· Private foundation
Don Waggoner & Zelma Waggoner 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $351k
- $50k–250k19 grants · $1.5M
- $250k+1 grant · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TREVECCA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY | $2,000,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - GREENVILLE COUNTY | $180,333 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COLLIER COUNTY | $175,000 |
| NAPLES FIRST CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE | $100,000 |
| FIRST CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE - GREENVILLE | $100,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY - KROC CENTER | $65,333 |
| HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK | $62,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $60,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $60,000 |
| MEYER CENTER | $60,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF COLLIER COUNTY | $60,000 |
| PROJECT HOST | $60,000 |
| NAZARENE COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES | $60,000 |
| THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $60,000 |
| LOAVES & FISHES | $60,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $647k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 90% of Don Waggoner & Zelma Waggoner Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 10% of the giving stays in FL; by stated purpose, 0%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
60 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $353k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TNTREVECCA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY6× · 2019–2024 · $12M · revenue +23%
- HFHabitat for Humanity of Collier County Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $905k · revenue +173%
- MCMEYER CENTER FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN5× · 2020–2024 · $276k · revenue +67%
Funded once
- BSBON SECOURS ST FRANCIS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $73k
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue 0%- COCHURCH OF THE NAZARENE INCone grant, 2021 · $23k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.
Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.
To strengthen families, organizations, and communities to prevent child abuse and neglect.
To promote and support the educational, medical, scientific, and research purposes of the medical university of south carolina "musc", and university medical associates of the medical university of south carolina "uma", including their…
To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
To improve the quality of life for the diverse communities we serve providing affordable and comprehensive healthcare and education in a welcoming multi-cultural environment.
The healthwise mission is to help people make better health decisions.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Provide philanthropic support to firsthealth of the carolinas, inc., a healthcare system exempt from income tax under irs section 501c(3) and 170(b)(1)(a)(iii).
Tandem health sc is a comprehensive primary healthcare practice dedicated to building a healthy community and improving the health, well-being, and quality of life of each person served.
How this is measured
54 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 54 of the 91 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds TREVECCA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity of Collier County Inc ↗
- Who funds HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds MEYER CENTER FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE LITERACY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE UPSTATE INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTH CAROLINA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOST INC ↗
- Who funds A Child's Haven Inc ↗
- Who funds NAZARENE COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds MILL VILLAGE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds ST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER SURVIVORS PARK ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds TREES GREENVILLE ↗
- Who funds LOAVES AND FISHES ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DIG DEEP ↗
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: Daniel-Mickel Foundation · The Jolley Foundation · United Way of Greenville County Inc · Scsymmes Foundation · Charity Ball Board of Greenville · Scansource Charitable Foundation · Dabo's All in Team Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Sisk Foundation Buncombe St Methodist Church · John I Smith Charities Inc · Prisma Health-Upstate
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Don Waggoner & Zelma Waggoner Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Don Waggoner & Zelma Waggoner Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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