· Private foundation
The Williams Brice Edwards Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $357k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+7 grants · $4.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF SUMTER | $1,700,000 |
| SUMTER COUNTY MUSEUM | $803,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500,000 |
| CAMP COLE | $300,000 |
| WILSON HALL | $300,000 |
| YMCA | $275,000 |
| SOUTH CAROLINA ETV | $254,567 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $216,000 |
| LIBERTY STEAM CHARTER SCHOOL | $200,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $150,000 |
| THOMAS SUMTER EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIO | $145,000 |
| MORRIS COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $75,000 |
| UNITED MINISTRIES | $60,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 28%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 16% of The Williams Brice Edwards Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in SC; by stated purpose, 90%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
40 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $598k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SMSUMTER MUSEUM6× · 2019–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +857% · 65% of their budget
- WHWILSON HALL6× · 2019–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +44%
- MCMorris College6× · 2019–2024 · $600k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- TSTHOMAS SUMTER ACADEMY INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $160k · revenue +52%
- MHMUSC HOLLINGS CANCER CENTERone grant, 2023 · $100k
- SCSUMTER COUNTY DEVELOPMENTALgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +84% · 42% of their budget
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Empowering people in sumter county sc to live free from substance abuse through a continuum of high quality services.
To promote the preservation of historical strucures and sites through the collection of funds to be used for this purpose.
To promote business climate and industrial growth in the sumter area
Cultural enrichment through arts programs
SCMEP is a strategic advisor, promoting business growth and connecting manufacturers to public and private resources essential to their achieving increased competitiveness and profitability. See Sch O for additional information.
The organization leads South Carolinians to stability by providing innovative and efficient access to quality of life resources.
Scicu seeks to advance higher education in south carolina through fundraising, scholarships, research, as well as facilitating collaborative activities among the member institutions. scicu also enhances a positive public image and…
Promoting and protecting the free private and competitive enterprise system through research and education.
The college's mission is to train christians to serve god and his church.
To support the educational activities of the Sumter County School District.
How this is measured
34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 83 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CITY OF SUMTER HOUSING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SUMTER MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SUMTER COUNTY MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILSON HALL ↗
- Who funds Morris College ↗
- Who funds UNITED MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds ETV Endowment of South Carolina Inc ↗
- Who funds FULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF MCCORMICK SC INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds SUMTER GALLERY OF ART ↗
- Who funds PEE DEE COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL ASSAULT ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY STEAM CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THOMAS SUMTER ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds SUMTER LITTLE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds SUMTER COUNTY DEVELOPMENTAL ↗
- Who funds SAVING SUMTER'S STRAYS INC ↗
- Who funds SUMTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE SUMTER COUNTY LIBRAR ↗
- Who funds ALSTON WILKES SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WINNERS TRAVEL FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Central Carolina Community Foundation · Glenmore & May Sharp Trust · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Lipscomb Family Foundation · The Sunshine Foundation Inc · The Leon Levine Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Williams Brice Edwards Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Williams Brice Edwards Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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