South Carolina · Public charity
Carolina Childrens Home
The mission of Carolina Children's Home is to meet the under-served mental and physical health needs of children, young adults, and their families
- $333k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $211k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $17,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 16
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.9M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations Carolina Childrens Home funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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 | 14 | $211k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $228k | 6% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $205k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $195k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $150k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $125k | 30% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $125k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $100k | 100% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Epworth Children's Home | $332,430 | 3 | 4% |
| Palmetto Place Children and Youth Services | $178,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Growing Home Southeast Inc | $156,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Mental Illness Recovery Center Inc | $150,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Healthy Learners | $118,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Nurturing Center Inc | $92,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Pathways to Healing | $86,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Youth Corps | $82,000 | 8 | 8% |
| Carolina Therapeutic Riding Inc | $71,000 | 4 | 6% |
| Ezekiel Ministries Inc | $65,000 | 4 | 3% |
Show all 23 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Epworth Children's Home | $332,430 | 3 | 4% |
| Palmetto Place Children and Youth Services | $178,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Growing Home Southeast Inc | $156,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Mental Illness Recovery Center Inc | $150,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Healthy Learners | $118,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Nurturing Center Inc | $92,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Pathways to Healing | $86,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Youth Corps | $82,000 | 8 | 8% |
| Carolina Therapeutic Riding Inc | $71,000 | 4 | 6% |
| Ezekiel Ministries Inc | $65,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Homeless No More Inc | $64,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Circles Lexington County Inc | $57,750 | 5 | 63% |
| Alston Wilkes Society | $35,500 | 4 | 0% |
| University of South Carolina Educational Foundation | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Christian Assistance Bridge | $28,500 | 3 | 5% |
| McGregor Presbyterian Church | $19,000 | 3 | n/a |
| The Camp Cole Foundation Inc | $11,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Special Olympics South Carolina | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Courage Center | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Family Preservation Community Services Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Prisma Health Midlands Foundation F/K/A Palmetto Health Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lighthouse for Life Inc | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mission Lexington | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($10k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Carolina Childrens Home supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 20 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 · Lipscomb Family Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Rogersslater Foundation Inc · United Way of the Midlands · The Parrish Family Foundation · The Nord Family Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · Junior League of Columbia Inc · Dorothy D Smith Charitable Foundation · Vital Care Charitable Foundation Inc · South Carolina Physicians Care Charity Inc
How this is measured
About Carolina Childrens Home
- How much does Carolina Childrens Home give?
- Carolina Childrens Home reported 14 itemized grants totaling $211,000, out of $333,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Carolina Childrens Home fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (52%), Health (31%), Religion (5%).
- Who are Carolina Childrens Home's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Epworth Children's Home ($332k), Palmetto Place Children and Youth Services ($178k), Growing Home Southeast Inc ($156k).
- Does Carolina Childrens Home fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Carolina Childrens Home?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Central Carolina Community Foundation, Lipscomb Family Foundation, Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Carolina Childrens Home based?
- Carolina Childrens Home is based in SC.
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