How much does Hollingsworth Funds Inc give?

Hollingsworth Funds Inc reported 56 grants totaling $12,044,703 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 38 and 42 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does Hollingsworth Funds Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (48%), Human Services (15%), Philanthropy (12%).

Who are Hollingsworth Funds Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Furman University ($24M), YMCA of Greenville ($5.8M), United Way of Greenville County Inc ($3.6M).

Does Hollingsworth Funds Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Hollingsworth Funds Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Jolley Foundation, Scsymmes Foundation, Daniel-Mickel Foundation.

Where is Hollingsworth Funds Inc based?

Hollingsworth Funds Inc is based in SC.

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South Carolina · Public charity

Hollingsworth Funds Inc

Hollingsworth funds is a supporting organization to which approximately 45% of the annual distributions are awarded to furman university, approximately 10% to the greenville ymca, and the remainder to public charities that operate or conduct affairs for the benefit of greenville county.

$12M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 56
Grants FY2024: 38
Organizations funded FY2023: 21%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $75,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $5,447,114
Organizations funded a year: 38 to 42; FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 3
Total assets, FY2024: $407M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 21% of the organizations Hollingsworth Funds Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $710k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHousing & ShelterArts & CulturePhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementEmploymentOther

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
FY2024still arriving	39	$11M	13%
FY2023	38	$11M	21%
FY2022	39	$9.9M	3%
FY2021	42	$9.4M	12%
FY2020	40	$9.1M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$26MHuman Services$7.9MPhilanthropy$6.5MHousing & Shelter$4.8MCommunity Improvement$2.1MArts & Culture$1.8MReligion$1.1MHealth$820kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Furman University	$24,227,886	5	2%
YMCA of Greenville	$5,777,583	5	6%
United Way of Greenville County Inc	$3,649,475	5	8%
Greenville Housing Fund	$1,623,000	4	14%
Communityworks Inc	$1,450,000	5	9%
Greenville Chamber Foundation Inc	$657,500	5	13%
South Carolina Children's Theatre	$570,000	5	15%
Alliance for the Collaboration With the Hispanic Community	$540,000	5	15%
Livewell Greenville	$502,500	4	38%
Institute for Child Success Inc	$500,000	5	7%

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All grantees of Hollingsworth Funds Inc by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Furman University	$24,227,886	5	2%
YMCA of Greenville	$5,777,583	5	6%
United Way of Greenville County Inc	$3,649,475	5	8%
Greenville Housing Fund	$1,623,000	4	14%
Communityworks Inc	$1,450,000	5	9%
Greenville Chamber Foundation Inc	$657,500	5	13%
South Carolina Children's Theatre	$570,000	5	15%
Alliance for the Collaboration With the Hispanic Community	$540,000	5	15%
Livewell Greenville	$502,500	4	38%
Institute for Child Success Inc	$500,000	5	7%
United Ministries	$500,000	5	3%
Metropolitan Arts Council	$500,000	3	9%
Public Education Partners Greenville County	$500,000	5	13%
Mill Village Ministries	$450,000	5	5%
Urban League of the Upstate	$445,000	5	8%
Greenville Tech Foundation Inc	$425,000	5	2%
The Barbara Stone Foundation	$375,000	5	45%
Soteria Community Development Corporation	$375,000	5	10%
Triune Mercy Center	$371,000	5	6%
Slater Marietta Health and Human Services Inc	$337,500	5	20%
Center for Community Services	$337,500	5	18%
Greenville Transit Authority	$325,000	1	n/a
Ten at the Top	$300,000	4	39%
South Carolina Legal Services	$300,000	5	1%
Children's Museum of the Upstate Inc	$285,000	3	4%
Womens Rights and Empowerment Network	$275,000	5	8%
County Of Greenville	$275,000	5	n/a
Pendleton Place Inc	$260,000	3	4%
Rebuild Upstate	$258,000	5	5%
Root & Rebound	$250,000	5	1%
Communities in Schools of South Carolina	$250,000	5	4%
Greenville Housing Authority	$250,000	1	n/a
Goodwill Industries of Upstatemidlands South Carolina Inc	$250,000	5	0%
Upcountry History Museum	$240,000	3	10%
Prisma Health-Upstate	$225,000	3	0%
Greenville Literacy Association	$225,000	5	10%
Greenville Free Medical Clinic Inc	$220,000	3	1%
Julie Valentine Center	$219,000	2	9%
Greater Good Greenville	$200,000	1	41%
Abundance Capital	$200,000	3	18%
Mountain View Baptist Church	$200,000	2	n/a
United Housing Connections	$150,000	1	1%
Habitat for Humanity of Greenville County Sc Inc	$130,000	2	2%
Safe Harbor Inc	$129,000	3	1%
The Warehouse Theatre	$100,000	2	8%
Pleasant Valley Connection	$100,000	2	9%
College Unbound	$100,000	2	1%
Upstate Circle of Friends	$100,000	2	4%
Mdc Inc	$100,000	1	1%
Compass of Carolina Inc	$95,000	2	8%
Greenville Center for Creative Arts	$80,000	2	8%
Senior Action Inc	$75,000	1	3%
Guardians of Greenville County	$50,000	1	27%
Genesis Homes Inc	$50,000	1	6%
Upstate South Carolina Alliance Educational Foundation Inc	$50,000	2	100%
Hf Housing Inc	$50,000	1	n/a
Ten at the Top	$31,500	1	n/a
Sc Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities Foundation Inc	$15,000	1	n/a
Center for Community Self-Help	$10,000	1	0%

Hollingsworth Funds Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 52 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 52.

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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.

The Jolley FoundationNV90.7× affinity41 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Jolley Foundation · Scsymmes Foundation · Daniel-Mickel Foundation · United Way of Greenville County Inc · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · John I Smith Charities Inc · Scansource Charitable Foundation · United Community Bank Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · The Maddrey Foundation · St Francis Hospital Inc · Charity Ball Board of Greenville

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 Hollingsworth Funds Inc

How much does Hollingsworth Funds Inc give?: Hollingsworth Funds Inc reported 56 grants totaling $12,044,703 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 38 and 42 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Hollingsworth Funds Inc fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (48%), Human Services (15%), Philanthropy (12%).
Who are Hollingsworth Funds Inc's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Furman University ($24M), YMCA of Greenville ($5.8M), United Way of Greenville County Inc ($3.6M).
Does Hollingsworth Funds Inc fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Hollingsworth Funds Inc?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Jolley Foundation, Scsymmes Foundation, Daniel-Mickel Foundation.
Where is Hollingsworth Funds Inc based?: Hollingsworth Funds Inc is based in SC.