South Carolina · Private foundation
The Joanna Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $178k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 40
- Grants FY2025
- 41
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 56%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 37 to 53
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 56% of the organizations The Joanna Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 65% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $107k 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 | 40 | $178k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 41 | $163k | 56% |
| FY2023 | 47 | $137k | 64% |
| FY2022 | 52 | $170k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 53 | $204k | 53% |
| FY2020 | 37 | $146k | 68% |
| FY2019 | 43 | $129k | 72% |
| FY2018 | 40 | $183k | 100% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Avian Conservation Center | $130,000 | 4 | 3% |
| College of Charleston Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Dee Norton Lowcountry Children's Center | $12,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Teachers Supply Closet | $12,000 | 4 | 1% |
| South Carolina Aquarium | $12,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The ARK of SC | $11,500 | 4 | 1% |
| The Village Museum | $11,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Charleston Waterkeeper | $10,500 | 3 | 3% |
| Operation Home Inc | $10,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Neighbors Together Inc | $10,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 179 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 78 recipients with no EIN on record ($449k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Joanna Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 156 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: Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc · Post and Courier Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Trident United Way · The Mark Elliott Motley Foundation Inc · Employees Community Fund of Boeing-Puget Sound · Kuznik Charitable Foundation · Daniel Island Community Fund Inc · Medical Society of South Carolina · Central Carolina Community Foundation · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation
How this is measured
About The Joanna Foundation
- How much does The Joanna Foundation give?
- The Joanna Foundation reported 40 grants totaling $178,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 53 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Joanna Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (13%), Animals (12%), Education (10%).
- Who are The Joanna Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Avian Conservation Center ($130k), College of Charleston Foundation ($50k), Dee Norton Lowcountry Children's Center ($13k).
- Does The Joanna Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Joanna Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Joanna Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc, Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc, Post and Courier Foundation.
- Where is The Joanna Foundation based?
- The Joanna Foundation is based in SC.
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