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Darlington Community Foundation

The mission is to improve the quality of life for the disadvantaged and underserved youth and their families through education and advocacy, as well as to serve, provide and unite communities within and across the county of darlington as well as olanta, south carolina, and across the state of south carolina.

$261k
Granted FY2023
1
Itemized grants FY2023
1
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$15k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 43
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Darlington Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23
Food & NutritionReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20231$15k0%
FY202243$422k95%
FY20212$19kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2023.

Religion$328kEducation$51kCommunity Improvement$30kArts & Culture$26kFood & Nutrition$21k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Macedonia Life-Skills Center$51,1952n/a
Greater Darlington Chamber of Commerce$30,0002n/a
First Church of God$28,0001n/a
New Vision Community Development Corporation$26,0002n/a
Harvest Hope Food Bank$20,9001n/a
Mount Calvary CDC$10,0001n/a
New Life Empowerment Missionary Chu$8,0001n/a
St Matthews United Apostolic Church$8,0001n/a
Cherry Grove Baptist Church$8,0001n/a
Divine Destiny Ministries$8,0001n/a
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All grantees of Darlington Community Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Macedonia Life-Skills Center$51,1952n/a
Greater Darlington Chamber of Commerce$30,0002n/a
First Church of God$28,0001n/a
New Vision Community Development Corporation$26,0002n/a
Harvest Hope Food Bank$20,9001n/a
Mount Calvary CDC$10,0001n/a
New Life Empowerment Missionary Chu$8,0001n/a
St Matthews United Apostolic Church$8,0001n/a
Cherry Grove Baptist Church$8,0001n/a
Divine Destiny Ministries$8,0001n/a
Bethesda Baptist Church$8,0001n/a
Friendship Missionary Baptist Churc$8,0001n/a
Bethany Baptist Church$8,0001n/a
St Mark Pentecostal Holiness Church$8,0001n/a
Christ Cathedral Ministries$8,000112%
Shiloh United Methodist Church$8,0001n/a
Bank of America$8,0001n/a
Salem Missionary Baptist Church$8,0001n/a
Palmetto Missionary Baptist Church$8,0001n/a
One Church Worship Family$8,0001n/a
Anointed Outreach Ministries$8,0001n/a
Center Baptist Church$8,0001n/a
Nazareth Apostolic Church in Jesus Christ Inc$8,0001n/a
New Jerusalem Apostolic Church of Jesus Inc$8,0001n/a
Liberty Christian Assembly Church$8,0001n/a
Purpose to Live Ministries$8,0001n/a
Olive Grove Baptist Church Building Fund$8,0001n/a
New Hopewell Missionary Church$8,0001n/a
Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church$8,0001n/a
Jerusalem Baptist Church$8,0001n/a
Savannah Grove Free Will Church$8,0001n/a
Flat Creek Baptist Church$8,0001n/a
Federated Organizations of Darlington Inc$8,0001n/a
Jordan Chapel Free Will Church$8,0001n/a
Round O Baptist Church$8,0001n/a
Kay Branch Baptist Church$8,0001n/a
Tabernacle Worship Center$8,0001n/a
St James United Methodist Church$6,0001n/a
Restoration & Delverance Outreach Ministry Inc$6,0001n/a
Mended Heart Ministries$6,0001n/a

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($24k), 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Central Carolina Community FoundationSC12.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Darlington Community Foundation

How much does Darlington Community Foundation give?
Darlington Community Foundation reported 1 itemized grants totaling $15,000, out of $261,375 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 43 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Darlington Community Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2023, its largest causes are Religion (72%), Education (11%), Community Improvement (7%).
Who are Darlington Community Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2023: Macedonia Life-Skills Center ($51k), Greater Darlington Chamber of Commerce ($30k), First Church of God ($28k).
Does Darlington Community Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Darlington Community Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Central Carolina Community Foundation.
Where is Darlington Community Foundation based?
Darlington Community Foundation is based in SC.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 43 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $22k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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