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The Wayne & Pauline Thrift Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$93k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
26
Grants FY2025
28
Organizations funded FY2024
7%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$26,250
Organizations funded a year
26 to 32
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$1.4M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 7% of the organizations The Wayne & Pauline Thrift Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24
HealthAnimalsEnvironmentArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving26$93k0%
FY202428$82k7%
FY202327$68k7%
FY202232$70k6%
FY202126$64k8%
FY202031$64kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$98kHuman Services$89kEducation$84kPhilanthropy$72kReligion$26kAnimals$18kArts & Culture$12kPublic Safety & Disaster$11kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 26 grantees
All grantees of The Wayne & Pauline Thrift Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Oconee Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc$72,95061%
Clemson University Foundation$54,00060%
Upstate Warrior Solution Inc$41,00060%
Holly Springs Baptist Church$18,0006n/a
Oconee County Friends of the Library$16,0003n/a
Graces Closet$15,00061%
Oconee County Humane Society Inc$14,00061%
Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc$13,50060%
ETV Endowment of South Carolina Inc$10,40060%
Oconee United Ministries$9,00053%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$8,00060%
Ripple of One$7,00060%
Golden Corner Food Pantry$6,50060%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc$6,00060%
Helen's Hugs Inc$5,50065%
Fostering Faithfully$5,00051%
Wild Hearts Equine Therapy Center$4,00021%
Izzies Pond Inc$4,00050%
Lachlan's Hope Inc$3,75062%
Upstate Forever$3,00030%
NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc$3,00030%
Collins Home Family Ministries$3,00030%
Safe Harbor Inc$3,00020%
Peace Center Foundation$1,50030%
Trinity Baptist Church$1,0001n/a
Rock the Ranch$2501n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($113k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Wayne & Pauline Thrift Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOconee Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc: $72,950 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetClemson University Foundation: $54,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUpstate Warrior Solution Inc: $41,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetGraces Closet: $15,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetOconee County Humane Society Inc: $14,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetPancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc: $13,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetETV Endowment of South Carolina Inc: $10,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOconee United Ministries: $9,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $8,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRipple of One: $7,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetGolden Corner Food Pantry: $6,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHelen's Hugs Inc: $5,500 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetFostering Faithfully: $5,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetWild Hearts Equine Therapy Center: $4,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetIzzies Pond Inc: $4,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetLachlan's Hope Inc: $3,750 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetUpstate Forever: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCollins Home Family Ministries: $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSafe Harbor Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPeace Center Foundation: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 22.

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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.

Duke Energy FoundationNC25.5× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Duke Energy Foundation · Dabo's All in Team Foundation · Upcountry Fiber Foundation · Oconee Federal Charitable Foundation · The Jim Parke Foundation · Rhodenbaugh Foundation · J M Smith Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Wayne & Pauline Thrift Family Foundation

How much does The Wayne & Pauline Thrift Family Foundation give?
The Wayne & Pauline Thrift Family Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $93,035 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 32 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does The Wayne & Pauline Thrift Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (22%), Human Services (20%), Education (19%).
Who are The Wayne & Pauline Thrift Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Oconee Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc ($73k), Clemson University Foundation ($54k), Upstate Warrior Solution Inc ($41k).
Does The Wayne & Pauline Thrift Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Wayne & Pauline Thrift Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Wayne & Pauline Thrift Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Duke Energy Foundation, Dabo's All in Team Foundation, Upcountry Fiber Foundation.
Where is The Wayne & Pauline Thrift Family Foundation based?
The Wayne & Pauline Thrift Family Foundation is based in SC.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 39 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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