South Carolina · Public charity
Edens Community Enrichment Foundation
Edens' purpose is to enrich communities by fostering entrepreneurship and economic empowerment and to promote social well-being through creativity, collaboration, inclusion, and education.
- $235k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $201k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $70,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 7
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $302k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Edens Community Enrichment Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 8 | $201k | 38% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $205k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $165k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $113k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $77k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $115k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The James Beard Foundation Inc | $415,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Lee Initiative Inc | $75,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Edward Charles Foundation | $75,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Smithsonian Institution | $60,030 | 2 | 0% |
| Latino Economic Development Corporation | $50,000 | 3 | 0% |
| College to Congress | $50,000 | 1 | 7% |
| American Friends of Un Techo Para Mi Pais Inc | $50,000 | 3 | 1% |
| John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts | $37,506 | 2 | 0% |
| Spoleto Festival USA Inc | $25,017 | 1 | n/a |
| Charleston Wine & Food Festival | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The James Beard Foundation Inc | $415,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Lee Initiative Inc | $75,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Edward Charles Foundation | $75,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Smithsonian Institution | $60,030 | 2 | 0% |
| Latino Economic Development Corporation | $50,000 | 3 | 0% |
| College to Congress | $50,000 | 1 | 7% |
| American Friends of Un Techo Para Mi Pais Inc | $50,000 | 3 | 1% |
| John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts | $37,506 | 2 | 0% |
| Spoleto Festival USA Inc | $25,017 | 1 | n/a |
| Charleston Wine & Food Festival | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Black Girl Ventures Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Wilkinson Center | $8,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($10k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Edens Community Enrichment Foundation supplied at peak.
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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.
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How this is measured
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About Edens Community Enrichment Foundation
- How much does Edens Community Enrichment Foundation give?
- Edens Community Enrichment Foundation reported 8 itemized grants totaling $200,777, out of $235,343 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 7 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Edens Community Enrichment Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (50%), Arts & Culture (14%), Employment (9%).
- Who are Edens Community Enrichment Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The James Beard Foundation Inc ($415k), Lee Initiative Inc ($75k), Edward Charles Foundation ($75k).
- Does Edens Community Enrichment Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Edens Community Enrichment Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tides Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
- Where is Edens Community Enrichment Foundation based?
- Edens Community Enrichment Foundation is based in SC.
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