South Carolina · Private foundation
Ekedahl Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $365k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $325,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 12
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $13k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Ekedahl Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 5 | $365k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $70k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $78k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $73k | 11% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $178k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $222k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory Matters | $534,000 | 6 | 8% |
| The Volunteers in Medicine Clinic | $95,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of the Lowcountry Inc | $47,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Hilton Head Island Deep Well Project Inc | $45,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Bucknell University | $40,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Heritage Classic Foundation | $38,402 | 3 | 0% |
| The Children's Center Inc | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Buildon Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Second Helpings | $15,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Hopeful Horizons | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($116k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ekedahl 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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Lowcountry · The Berkeley Hall Charitable Foundation · Wexford Foundation · The Bargain Box · Heritage Classic Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Breedlove Foundation Im 020120186528 · David W Ellis Family Foundation · Palmetto Electric Trust · The Church Mouse Thrift Shop Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation
How this is measured
About Ekedahl Foundation
- How much does Ekedahl Foundation give?
- Ekedahl Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $365,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 12 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Ekedahl Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (64%), Religion (8%), Education (6%).
- Who are Ekedahl Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Memory Matters ($534k), The Volunteers in Medicine Clinic ($95k), Boys & Girls Clubs of the Lowcountry Inc ($47k).
- Does Ekedahl Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ekedahl 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 Ekedahl Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of the Lowcountry, The Berkeley Hall Charitable Foundation, Wexford Foundation.
- Where is Ekedahl Foundation based?
- Ekedahl Foundation is based in SC.
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