South Carolina · Private foundation
The Chester Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $729k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2024
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $375,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 25
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $12M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 9% of the organizations The Chester Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 20 | $729k | 10% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $720k | 9% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $793k | 12% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $646k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $651k | 14% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $652k | 5% |
| FY2018 | 25 | $650k | 12% |
| FY2017 | 24 | $613k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clemson University Foundation | $935,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Chester County Historical Society | $167,000 | 7 | 52% |
| Winthrop University Foundation | $155,000 | 2 | 2% |
| The Turning Point of Chester Inc | $135,000 | 8 | 11% |
| G R a S P | $95,000 | 8 | 5% |
| Chester County Rescue Squad | $80,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Samaritan's Purse | $55,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Fort Lawn Community Center Inc | $49,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Upper Palmetto YMCA Inc | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Chester Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: United Way of Chester County In · Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Chester Foundation
- How much does The Chester Foundation give?
- The Chester Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $728,750 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Chester Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (65%), Human Services (12%), Philanthropy (4%).
- Who are The Chester Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Clemson University Foundation ($935k), Chester County Historical Society ($167k), Winthrop University Foundation ($155k).
- Does The Chester Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Chester Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Chester Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Chester County In, Foundation for the Carolinas, Duke Energy Foundation.
- Where is The Chester Foundation based?
- The Chester Foundation is based in SC.
Play a game based on Chester’s filings →