South Carolina · Private foundation
BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina 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.
- $21M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 56
- Grants FY2025
- 58
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $300,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,829,874
- Organizations funded a year
- 45 to 58
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $396M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.4M 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 | 51 | $21M | 22% |
| FY2024 | 58 | $21M | 21% |
| FY2023 | 47 | $18M | 15% |
| FY2022 | 45 | $18M | 22% |
| FY2021 | 52 | $14M | 35% |
| FY2020 | 53 | $13M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina Research Foundation | $12,387,840 | 6 | 53% |
| South Carolina Free Clinic Assoc | $7,285,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Prisma Health | $5,570,404 | 2 | 2% |
| Prisma Health-Midlands | $5,430,861 | 4 | 0% |
| Nami South Carolina | $3,036,175 | 6 | 47% |
| Health Sciences South Carolina | $2,474,669 | 5 | 13% |
| Mental Health America of Greenville County Inc | $2,201,723 | 5 | 31% |
| Spartanburg Academic Movement | $2,000,000 | 2 | 7% |
| University of South Carolina Educational Foundation | $1,890,000 | 5 | 1% |
| SC Office of Rural Health Inc | $1,703,064 | 4 | 7% |
Show all 72 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 39 recipients with no EIN on record ($35M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 63 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: Central Carolina Community Foundation · The Duke Endowment · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · Spartanburg County Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · Reach Out and Read Inc · Delta Dental of Missouri · Duke Energy Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Molina Healthcare Charitable Foundation · Children's Trust of South Carolina · New Morning
How this is measured
Compare BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina Foundation with peer funders
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About BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina Foundation
- How much does BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina Foundation give?
- BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina Foundation reported 56 grants totaling $21,326,098 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 45 and 58 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (54%), Education (20%), Science & Tech (14%).
- Who are BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: South Carolina Research Foundation ($12M), South Carolina Free Clinic Assoc ($7.3M), Prisma Health ($5.6M).
- Does BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina 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 BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Central Carolina Community Foundation, The Duke Endowment, Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina.
- Where is BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina Foundation based?
- BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina Foundation is based in SC.
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