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The Douglas & Tonyia Bolton Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$83k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
30
Grants FY2025
33
Organizations funded FY2024
61%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$24,085
Organizations funded a year
19 to 33
FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$1.1M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 61% of the organizations The Douglas & Tonyia Bolton Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 52% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesEmploymentReligionAnimalsOther
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
FY2025still arriving30$83k3%
FY202433$89k61%
FY202319$58k11%
FY202223$50k35%
FY202122$45kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$62kHealth$59kHuman Services$38kFood & Nutrition$32kArts & Culture$29kYouth Development$23kPublic Safety & Disaster$20kEnvironment$13kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
MN
IL
NY
IN
VA
MD
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($145k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Douglas & Tonyia Bolton Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $20,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLowcountry Food Bank Inc: $19,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHilton Head Island Deep Well Project Inc: $13,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBluffton Self Help Inc: $13,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWoodlawn School: $10,436 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCharleston Collegiate School: $8,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Volunteers in Medicine Clinic: $8,088 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCharleston Gaillard Management Corporation: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSecond Helpings Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMemory Matters: $6,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNeighborhood Outreach Connection: $6,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetDahlia Grove: $5,143 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMirasol Health Inc: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSecond Helpings: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCoastal Discovery Museum: $4,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCharlotte Mecklenburg Library Foundation: $3,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHilton Head Humane Association: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSouth Carolina Aquarium: $2,540 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetArts Center of Coastal Carolina: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHenderson County & Thermal Belt Habitat for Humanity: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPockets Full of Sunshine: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDove House Children's Advocacy: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMarch of Dimes 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 28.

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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.

Heritage Classic FoundationSC28.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Heritage Classic Foundation · Community Foundation of the Lowcountry · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · The Bargain Box · The Church Mouse Thrift Shop Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Berkeley Hall Charitable Foundation · Wexford Foundation · Palmetto Electric Trust · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Marshall Miller Foundation · David W Ellis Family 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 The Douglas & Tonyia Bolton Family Foundation

How much does The Douglas & Tonyia Bolton Family Foundation give?
The Douglas & Tonyia Bolton Family Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $83,107 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 33 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does The Douglas & Tonyia Bolton Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (19%), Health (18%), Human Services (11%).
Who are The Douglas & Tonyia Bolton Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($20k), Lowcountry Food Bank Inc ($19k), Hilton Head Island Deep Well Project Inc ($13k).
Does The Douglas & Tonyia Bolton Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 61% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Douglas & Tonyia Bolton Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Douglas & Tonyia Bolton Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Heritage Classic Foundation, Community Foundation of the Lowcountry, Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc.
Where is The Douglas & Tonyia Bolton Family Foundation based?
The Douglas & Tonyia Bolton Family 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 54 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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