South Carolina · Private foundation
Carl W Meares Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $57k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 33
- Grants FY2025
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $6,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 32
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $783k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Carl W Meares Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 | 33 | $57k | 12% |
| FY2024 | 31 | $54k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $53k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 32 | $55k | 28% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $46k | 12% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $43k | 31% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $33k | 36% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $23k | 13% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woodberry Forest School | $45,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Buist Academy Foundation | $28,000 | 9 | 12% |
| First Tee Greater Charleston | $28,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Southeastern Community College Foundation | $17,500 | 9 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $13,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Spring Island Trust | $13,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Cape Fear Council Boy Scouts of America | $9,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Homes of Nc Inc | $8,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Shriners Hospitals for Children | $8,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Good Friends of the Lowcountry | $7,000 | 3 | 2% |
Show all 40 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($125k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Carl W Meares Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 35 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: Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · North Carolina Community Foundation · Mike & Carolyn Jones Foundation · Pathfinder Foundation Inc · Laurel Charitable Trust · Dan and Merrie Boone Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
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About Carl W Meares Foundation Inc
- How much does Carl W Meares Foundation Inc give?
- Carl W Meares Foundation Inc reported 33 grants totaling $57,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Carl W Meares Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (39%), Health (17%), Religion (15%).
- Who are Carl W Meares Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Woodberry Forest School ($45k), Buist Academy Foundation ($28k), First Tee Greater Charleston ($28k).
- Does Carl W Meares Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Carl W Meares Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Carl W Meares Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc, Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation, Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc.
- Where is Carl W Meares Foundation Inc based?
- Carl W Meares Foundation Inc is based in SC.
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