· Community foundation
Tri-County Community Foundation
To encourage and promote philanthropic giving
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k5 grants · $135k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $141k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BARNWELL SCHOOL DISTRICT 45 EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAM | $82,147 |
| HEALTHY LEARNERS | $58,991 |
| BARNWELL COUNTY 1ST STEPS | $42,367 |
| VIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA | $32,500 |
| IMAGINATION LIBRARY SC-BARNWELL COUNTY | $28,865 |
| CREATIVE KIDZ LEARNING ACADEMY | $16,050 |
| BARNWELL COUNTY FAMILY YMCA | $15,700 |
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 (FY25–25, $59k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $261k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Save The Children Federation Inc2× · 2018–2019 · $403k · revenue +11%- DIDREAMS IMAGINATION & GIFT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM DIG5× · 2018–2023 · $259k · revenue +315% · 33% of their budget
- PPPALMETTO PROJECT INC5× · 2018–2022 · $55k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- DTDenmark Technical College2× · 2019–2023 · $33k
- SCSweetwater Coountry Club Incone grant, 2022 · $25k
- AOAxis One Center of Barnwellone grant, 2023 · $24k
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.
5 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. 5 of the 19 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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Tri-County Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tri-County Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
How this is measured
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