South Carolina · Private foundation
Gibbs Charitable 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.
- $785k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2025
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $312,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 29
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $43k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations Gibbs Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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 | $725k | 44% |
| FY2024 | 25 | $1.2M | 24% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $1.4M | 38% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $1.3M | 35% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $994k | 46% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $979k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $1.7M | 29% |
| FY2018 | 29 | $1.6M | 38% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wofford College | $4,800,035 | 9 | 1% |
| Converse University | $1,164,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Sage Valley Golf Foundation | $500,000 | 4 | 89% |
| Svji Sports Foundation | $491,667 | 5 | 49% |
| First Baptist Church of Spartanburg Inc | $408,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Alight Inc | $246,000 | 3 | 13% |
| Middle Tyger Community Center | $204,500 | 9 | 6% |
| Tyger River Chapel Foundation | $175,718 | 4 | 34% |
| Spartanburg Methodist College | $175,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Roebuck Baptist Church | $108,000 | 9 | n/a |
Show all 49 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 53 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Gibbs Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 39 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: Spartanburg County Foundation · J M Smith Foundation · Milliken & Company Charitable Foundation · Harry H Gibson Family Foundation · Mary Black Foundation Inc · South Carolina Christian Foundation · Anna M Black Charitable Foundation · Black & Phillips Foundation Inc · Arkwright Foundation · Wr & Eh Floyd Foundation · United Way of the Piedmont Inc · Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation
How this is measured
About Gibbs Charitable Foundation
- How much does Gibbs Charitable Foundation give?
- Gibbs Charitable Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $785,467 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 29 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Gibbs Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (52%), Philanthropy (22%), Recreation & Sports (9%).
- Who are Gibbs Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Wofford College ($4.8M), Converse University ($1.2M), Sage Valley Golf Foundation ($500k).
- Does Gibbs Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gibbs Charitable 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 Gibbs Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Spartanburg County Foundation, J M Smith Foundation, Milliken & Company Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Gibbs Charitable Foundation based?
- Gibbs Charitable Foundation is based in SC.
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