South Carolina · Public charity
Children's Trust of South Carolina
To strengthen families, organizations, and communities to prevent child abuse and neglect.
- $12M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 59
- Grants FY2025
- 52
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $99,444
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,401,043
- Organizations funded a year
- 41 to 52
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $14M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Children's Trust of South Carolina funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $278k 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 | 57 | $12M | 23% |
| FY2024 | 52 | $11M | 21% |
| FY2023 | 48 | $11M | 17% |
| FY2022 | 41 | $9.9M | 12% |
| FY2021 | 42 | $9.8M | 5% |
| FY2020 | 46 | $9.0M | 2% |
| FY2019 | 49 | $9.4M | 20% |
| FY2018 | 43 | $8.7M | 7% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carolina Health Centers Inc | $11,066,415 | 9 | 5% |
| Phi Chi Medical Fraternity Inc | $6,930,728 | 9 | n/a |
| Prevent Child Abuse Pickens County Inc | $5,001,214 | 9 | 69% |
| Spartanburg County First Steps | $4,046,182 | 9 | n/a |
| McLeod Health Foundation | $3,970,096 | 7 | 5% |
| Greenville Health Authority | $3,851,755 | 7 | n/a |
| Lee County First Steps to School Readiness Partnership | $3,726,434 | 9 | 54% |
| SC Office of Rural Health Inc | $3,709,656 | 9 | 7% |
| Growing Home Southeast Inc | $3,329,496 | 9 | 10% |
| Eau Claire Cooperative Health Center Inc | $3,144,239 | 9 | 1% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Children's Trust of South Carolina supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 71 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 · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · The Leon Levine Foundation · Reach Out and Read Inc · United Way of Greenville County Inc · BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina Foundation · Fact Forward · Duke Energy Foundation · Spartanburg County Foundation · Scansource Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
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About Children's Trust of South Carolina
- How much does Children's Trust of South Carolina give?
- Children's Trust of South Carolina reported 59 grants totaling $12,403,673 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 41 and 52 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Children's Trust of South Carolina fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (48%), Human Services (30%), Education (11%).
- Who are Children's Trust of South Carolina's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Carolina Health Centers Inc ($11M), Phi Chi Medical Fraternity Inc ($6.9M), Prevent Child Abuse Pickens County Inc ($5.0M).
- Does Children's Trust of South Carolina fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Children's Trust of South Carolina?
- 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 Children's Trust of South Carolina based?
- Children's Trust of South Carolina is based in SC.
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