Frances P Bunnelle Foundation Coastal Community Foundation of Sc

The vision of the frances p. Bunnelle foundation is a diverse community with abundant opportunity for work, recreation and sustainable living. The foundation builds community by listening to, learning from, and serving local nonprofit organizations.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 62
Itemized grants FY2025: 82
Organizations funded FY2024: 10%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $1.2M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $14,542
Largest grant, FY2025: $198,856
Organizations funded a year: 61 to 82; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 3
Total assets, FY2025: $48M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 10% of the organizations Frances P Bunnelle Foundation Coastal Community Foundation of Sc 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; $94k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentYouth 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
FY2025still arriving	62	$1.2M	6%
FY2024	82	$3.5M	10%
FY2023	77	$1.8M	6%
FY2022	79	$1.9M	14%
FY2021	62	$1.5M	8%
FY2020	77	$1.7M	22%
FY2019	66	$1.5M	18%
FY2018	61	$1.4M	20%

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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 2025.

Education$4.2MHuman Services$2.8MEnvironment$1.7MHealth$1.6MAnimals$1.1MCrime & Legal$899kYouth Development$829kArts & Culture$704kOther$0

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
Saint Frances Animal Center	$868,298	9	13%
Tara Hall School Inc DBA Mingo Creek Academy	$707,650	9	14%
Helping Hands of Georgetown Inc	$609,616	9	14%
Coastal Carolina University	$590,647	4	n/a
Winyah Rivers Foundation Inc	$464,456	9	19%
Teach My People	$440,880	8	14%
The Village Group	$428,381	9	12%
Bible Way Church of Georgetown	$409,667	8	22%
Little Smurfs Inc	$387,102	8	10%
Friendship Place Inc	$367,219	9	20%

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All grantees of Frances P Bunnelle Foundation Coastal Community Foundation of Sc by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Saint Frances Animal Center	$868,298	9	13%
Tara Hall School Inc DBA Mingo Creek Academy	$707,650	9	14%
Helping Hands of Georgetown Inc	$609,616	9	14%
Coastal Carolina University	$590,647	4	n/a
Winyah Rivers Foundation Inc	$464,456	9	19%
Teach My People	$440,880	8	14%
The Village Group	$428,381	9	12%
Bible Way Church of Georgetown	$409,667	8	22%
Little Smurfs Inc	$387,102	8	10%
Friendship Place Inc	$367,219	9	20%
YMCA of Coastal Carolina	$322,813	9	1%
Smith Medical Clinic Inc	$321,733	9	8%
Pawleys Island Civic Club Child Development Center	$300,775	8	14%
Miss Ruby's Kids	$295,867	9	16%
Donorschooseorg	$290,000	9	0%
Habitat for Humanity for Georgetown County Sc Inc	$288,675	9	6%
Carolina Human Reinvestment	$285,646	9	21%
Children's Recovery Center Inc	$269,665	9	5%
Family Justice Center of Georgetown and Horry Counties	$267,250	9	5%
South Carolina Environmental Law Project Inc	$264,690	9	5%
A Father's Place	$261,400	8	3%
Freedom Readers Inc	$253,335	9	27%
Sos Health Care Inc	$249,280	9	2%
Center for Heirs' Property Preservation	$240,050	9	2%
Healthy Learners	$213,562	9	3%
Caring and Sharing Inc	$211,525	9	37%
Friends of Coastal South Carolina	$211,200	8	22%
Horry-Georgetown Technical College	$201,360	4	n/a
Georgetown County Board of Disabilities and Special Needs	$178,030	8	n/a
St Christophers Children Inc	$176,850	8	14%
Birthright of Georgetown Inc	$176,300	9	41%
St Cyprian Catholic Church and Outreach Center	$172,350	8	n/a
Avian Conservation Center	$167,700	8	3%
Marthas House	$165,800	8	14%
Palmetto Project Inc	$158,000	4	4%
Pee Dee Land Trust	$141,750	7	2%
Waccamaw American Leadership Forum	$140,000	6	92%
St Peters Lutheran Church	$135,020	8	n/a
South Carolina Network	$131,500	6	n/a
Lowcountry Food Bank Inc	$130,480	9	0%
Pawleys Island Festival of Music and Art Inc	$128,601	8	4%
The Salvation Army	$127,300	5	n/a
The Rape Crisis Center Serving Horry and Georgetown Counties Inc	$125,780	9	3%
The Franklin G Burroughs Simeon B Chapin Art Museum	$125,000	8	6%
Reach Out and Read Inc	$115,000	8	0%
Pee Dee Community Project	$114,922	7	n/a
Florence County	$110,500	6	n/a
Lions Vision Services a South Carolina Charity	$106,275	6	6%
Open Space Institute Land Trust Inc	$100,625	8	0%
Murrells Inlet 2020 Inc	$92,750	8	12%
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Charleston South Carolina Inc	$92,000	5	1%
Amazing Journey Inc	$90,752	7	87%
Outreach Farm Inc	$80,150	5	22%
American Rivers Inc	$79,372	6	0%
Junior Achievement of Greater South Carolina Inc	$76,500	8	1%
Camp Happy Days Inc	$75,250	6	2%
Georgetown County Diabetes Core Gro	$72,100	7	64%
The Dollywood Foundation	$70,550	2	0%
New Morning	$70,000	5	0%
American Cancer Society Inc	$70,000	5	0%
Black River United Way Inc	$67,450	5	2%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches	$65,500	5	0%
Tri County Regional Development Corporation	$65,305	3	81%
The JOY School PI Inc	$61,250	2	55%
Neighbor to Neighbor of South Carolina Inc	$60,750	4	3%
The Homeless Period Project Inc	$60,000	4	5%
Youth Empowerment Services Inc	$60,000	6	15%
Harbor Historical Association of Georgetown	$59,600	5	2%
South Carolina Governors School for Science & Mathematics Foundation Inc	$57,500	6	1%
Edventure Inc	$56,327	4	0%
Children's Cancer Partners of the Carolinas Inc	$54,609	3	1%
Favor Grand Strand	$54,300	4	7%
Community Christmas Dinner	$53,000	5	23%
Georgetown County Water & Sewer District	$50,000	3	n/a
South Carolina Coastal Conservation League Inc	$48,500	4	0%
5thT Innovation Group	$45,000	3	17%
Optimism Preventive Services Inc	$44,439	5	18%
Multiplying Good Inc	$43,525	3	0%
The Carol S Petrea Youth Golf Foundation Inc	$43,500	5	2%
Twlum Teens Project	$42,825	5	n/a
Impact America	$37,410	4	0%
All 4 Paws	$36,525	4	1%
Amikids Inc	$35,050	2	n/a
The Mitney Project	$34,775	2	23%
Ducks Unlimited Inc	$32,500	3	0%
Charleston Stage Company Inc	$32,500	2	1%
Georgetown Presbyterian Church	$31,500	2	n/a
Pflag Pawleys Island	$31,378	1	n/a
Georgetown County First Steps to School Readiness Partnership	$30,900	3	7%
Chamber Foundation for a Sustainable Georgetown County	$30,000	1	n/a
Georgetown County Boys Mentor Group	$24,000	3	56%
Friends of Huntington Beach State Park	$23,789	3	n/a
Kiwanis Club of Pawleys Island Foundation	$23,250	2	n/a
Girl Scouts of Eastern South Carolina	$20,000	2	0%
The Georgetown School	$19,500	2	4%
Pawley's Island Presbyterian Church	$18,000	1	n/a
The Cultural Council of Georgetown County	$17,885	1	n/a
Grand Strand Technology Council	$15,803	1	36%
Brookgreen Gardens	$15,150	2	0%
Girls on the Run of the Grand Strand	$15,050	2	n/a
Catholic Charities of South Carolina	$15,000	1	n/a
Ministries of Hope	$15,000	1	n/a
Sea Haven Inc	$15,000	1	1%
Sight Savers of America Inc	$14,975	1	0%
Holy Cross Faith Memorial Episcopal Church	$13,901	3	n/a
South Carolina Youth Leadership Conference	$13,500	2	n/a
Georgetown County Chamber of Commerce Inc	$12,800	1	1%
Together Sc	$12,543	2	1%
Friends of the Kaminski House	$12,500	2	2%
Waccamaw High School Chorus Booster Club	$11,500	1	8%
Georgetown County Youth Academy Inc	$11,000	1	n/a
Brenda D Perkins	$11,000	1	n/a
The North Eastern Strategic Allianceinc	$10,000	1	0%
Georgetown Hospital System	$10,000	1	0%
Junior Achievement of Greater South Carolina Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Gullah Geechee Chamber Foundation	$10,000	1	5%
SC Thrive	$10,000	1	0%
South Carolina Aquarium	$10,000	1	0%
SC Alliance of Recovery Community Organizations	$10,000	1	18%
Varna International Music Academy	$10,000	1	1%
Fact Forward	$10,000	1	n/a
CEW Collaborative	$9,000	1	n/a
Riverside Behavior and Learning Collabor	$8,425	1	5%
City of Georgetown Winyah Auditorium Corporation	$8,277	2	9%
Four Giving Hearts	$6,750	1	n/a
Georgetown County School District	$6,500	1	n/a
Low Country Veterans Group	$6,400	1	n/a
Good Friends of Georgetown Inc	$6,000	1	5%
Horry County Literacy Council	$6,000	1	12%
Women of Choice II Inc	$5,500	1	n/a
Belle W Baruch Foundation	$1,000	1	n/a
MK Inc	$54	1	0%

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($377k), not named here.

Frances P Bunnelle Foundation Coastal Community Foundation of Sc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 10 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 98 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 98.

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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.

Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina IncSC98.4× affinity53 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Central Carolina Community Foundation · Waccamaw Community Foundation · The K Foundation · International Paper Company Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · Georgetown Memorial Hospital · United Way of Horry County Inc · The Rebecca C Parsons Foundation · Chapin Foundation of Myrtle Beach Sc

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 Frances P Bunnelle Foundation Coastal Community Foundation of Sc

How much does Frances P Bunnelle Foundation Coastal Community Foundation of Sc give?: Frances P Bunnelle Foundation Coastal Community Foundation of Sc reported 62 itemized grants totaling $1,166,240, out of $1,317,070 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 61 and 82 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Frances P Bunnelle Foundation Coastal Community Foundation of Sc fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (26%), Human Services (17%), Environment (10%).
Who are Frances P Bunnelle Foundation Coastal Community Foundation of Sc's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Saint Frances Animal Center ($868k), Tara Hall School Inc DBA Mingo Creek Academy ($708k), Helping Hands of Georgetown Inc ($610k).
Does Frances P Bunnelle Foundation Coastal Community Foundation of Sc fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Frances P Bunnelle Foundation Coastal Community Foundation of Sc?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc, Central Carolina Community Foundation, Waccamaw Community Foundation.
Where is Frances P Bunnelle Foundation Coastal Community Foundation of Sc based?: Frances P Bunnelle Foundation Coastal Community Foundation of Sc is based in SC.