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Marion County Healthcare Foundation

Our mission is to develop partnerships and fund innovative projects that improve the health and prosperity for residents of marion county. We do this by focusing our funding in the following determinants of a healthy community: access to quality healthcare, improvements in public education and workforce and economic development.

$1.5M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
13
Itemized grants FY2025
12
Organizations funded FY2024
33%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$1.4M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$47,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$336,831
Organizations funded a year
8 to 13
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$89M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Marion County Healthcare Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 53% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $574k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving11$1.4M9%
FY202412$1.1M33%
FY20239$425k11%
FY202213$837k38%
FY20219$853k67%
FY202010$1.4M30%
FY20198$550k50%
FY20189$1.1M33%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$3.5MEducation$1.2MRecreation & Sports$1.0MPublic Safety & Disaster$724kHuman Services$378kCommunity Improvement$251kHousing & Shelter$206kEnvironment$183kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Marion County$1,295,7946n/a
Helping Hands Free Medical Clinic$1,265,800472%
Medical University Hospital Authority$790,2962n/a
Marion County School District$721,8466n/a
Marion County Library$500,0001n/a
Medical University of South Carolina Foundation$500,00020%
Trinity Wellness Foundation$400,0002100%
Town of Nichols$380,0002n/a
Marion County$365,9861n/a
Pee Dee Regional Transportation Authority$322,4118n/a
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All grantees of Marion County Healthcare Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Marion County$1,295,7946n/a
Helping Hands Free Medical Clinic$1,265,800472%
Medical University Hospital Authority$790,2962n/a
Marion County School District$721,8466n/a
Marion County Library$500,0001n/a
Medical University of South Carolina Foundation$500,00020%
Trinity Wellness Foundation$400,0002100%
Town of Nichols$380,0002n/a
Marion County$365,9861n/a
Pee Dee Regional Transportation Authority$322,4118n/a
City of Marion$265,8004n/a
Benjamin Mack Memorial Post 10319$207,0001n/a
Amazing Grace Park Clementa Pinckney Memorial Foundation$168,000338%
Historic Marion Revitalization Association Inc$125,621729%
McLeod Health Foundation$116,29930%
Pee Dee Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Assault$112,50021%
Healthy Learners$100,00042%
Marion County Long Term Recovery$100,000222%
Marion County Council on Aging$92,725128%
Marion-Dillon County Habitat for Humanity Inc$88,876313%
American Red Cross$85,0006n/a
Pace Center for Girlsinc$80,00010%
A Father's Place$74,80017%
Little Pee Dee Baptist Association$70,660154%
Harvest Hope Food Bank$50,00020%
The St James Learning Center$46,0001n/a
Marion Rescue Squad Inc$41,486126%
City of Mullins$39,9592n/a
Jonathan C Smith Foundation for Bipolar$25,00016%
Performing Arts and Science Academy Pasa$24,5181n/a
Francis Marion University Education Foundation$23,50030%
Troy-Johnson Learning Korner Inc$20,00012%
Marion-Dillon Disabilities and Special Need Board$20,00010%
Kings Court$17,29015%
Children Outreach Program for Education$15,0002n/a
Marion High School$6,4701n/a

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($903k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Marion County Healthcare Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 21 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHelping Hands Free Medical Clinic: $1,265,800 over 4y, 72% of budgetMedical University of South Carolina Foundation: $500,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTrinity Wellness Foundation: $400,000 over 2y, 100% of budgetAmazing Grace Park Clementa Pinckney Memorial Foundation: $168,000 over 3y, 38% of budgetHistoric Marion Revitalization Association Inc: $125,621 over 7y, 29% of budgetMcLeod Health Foundation: $116,299 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPee Dee Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Assault: $112,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetHealthy Learners: $100,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetMarion County Long Term Recovery: $100,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetMarion County Council on Aging: $92,725 over 1y, 28% of budgetMarion-Dillon County Habitat for Humanity Inc: $88,876 over 3y, 13% of budgetPace Center for Girlsinc: $80,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetA Father's Place: $74,800 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetLittle Pee Dee Baptist Association: $70,660 over 1y, 54% of budgetHarvest Hope Food Bank: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMarion Rescue Squad Inc: $41,486 over 1y, 26% of budgetJonathan C Smith Foundation for Bipolar: $25,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetFrancis Marion University Education Foundation: $23,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTroy-Johnson Learning Korner Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetMarion-Dillon Disabilities and Special Need Board: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKings Court: $17,290 over 1y, 5.2% of budget

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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 21.

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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.

Central Carolina Comm…Eastern Carolina Comm…Duke Energy FoundationFoundation for the Ca…Firehouse Subs Public…Share Our StrengthAmerican Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Central Carolina Community FoundationSC22.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Central Carolina Community Foundation · Eastern Carolina Community Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation Inc · Share Our Strength · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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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How do I get to Marion County Healthcare Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Marion County Healthcare Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Marion County Healthcare Foundation

How much does Marion County Healthcare Foundation give?
Marion County Healthcare Foundation reported 13 itemized grants totaling $1,408,597, out of $1,467,692 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Marion County Healthcare Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (43%), Education (14%), Recreation & Sports (13%).
Who are Marion County Healthcare Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Marion County ($1.3M), Helping Hands Free Medical Clinic ($1.3M), Medical University Hospital Authority ($790k).
Does Marion County Healthcare Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Marion County Healthcare Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Central Carolina Community Foundation, Eastern Carolina Community Foundation, Duke Energy Foundation.
Where is Marion County Healthcare Foundation based?
Marion County Healthcare Foundation is based in SC.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 38 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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