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Solon-Andreas Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$24k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2024
14
Organizations funded FY2023
14%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$4,000
Organizations funded a year
11 to 16
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$611k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 14% of the organizations Solon-Andreas Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationAnimalsEnvironmentOther
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
FY2024still arriving13$24k15%
FY202314$29k14%
FY202216$30k38%
FY202112$43k8%
FY202011$25k9%
FY201915$35k20%
FY201813$40k8%
FY201715$50kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$126kAnimals$38kPublic Safety & Disaster$27kRecreation & Sports$25kReligion$19kArts & Culture$15kYouth Development$11kEnvironment$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Charleston Animal Society$16,00080%
Ashley River Creative Arts Elementary PTA$15,00038%
Hilton Head Humane Association$13,75060%
South Carolina Aquarium$7,50030%
Williamsburg Academy Inc$6,00030%
Spring Island Trust$4,50030%
Buist Academy Foundation$3,00034%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$3,00030%
Hopeful Horizons$2,0001n/a
Buckhead Baptist Church Inc$1,0001n/a
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All grantees of Solon-Andreas Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Charleston Animal Society$16,00080%
Ashley River Creative Arts Elementary PTA$15,00038%
Hilton Head Humane Association$13,75060%
South Carolina Aquarium$7,50030%
Williamsburg Academy Inc$6,00030%
Spring Island Trust$4,50030%
Buist Academy Foundation$3,00034%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$3,00030%
Hopeful Horizons$2,0001n/a
Buckhead Baptist Church Inc$1,0001n/a
Pet Helpers Inc$1,00010%

Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($203k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCharleston Animal Society: $16,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAshley River Creative Arts Elementary PTA: $15,000 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetHilton Head Humane Association: $13,750 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSouth Carolina Aquarium: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWilliamsburg Academy Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSpring Island Trust: $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBuist Academy Foundation: $3,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPet Helpers Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 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.

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC7.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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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About Solon-Andreas Foundation

How much does Solon-Andreas Foundation give?
Solon-Andreas Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $24,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Solon-Andreas Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (46%), Animals (14%), Public Safety & Disaster (10%).
Who are Solon-Andreas Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Charleston Animal Society ($16k), Ashley River Creative Arts Elementary PTA ($15k), Hilton Head Humane Association ($14k).
Does Solon-Andreas Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Solon-Andreas Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Solon-Andreas Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Solon-Andreas Foundation based?
Solon-Andreas 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 31 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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