South Carolina · Private foundation
Dawn Laurel 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.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 42
- Grants FY2024
- 40
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $222,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 41
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Total assets, FY2024
- $28M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Dawn Laurel 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.
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 | 42 | $1.5M | 14% |
| FY2023 | 40 | $1.5M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 41 | $1.6M | 20% |
| FY2021 | 33 | $1.4M | 18% |
| FY2020 | 35 | $998k | 80% |
| FY2017 | 8 | $41k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Greenville University | $762,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Focus on the Family | $591,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Dr James Dobson Family Institute | $500,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Ripple of One | $326,500 | 6 | 11% |
| Greenville Symphony Association | $241,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Piedmont Women's Center | $236,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Clemson Community Church | $207,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Peace Center Foundation | $175,000 | 5 | 0% |
| South Carolina Citizens for Life Inc | $175,000 | 4 | 20% |
| Mary's House Ministry Alliance for Regaining Your Safety | $150,000 | 4 | 69% |
Show all 43 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Dawn Laurel Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 37 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: Duke Energy Foundation · The David E Maguire Foundation Inc · Dabo's All in Team Foundation · South Carolina Christian Foundation · Oconee Federal Charitable Foundation · Bill and Connie Timmons Foundation · Central Carolina Community Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Joe F Hayes Trust · Upcountry Fiber Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund
How this is measured
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About Dawn Laurel Foundation
- How much does Dawn Laurel Foundation give?
- Dawn Laurel Foundation reported 42 grants totaling $1,471,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 41 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Dawn Laurel Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (27%), Religion (22%), Arts & Culture (21%).
- Who are Dawn Laurel Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: North Greenville University ($762k), Focus on the Family ($591k), Dr James Dobson Family Institute ($500k).
- Does Dawn Laurel Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dawn Laurel 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 Dawn Laurel Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Duke Energy Foundation, The David E Maguire Foundation Inc, Dabo's All in Team Foundation.
- Where is Dawn Laurel Foundation based?
- Dawn Laurel Foundation is based in SC.
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