· Private foundation
The Douglas & Tonyia Bolton Family 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, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k29 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $24k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOLLINGS CANCER CENTER MUSC | $24,085 |
| HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| HILTON HEAD BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS | $4,400 |
| CHARLESTON GAILLARD CENTER | $3,500 |
| SAMARITANS PURSE | $3,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $3,000 |
| LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK | $3,000 |
| PORT ROYAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| DAHLIA GROVE | $2,643 |
| CHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG LIBRARY | $2,450 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $2,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $2,000 |
| BLUFFTON SELF HELP | $2,000 |
| DEEP WELL PROJECT | $2,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD OUTREACH CONNECTION | $2,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 85% 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
Which US states its grants reach
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 +19% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.
40 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches5× · 2021–2025 · $20k · revenue +27%
- LFLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC5× · 2021–2025 · $19k · revenue +11%
- HHHILTON HEAD ISLAND DEEP WELL PROJECT INC5× · 2021–2025 · $13k · revenue +32%
Funded once
Feeding Americaone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +23%- SJST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S CANCERone grant, 2024 · $3k
- ACARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLINAone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +3%
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.
Harvest hope is on a mission to eliminate hunger and food insecurity in south carolina. we rescue nutritious food from stores throughout the state and distribute it to food pantries, shelters, and soup kitchens. we operate programs that…
The mission of the Organization is to coordinate, support, and advocate for member Food Banks across the Carolinas to create lasting solutions to address hunger.
Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.
Charleston Habitat for Humanitys (CHFH) vision is a world where everyone has a decent place to live. Seeking to put God's love into action, Charleston Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope. By…
We strive to serve the community by constructing and rehabilitating homes for affordable homeownership, providing new housing rentals for low to moderate wealth families in south carolina, and providing services that aid in all aspects of…
The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.
Dorchester habitat for humanity, inc.'s ("dhfh") mission statement is "putting god's love into action by bringing people together building homes and hope." dhfh was founded in 1993 and has built seventy-five (75) homes and three (3)…
To educate Charleston area residents and visitors about the natural and cultural history of the South Carolina Lowcountry through collections, exhibitions, preservation, conservation, research and related programming.
To expand access to legal representation and rights in South Carolina.
Carolina hill provides safe and caring emergency shelter and supportive services to homeless families focusing efforts to achieve rapid re-housing and developing skills and resources to maintain it.
(See Schedule O)
Our mission is to relieve suffering and improve the quality and dignity of life through compassionate hospice care at the end of life, palliative care for those with advanced illness, and through community education.
How this is measured
30 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. 30 of the 54 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 American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds HILTON HEAD ISLAND DEEP WELL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds BLUFFTON SELF HELP INC ↗
- Who funds Woodlawn School ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Charleston Collegiate School ↗
- Who funds THE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON GAILLARD MANAGEMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SECOND HELPINGS INC ↗
- Who funds MEMORY MATTERS ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood Outreach Connection ↗
- Who funds Dahlia Grove ↗
- Who funds MIRASOL HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation of the Lowcountry ↗
- Who funds SECOND HELPINGS ↗
- Who funds COASTAL DISCOVERY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HILTON HEAD HUMANE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds South Carolina Aquarium ↗
- Who funds ARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLINA ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Douglas & Tonyia Bolton Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Douglas & Tonyia Bolton Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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