South Carolina · Private foundation
The Jolley Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 87
- Grants FY2025
- 88
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 48 to 88
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $31M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations The Jolley Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $365k 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 | 85 | $2.6M | 13% |
| FY2024 | 88 | $3.0M | 22% |
| FY2023 | 83 | $3.3M | 25% |
| FY2022 | 78 | $4.6M | 29% |
| FY2021 | 73 | $3.1M | 33% |
| FY2020 | 48 | $2.6M | 46% |
| FY2019 | 68 | $2.2M | 35% |
| FY2018 | 70 | $2.8M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prisma Health | $1,030,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Randolph College Inc | $885,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Mill Village Ministries | $814,000 | 8 | 7% |
| Greenville Housing Fund | $663,650 | 4 | 9% |
| United Way of Greenville County Inc | $607,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Alliance for the Collaboration With the Hispanic Community | $555,000 | 8 | 14% |
| Public Education Partners Greenville County | $544,900 | 8 | 11% |
| Livewell Greenville | $500,000 | 7 | 24% |
| Pendleton Place Inc | $485,000 | 8 | 4% |
| Sustaining Way | $483,500 | 8 | 29% |
Show all 159 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 55 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Jolley Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 11 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 146 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: Scansource Charitable Foundation · Scsymmes Foundation · United Way of Greenville County Inc · Daniel-Mickel Foundation · Hollingsworth Funds Inc · John I Smith Charities Inc · Dabo's All in Team Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · United Community Bank Foundation · Sisk Foundation Buncombe St Methodist Church · Spartanburg County Foundation · Helga Marston Foundation
How this is measured
About The Jolley Foundation
- How much does The Jolley Foundation give?
- The Jolley Foundation reported 87 grants totaling $2,721,405 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 48 and 88 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Jolley Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (21%), Human Services (13%), Health (12%).
- Who are The Jolley Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Prisma Health ($1.0M), Randolph College Inc ($885k), Mill Village Ministries ($814k).
- Does The Jolley Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Jolley Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Jolley Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Scansource Charitable Foundation, Scsymmes Foundation, United Way of Greenville County Inc.
- Where is The Jolley Foundation based?
- The Jolley Foundation is based in SC.
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