· Private foundation
Drs Bruce & Lee 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 $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $167k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $883k
- $250k+4 grants · $7.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION | $2,500,000 |
| FLORENCE COUNTY | $2,050,000 |
| CLARENDON COUNTY | $1,750,000 |
| TRINITY COLLEGIATE SCHOOL | $1,000,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $200,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $160,000 |
| FRANCIS MARION UNIVERSITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| FLORENCE-DARLINGTON TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INDIAN WATERS COUNCIL | $100,000 |
| PEE DEE COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE | $78,000 |
| FRED H SEXTON AMERICAN LEGION POST 1 | $70,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $46,904 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $30,000 |
| SOUTH CAROLINA GOVERNOR'S SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE AND MATH FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $130k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
28 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 6 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, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.2M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MUMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +34%
- FTFLORENCE-DARLINGTON TECHNICAL COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $600k · revenue +26% · 35% of their budget
- TMTHE MANNA HOUSE3× · 2021–2024 · $95k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- FMFRANCIS MARION UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $1.5M
- COCITY OF LAKE CITYone grant, 2018 · $310k
- FCFLORENCE COUNTY - MIRACLE LEAGUE OF FLORENCE COUNTYone grant, 2017 · $300k
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.
Serving as a fine arts support organization for the florence county museum, an administrative division and instrumentatality of florence county, south carolina.
To provide the necessary leadership to promote and enhance the business climate and quality of life in florence county and the pee dee region.
Promoting and protecting the free private and competitive enterprise system through research and education.
Sc economics is the only sc non-profit organization exclusively dedicated to improving economic education and financial literacy by preparing teachers and students to be active, successful, and prosperous members of our global economy.
To provide veterinary care, vaccines, medicine, food and a nurturing environment to restore animals from abused and neglected situations to a healthy life.
Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.
Social welfare advocacy organization
South Carolina Educational Communications, Inc. ("SCEC") supports and promotes educational public media activities in South Carolina and across the United States, including the development and creation of original content for broadcast and…
The mission of the Montessori School of Florence is to make available to the children and families of Florence, South Carolina and its surrounding area, both pre-school and elementary education of the highest quality, consistent with the…
Provide scholarship funds for assistance to persons pursuing a higher education degree in the field of agriculture or an agriculture related field.
Inspiring philanthropy and strengthening our region through innovative community initiatives and quality services to donors and constituents.
The south carolina policy council was founded in 1986 as an independent, private, non-partisan research organization to promote the principles of limited government, free enterprise, and individual liberty and responsibility in the state…
How this is measured
27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 56 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 FRANCIS MARION UNIVERSITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds TRINITY COLLEGIATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FLORENCE-DARLINGTON TECHNICAL COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds American Battlefield Trust ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES FLORENCE ↗
- Who funds FULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF MCCORMICK SC INC ↗
- Who funds Fred H Sexton American Legion Post 1 ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE PEE DEE AREA INC ↗
- Who funds THE MANNA HOUSE ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THE FLORENCE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds LAKE CITY CREATIVE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Philanthropy Southeast Inc ↗
- Who funds MERCY MEDICAL FREE CLINICS ↗
- Who funds HELP 4 KIDS ↗
- Who funds FLORENCE LITTLE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds FLORENCE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds PEE DEE HEARING CENTER ↗
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: Central Carolina Community Foundation · Assurant Foundation · Eastern Carolina Community Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Aiken Foundation Inc · Betty S Campbell Charitable Foundation · Hm and Pearl Kyle Foundation Inc · Smurfit Westrock US Foundation F/K/A Westrock Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Drs Bruce & Lee Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Drs Bruce & Lee Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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