The Joanna Foundation
Sullivans Island, SC · EIN 57-0314444. Reported 41 grants totalling $163,284 to 41 organizations across tax years 2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
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 Joanna 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.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $3,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,500 and $4,000; the smallest was $784 and the largest $25,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sc Environmental Law Project | Georgetown, SC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Joanna Project | Joanna, SC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Friends of Coastal South Carolina | Awendaw, SC | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Apparent Winds | Mount Pleasant, SC | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Edisto Indian Free Medical Clinic | Ridgeville, SC | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Musc Cares for the Unhoused | Charleston, SC | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Village Museum | Mcclellanville, SC | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| American College of the Building Arts | Charleston, SC | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Charleston Hope | Charleston, SC | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lowcounty and Midlands Orphan Relief | North Charleston, SC | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Neighbors Together | North Charleston, SC | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Palmetto Conservation Foundation | Columbia, SC | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Spectrum Sailing | Mount Pleasant, SC | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Vision to Learn | Los Angles, CA | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Amphibian and Reptile Conservancy | Louisville, KY | $3,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Charleston Parks Conservancy | Charleston, SC | $3,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| East Cooper Faith Network | Mount Pleasant, SC | $3,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| We Are Family | North Charleston, SC | $3,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Barrier Islands Free Medical Clinic | Johns Island, SC | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Lowcountry | North Charleston, SC | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Colour of Music Festival | Charleston, SC | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Heal With Hearts | Charleston, SC | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Holy City Wellbeing | Charleston, SC | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Laurens County First Steps to School Readiness Partnership | Laurens, SC | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lowcountry Marine Mammal Network | North Charleston, SC | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| My Sister's House | North Charleston, SC | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sea Island Habitat for Humanity | Johns Island, SC | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Orton-Gillingham Center of Charleston | Mount Pleasant, SC | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Charleston Habitat for Humanity | Charleston, SC | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Charleston Port & Seafarers Society | Mount Pleasant, SC | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Charleston Stage | Charleston, SC | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Children's Museum of the Lowcountry | Charleston, SC | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Let's Walk | Charleston, SC | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Remnant House Outreach Ministry | Moncks Corner, SC | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Respite Care Charleston | Charleston, SC | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| TURN90 | North Charleston, SC | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bridges of Hope (formerly Bridges for End of Life) | North Charleston, SC | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Jewish Family Services of Greater Charleston | Charleston, SC | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Media Reform of Sc LLC for Ohm Radio | Charleston, SC | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Charleston Pro Bono Legal Services Inc | Charleston, SC | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Seabrook Island Village Neighbors | Seabrook Island, SC | $784 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 28 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Where its money goes
Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 95% 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.
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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.
How to approach this foundation
- 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.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in South Carolina.
- 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.
- 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 The Joanna Foundation'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: Po Box 308, Sullivans Island, SC, 29482. 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.
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