South Carolina · Private foundation
Lb Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $3.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 54%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $86,025
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,216,850
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 13
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $65M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 54% of the organizations Lb Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $700k 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 | 16 | $3.9M | 25% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $2.5M | 54% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $1.1M | 60% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $217k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $55k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $79k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Soteria Community Development Corporation | $2,167,849 | 5 | 35% |
| The Family Effect | $1,425,235 | 4 | 13% |
| Mill Village Ministries | $1,359,670 | 4 | 16% |
| Safe Harbor Inc | $597,255 | 5 | 4% |
| Time Served | $417,541 | 2 | 57% |
| Poe Mill Achievement Center | $353,981 | 3 | 23% |
| Best Skills Academy | $340,924 | 2 | 71% |
| Bel-Aire Community Partners | $257,438 | 2 | 28% |
| GirlUp GVL | $173,632 | 2 | 43% |
| The Spartanburg Soup Kitchen Inc | $150,732 | 5 | 6% |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Soteria Community Development Corporation | $2,167,849 | 5 | 35% |
| The Family Effect | $1,425,235 | 4 | 13% |
| Mill Village Ministries | $1,359,670 | 4 | 16% |
| Safe Harbor Inc | $597,255 | 5 | 4% |
| Time Served | $417,541 | 2 | 57% |
| Poe Mill Achievement Center | $353,981 | 3 | 23% |
| Best Skills Academy | $340,924 | 2 | 71% |
| Bel-Aire Community Partners | $257,438 | 2 | 28% |
| GirlUp GVL | $173,632 | 2 | 43% |
| The Spartanburg Soup Kitchen Inc | $150,732 | 5 | 6% |
| Fostering Great Ideas | $123,400 | 2 | 3% |
| Bethlehem Center | $101,265 | 1 | 9% |
| Jasmine Road Inc | $78,291 | 1 | 6% |
| Ripple of One | $68,734 | 1 | 6% |
| Greenville Free Medical Clinic Inc | $54,921 | 2 | 0% |
| Beauty Marks for Girls | $47,443 | 1 | 39% |
| Hope Center for Children | $42,625 | 1 | 1% |
| Sunday Dinner With a Twist LLC | $39,398 | 2 | 20% |
| College Unbound | $37,771 | 1 | 0% |
| Unity Health on Main | $32,519 | 1 | 3% |
| Youthbase Inc | $4,417 | 3 | 2% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($44k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Lb Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 21 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: The Jolley Foundation · Sisk Foundation Buncombe St Methodist Church · United Way of Greenville County Inc · Dabo's All in Team Foundation · South Carolina Christian Foundation · Scsymmes Foundation · Gerrish H Milliken Foundation 009209-009 · Scansource Charitable Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · Duke Energy Foundation · Charity Ball Board of Greenville · Crane Fund for Widows and Children
How this is measured
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About Lb Foundation
- How much does Lb Foundation give?
- Lb Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $3,912,147 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 13 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Lb Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (29%), Housing & Shelter (28%), Social Science (18%).
- Who are Lb Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Soteria Community Development Corporation ($2.2M), The Family Effect ($1.4M), Mill Village Ministries ($1.4M).
- Does Lb Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 54% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lb Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Lb Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Jolley Foundation, Sisk Foundation Buncombe St Methodist Church, United Way of Greenville County Inc.
- Where is Lb Foundation based?
- Lb Foundation is based in SC.
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