South Carolina · Private foundation
Health Foundation of Kershaw County
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $235k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $75,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 10
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.9M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Health Foundation of Kershaw County funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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 | $235k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $240k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $153k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $175k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $160k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $105k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $182k | 44% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $132k | 50% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Way of Kershaw County | $244,800 | 6 | 2% |
| Christian Community Ministries of Kershaw County | $121,615 | 7 | 20% |
| The Family Resource Center | $117,040 | 3 | 6% |
| City of Camden | $66,993 | 5 | n/a |
| Kershaw County School District | $40,722 | 4 | n/a |
| Kershaw County | $21,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Helping Hearts Senior Services | $18,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Kershaw County Commission on Alcoho Drug Abuse | $16,560 | 1 | 1% |
| SC Thrive | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Mt Moriah Outreach Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 34% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Way of Kershaw County | $244,800 | 6 | 2% |
| Christian Community Ministries of Kershaw County | $121,615 | 7 | 20% |
| The Family Resource Center | $117,040 | 3 | 6% |
| City of Camden | $66,993 | 5 | n/a |
| Kershaw County School District | $40,722 | 4 | n/a |
| Kershaw County | $21,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Helping Hearts Senior Services | $18,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Kershaw County Commission on Alcoho Drug Abuse | $16,560 | 1 | 1% |
| SC Thrive | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Mt Moriah Outreach Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 34% |
| Doby's Mill Elementary School PTA | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Knights Hill Historic Preservation Board Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Camden Kershaw County Rescue Squad | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($814k), not named here.
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: Kershawhealth · John T Stevens Foundation · Central Carolina Community Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Health Foundation of Kershaw County with peer funders
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About Health Foundation of Kershaw County
- How much does Health Foundation of Kershaw County give?
- Health Foundation of Kershaw County reported 10 grants totaling $234,775 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Health Foundation of Kershaw County fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (23%), Food & Nutrition (22%), Philanthropy (16%).
- Who are Health Foundation of Kershaw County's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: United Way of Kershaw County ($245k), Christian Community Ministries of Kershaw County ($122k), The Family Resource Center ($117k).
- Does Health Foundation of Kershaw County fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Health Foundation of Kershaw County accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Health Foundation of Kershaw County?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Kershawhealth, John T Stevens Foundation, Central Carolina Community Foundation.
- Where is Health Foundation of Kershaw County based?
- Health Foundation of Kershaw County is based in SC.
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