC$1,000112022
Greenville Chamber FoundationGreenville, SC$1,000112022
Historic Columbia Foundation IncColumbia, SC$1,000112021
Irmo Recreation Commission FoundationColumbia, SC$1,000112022
Irmo-Chapin Recreation CommColumbia, SC$1,000112021
Our Lady of Perpertual Help Catholic ChurchCamden, SC$1,000112022
Cayce Public Safety FoundationColumbia, SC$930112022
Columbia Museum of ArtColumbia, SC$600112021
Ac Flora Hs Athletic Booster ClubColumbia, SC$500112021
Camp ColeEastover, SC$500112022
Richland County Sherrif's FoundationColumbia, SC$500112022
The Courage CenterLexington, SC$200112021

17 of 51 (33%) 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 31%, 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 kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 43 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Arts & Culture
9 grants
Human Services
8 grants
Education
7 grants
Recreation & Sports
4 grants
Health Care
3 grants
Community Improvement
3 grants
Youth Development
3 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
2 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202118$90,700$2,500
202227$94,030$2,500
202314$76,200$3,450
202420$175,862$5,000

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. 99% 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
$433K
Virginia
$4K

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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.

Central Carolina Community12 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund11 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc11 shared recipientsThe Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc7 shared recipientsDominion Energy Charitable Foundation7 shared recipientsCharities Aid Foundation America6 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $3,000. 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 Kw Beverage Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 825 Bluff Road, Columbia, SC, 29201. 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 57-0734278 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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