South Carolina · Private foundation
Harper Family 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.
- $138k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 2
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2025
- $68,751
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $68,751
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 24
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Harper Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 97% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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 | 2 | $138k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $1.2M | 33% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $45k | 8% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $55k | 28% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $47k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $62k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $60k | 16% |
| FY2017 | 22 | $61k | n/a |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lane Legare Harper Foundation | $1,187,204 | 2 | 94% |
| Cancer Survivors Park Alliance | $25,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Greenville Tech Foundation Inc | $21,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Greenville Arts Festival | $17,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Safe Harbor Inc | $12,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Palmetto Hills Presbyterian Church | $12,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Past Foundation | $11,000 | 1 | 1% |
| C Rivers Stone Foundation | $11,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Greenville Symphony Association | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Meyer Center for Special Children | $9,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 38 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($212k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Harper Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 33 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: Daniel-Mickel Foundation · Hayne Hipp Foundation · Charles Timmons Foundation · John I Smith Charities Inc · Yeargin Foundation · Charity Ball Board of Greenville · Scsymmes Foundation · Dabo's All in Team Foundation · Lane Legare Harper Foundation · Jean T and Heyward G Pelham Foundation · The Maddrey Foundation · Scansource Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
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About Harper Family Foundation
- How much does Harper Family Foundation give?
- Harper Family Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $137,502 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Harper Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (87%), Arts & Culture (3%), Education (3%).
- Who are Harper Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lane Legare Harper Foundation ($1.2M), Cancer Survivors Park Alliance ($25k), Greenville Tech Foundation Inc ($21k).
- Does Harper Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Harper Family 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 Harper Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Daniel-Mickel Foundation, Hayne Hipp Foundation, Charles Timmons Foundation.
- Where is Harper Family Foundation based?
- Harper Family Foundation is based in SC.
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