South Carolina · Private foundation
The Fullerton Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 54
- Grants FY2025
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 28 to 44
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $36M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations The Fullerton Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $482k 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 | 32 | $1.5M | 16% |
| FY2024 | 34 | $1.6M | 38% |
| FY2023 | 28 | $1.4M | 11% |
| FY2022 | 35 | $1.7M | 60% |
| FY2021 | 31 | $1.6M | 35% |
| FY2020 | 44 | $1.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anderson University | $600,058 | 6 | 0% |
| Greenwood Genetic Center Inc | $400,000 | 4 | 0% |
| USC School of Medicine Greenville | $397,333 | 6 | n/a |
| Project Hope Foundation Inc | $395,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Limestone University | $290,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation | $260,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Cherokee County Meals on Wheels | $223,500 | 2 | 20% |
| Presbyterian College | $206,250 | 4 | 0% |
| Cleveland County Family YMCA Inc | $198,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Gardner-Webb University | $167,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 54 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 43 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Fullerton Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 43 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: Spartanburg County Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · United Way of the Piedmont Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Timken Foundation of Canton · Mary Black Foundation Inc · Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation · J M Smith Foundation · Arkwright Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · South Carolina Christian Foundation · Central Carolina Community Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Fullerton Foundation
- How much does The Fullerton Foundation give?
- The Fullerton Foundation reported 54 grants totaling $1,539,587 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 44 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Fullerton Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (44%), Education (33%), Human Services (6%).
- Who are The Fullerton Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Anderson University ($600k), Greenwood Genetic Center Inc ($400k), USC School of Medicine Greenville ($397k).
- Does The Fullerton Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Fullerton Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Fullerton Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Spartanburg County Foundation, Foundation for the Carolinas, United Way of the Piedmont Inc.
- Where is The Fullerton Foundation based?
- The Fullerton Foundation is based in SC.
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