South Carolina · Private foundation
Darla Moore and Richard Rainwater Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $35M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2024
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $35,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $19,215,182
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 33
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $658M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 27% of the organizations Darla Moore and Richard Rainwater Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $360k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 26 | $35M | 19% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $20M | 27% |
| FY2022 | 33 | $25M | 39% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $21M | 100% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $6k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greater Lake City Alliance | $45,443,320 | 4 | 78% |
| Moore Farms Botanical Garden Foundation | $33,590,182 | 4 | 99% |
| Lake City Creative Alliance | $3,811,393 | 4 | 67% |
| Beemok Family Foundation | $3,243,759 | 3 | 26% |
| Shed NYC Inc | $3,100,000 | 3 | 3% |
| The Carolina Academy | $1,400,000 | 2 | 39% |
| Open Space Institute Land Trust Inc | $1,350,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Francis Marion University Development Foundation | $1,183,100 | 2 | 14% |
| International African American Museum | $850,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Santa Fe Institute | $500,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 37 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Darla Moore and Richard Rainwater Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 31 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: Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc · Central Carolina Community Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
Compare Darla Moore and Richard Rainwater Foundation with peer funders
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About Darla Moore and Richard Rainwater Foundation
- How much does Darla Moore and Richard Rainwater Foundation give?
- Darla Moore and Richard Rainwater Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $35,338,013 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 33 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Darla Moore and Richard Rainwater Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Community Improvement (45%), Environment (35%), Arts & Culture (10%).
- Who are Darla Moore and Richard Rainwater Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Greater Lake City Alliance ($45M), Moore Farms Botanical Garden Foundation ($34M), Lake City Creative Alliance ($3.8M).
- Does Darla Moore and Richard Rainwater Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Darla Moore and Richard Rainwater Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Darla Moore and Richard Rainwater Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc, Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Darla Moore and Richard Rainwater Foundation based?
- Darla Moore and Richard Rainwater Foundation is based in SC.
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