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Pope-Brown Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$89k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2025
10
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$6,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 11
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$1.5M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Pope-Brown Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
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
FY2025still arriving10$89k0%
FY202410$84k0%
FY202310$89k0%
FY202210$99k0%
FY202110$88k0%
FY202010$88k0%
FY201910$85k0%
FY201811$81k0%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$578kEducation$146kHuman Services$37kHealth$20k

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
Newberry Opera House Foundation Inc$275,00092%
University of South Carolina Educational Foundation$141,00090%
ETV Endowment of South Carolina Inc$99,00090%
Belton Area Museum Association$72,500911%
Peace Center Foundation$45,00090%
Anderson Interfaith Ministries$37,00090%
Belton Center for the Arts$30,50094%
Living Water Foundation Inc$19,500911%
Wikimedia Foundation Inc$5,00090%

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($56k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Pope-Brown Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNewberry Opera House Foundation Inc: $275,000 over 9y, 2.3% of budgetUniversity of South Carolina Educational Foundation: $141,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetETV Endowment of South Carolina Inc: $99,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetBelton Area Museum Association: $72,500 over 9y, 11% of budgetPeace Center Foundation: $45,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAnderson Interfaith Ministries: $37,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetBelton Center for the Arts: $30,500 over 9y, 4.2% of budgetLiving Water Foundation Inc: $19,500 over 9y, 11% of budgetWikimedia Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 9y, 0.0% 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 9.

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.

Duke Energy FoundationAmerican Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Duke Energy FoundationNC14.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Duke Energy Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Pope-Brown Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Pope-Brown 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 Pope-Brown Foundation

How much does Pope-Brown Foundation give?
Pope-Brown Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $89,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Pope-Brown Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (74%), Education (19%), Human Services (5%).
Who are Pope-Brown Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Newberry Opera House Foundation Inc ($275k), University of South Carolina Educational Foundation ($141k), ETV Endowment of South Carolina Inc ($99k).
Does Pope-Brown Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Pope-Brown Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Pope-Brown Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Duke Energy Foundation, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Pope-Brown Foundation based?
Pope-Brown 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 11 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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