· Private foundation
Carl W Meares Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAIR BLUFF BAPTIST CHURCH | $6,000 |
| WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| THE FIRST TEE OF GREATER CHARLESTON | $4,000 |
| BUIST ACADEMY FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| PORTER-GAUD SCHOOL | $3,500 |
| VIRGINIA EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| UNC PEMBROKE FOUNDATION INC | $2,500 |
| SOUTHEASTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FDN | $2,500 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $2,500 |
| DUKE CANCER INSTITUTE | $2,000 |
| UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL - DIVISION OF ATHLETICS | $2,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| CCC EMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE FUND | $1,500 |
| SPRING ISLAND EMPLOYEE FUND | $1,000 |
| CLEVELAND CLINIC PHILANTHROPY INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.
43 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WFWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +47%
- BABuist Academy Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $28k · revenue +10%
- FTFIRST TEE GREATER CHARLESTON7× · 2019–2025 · $28k · revenue +398%
Funded once
- SWSTILL WORTHY INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +54%
- TFTIGER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue -29%
- SISPRING ISLAND CLUBgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +67%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of the charleston school of law foundation inc is to encourage and assist the study, teaching, promoting and research of the rule of law in charleston, south carolina and all related subject areas as determined by the board of…
To make strategic, catalytic investments and provide expertise and technical assistance to educational organizations across south carolina.
To operate a health care system providing medical excellence to the eastern region of south carolina and the extreme southeastern region of north carolina.
Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.
By focusing on the mission to enhance the development and growth of south carolina's life sciences industry ecosystem and by strengthening the state's workforce, education, innovation, and research infracstructure, the foundation works to…
Mcleod physician associates ii operates as a part of the mcleod health system. the mission of mcleod health is to improve the overall health and well being of people living within south carolina and eastern north carolina by providing…
Healing all people with compassion, faith, and excellence.
The schs mission is to expand, preserve, and make accessible our invaluable collection, and to encourage interest and pride in the rich history of our state.
How this is measured
36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 36 of the 56 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Buist Academy Foundation ↗
- Who funds FIRST TEE GREATER CHARLESTON ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEASTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds SPRING ISLAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds CAPE FEAR COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS HOMES OF NC INC ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds GOOD FRIENDS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MARS HILL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PORT ROYAL SOUND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds South Carolina Aquarium ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAROLINAS GOLF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Blake King Corp ↗
- Who funds Children's Museum of the Lowcountry ↗
- Who funds STILL WORTHY INC ↗
- Who funds YEAMANS HALL CLUB FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Charleston Parks Conservancy ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Carl W Meares Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carl W Meares Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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