South Carolina · Private foundation
The Ceres Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 45
- Grants FY2025
- 59
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 37 to 73
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $27M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations The Ceres Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $104k 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 | 45 | $1.0M | 2% |
| FY2024 | 59 | $961k | 10% |
| FY2023 | 70 | $1.0M | 30% |
| FY2022 | 37 | $991k | 32% |
| FY2021 | 73 | $1.0M | 36% |
| FY2020 | 50 | $958k | 14% |
| FY2019 | 64 | $1.1M | 23% |
| FY2018 | 61 | $1.3M | 43% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lacuna Corporation | $730,000 | 4 | 97% |
| Open Space Institute Inc | $580,000 | 5 | 23% |
| Lowcountry Land Trust Inc | $491,000 | 7 | 17% |
| Carolina Art Association Dba Gibbes Museum of Art | $335,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Charleston Library Society | $220,000 | 8 | 5% |
| Taubman Museum of Art | $205,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Opera Roanoke | $190,000 | 8 | 10% |
| Community School | $152,500 | 4 | 4% |
| International Medical Corps | $145,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Trustees of Westminster School Inc | $140,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 115 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 70 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Ceres Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 106 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia · Cartledge Charitable Foundation Inc · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · The Beirne Carter Foundation · Carilion Medical Center · Edgar a Thurman Fdn Children Nect · Robertson Family Foundation Inc · The Joanna Foundation · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · Sam & Marion Golden Helping Hand Foundation · Evelyn F James Foundation · The Newbern Foundation
How this is measured
About The Ceres Foundation Inc
- How much does The Ceres Foundation Inc give?
- The Ceres Foundation Inc reported 45 grants totaling $1,047,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 73 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Ceres Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (28%), Arts & Culture (19%), Education (14%).
- Who are The Ceres Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lacuna Corporation ($730k), Open Space Institute Inc ($580k), Lowcountry Land Trust Inc ($491k).
- Does The Ceres Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Ceres Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Ceres Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia, Cartledge Charitable Foundation Inc, Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc.
- Where is The Ceres Foundation Inc based?
- The Ceres Foundation Inc is based in SC.
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