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Columbia, SC · EIN 57-0897120. Reported 134 grants totalling $4,994,954 to 66 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
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:
- What kind of organization it is. For Fact Forward, the IRS classifies it under education rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE B99Z) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 66 distinct organizations, with 7% 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 much its list changes. 64% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $26,443. Half of what it reported fell between $15,000 and $55,263; the smallest was $5,720 and the largest $144,450. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eau Claire Cooperative Health Center Inc | Columbia, SC | $348,550 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Dillon County Boys and Girls Youth Center | Dillon, SC | $306,151 | 5 | 3 | 2022 |
| Sc Dhec Midlands | Columbia, SC | $298,146 | 5 | 3 | 2022 |
| United Way of Anderson County | Anderson, SC | $260,968 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| South Carolina Alpha Phi Fraternity Leadership Educational & Preventio | Florence, SC | $235,002 | 5 | 3 | 2022 |
| Helping Hands Inc | Aiken, SC | $229,416 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| South Carolina First Steps to School Readiness Board of Trustees | Greenwood, SC | $212,163 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| USC Lancaster | Columbia, SC | $173,103 | 5 | 2 | 2021 |
| Orangeburg County School District | Orangeburg, SC | $144,450 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| South Carolina Empowerment Centre | Laurens, SC | $138,997 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Benedict College | Columbia, SC | $128,125 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Lowcountry Youth Services | Charleston, SC | $117,879 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Childrens Trust Fund of South Carolina | Columbia, SC | $115,952 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Dramatic Coffee Beans Incorporated | Florence, SC | $110,771 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Claflin University | Orangeburg, SC | $109,950 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Bloom Upstate Inc | Moore, SC | $102,804 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Stroud Development Group | Blythewood, SC | $90,285 | 5 | 3 | 2023 |
| The Family Resource Center | Camden, SC | $89,588 | 2 | 1 | 2020 |
| Jumps Juveniles Upholding Morals & Principles of Society | Columbia, SC | $85,000 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Medical Ministries Inc | Warwick, RI | $85,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Tandem Health Sc | Sumter, SC | $85,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Little River Medical Center Inc | Little River, SC | $83,636 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Breathe Youth Empowerment Organization | Columbia, SC | $80,825 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Florence School District Three | Lake City, SC | $79,125 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| United States Catholic Conference | Cleveland, OH | $70,622 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Auxilium Community Development Corporation | Summerville, SC | $68,014 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Neriah Community Development Corporation | Cayce, SC | $64,938 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Upper Midlands Rural Health Network | Chester, SC | $64,306 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Caresouth Carolina Inc | Hartsville, SC | $59,100 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Palmetto Place Children & Youth Svcs | Columbia, SC | $58,124 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hive Community Circle | Columbia, SC | $57,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Youth Generation Matters | Fairfax, SC | $49,416 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| The Social Change Initiative | Greenwood, SC | $47,053 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Dillon School District Four | Dillon, SC | $43,146 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Coastal Carolina | Conway, SC | $42,253 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Various Donors Under 5000 | $41,622 | 1 | 1 | 2020 | |
| College of Charleston | Charleston, SC | $40,973 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Darlington County School District | Darlington, SC | $39,792 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Weight of Words Society Inc | Columbia, SC | $37,311 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Planned Parenthood Votes South Atlantic | Raleigh, NC | $30,625 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Ocab Inc Community Action Agency | Orangeburg, SC | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Pee Dee Healthy Start Inc | Florence, SC | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| University of South Carolina-Pasos | Columbia, SC | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Air Consulting | Columbia, SC | $29,174 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Gurls Empowerment Network | Columbia, SC | $28,125 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Barnwell County Commission on Alchohol and Drug Abuse | Barnwell, SC | $27,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Air Consulting | Columbia, SC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Community Wellness Outreach | Columbia, SC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Columbia Housing Authority Developments Inc | Columbia, SC | $22,148 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Dominant Advantage LLC | West Columbia, SC | $21,957 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Coalition for Family Enrichment in Marlboro County | Bennettsville, SC | $19,225 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Sc Djj | Columbia, SC | $17,442 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Tuck Project | Columbia, SC | $16,250 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Columbia Urban League Inc | Columbia, SC | $15,619 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Community Resources Depot | Irmo, SC | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Joseph H Neal Health | Columbia, SC | $14,673 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Smalltyme | St Helena Island, SC | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Successteam | Columbia, SC | $12,467 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| New Morning | Columbia, SC | $11,307 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| South Carolina State University | Orangeburg, SC | $11,250 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Journey United Methodist Church | Columbia, SC | $9,850 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mt Nebo | Columbia, SC | $9,850 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Second Chance Ihop | Columbia, SC | $9,850 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Invitation to Prayer Outreach Ministries An | Columbia, SC | $9,714 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Saint John Baptist Church | Columbia, SC | $8,447 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Columbia College | Columbia, SC | $7,425 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
34 of 66 (52%) received money in more than one year over the 4 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 35 of 66 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.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 41 | $1,662,742 | $38,325 |
| 2021 | 39 | $1,703,880 | $37,000 |
| 2022 | 31 | $1,117,166 | $24,586 |
| 2023 | 23 | $511,166 | $12,500 |
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
96% 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.
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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.
How to approach this grantmaker
- 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.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $26,443 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in South Carolina.
- 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 Fact Forward's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 19 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 1 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 4702 Colonial Drive, Columbia, SC, 29203.
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