South Carolina · Private foundation
The Bailey Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $370k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 45
- Grants FY2025
- 44
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 34%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $36,485
- Organizations funded a year
- 28 to 44
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 34% of the organizations The Bailey Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k 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 | 37 | $369k | 19% |
| FY2024 | 44 | $415k | 34% |
| FY2023 | 36 | $317k | 36% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $422k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $338k | 11% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $286k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Way of Laurens County Inc | $160,000 | 6 | 9% |
| Presbyterian College | $159,125 | 6 | 0% |
| All Saints Episcopal Church | $135,750 | 4 | n/a |
| South Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities | $123,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Christ School Inc | $120,250 | 6 | 0% |
| The Open Door Christian Center | $51,500 | 6 | 5% |
| Hospice of Laurens County Inc | $51,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Queens University of Charlotte | $45,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Laurens County Community Foundation Inc | $36,485 | 1 | 1% |
| Winthrop University | $35,000 | 4 | n/a |
Show all 40 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Bailey 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: Spartanburg County Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · The Maddrey Foundation · Arkwright Foundation · J M Smith Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Central Carolina Community Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Bailey Foundation
- How much does The Bailey Foundation give?
- The Bailey Foundation reported 45 grants totaling $369,576 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 44 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Bailey Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (44%), Religion (15%), Human Services (10%).
- Who are The Bailey Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: United Way of Laurens County Inc ($160k), Presbyterian College ($159k), All Saints Episcopal Church ($136k).
- Does The Bailey Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 34% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Bailey Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Bailey Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Spartanburg County Foundation, Foundation for the Carolinas, Duke Energy Foundation.
- Where is The Bailey Foundation based?
- The Bailey Foundation is based in SC.
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