South Carolina · Public charity
United Way of the Lowcountry
To educate and encourage our community to make investments that enable individuals and families to achieve self-sufficiency.
- $402k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $26,250
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $67,575
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 34
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.5M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations United Way of the Lowcountry funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 15 | $402k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $649k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 34 | $1.7M | 38% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $638k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $749k | 9% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $629k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 20 | $686k | 10% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $777k | 5% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YMCA of the Lowcountry Inc | $667,582 | 9 | 3% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of the Lowcountry Inc | $621,058 | 8 | 3% |
| Child Abuse Prevention Association | $504,206 | 9 | 5% |
| Hopeful Horizons | $473,855 | 9 | 2% |
| Lowcountry Legal Volunteers | $422,689 | 9 | 28% |
| Consumer Credit Counseling Service of the Savannah Area Inc | $387,970 | 9 | 18% |
| Agape Family Life Center Inc | $341,827 | 8 | 62% |
| Hilton Head Island Deep Well Project Inc | $319,560 | 9 | 4% |
| Resource Foundation for Jasper County | $297,465 | 7 | 89% |
| Family Promise of the Lowcountry | $286,380 | 8 | 15% |
Show all 45 grantees
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($85k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
United Way of the Lowcountry supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 35 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 · Community Foundation of the Lowcountry · The Bargain Box · Palmetto Electric Trust · Heritage Classic Foundation · The Church Mouse Thrift Shop Inc · The Berkeley Hall Charitable Foundation · Wexford Foundation · Central Carolina Community Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Lowcountry Food Bank Inc
How this is measured
About United Way of the Lowcountry
- How much does United Way of the Lowcountry give?
- United Way of the Lowcountry reported 15 grants totaling $402,292 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 34 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does United Way of the Lowcountry fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (35%), Crime & Legal (15%), Youth Development (12%).
- Who are United Way of the Lowcountry's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: YMCA of the Lowcountry Inc ($668k), Boys & Girls Clubs of the Lowcountry Inc ($621k), Child Abuse Prevention Association ($504k).
- Does United Way of the Lowcountry fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of the Lowcountry?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc, Community Foundation of the Lowcountry, The Bargain Box.
- Where is United Way of the Lowcountry based?
- United Way of the Lowcountry is based in SC.
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