South Carolina · Public charity
Columbus Hope Foundation Inc
To provide funds to organizations for the care or support of mentally handicapped persons.
- $263k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $91k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,167
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,261
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 19
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $227k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Columbus Hope Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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 | 8 | $91k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $121k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $121k | 43% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $104k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $72k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $300k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $376k | 47% |
| FY2017 | 10 | $170k | n/a |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Programs for Exceptional People | $201,347 | 8 | 3% |
| Grand Strand Down Syndrome Society | $45,362 | 5 | 36% |
| Berkeley Citizens Inc | $30,070 | 3 | 0% |
| St Johns Catholic School | $26,895 | 4 | n/a |
| Sos Health Care Inc | $23,808 | 3 | 0% |
| Current Transitions | $17,462 | 3 | n/a |
| Bishop England High School | $10,357 | 2 | n/a |
| Healing Farm Ministries | $5,508 | 1 | 2% |
| The Arc of the Midlands Inc | $5,313 | 1 | 1% |
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($989k), not named here.
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 · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Columbus Hope Foundation Inc
- How much does Columbus Hope Foundation Inc give?
- Columbus Hope Foundation Inc reported 8 itemized grants totaling $90,655, out of $263,371 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 19 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Columbus Hope Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (25%), Human Services (19%), Recreation & Sports (10%).
- Who are Columbus Hope Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Programs for Exceptional People ($201k), Grand Strand Down Syndrome Society ($45k), Berkeley Citizens Inc ($30k).
- Does Columbus Hope Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Columbus Hope Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Columbus Hope Foundation Inc based?
- Columbus Hope Foundation Inc is based in SC.
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