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Palmetto Farms Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$232k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2024
11
Organizations funded FY2023
9%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$133,342
Organizations funded a year
11 to 18
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
7
Total assets, FY2024
$2.7M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 9% of the organizations Palmetto Farms Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time
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
FY2024still arriving11$232k0%
FY202311$399k9%
FY202217$145k12%
FY202118$168k11%
FY202016$169kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$716kEducation$204kHousing & Shelter$76kInternational$75kPhilanthropy$15kRecreation & Sports$13kHuman Services$4kOther$0

Top grantees

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

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
First Presbyterian Church Foundation$535,342527%
Montreat College$180,00050%
Miracle Hill Ministries Inc$75,00050%
Ligonier Ministries Inc$65,0005n/a
MIO Frontiers$50,00050%
Send International Inc$40,0005n/a
Samaritan's Purse$35,00050%
Outreach Foundation of the Presbyterian Church Inc$20,00040%
Kb Charitable Trust$15,00034%
First Presbyterian Academy Inc$13,50030%
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All grantees of Palmetto Farms Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
First Presbyterian Church Foundation$535,342527%
Montreat College$180,00050%
Miracle Hill Ministries Inc$75,00050%
Ligonier Ministries Inc$65,0005n/a
MIO Frontiers$50,00050%
Send International Inc$40,0005n/a
Samaritan's Purse$35,00050%
Outreach Foundation of the Presbyterian Church Inc$20,00040%
Kb Charitable Trust$15,00034%
First Presbyterian Academy Inc$13,50030%
Glory Ridge Inc$13,00033%
World Witness the Board of Foreign$10,5005n/a
Neighborhood Focus$10,00021%
Child Evangelism Fellowship of Sc Inc$6,00030%
Voice of the Martyrs Inc$5,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($39k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Palmetto Farms Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 11 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFirst Presbyterian Church Foundation: $535,342 over 5y, 27% of budgetMontreat College: $180,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMiracle Hill Ministries Inc: $75,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMIO Frontiers: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $35,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOutreach Foundation of the Presbyterian Church Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKb Charitable Trust: $15,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetFirst Presbyterian Academy Inc: $13,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGlory Ridge Inc: $13,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetNeighborhood Focus: $10,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetChild Evangelism Fellowship of Sc Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% 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 11.

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.

South Carolina Christian FoundationSC13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: South Carolina Christian Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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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About Palmetto Farms Foundation

How much does Palmetto Farms Foundation give?
Palmetto Farms Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $232,342 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 18 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Palmetto Farms Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (64%), Education (18%), Housing & Shelter (7%).
Who are Palmetto Farms Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: First Presbyterian Church Foundation ($535k), Montreat College ($180k), Miracle Hill Ministries Inc ($75k).
Does Palmetto Farms Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Palmetto Farms Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Palmetto Farms Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include South Carolina Christian Foundation, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, American Endowment Foundation.
Where is Palmetto Farms Foundation based?
Palmetto Farms 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 21 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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