South Carolina · Private foundation
Bignon Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $157k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 18
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $453k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations Bignon Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 13 | $157k | 15% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $190k | 27% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $169k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $149k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $205k | 35% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $193k | 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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pawmetto Lifeline | $262,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Fellowship of Christian Athletes | $148,000 | 6 | 0% |
| University of South Carolina Educational Foundation | $125,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $100,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Garnet Trust Foundation | $50,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Alpha Tau Omega Foundation Inc | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Palmetto Foundation for Prevention and Recovery | $25,000 | 5 | 6% |
| Welvista | $23,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Richland County Sheriff's Foundation Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Sharing Gods Love Inc | $20,000 | 3 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pawmetto Lifeline | $262,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Fellowship of Christian Athletes | $148,000 | 6 | 0% |
| University of South Carolina Educational Foundation | $125,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $100,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Garnet Trust Foundation | $50,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Alpha Tau Omega Foundation Inc | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Palmetto Foundation for Prevention and Recovery | $25,000 | 5 | 6% |
| Welvista | $23,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Richland County Sheriff's Foundation Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Sharing Gods Love Inc | $20,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Living Water Foundation Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 31% |
| Harvest Hope Food Bank | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Calhoun Traumatic Brain Injury Foundation | $10,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Trinity Baptist Church | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Rocky Bottom Camp of the Blind | $5,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Calvary Baptist Church | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Good Works Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Saluda Shoals Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Fisher House of Columbia Sc Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Family Promise of the Midlands Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Pawleys Island Community Church | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Calvary Baptist Church | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($175k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Bignon Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 16 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.
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How this is measured
About Bignon Family Foundation
- How much does Bignon Family Foundation give?
- Bignon Family Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $156,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 18 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Bignon Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (26%), Recreation & Sports (21%), Education (14%).
- Who are Bignon Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Pawmetto Lifeline ($263k), Fellowship of Christian Athletes ($148k), University of South Carolina Educational Foundation ($125k).
- Does Bignon Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bignon Family 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 Bignon Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Central Carolina Community Foundation, Michael J Mungo Foundation, Kw Beverage Foundation Inc.
- Where is Bignon Family Foundation based?
- Bignon Family Foundation is based in SC.
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