South Carolina · Private foundation
Mary Black Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.6M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 43
- Grants FY2024
- 52
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $411,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 35 to 57
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $87M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Mary Black Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $707k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 43 | $2.6M | 21% |
| FY2023 | 52 | $3.0M | 33% |
| FY2022 | 35 | $2.5M | 17% |
| FY2021 | 51 | $2.7M | 24% |
| FY2020 | 52 | $3.1M | 33% |
| FY2019 | 56 | $2.4M | 32% |
| FY2018 | 57 | $2.3M | 49% |
| FY2017 | 46 | $1.8M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Partners for Active Living | $1,821,566 | 6 | 37% |
| Hope Center for Children | $1,144,129 | 7 | 5% |
| Institute for Child Success Inc | $1,105,050 | 8 | 21% |
| City of Spartanburg | $831,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Middle Tyger Community Center | $820,000 | 8 | 20% |
| Birthmatters | $811,676 | 8 | 35% |
| Upstate Family Resource Center | $786,758 | 8 | 8% |
| Hub City Roots | $758,810 | 8 | 28% |
| Spartanburg Academic Movement | $626,938 | 5 | 4% |
| United Way of the Piedmont Inc | $557,968 | 8 | 2% |
Show all 98 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 55 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Mary Black Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 87 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: Spartanburg County Foundation · United Way of the Piedmont Inc · Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation · Arkwright Foundation · Milliken & Company Charitable Foundation · J M Smith Foundation · South Carolina Christian Foundation · Black & Phillips Foundation Inc · Anna M Black Charitable Foundation · Gibbs Charitable Foundation · Harry H Gibson Family Foundation · Balmer Foundation
How this is measured
About Mary Black Foundation Inc
- How much does Mary Black Foundation Inc give?
- Mary Black Foundation Inc reported 43 grants totaling $2,551,816 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 57 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Mary Black Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (18%), Human Services (16%), Education (14%).
- Who are Mary Black Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Partners for Active Living ($1.8M), Hope Center for Children ($1.1M), Institute for Child Success Inc ($1.1M).
- Does Mary Black Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mary Black Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Mary Black Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Spartanburg County Foundation, United Way of the Piedmont Inc, Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation.
- Where is Mary Black Foundation Inc based?
- Mary Black Foundation Inc is based in SC.
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