South Carolina · Private foundation
Elizabeth Calvin Bonner Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $26k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 30
- Grants FY2025
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $4,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 32
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $252k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations Elizabeth Calvin Bonner Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 | 30 | $26k | 10% |
| FY2024 | 30 | $27k | 7% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $25k | 6% |
| FY2022 | 32 | $26k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 31 | $28k | 19% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $24k | 19% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $24k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| MacCallum More Museum & Gardens | $30,000 | 7 | 4% |
| Friends of Fort Mitchell and Keysville Depots Inc | $12,500 | 7 | n/a |
| Respite Care of Charleston | $7,600 | 7 | 0% |
| Save Our Heritage Inc | $7,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Strides of Strength Therapeutic Services Inc | $6,100 | 7 | 8% |
| Colleton County Historical and Preservation Society | $5,500 | 6 | 37% |
| Lowcountry Food Bank Inc | $4,200 | 7 | 0% |
| Harvest Free Medical Clinic | $3,600 | 7 | 0% |
| Water Missions International | $3,600 | 5 | 0% |
| Pet Helpers Inc | $3,500 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 29 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($61k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Elizabeth Calvin Bonner Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · The Joanna Foundation · Post and Courier Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc · The Mark Elliott Motley Foundation Inc · Central Carolina Community Foundation · Kuznik Charitable Foundation · John Winthrop Charitable Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Network for Good
How this is measured
Compare Elizabeth Calvin Bonner Foundation with peer funders
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About Elizabeth Calvin Bonner Foundation
- How much does Elizabeth Calvin Bonner Foundation give?
- Elizabeth Calvin Bonner Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $26,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 32 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Elizabeth Calvin Bonner Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (36%), Philanthropy (18%), Health (9%).
- Who are Elizabeth Calvin Bonner Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: MacCallum More Museum & Gardens ($30k), Friends of Fort Mitchell and Keysville Depots Inc ($13k), Respite Care of Charleston ($8k).
- Does Elizabeth Calvin Bonner Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Elizabeth Calvin Bonner Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Elizabeth Calvin Bonner Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc, The Joanna Foundation, Post and Courier Foundation.
- Where is Elizabeth Calvin Bonner Foundation based?
- Elizabeth Calvin Bonner Foundation is based in SC.
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