How much does Scsymmes Foundation give?

Scsymmes Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $977,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Scsymmes Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (16%), Arts & Culture (15%), Health (14%).

Who are Scsymmes Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: YMCA of Greenville ($300k), Peace Center Foundation ($300k), Greenville Tech Foundation Inc ($285k).

Does Scsymmes Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Scsymmes Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Scsymmes Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Jolley Foundation, Daniel-Mickel Foundation, United Way of Greenville County Inc.

Where is Scsymmes Foundation based?

Scsymmes Foundation is based in MO.

Foundation Dossiers

Missouri · Private foundation

Scsymmes Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$978k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 16
Grants FY2025: 11
Organizations funded FY2024: 45%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $50,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $100,000
Organizations funded a year: 11 to 18; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $14M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 45% of the organizations Scsymmes Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 50% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $503k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentReligionHousing & ShelterOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	15	$928k	20%
FY2024	11	$1.0M	45%
FY2023	17	$838k	59%
FY2022	12	$762k	67%
FY2021	18	$916k	39%
FY2020	17	$851k	59%
FY2019	16	$847k	81%
FY2018	16	$795k	69%

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What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$1.3MArts & Culture$1.1MHealth$1.1MEducation$904kHousing & Shelter$811kFood & Nutrition$627kPhilanthropy$426kRecreation & Sports$400kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
YMCA of Greenville	$300,000	3	1%
Peace Center Foundation	$300,000	3	0%
Greenville Tech Foundation Inc	$285,000	4	2%
Prisma Health-Upstate	$245,000	3	0%
Phillis Wheatley Association	$232,000	3	17%
Meyer Center for Special Children	$220,000	4	3%
United Way of Greenville County Inc	$220,000	3	1%
Livewell Greenville	$210,000	3	4%
South Carolina Children's Theatre	$200,000	2	4%
Communityworks Inc	$150,000	2	1%

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All grantees of Scsymmes Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
YMCA of Greenville	$300,000	3	1%
Peace Center Foundation	$300,000	3	0%
Greenville Tech Foundation Inc	$285,000	4	2%
Prisma Health-Upstate	$245,000	3	0%
Phillis Wheatley Association	$232,000	3	17%
Meyer Center for Special Children	$220,000	4	3%
United Way of Greenville County Inc	$220,000	3	1%
Livewell Greenville	$210,000	3	4%
South Carolina Children's Theatre	$200,000	2	4%
Communityworks Inc	$150,000	2	1%
Gateway House Inc	$150,000	3	1%
Safe Harbor Inc	$150,000	1	3%
Rebuild Upstate	$150,000	3	6%
Triune Mercy Center	$145,000	2	8%
United Housing Connections	$125,000	2	1%
Meals on Wheels of Greenville Inc	$124,000	2	1%
Greenville Theatre	$105,000	2	6%
Feed & Seed Co	$100,000	2	16%
Jumpstart South Carolina	$100,000	1	4%
The Warehouse Theatre	$100,000	3	5%
The Family Effect	$100,000	2	4%
Greenville Center for Creative Arts	$100,000	2	5%
Soteria Community Development Corporation	$100,000	1	8%
Children's Museum of the Upstate Inc	$100,000	2	2%
Centre Stage-South Carolina Inc	$100,000	2	8%
Project Host Inc	$100,000	2	6%
Mill Village Ministries	$100,000	2	2%
Greenville Symphony Association	$95,000	1	4%
Greenville Free Medical Clinic Inc	$95,000	2	1%
Blue Ridge Council Inc Boy Scouts of America	$90,000	1	5%
Center for Developmental Services	$89,000	3	1%
Pendleton Place Inc	$86,000	2	2%
A Child's Haven Inc	$85,000	2	2%
Upstate Circle of Friends	$80,000	3	3%
United Ministries	$80,000	2	1%
Senior Action Inc	$75,000	1	3%
Center for Community Services	$75,000	2	7%
Upstate International	$65,000	2	13%
Alliance for the Collaboration With the Hispanic Community	$60,000	1	8%
Julie Valentine Center	$55,000	2	1%
Upstate Warrior Solution Inc	$50,000	1	2%
Cancer Survivors Park Alliance	$50,000	1	2%
Mere Christianity Forum Inc	$50,000	1	18%
Greenville Literacy Association	$50,000	2	2%
Faces and Voices of Recovery(Favor) Upstate Sc	$50,000	1	2%
Homes of Hope Inc	$50,000	2	0%
Urban League of the Upstate	$50,000	1	1%
St Anthonys Church-School	$50,000	1	n/a
Habitat for Humanity Inc	$50,000	1	49%
Greer Relief and Resources Agency Inc	$50,000	1	2%
Friends of Momentum Bike Clubs	$45,000	1	14%
Lead Collective Inccha	$45,000	1	5%
Communities in Schools of South Carolina	$43,000	1	1%
Poe Mill Achievement Center	$43,000	1	9%
Camperdown Academy Inc	$40,000	1	1%
Compass of Carolina Inc	$38,000	1	4%
Conestee Foundation Inc	$35,000	1	5%
Piedmont Emergency Relief Center	$35,000	1	33%
Trees Greenville	$30,000	1	4%
Upcountry History Museum	$25,000	1	2%
Jasmine Road Inc	$25,000	1	n/a
Public Education Partners	$25,000	1	34%
Pendleton Historic Foundation	$25,000	1	5%
Greenville Revitalization Corp	$25,000	1	n/a
Neighborhood Cancer Connection	$25,000	1	1%
Servants for Sight	$20,000	1	5%
Step by Step Ministry Hope Project Incorporated	$20,000	1	10%
Youthbase Inc	$6,000	1	n/a
Greater Good Greenville	$5,000	2	1%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.

Scsymmes Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 65 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

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 65.

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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.

The Jolley FoundationNV113.3× affinity52 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Jolley Foundation · Daniel-Mickel Foundation · United Way of Greenville County Inc · John I Smith Charities Inc · Scansource Charitable Foundation · Hollingsworth Funds Inc · Dabo's All in Team Foundation · United Community Bank Foundation · St Francis Hospital Inc · Charity Ball Board of Greenville · Spinks Family Foundation · Bill and Connie Timmons 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 Scsymmes Foundation

How much does Scsymmes Foundation give?: Scsymmes Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $977,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Scsymmes Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (16%), Arts & Culture (15%), Health (14%).
Who are Scsymmes Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: YMCA of Greenville ($300k), Peace Center Foundation ($300k), Greenville Tech Foundation Inc ($285k).
Does Scsymmes Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Scsymmes Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Scsymmes Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Jolley Foundation, Daniel-Mickel Foundation, United Way of Greenville County Inc.
Where is Scsymmes Foundation based?: Scsymmes Foundation is based in MO.