South Carolina · Public charity
Trident United Way
TRIDENT UNITED WAY is uniting the tri-county to uplift families out of poverty
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 48
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 35
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $850k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $14,300
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $180,056
- Organizations funded a year
- 27 to 79
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $17M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Trident United Way funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $244k 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 | 45 | $824k | 24% |
| FY2024 | 35 | $876k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $321k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 52 | $1.8M | 10% |
| FY2021 | 56 | $1.9M | 21% |
| FY2020 | 76 | $3.1M | 25% |
| FY2019 | 79 | $4.2M | 41% |
| FY2018 | 60 | $3.7M | 30% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lowcountry Food Bank Inc | $2,325,055 | 9 | 1% |
| Communities in Schools of the Charleston Area Inc | $757,242 | 6 | 15% |
| Dee Norton Lowcountry Children's Center | $712,565 | 7 | 6% |
| Family Services Inc | $669,958 | 8 | 4% |
| One-Eighty Place | $660,005 | 6 | 2% |
| East Cooper Community Outreach | $607,241 | 7 | 5% |
| Our Lady of Mercy Community Outreach Services | $569,650 | 8 | 5% |
| Florence Crittenton Programs of South Carolina Inc | $521,275 | 6 | 13% |
| Lowcountry AIDS Services Childs | $517,865 | 8 | 2% |
| Windwood Farm Home For Children Inc | $457,916 | 4 | 5% |
Show all 174 grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Trident United Way 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: Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc · The Joanna Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · Central Carolina Community Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Employees Community Fund of Boeing-Puget Sound · Post and Courier Foundation · Daniel Island Community Fund Inc · The Leon Levine Foundation · Kuznik Charitable Foundation · Campaigning for Charities
How this is measured
About Trident United Way
- How much does Trident United Way give?
- Trident United Way reported 48 itemized grants totaling $849,814, out of $1,150,052 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 79 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Trident United Way fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (27%), Education (16%), Food & Nutrition (12%).
- Who are Trident United Way's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lowcountry Food Bank Inc ($2.3M), Communities in Schools of the Charleston Area Inc ($757k), Dee Norton Lowcountry Children's Center ($713k).
- Does Trident United Way fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Trident United Way?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc, Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc, The Joanna Foundation.
- Where is Trident United Way based?
- Trident United Way is based in SC.
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