South Carolina · Private foundation
Ellison S and Noel P McKissick 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.
- $864k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $160,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 36
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $15M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Ellison S and Noel P McKissick Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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 | 25 | $864k | 24% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $772k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $762k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 30 | $641k | 23% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $536k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 28 | $1.1M | 25% |
| FY2019 | 32 | $973k | 31% |
| FY2018 | 36 | $1.1M | 42% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clemson University Foundation | $2,056,784 | 6 | 1% |
| Anna Julia Cooper School | $770,000 | 8 | 3% |
| United Way of Pickens County | $550,000 | 6 | 14% |
| Christ Church | $362,008 | 6 | n/a |
| Upstate Warrior Solution Inc | $340,000 | 9 | 2% |
| International African American Museum | $250,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Neighborhood Cancer Connection | $195,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Brookgreen Gardens | $150,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Dabo's All in Team Foundation | $150,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Pickens County Meals on Wheels Inc | $122,721 | 3 | 7% |
Show all 53 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ellison S and Noel P McKissick Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 42 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: St Francis Hospital Inc · Daniel-Mickel Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · AWT Family Foundation · Charles Timmons Foundation · Scsymmes Foundation · Dabo's All in Team Foundation · United Community Bank Foundation · John I Smith Charities Inc · Jean T and Heyward G Pelham Foundation · Bill and Connie Timmons Foundation · United Way of Greenville County Inc
How this is measured
Compare Ellison S and Noel P McKissick Foundation with peer funders
About Ellison S and Noel P McKissick Foundation
- How much does Ellison S and Noel P McKissick Foundation give?
- Ellison S and Noel P McKissick Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $863,675 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 36 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ellison S and Noel P McKissick Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (40%), Human Services (13%), Philanthropy (12%).
- Who are Ellison S and Noel P McKissick Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Clemson University Foundation ($2.1M), Anna Julia Cooper School ($770k), United Way of Pickens County ($550k).
- Does Ellison S and Noel P McKissick Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ellison S and Noel P McKissick 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 Ellison S and Noel P McKissick Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St Francis Hospital Inc, Daniel-Mickel Foundation, Duke Energy Foundation.
- Where is Ellison S and Noel P McKissick Foundation based?
- Ellison S and Noel P McKissick Foundation is based in SC.
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