South Carolina · Private foundation
John M Rivers Jr Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $94k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 33
- Grants FY2025
- 40
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 31 to 40
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations John M Rivers Jr Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% 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 | 32 | $89k | 31% |
| FY2024 | 40 | $193k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 34 | $170k | 12% |
| FY2022 | 36 | $132k | 22% |
| FY2021 | 39 | $211k | 28% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $172k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carolina Art Association Dba Gibbes Museum of Art | $59,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Church of the Good Shepherd Inc | $54,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Spoleto Festival USA Inc | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Trident United Way | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Camden Military Academy | $42,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Charleston Parks Conservancy | $32,132 | 5 | 1% |
| The Preservation Society of Charleston Inc | $27,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Historic Charleston Foundation | $16,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Vision to Learn | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Charleston Library Society | $13,500 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 33 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 39 recipients with no EIN on record ($515k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget John M Rivers Jr Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Post and Courier Foundation · Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc · Guffey Family Foundation · The Joanna Foundation · John Winthrop Charitable Trust · Patrick Family Foundation · Pathfinder Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Richard and Susan Leadem Family · Atlantic Services of Charleston Cha · Roy and Amanda Maybank Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
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About John M Rivers Jr Foundation
- How much does John M Rivers Jr Foundation give?
- John M Rivers Jr Foundation reported 33 grants totaling $94,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 40 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does John M Rivers Jr Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (30%), Arts & Culture (26%), Recreation & Sports (20%).
- Who are John M Rivers Jr Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Carolina Art Association Dba Gibbes Museum of Art ($60k), Church of the Good Shepherd Inc ($54k), Spoleto Festival USA Inc ($50k).
- Does John M Rivers Jr Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does John M Rivers Jr Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as John M Rivers Jr Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc, Post and Courier Foundation, Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc.
- Where is John M Rivers Jr Foundation based?
- John M Rivers Jr Foundation is based in SC.
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