South Carolina · Private foundation
Fred Collins 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.
- $335k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $190,300
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 15
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Fred Collins Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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 | 10 | $335k | 30% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $320k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $312k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $387k | 23% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $319k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $330k | 11% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $327k | 13% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $322k | 42% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greenville Arts Festival | $315,000 | 9 | 8% |
| Cancer Survivors Park Alliance | $217,000 | 8 | 22% |
| Prisma Health | $140,525 | 4 | 0% |
| Ripple of One | $121,000 | 3 | 9% |
| Triune Mercy Center | $75,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Crime Stoppers Greenville Inc | $60,000 | 6 | 23% |
| Miracle Hill Ministries Inc | $45,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Rotary Youth Exchange--District 7750 | $32,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Metropolitan Arts Council | $29,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Mill Village Ministries | $29,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 22 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greenville Arts Festival | $315,000 | 9 | 8% |
| Cancer Survivors Park Alliance | $217,000 | 8 | 22% |
| Prisma Health | $140,525 | 4 | 0% |
| Ripple of One | $121,000 | 3 | 9% |
| Triune Mercy Center | $75,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Crime Stoppers Greenville Inc | $60,000 | 6 | 23% |
| Miracle Hill Ministries Inc | $45,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Rotary Youth Exchange--District 7750 | $32,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Metropolitan Arts Council | $29,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Mill Village Ministries | $29,000 | 3 | 0% |
| South Carolina Children's Theatre | $25,000 | 1 | 2% |
| The Margaret Byrd Rawson Institute Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 34% |
| Dabo's All in Team Foundation | $22,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Greer Community Ministries Inc | $20,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Neighborhood Cancer Connection | $15,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Peace Center Foundation | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Coaches 4 Character Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Chandler School | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Junior Achievement of Greater South Carolina Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Child Evangelism Fellowship Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Broken Wing Farm | $5,000 | 1 | 47% |
| Overbrook Baptist Church | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Fred Collins Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 19 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Daniel-Mickel Foundation · Charles Timmons Foundation · Dabo's All in Team Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · St Francis Hospital Inc · Jean T and Heyward G Pelham Foundation · Scsymmes Foundation · John I Smith Charities Inc · Prisma Health-Upstate · The Jolley Foundation · Canal Charitable Foundation · Wallace Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Fred Collins Foundation
- How much does Fred Collins Foundation give?
- Fred Collins Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $335,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Fred Collins Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (41%), Arts & Culture (19%), Health (14%).
- Who are Fred Collins Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Greenville Arts Festival ($315k), Cancer Survivors Park Alliance ($217k), Prisma Health ($141k).
- Does Fred Collins Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Fred Collins 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 Fred Collins Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Daniel-Mickel Foundation, Charles Timmons Foundation, Dabo's All in Team Foundation.
- Where is Fred Collins Foundation based?
- Fred Collins Foundation is based in SC.
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