How much does Eastern Carolina Community Foundation give?

Eastern Carolina Community Foundation reported 35 itemized grants totaling $564,727, out of $769,573 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 44 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Eastern Carolina Community Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (24%), Religion (11%), Human Services (9%).

Who are Eastern Carolina Community Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Camden Military Academy ($500k), City of Florence ($134k), Pee Dee Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Assault ($126k).

Does Eastern Carolina Community Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 48% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Eastern Carolina Community Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Central Carolina Community Foundation, Duke Energy Foundation, Assurant Foundation.

Where is Eastern Carolina Community Foundation based?

Eastern Carolina Community Foundation is based in SC.

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Eastern Carolina Community Foundation

The Eastern Carolina Community Foundation improves the quality of life in this area of South Carolina through inspired philanthropy and innovative community programs.

$770k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 35
Itemized grants FY2024: 44
Organizations funded FY2023: 48%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $565k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $15,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $50,000
Organizations funded a year: 8 to 44; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 2
Total assets, FY2024: $24M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 48% of the organizations Eastern Carolina Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 68% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $903k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	35	$565k	37%
FY2023	44	$1.3M	48%
FY2022	26	$391k	46%
FY2021	21	$361k	57%
FY2020	15	$176k	60%
FY2019	15	$162k	60%
FY2018	14	$140k	71%
FY2017	8	$185k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$779kReligion$377kHuman Services$307kFood & Nutrition$302kHealth$285kArts & Culture$244kHousing & Shelter$210kCrime & Legal$165kOther$0

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
Camden Military Academy	$500,000	1	6%
City of Florence	$133,726	3	n/a
Pee Dee Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Assault	$126,350	4	1%
Florence County Museum Foundation	$116,236	4	79%
Belle W Baruch Foundation	$100,750	3	2%
McLeod Health Foundation	$99,602	4	0%
House of Hope of the Pee Dee Inc	$91,400	4	1%
First Presbyterian Church of Florence	$85,500	3	n/a
Lighthouse Ministries Florence	$84,370	6	4%
Boys and Girls Club of the Pee Dee Area Inc	$75,667	4	1%

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All grantees of Eastern Carolina Community Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Camden Military Academy	$500,000	1	6%
City of Florence	$133,726	3	n/a
Pee Dee Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Assault	$126,350	4	1%
Florence County Museum Foundation	$116,236	4	79%
Belle W Baruch Foundation	$100,750	3	2%
McLeod Health Foundation	$99,602	4	0%
House of Hope of the Pee Dee Inc	$91,400	4	1%
First Presbyterian Church of Florence	$85,500	3	n/a
Lighthouse Ministries Florence	$84,370	6	4%
Boys and Girls Club of the Pee Dee Area Inc	$75,667	4	1%
The Manna House	$71,800	5	25%
Help 4 Kids Florence	$70,760	6	7%
The Naomi Project Inc	$64,811	4	18%
Lutheran Family Services in the Carolinas	$62,500	1	0%
Wofford College	$57,250	5	0%
Trent Hill Center for Children & Families	$55,510	5	3%
Florence-Darlington Technical College Educational Foundation	$50,000	1	9%
St Johns United Methodist Church	$50,000	1	n/a
Harvest Hope Food Bank	$47,100	3	0%
Marion-Dillon County Habitat for Humanity Inc	$43,000	3	16%
Community Kitchen of Bennettsville	$41,696	5	n/a
The Care House of the Pee Dee Inc	$38,500	3	1%
Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Low Country Affiliate	$36,904	3	n/a
Lions Vision Services a South Carolina Charity	$35,300	3	2%
Florence Symphony Orchestra	$34,303	2	14%
Kings Court	$34,250	3	6%
South Carolina Lutheran Retreat Centers	$32,500	1	n/a
Foster Care Clothing Closet Inc	$26,100	3	13%
Amazing Grace Park Clementa Pinckney Memorial Foundation	$25,500	1	2%
Robert S and Vivian I Johnson Found	$25,000	2	8%
Marlboro County Long Term Recovery Group	$24,003	1	n/a
Florence Area Humane Society	$22,400	2	3%
Mercy Medical Free Clinics	$21,900	3	0%
Bread of Life Food Pantry Inc	$21,755	3	16%
Pee Dee Land Trust	$21,000	1	1%
The Anglican Diocese of South Carolina	$20,000	1	n/a
Speciallyabled Miracles Inc	$19,900	3	n/a
Cellis Major Driffin I - Cedric Mos	$18,260	2	4%
Caring and Sharing Inc	$16,000	2	6%
Dillon County Boys and Girls Youth Center	$15,000	1	n/a
St Luke Lutheran Church	$15,000	1	n/a
St Matthews Church	$15,000	1	n/a
Marlborough Historical Society	$15,000	2	36%
Dillon County First Steps to School Readiness Partnership	$15,000	1	3%
Pee Dee Hearing Center	$13,380	1	3%
Rali Dillon County	$12,500	1	n/a
Francis Marion University Education Foundation	$12,360	1	0%
Darlington County Humane Society Inc	$12,000	1	0%
Central United Methodist Church	$11,000	1	n/a
Darlington County Council on Aging	$11,000	1	1%
Children's Cancer Partners of the Carolinas Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Novusway Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Carolinas Cross Cultural Health Services	$10,000	1	n/a
Marlboro School Community Center Inc	$9,950	1	n/a
Pick 42 Foundation	$9,500	1	1%
Potter House Recovery	$9,100	1	1%
Maranatha Missions Inc	$8,950	1	n/a
Waymaker Off-Road Wheelchairs Inc	$8,200	1	6%
Friendship Baptist Church of Gresham	$7,250	1	n/a
Lydias Bowels of Mercy Home Inc	$7,000	1	24%
Youth Mentors Association of the Pee Dee	$7,000	1	4%
Humane Society of Marlboro County Inc	$7,000	1	2%
Amikids Inc	$7,000	1	n/a
Eli Collins Foundation for Premature Babies	$7,000	1	n/a
Free Medical Clinic of Darlington County	$7,000	1	1%
The Lord Cares	$7,000	1	9%
Resurrection Restoration Center for the Homeless	$6,750	1	n/a
Pee Dee Equality	$6,000	1	72%
Dramatic Coffee Beans Inc	$5,800	1	n/a
Miracle League of Florence County	$5,500	1	n/a
Performing Arts and Science Academy Pasa	$5,500	1	1%
Family Promise of Florence	$5,500	1	n/a
Northeastern Rural Health Network Incorporated	$5,500	1	n/a
Helping Florence Flourish	$5,300	1	1%
Senior Citizens Association in Florence County	$5,260	1	0%
Florence County Disabilities & Special Needs Board	$5,250	1	21%
Converse University	$5,000	1	0%
Felician Center Inc	$5,000	1	n/a
Mercy in Me Free Medical Clinic	$5,000	1	5%

Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($447k), not named here.

Eastern Carolina Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 52 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 52.

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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.

Central Carolina Community FoundationSC50.1× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Central Carolina Community Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Assurant Foundation · United Way of Florence County · Betty S Campbell Charitable Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Aiken Foundation Inc · Drs Bruce & Lee Foundation · Hm and Pearl Kyle Foundation Inc · Marion County Healthcare Foundation · The Charles W & Elizabeth H Coker Foundation · The Byerly Foundation

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 Eastern Carolina Community Foundation

How much does Eastern Carolina Community Foundation give?: Eastern Carolina Community Foundation reported 35 itemized grants totaling $564,727, out of $769,573 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 44 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Eastern Carolina Community Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (24%), Religion (11%), Human Services (9%).
Who are Eastern Carolina Community Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Camden Military Academy ($500k), City of Florence ($134k), Pee Dee Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Assault ($126k).
Does Eastern Carolina Community Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 48% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Eastern Carolina Community Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Central Carolina Community Foundation, Duke Energy Foundation, Assurant Foundation.
Where is Eastern Carolina Community Foundation based?: Eastern Carolina Community Foundation is based in SC.