GrantmakersSouth Carolina

Charity Ball Board of Greenville

Greenville, SC · EIN 57-0646214. Reported 27 grants totalling $928,647 to 22 organizations across tax years 2021-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.

22organizations funded
$20,000median reported grant
$928,647granted, 2021-2023
28%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 22 distinct organizations, with 28% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $20,000. Half of what it reported fell between $17,000 and $22,567; the smallest was $9,069 and the largest $261,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
1 grant
$10,000 - $25,000
22 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
2 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
1 grant
$250,000 Or More
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
St Francis Hospital IncGreenville, SC$261,000112023
Bon Secours St Francis Health System IncGreenville, SC$205,024112021
Safe Harbor IncGreenville, SC$49,082222023
United MinistriesGreenville, SC$41,067222023
United Way of Greenville County IncorporatedGreenville, SC$39,567222023
Greenville Free Medical ClinicGreenville, SC$35,510222023
The Family EffectGreenville, SC$25,000112023
Fostering Great IdeasGreenville, SC$22,771222023
Greenville Center for Creative ArtsGreenville, SC$22,680112021
Jasmine Road IncGreenville, SC$21,546112021
Phyllis Wheatley Community Center IncMinneapolis, MN$20,500112021
Slater Marietta Health and Human Services IncSlater, SC$20,321112021
Conestee Foundation IncConestee, SC$20,000112023
Greenville Tech Foundation IncGreenville, SC$20,000112023
Habitat for Humanity International IncGreenville, SC$20,000112023
Washington High School Alumnae Association$20,000112023
Neighborhood Cancer ConnectionGreenville, SC$18,500112023
Soteria World Outreach Ministries IncGreenville, SC$17,010112021
Greenville Literacy Association IncGreenville, SC$15,000112023
Rize Prevention IncSimpsonville, SC$15,000112023
Roper Mountain Science Center AssociationGreenville, SC$10,000112023
Childrens Museum of the Upstate IncGreenville, SC$9,069112023

5 of 22 (23%) received money in more than one year over the 2 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 13 of 22 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Human Services
3 orgs
Arts & Culture
2 orgs
Crime & Legal
2 orgs
Education
2 orgs
Religion
1 org
Social Science
1 org
Environment
1 org
Housing & Shelter
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202111$406,647$21,546
202316$522,000$18,500

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

98% of its giving went to organizations in South Carolina. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

South Carolina
$888K
Minnesota
$20K

Down to the city

Greenville, SC
$833K
Minneapolis, MN
$20K
Slater, SC
$20K
Conestee, SC
$20K
Simpsonville, SC
$15K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available 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 Fund14 shared recipientsUnited Way of Greenville County Inc12 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc12 shared recipientsGe Aerospace Foundation12 shared recipientsThe Jolley Foundation11 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc11 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $20,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in South Carolina.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Charity Ball Board of Greenville's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 3 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 16834, Greenville, SC, 29606.

EIN 57-0646214 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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