United Way of Horry County Inc
Myrtle Beach, SC · EIN 57-0558692. Reported 57 grants totalling $1,241,030 to 30 organizations across tax years 2021-2023, 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 United Way of Horry County Inc, the IRS classifies it as a federated giving programme -- a United Way, Jewish federation, Community Chest or similar (NTEE T70Z).
- How spread out its giving is. 30 distinct organizations, with 12% 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. 69% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 56% median for grantmaking charities -- lower than the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $17,500. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $30,000; the smallest was $5,300 and the largest $67,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Directions Ofhorry County | Myrtle Beach, SC | $154,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Friendship Medical Clinic Inc | Conway, SC | $130,969 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| S O S Health Care Inc | Myrtle Beach, SC | $94,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Helping Hand of Myrtle Beach Inc | Myrtle Beach, SC | $94,277 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| A Fathers Place | Conway, SC | $74,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| YMCA of Coastal Carolina | Myrtle Beach, SC | $69,200 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Freedom Readers Inc | Myrtle Beach, SC | $69,100 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Catholic Charities of South Carolina | Charleston, SC | $54,116 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Childrens Recovery Center Inc | Myrtle Beach, SC | $52,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Boys & Girls Club of the Grand Strand Inc | Myrtle Beach, SC | $44,325 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Rape Crisis Center | Myrtle Beach, SC | $41,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| North Strand Helping Hand | Myrtle Beach, SC | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Habitat for Humanity of Horry County Inc | Myrtle Beach, SC | $37,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Churches Assisting People Inc | Conway, SC | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Family Justice Center of Georgetown and Horry Counties | Georgetown, SC | $32,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Sea Haven Inc | Little River, SC | $29,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Neighbor to Neighbor of South Carolina Inc | Myrtle Beach, SC | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Salt Life Church | Myrtle Beach, SC | $20,849 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Center for Counseling & Wellness | North Myrtle Beach, SC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Lions Vision Services a South Carolina Charity | Columbia, SC | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Mobile Meals of the Grand Strand Inc | Myrtle Beach, SC | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Reach Out and Read Inc | Boston, MA | $14,150 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Community Kitchen Inc of Myrtle Beach | Myrtle Beach, SC | $12,244 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Compass Community | N Myrtle Bch, SC | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Classy Smiles Inc | Myrtle Beach, SC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Family Support Services of Horry County Inc | Conway, SC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Coastal Samaritan Counseling Center Inc | Myrtle Beach, SC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Shepherds Table | Conway, SC | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lowcountry Food Bank Inc | Charleston, SC | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Palmetto Literacy Council | Myrtle Beach, SC | $5,300 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
17 of 30 (57%) received money in more than one year over the 3 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 the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Sos Healthcare
AUTISM COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROGRAM-COVID ASSISTANCE FUNDING - Friendship Medical Center
PROVIDES BASIC PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE AND MEDICATION TO LOW INCOME ADULTS IN HORRY COUNTY - Helping Hands of Myrtle Beach
MINISTERS TOTHE NEEDS OF PERSONS THROUGH CRISIS INTERVENTION - A Father's Place
GENERAL SUPPORT FOR PATHWAYS TO ECONOMIC MOBILITY - Claire Chapin Epps Family YMCA
PROMOTING HEALTHY LIVING AND FOSTERING A SENSE OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY-PRESCHOOL AND AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAMS - Catholic Charities
HURRICANE CLIENT - REPAIRS
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 22 of 30 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 20 | $443,200 | $17,500 |
| 2022 | 19 | $426,559 | $15,000 |
| 2023 | 18 | $371,271 | $18,750 |
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
99% 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.
Down to the city
Foundations that fund only organizations they pick gave to this one
3 private foundations that told the IRS they contribute only to organizations they select themselves reported 12 grants totalling $50,913 to United Way of Horry County Inc. That is 14% of the 22 funders we can see giving to it. Those 3 foundations do not take unsolicited requests -- their own returns say so. The IRS classifies this organization as a federated giving programme.
3 of them gave in more than one tax year, which is the only durability signal the filings carry.
What that does not mean. It does not mean an application here reaches that money. A grant from a closed foundation is often a designated gift or a donor-advised fund earmarked by whoever gave it, and has nothing to do with any open programme this organization runs. Neither tax return says which, so neither do we. The list below is who put money in. It is not a route to it.
| Foundation | State | Reported | Grants | Years | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tr Edna Wardlaw Charitable Tr Ua | Tennessee | $50,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Park National Corporation Foundation | Ohio | $530 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Amazonsmile Foundation | Washington | $383 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
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Both the count and the total are floors. A foundation appears here only where its return named this organization clearly enough for us to match the name to an EIN, which we manage for about two thirds of 990-PF grant rows. There are more; we cannot name them.
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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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
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 $17,500 -- 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 United Way of Horry County Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 50016, Myrtle Beach, SC, 29579.
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