· Private foundation
The Bailey Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k27 grants · $92k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $277k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAURENS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $36,485 |
| CITY OF CLINTON | $30,000 |
| SC INDEPENDENT COLLEGES & UNIVERSIT | $20,000 |
| PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF LAURENS COUNTY | $20,000 |
| OPEN DOOR CHRISTIAN CENTER | $16,500 |
| CLINTON FAMILY YMCA | $15,500 |
| LAURENS COUNTY MUSEUM ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| LAURENS COUNTY CLINTON LIBRARY | $13,515 |
| GOOD SHEPHERD FREE MEDICAL CLINIC | $10,476 |
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| THORNWELL HOME | $10,000 |
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $111k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
45 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UWUNITED WAY OF LAURENS COUNTY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $160k · revenue +60%
- PCPRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE6× · 2020–2025 · $159k · revenue +11%
- CSCHRIST SCHOOL INC6× · 2020–2025 · $120k · revenue +165%
Funded once
- HOHOSPICE OF LAURENS COUNTY INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $51k · revenue +201%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $16k
- LRLITTLE RIVER DOMINICK PRESBYTERIANone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
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.
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.
Related by faith to the united methodist church, louisburg college is a two-year residential institution committed to offering a supportive community that nurtures young men and women intellectually, culturally, socially, physically, and…
Louisville collegiate school inspires academic excellence, extraordinary character and global citizenship.
Education - lagrange college challenges the minds and inspires the souls of its students. founded in 1831 and committed to its relationship with the united methodist church and its wesleyan and liberal arts traditions, the college supports…
Educate each student for a life of productive work, enlightened living, and community involvement.
Southern wesleyan university is a christ-centered, student-focused learning community devoted to transforming lives by challenging students to be dedicated scholars and servant-leaders who impact the world for christ.
Georgetown college is a fully accredited liberal arts institution of higher learning located in georgetown, kentucky. the college is committed to providing opportunities for excellence in higher learning under christian influences so as to…
Houghton university provides an academically challenging, christ-centered education in the liberal arts and sciences to students from diverse traditions and economic backgrounds and equips them to lead and labor as scholar-servants in a…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The mission of the University is to inspire independent thinkers who become trustworthy, effective leaders that shape caring communities. The vision of the University of Lynchburg is to cultivate a world that is innovative, authentic, and…
Catawba college is committed to providing students an education rich in personal attention that blends the knowledge and competencies of liberal studies with career preparation. catawba college draws strength from judeo-christian values,…
How this is measured
32 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. 32 of the 77 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 UNITED WAY OF LAURENS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds South Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities ↗
- Who funds CHRIST SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE OPEN DOOR CHRISTIAN CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF LAURENS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Queens University of Charlotte ↗
- Who funds LAURENS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAURENS COUNTY MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LIMESTONE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LAURENS COUNTY COMMUNITY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds WOFFORD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ANGEL FLIGHT SOARS INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Bailey Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bailey Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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