· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $111k
- $10k–50k48 grants · $932k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $595k
- $250k+1 grant · $407k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COASTAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC | $407,100 |
| YMCA OF COASTAL CAROLINA | $184,300 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF HORRY COUNTY | $134,100 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF MYRTLE BEACH | $82,950 |
| UNITED WAY OF HORRY COUNTY INC | $80,100 |
| TRINITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $63,900 |
| WACCAMAW INDIAN PEOPLE | $50,000 |
| BELIN MEMORIAL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $40,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $37,183 |
| SOUTH CAROLINA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION | $37,000 |
| PARTNERSHIP GRAND STRAND | $32,083 |
| PALMETTO SHORES CHURCH | $32,000 |
| LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC | $31,270 |
| OCEAN VIEW BAPTIST CHURCH | $30,900 |
| FAITH WINS | $30,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $836k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.
118 repeat relationships: 52 still active in FY2025, 66 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $217k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UWUNITED WAY OF HORRY COUNTY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $702k · revenue +26%
- BGBROOKGREEN GARDENS7× · 2017–2025 · $539k · revenue +52%
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE3× · 2017–2025 · $428k · revenue +134%
Funded once
- COCITY OF MYRTLE BEACHone grant, 2021 · $128k
GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue +46%- ASALL SAINTS PARISH WACCAMAW EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $75k
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.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Carolina college of biblical studies exists to disciple christ-followers, through biblical higher education, for a lifetime of effective servant leadership.
To unify christians in south carolina by connecting commerce and community to positively impact our culture for christ.
Southern wesleyan university is a christ-centered, student-focused learning community devoted to transforming lives by challenging students to be dedicated scholars and servant-leaders who impact the world for christ.
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
To promote the gospel message by placing christian personnel in prisons for the purpose of relating to the spiritual needs of the inmates on an ongoing basis.
An interdenominational college ministry on seven college campuses across north and south carolina. goal is to see students leave college equipped and passionate to walk with jesus in the church and spread his love to others.
North greenville university exists to glorify god by cultivating graduates who are equipped to serve as transformational leaders for church and society.
Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.
A christ-centered university committed to exceptional teaching, scholarly research, creative innovation, and professional collaboration.
Educational instruciton for students in prek-12th grades.
The south carolina council on competitiveness is a nonpartisan, business-led non-profit organization committed to advancing the long term competitiveness of south carolina through actionable research, support of industry clusters and…
How this is measured
164 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 164 of the 223 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds COASTAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF HORRY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Sustain South Carolina Intersection of Commerce and Conservation ↗
- Who funds BROOKGREEN GARDENS ↗
- Who funds COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds THE FRANKLIN G BURROUGHS SIMEON B CHAPIN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MCLEOD HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEACH MY PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds VETERANS WELCOME HOME AND RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF HORRY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF COASTAL CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds WACCAMAW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Impact Ministries of Myrtle Beach ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of South Carolina ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF HORRY AND GEORGETOWN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ORANGEBURG-CALHOUN TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Ground Zero Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW DIRECTIONS OF HORRY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds 836 INC ↗
- Who funds HELP 4 KIDS ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Waccamaw Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Waccamaw Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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