South Carolina · Private foundation
Small Change Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $26k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $17,775
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 11
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $95k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 36% of the organizations Small Change Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 51% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 10 | $26k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $20k | 36% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $34k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $31k | 30% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $36k | 27% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $27k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $7k | 60% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $10k | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good Friends of the Lowcountry | $35,500 | 6 | 11% |
| Kids on Point Inc | $27,775 | 2 | 1% |
| The Formation Project | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Mary Baldwin University | $19,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Newberry Opera House Foundation Inc | $14,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Heathwood Hall Episcopal School | $11,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Friends of the Lowline | $10,000 | 1 | 12% |
| Enough Pie | $10,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Art Pot | $7,500 | 1 | 7% |
| YWCA of Greater Charleston | $7,500 | 1 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good Friends of the Lowcountry | $35,500 | 6 | 11% |
| Kids on Point Inc | $27,775 | 2 | 1% |
| The Formation Project | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Mary Baldwin University | $19,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Newberry Opera House Foundation Inc | $14,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Heathwood Hall Episcopal School | $11,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Friends of the Lowline | $10,000 | 1 | 12% |
| Enough Pie | $10,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Art Pot | $7,500 | 1 | 7% |
| YWCA of Greater Charleston | $7,500 | 1 | 1% |
| St Lukes Episcopal Church | $7,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Be a Mentor Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Porter-Gaud School | $3,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Dee Norton Lowcountry Children's Center | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University of South Carolina Educational Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Epworth Children's Home | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| CREATE Newberry Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Mugs for Moms | $250 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($25k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Small Change Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Elhapa Foundation Inc · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Central Carolina Community Foundation · Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc · The Joanna Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Patrick Family Foundation · The Harvey-McNairy Foundation Inc · Post and Courier Foundation · Trident United Way · Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation
How this is measured
About Small Change Foundation
- How much does Small Change Foundation give?
- Small Change Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $26,025 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Small Change Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (19%), Human Services (17%), Youth Development (17%).
- Who are Small Change Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Good Friends of the Lowcountry ($36k), Kids on Point Inc ($28k), The Formation Project ($20k).
- Does Small Change Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Small Change Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Small Change Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Elhapa Foundation Inc, Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc, Central Carolina Community Foundation.
- Where is Small Change Foundation based?
- Small Change Foundation is based in SC.
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