South Carolina · Private foundation
Abney Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.9M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 51
- Grants FY2024
- 40
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 31 to 43
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $51M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 5% of the organizations Abney Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 50 | $1.9M | 22% |
| FY2023 | 40 | $2.0M | 5% |
| FY2022 | 43 | $2.3M | 19% |
| FY2021 | 43 | $2.0M | 47% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $1.7M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anderson University | $850,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Claflin University | $650,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Presbyterian College | $450,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Anderson's Emergency Kitchen Inc | $305,000 | 2 | 68% |
| Anderson County Sc | $300,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Wofford College | $250,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Southern Wesleyan University | $200,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Converse University | $150,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Anderson Free Clinic | $120,000 | 4 | 1% |
| First Light | $105,000 | 5 | 2% |
Show all 41 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Abney Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 37 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Dabo's All in Team Foundation · Mary R Ramseur Charitable Trust · Duke Energy Foundation · Brett Crowe Memorial · Ta Gambrill Foundation Ct-Main · The Webbcraft Family Foundation Inc · United Way of Anderson County · Sc Josephine Stevenson Trust · Scansource Charitable Foundation · South Carolina Christian Foundation · The Jim and Betty Young Family Foundation Inc · Spartanburg County Foundation
How this is measured
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About Abney Foundation
- How much does Abney Foundation give?
- Abney Foundation reported 51 grants totaling $1,935,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 43 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Abney Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (56%), Religion (17%), Health (7%).
- Who are Abney Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Anderson University ($850k), Claflin University ($650k), Presbyterian College ($450k).
- Does Abney Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Abney Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Abney Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dabo's All in Team Foundation, Mary R Ramseur Charitable Trust, Duke Energy Foundation.
- Where is Abney Foundation based?
- Abney Foundation is based in SC.
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