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Foundations That Fund Education in South Carolina

Imperigo has identified 585 funders that made 5,470 grants totaling $757.5M to 571 education organizations in South Carolina, with a median grant of $21K. Every figure below is drawn from IRS Form 990 filings through 2025.

Education Funding in South Carolina

Total granted $757.5M
Funders 585
Grants 5,470
Organizations funded 571

Top Funders — page 3 of 4

51. Lowes Foundation
2 grants to 2 organizations · largest $1.0M · through 2024 · 2.7% of their giving
$1.4M
52. Barnet Foundation
11 grants to 6 organizations · largest $50K · through 2025 · 13.8% of their giving
$265K
53. Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc
7 grants to 1 organization · largest $150K · through 2024 · 7.6% of their giving
$417K
54. United Way of Horry County Inc
13 grants to 4 organizations · largest $38K · through 2023 · 12.7% of their giving
$239K
55. Harry and Reba Huge Foundation
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $150K · through 2020 · 33.8% of their giving
$150K
56. Lawrence Steinberg Foundation
4 grants to 1 organization · largest $203K · through 2023 · 8.5% of their giving
$339K
57. Associated Colleges of the South Inc
4 grants to 1 organization · largest $72K · through 2023 · 16.9% of their giving
$169K
58. St John's Christian Academy
2 grants to 1 organization · largest $67K · through 2020 · 100.0% of their giving
$134K
59. United Way of Oconee County Inc
2 grants to 1 organization · largest $69K · through 2024 · 19.2% of their giving
$138K
60. South Carolina Research Authority
8 grants to 4 organizations · largest $319K · through 2022 · 4.2% of their giving
$614K
61. Local Boys Do Good
7 grants to 3 organizations · largest $20K · through 2025 · 23.9% of their giving
$109K
68. Waccamaw Community Foundation
35 grants to 15 organizations · largest $57K · through 2024 · 2.9% of their giving
$560K
74. National Collegiate Athletic Association
62 grants to 13 organizations · largest $979K · through 2023
$6.4M
77. Community Foundation of Henderson County Inc
3 grants to 1 organization · largest $500K · through 2024 · 2.3% of their giving
$550K
78. Council of Independent Colleges
14 grants to 5 organizations · largest $91K · through 2024 · 2.1% of their giving
$588K
79. The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc
21 grants to 10 organizations · largest $960K · through 2024
$3.0M
81. Endaoment Inc
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $1.0M · through 2022 · 1.1% of their giving
$1.0M
85. Howard Hughes Medical Institute
4 grants to 2 organizations · largest $932K · through 2022
$1.6M
90. National Basketball Association Foundation
4 grants to 1 organization · largest $400K · through 2023
$1.1M
96. The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc
14 grants to 3 organizations · largest $1.0M · through 2024
$1.4M
103. The Movement Foundation Inc
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $502K · through 2024 · 1.2% of their giving
$502K
104. Tulsa Community Foundation
53 grants to 21 organizations · largest $500K · through 2024
$2.1M
121. The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc
23 grants to 7 organizations · largest $200K · through 2024
$1.2M
125. The Bessemer Giving Fund C/O Bessemer Trust Company Trustee
3 grants to 3 organizations · largest $1.3M · through 2024
$1.4M
133. The Ayco Charitable Foundation
57 grants to 22 organizations · largest $251K · through 2025
$2.4M

Funders are ordered by how much of their overall giving goes to education work in South Carolina, not by dollar totals alone — a foundation that concentrates its giving here is usually a better prospect than a larger one for which this is a rounding error. 15 of the funders counted here are donor-advised fund sponsors, which grant on behalf of individual donors and accept no applications; they are marked and ranked last.

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About This Data

A grant appears here when a funder reported it on its IRS Form 990 and the recipient organization is classified under the NTEE group covering education work, with an address in South Carolina. Grants are counted from the 2025 filing year backward.

Some 990 grant schedules list a recipient by name and address without an EIN, and those grants cannot be matched to a classification — so the totals above represent identifiable education funding in South Carolina, not every dollar that reached the sector. Figures are a floor, not a ceiling.

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