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Prince Eldred and Sarah Wooten Foun at a glance

· Private foundation

Prince Eldred and Sarah Wooten Foun

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$93k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$291kReligion$144kHealth$94kArts & Culture$83kFood & Nutrition$55kHuman Services$29kHousing & Shelter$24kPhilanthropy$23kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k26 grants · $78k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$2,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY AHTLETICS$15,000
CLEMSON UNIVERSITY OFFICE OF$8,300
R& K PRAISE MINISTRIES LLC$5,000
COASTAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
SOUTHEASTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE$5,000
LONG BAY SYMPHONIC SOCIETY LTD$4,500
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF$4,000
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH SPARTANBURG$4,000
FRANCIS B FORD CANCER TREATMENT$3,500
BEE MIGHTY$3,500
MOBILE MEAL SERVICE OF$3,000
SOUP KITCHEN OF SPARTANBURG INC$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
BELLE W BARUCH FOUNDATION$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SOUTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL: $5k → 12%FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH SPARTANBURG: $4k → 15%SWAN BALL: $5k → 15%CLEMSON UNIVERSITY: $13k → 16%PATRICIA NEAL REHABILITATION CENTER: $6k → 12%WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY AHTLETICS: $15k → 15%SOUTHEASTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $5k → 21%SAMARITANS PURSE: $4k → 21%FRANCIS B FORD CANCER TREATMENT: $5k → 15%CLEMSON UNIVERSITY: $12k → 16%PATRICIA NEAL REHABILITATION CENTER: $4k → 12%WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY AHTLETICS: $14k → 15%SOUTHEASTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $5k → 21%CLEMSON UNIVERSITY: $12k → 16%WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY AHTLETICS: $14k → 15%SOUTHEASTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $5k → 21%CLEMSON UNIVERSITY: $10k → 16%WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY AHTLETICS: $13k → 15%SOUTHEASTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $4k → 21%CLEMSON UNIVERSITY OFFICE OF: $8k → 16%WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $13k → 15%SOUTHEASTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $4k → 21%CLEMSON UNIVERSITY OFFICE OF: $8k → 16%WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $11k → 15%SOUTHEASTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $4k → 21%CLEMSON UNIVERSITY OFFICE OF: $8k → 16%WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $11k → 15%SOUTHEASTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $4k → 21%CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $7k → 16%WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $10k → 15%SOUTHEASTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $4k → 21%CLEMSON UNIVERSITY OFFICE OF: $6k → 16%WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $10k → 15%SOUTHEASTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $4k → 21%CLEMSON UNIVERSITY: $6k → 16%COASTAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%COASTAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%COASTAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%COASTAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%SOUP KITCHEN OF SPARTANBURG: $4k → 15%COASTAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%SOUP KITCHEN OF SPARTANBURG INC: $4k → 15%COASTAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF: $4k → 13%FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF LORIS: $7k → 13%FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF LORIS: $7k → 13%FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF LORIS: $6k → 13%LONG BAY SYMPHONIC SOCIETY LTD: $5k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
PA
CO
MO
TN
NC
SC
AL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$795k · 46 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +46% for those funded once.

46 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
10

Total granted

$795k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+46%

Still filing today

35%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterEnvironmentReligionOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2017–2021 · $54k · revenue +30%
  • LB
    LONG BAY SYMPHONIC SOCIETY LTD
    9× · 2017–2025 · $32k · revenue +51%
  • BG
    BROOKGREEN GARDENS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • CU
    CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $7k · revenue +5%
  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY UPSTATE SC
    one grant, 2024 · $2k
  • EC
    EPIC CHURCH OF PHILADELPHIA
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence Found ation
Health
2
Cumberland Medical Center

Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.

Health
3
Methodist Medical Center

Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
4
The Carolina Trust
Philanthropy
5
College of Charleston Foundation

The Mission of the College of Charleston Foundation is to promote programs of education, research, student development, and faculty development for the exclusive benefit of the College of Charleston.

Education
6
Carolina Neurosurgery & Spine Education and Research Foundation
Health
7
Unc Health Foundation Inc

At unc health foundation, we inspire philanthropic support for unc health and unc school of medicine that transforms healthcare and provides hope to the people of north carolina and communities around the world.

Education
8
Claiborne Medical Center

Claiborne Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
9
Spartanburg Methodist College

SMC Delivers an exceptional education that fuses the empowerment of the liberal arts with crucial career skills. Our mission is to equip our students with the knowledge, skills, virtues, and mindset needed to thrive personally, create…

Education
10
Fort Loudoun Medical Center

Fort Loudoun Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
11
Beaufort Memorial Hospital Foundation

To provide financial resources to better enable Beaufort Memorial Hospital to serve the current and future health needs of the people of Beaufort County and the surrounding areas, as well as to foster health and wellness throughout the…

Health
12
Thompson Cancer Survival Center

Thompson Cancer Survival Center provides support services for cancer patients, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connie Maxwell Children's Ministries; the most unlike its peers is Belle W Baruch Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 61 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
17/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY AHTLETICS: $55,900 · OtherWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY AHTLETICSCLEMSON UNIVERSITY: $52,500 · OtherCLEMSON UNIVERSITYCOASTAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $45,000 · OtherCOASTAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONSOUTHEASTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $39,000 · OtherSOUTHEASTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGELONG BAY SYMPHONIC SOCIETY LTD: $31,500 · OtherCLEMSON UNIVERSITY OFFICE OF: $30,900 · OtherSOUP KITCHEN OF SPARTANBURG: $28,000 · OtherFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF: $27,000 · OtherMOBILE MEAL SERVICE OF: $27,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherBELLE W BARUCH FOUNDATION: $22,500 · Other+38 more: $278,200 · Other+38 moreWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $54,000 · EducationCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $6,500 · EducationTeach for America Inc: $3,000 · EducationFULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF MCCORMICK SC INC: $17,500 · Housing & ShelterHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $6,500 · Housing & ShelterBROOKGREEN GARDENS: $22,500 · EnvironmentSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $22,300 · ReligionCovenant Health Foundation: $8,000 · HealthGEORGETOWN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $7,500 · HealthST LUKES FREE MEDICAL CLINIC OF SPARTANBURG INC: $1,500 · HealthPats Place Child Advocacy Center: $1,000 · HealthBee Mighty: $14,000 · Philanthropy
Other$662,500Education$63,500Housing & Shelter$24,000Environment$22,500Religion$22,300Health$18,000Philanthropy$14,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $54,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOASTAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetLONG BAY SYMPHONIC SOCIETY LTD: $31,500 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetBROOKGREEN GARDENS: $22,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBELLE W BARUCH FOUNDATION: $22,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $22,300 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF MCCORMICK SC INC: $17,500 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetHorry County Museum Foundation Inc: $14,000 over 8y, 18% of budgetBee Mighty: $14,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetCarolina Master Chorale Inc: $13,500 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetConnie Maxwell Children's Ministries: $11,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCovenant Health Foundation: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCamp Diversity Foundation Inc: $8,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetGEORGETOWN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $7,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPats Place Child Advocacy Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds COASTAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LONG BAY SYMPHONIC SOCIETY LTD ↗
  • Who funds BROOKGREEN GARDENS ↗
  • Who funds BELLE W BARUCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds FULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF MCCORMICK SC INC ↗
  • Who funds Horry County Museum Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Bee Mighty ↗
  • Who funds Carolina Master Chorale Inc ↗
  • Who funds Connie Maxwell Children's Ministries ↗
  • Who funds Covenant Health Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Camp Diversity Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
  • Who funds CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗

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…Waccamaw Community Fo…South Carolina Christ…Foundation for the Ca…Duke Energy FoundationRaymond James Charita…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Natl Christian Charit…
Central Carolina Community FoundationSC17.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Central Carolina Community Foundation · Waccamaw Community Foundation · South Carolina Christian Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Prince Eldred and Sarah Wooten Foun funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Prince Eldred and Sarah Wooten Foun. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    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 61 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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