South Carolina · Public charity
The Priester Foundation
Support specified publicly supported organizations
- $339k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
Read this first · the figures below need context
66% of The Priester Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Community Foundation Of Greenville Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 9 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Itemized, FY2025
- $300k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $198,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 11
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.2M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations The Priester Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 | 9 | $102k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $90k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $55k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $55k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $161k | 55% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $121k | 14% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $102k | 17% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $82k | 20% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greenville Symphony Association | $179,000 | 9 | 1% |
| South Carolina Children's Theatre | $120,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Public Education Partners Greenville County | $85,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Planned Parenthood South Atlantic Inc | $80,000 | 4 | 0% |
| United Way of Greenville County Inc | $70,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Habitat for Humanity of Greenville County Sc Inc | $55,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Upstate Forever | $52,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts | $50,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood | $40,000 | 3 | n/a |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $35,000 | 4 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greenville Symphony Association | $179,000 | 9 | 1% |
| South Carolina Children's Theatre | $120,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Public Education Partners Greenville County | $85,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Planned Parenthood South Atlantic Inc | $80,000 | 4 | 0% |
| United Way of Greenville County Inc | $70,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Habitat for Humanity of Greenville County Sc Inc | $55,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Upstate Forever | $52,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts | $50,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood | $40,000 | 3 | n/a |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $35,000 | 4 | 0% |
| YMCA of Greenville | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Greenville Tech Foundation Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Metropolitan Arts Council | $11,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Meals on Wheels of Greenville Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Greenville Literacy Association | $7,500 | 1 | 1% |
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Priester Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Daniel-Mickel Foundation · The Jolley Foundation · Hollingsworth Funds Inc · John I Smith Charities Inc · Charity Ball Board of Greenville · The Maddrey Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · Hayne Hipp Foundation · Charles Timmons Foundation · Scsymmes Foundation · Scansource Charitable Foundation · Dabo's All in Team Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Priester Foundation
- How much does The Priester Foundation give?
- The Priester Foundation reported 10 itemized grants totaling $300,000, out of $339,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Priester Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (69%), Arts & Culture (16%), Education (5%).
- Who are The Priester Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Greenville Symphony Association ($179k), South Carolina Children's Theatre ($120k), Public Education Partners Greenville County ($85k).
- Does The Priester Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Priester Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Daniel-Mickel Foundation, The Jolley Foundation, Hollingsworth Funds Inc.
- Where is The Priester Foundation based?
- The Priester Foundation is based in SC.
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