FundersSouth Carolina

The Frederick & Patricia Supper

Charleston, SC · EIN 65-0053808. Reported 74 grants totalling $229,923 to 42 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$1,000median grant
$229,923granted, 2021-2024
42organizations funded
61%of grantees funded again the next year
$606,481assets, 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. The Frederick & Patricia Supper 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 $1,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $500 and $3,000; the smallest was $100 and the largest $19,500. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
20 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
39 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
6 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
9 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
St Marks Episcopal ChurchPalm Beach Gardens, FL$55,000442024
Homeward BoundNew York, NY$29,248442024
Tanzanian Childrens Fund (rift Valley Childrens Village)Cambridge, MA$20,500442024
Sheridan Memorial HospitalSheridan, WY$20,000222022
American Praire FoundationBozeman, MT$14,500222024
American Prairie FoundationBozeman, MT$12,500112022
Buffalo Bill Center of the WestCody, WY$12,325442024
Wings World Quest IncNew York, NY$11,500222024
Charleston Library SocietyCharleston, SC$6,500332024
Palm Beach Atlantic UniversityWest Palm Beach, FL$6,000112023
South Carolina AquariumCharleston, SC$6,000222024
World Figure Sport SocietyLake Placid, NY$2,500332024
Coastal Conservation LeagueCharleston, SC$2,000222024
St Jude Children's Research HospitalMemphis, TN$2,000332024
St Lukes ChurchNew Britain, CT$2,000222024
Charleston Literary FestivalCharleston, SC$1,500112024
Drayton HallCharleston, SC$1,500222023
Gibbes Museum of ArtCharleston, SC$1,500222023
Johns Hopkins University (robert Packard Center)Baltimore, MD$1,500222024
St Eustace ChurchLake Placid, NY$1,500222024
William Raveis Charitable Fund IncShelton, CT$1,500112024
Wolfsonian MuseumMiami, FL$1,500222023
The Brinton MuseumBig Horn, WY$1,250112021
Wyoming Commnunity FoundationLaramie, WY$1,250222023
Charleston Gaillard CenterCharleston, SC$1,000112022
Food Bank of the RockiesDenver, CO$1,000112021
Friends of Manatee LagoonWest Palm Bch, FL$1,000112023
Johns Hopkins University (robert Packard Foundation)Baltimore, MD$1,000112021
Kearney Community HallStory, WY$1,000222023
Mama Ada FoundationHopkins, MN$1,000112022
Millbrook SchoolMillbrook, NY$1,000222024
Oak Alley FoundationVacherie, LA$1,000112021
One Earth Philanthropy- SealegacyorgCulver City, CA$1,000112024
Rooted in WyomingSheridan, WY$1,000112024
Special Operations Warrior FoundationTampa, FL$1,000112021
St Eustice ChurchLake Placid, NY$1,000112021
Wyoming Breast Cancer InitiativeCheyenne, WY$1,000112021
The John Edwin Mroz Global Leadership InstituteCharleston, SC$500112023
Footlight Players IncCharleston, SC$250112023
Nature Conservancy of WyomingCasper, WY$250112021
Wyoming After School AllianceCheyenne, WY$250112021
Leadership WyomingCasper, WY$100112021

21 of 42 (50%) 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 61%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. 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 27 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Arts & Culture
10 grants
Education
5 grants
Environment
3 grants
Animal Welfare
3 grants
Diseases & Disorders
2 grants
Health Care
2 grants
Food & Nutrition
1 grant
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202120$60,548$1,000
202212$69,625$2,062
202323$51,750$1,000
202419$48,000$1,000

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. 28% of this one's giving went to organizations in Florida. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Florida
$64K
New York
$47K
Wyoming
$38K
Montana
$27K
South Carolina
$21K
Massachusetts
$20K
Connecticut
$4K
Maryland
$2K

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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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund15 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc12 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program11 shared recipientsAmerican Endowment Foundation9 shared recipientsThe Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc9 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust8 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $1,000. 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 Florida.
  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.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from The Frederick & Patricia Supper'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: Co Cynthia F Chace 126 Queen St, Charleston, SC, 29401. 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 65-0053808 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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