South Carolina · Private foundation
Vandy Charitable Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $380k
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 48
- Grants FY2026
- 41
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $103,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 37 to 41
- FY2021 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 9
- Total assets, FY2026
- $17M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 20% of the organizations Vandy Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $72k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 47 | $377k | 28% |
| FY2025 | 41 | $232k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 37 | $230k | 3% |
| FY2023 | 40 | $296k | 8% |
| FY2022 | 39 | $302k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 40 | $326k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 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, FY2021 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ducks Unlimited Inc | $165,750 | 6 | 0% |
| Johns Hopkins University | $70,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Smith Medical Clinic Inc | $65,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Danny & Rons Rescue | $40,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Americares Foundation Inc | $35,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Healthy Learners | $27,500 | 6 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $27,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Tidelands Community Hospice Foundation | $26,000 | 6 | 6% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $25,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Cystic Fibrosis Foundation | $25,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 36 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Vandy Charitable Foundation 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 · Frances P Bunnelle Foundation Coastal Community Foundation of Sc · Waccamaw Community Foundation · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · International Paper Company Foundation · The K Foundation · Central Carolina Community Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Rebecca C Parsons Foundation · South Carolina Humanities Council Inc · South Carolina Christian Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation
How this is measured
About Vandy Charitable Foundation
- How much does Vandy Charitable Foundation give?
- Vandy Charitable Foundation reported 48 grants totaling $379,650 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 41 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2025.
- What does Vandy Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2026, its largest causes are Health (22%), Religion (15%), Education (13%).
- Who are Vandy Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2026: Ducks Unlimited Inc ($166k), Johns Hopkins University ($70k), Smith Medical Clinic Inc ($65k).
- Does Vandy Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Vandy Charitable 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 Vandy Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc, Frances P Bunnelle Foundation Coastal Community Foundation of Sc, Waccamaw Community Foundation.
- Where is Vandy Charitable Foundation based?
- Vandy Charitable Foundation is based in SC.
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