South Carolina · Community foundation
Waccamaw Community Foundation
The foundation is committed to providing the highest level of services to donors, grant recipients and the community; thus, furthering its mission of improving the quality of life in horry and georgetown counties.
- $2.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 71
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 57
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $2.0M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,390
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $407,100
- Organizations funded a year
- 56 to 76
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $44M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Waccamaw Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $347k 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 | 65 | $2.0M | 20% |
| FY2024 | 57 | $1.6M | 33% |
| FY2023 | 61 | $1.7M | 18% |
| FY2022 | 57 | $1.9M | 35% |
| FY2021 | 61 | $1.5M | 31% |
| FY2020 | 68 | $1.5M | 28% |
| FY2019 | 56 | $1.6M | 21% |
| FY2018 | 76 | $2.0M | 39% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coastal Educational Foundation | $874,055 | 9 | 11% |
| United Way of Horry County Inc | $702,026 | 9 | 8% |
| First Presbyterian Church | $700,505 | 9 | n/a |
| Garden City Chapel | $567,879 | 8 | n/a |
| Sustain South Carolina Intersection of Commerce and Conservation | $550,000 | 3 | 39% |
| Brookgreen Gardens | $538,824 | 7 | 2% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $427,686 | 3 | 0% |
| Trinity United Methodist Church of Conway Sc | $388,843 | 6 | n/a |
| First United Methodist Church | $328,982 | 8 | n/a |
| The Franklin G Burroughs Simeon B Chapin Art Museum | $308,664 | 9 | 12% |
Show all 205 grantees
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($187k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Waccamaw Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 12 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 146 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: Frances P Bunnelle Foundation Coastal Community Foundation of Sc · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · South Carolina Christian Foundation · Chapin Foundation of Myrtle Beach Sc · Central Carolina Community Foundation · United Way of Horry County Inc · The K Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Moglia Family Foundation · Georgetown Memorial Hospital · Frugal Princess Inc · Lowcountry Food Bank Inc
How this is measured
About Waccamaw Community Foundation
- How much does Waccamaw Community Foundation give?
- Waccamaw Community Foundation reported 71 itemized grants totaling $2,045,618, out of $2,570,119 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 56 and 76 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Waccamaw Community Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (40%), Religion (18%), Education (11%).
- Who are Waccamaw Community Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Coastal Educational Foundation ($874k), United Way of Horry County Inc ($702k), First Presbyterian Church ($701k).
- Does Waccamaw Community Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Waccamaw Community Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Frances P Bunnelle Foundation Coastal Community Foundation of Sc, Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc, South Carolina Christian Foundation.
- Where is Waccamaw Community Foundation based?
- Waccamaw Community Foundation is based in SC.
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