· Private foundation
Pope-Brown Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $59k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEWBERRY OPERA HOUSE FDN | $30,000 |
| USC EDUCATIONAL FDN | $19,000 |
| ETV ENDOWMENT OF SC INC | $10,000 |
| THE BELTON AREA MUSEUM ASSOCI | $7,500 |
| SC HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $6,000 |
| ANDERSON INTERFAITH MINISTRIES | $5,500 |
| PEACE CENTER FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BELTON CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $3,000 |
| LIVING WATER FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NONEWBERRY OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $275k · revenue +44%
- EEETV Endowment of South Carolina Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $99k · revenue +83%
- PCPEACE CENTER FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +79%
Funded once
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Cultural and educational resource
To educate Charleston area residents and visitors about the natural and cultural history of the South Carolina Lowcountry through collections, exhibitions, preservation, conservation, research and related programming.
Advances and promotes the arts for all south carolinians through advocacy, leadership, development and public awareness.
To provide exceptional arts education and make art accessable and exciting to our community.
The greenville center for creative arts exists to enrich the cultural fabric of the communities we serve by providing a nurturing environment for art-education, appreciation and enjoyment, and by establishing a lasting legacy in the visual…
The mission of the madison-morgan cultural center is to enhance education and enjoyment of the arts and humanities by offering high quality permanent exhibits, temporary exhibitions, and performances while preserving our historic buildings.
To provide cultural enrichment on hilton head island and enable residents and visitors to have access to cultural activities.
The mission of the gibbes museum of art is to enhance lives through art by engaging people of every background and experience with art and artists of enduring quality; collect and preserve the art that touches charleston; and provide…
To raise awareness of opera and fine arts in sc.
Cultural enrichment through arts programs
To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 11 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds NEWBERRY OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds University of South Carolina Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds ETV Endowment of South Carolina Inc ↗
- Who funds BELTON AREA MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PEACE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON INTERFAITH MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds BELTON CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds LIVING WATER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Duke Energy Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Pope-Brown Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pope-Brown Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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