South Carolina · Private foundation
Wateree Floodlands Memorial Forest
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $67k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 10
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Wateree Floodlands Memorial Forest funded were first-time grantees, receiving 43% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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 | 10 | $67k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $70k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $72k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $83k | 43% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $137k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $127k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $77k | 60% |
| FY2018 | 2 | $30k | 50% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $80,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Compassion International Incorporated | $75,000 | 4 | n/a |
| United Way of Kershaw County | $60,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Gospel Music Hymn Sing Foundation | $60,000 | 4 | 19% |
| Congaree Land Trust | $50,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Grace Episcopal Church | $40,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Colel Chabad | $30,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Pilots to the Rescue Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Kershaw County Council on Aging | $20,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $80,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Compassion International Incorporated | $75,000 | 4 | n/a |
| United Way of Kershaw County | $60,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Gospel Music Hymn Sing Foundation | $60,000 | 4 | 19% |
| Congaree Land Trust | $50,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Grace Episcopal Church | $40,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Colel Chabad | $30,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Pilots to the Rescue Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Kershaw County Council on Aging | $20,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Fuller Center for Housing of McCormick Sc Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 12% |
| Fostering Foster Animal Rescue | $12,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Christian Community Ministries of Kershaw County | $10,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Chalmers Center for Economic Development | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Kershaw County Housing Authority | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Palmetto Family Alliance Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($208k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Wateree Floodlands Memorial Forest 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: Central Carolina Community Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Wateree Floodlands Memorial Forest
- How much does Wateree Floodlands Memorial Forest give?
- Wateree Floodlands Memorial Forest reported 10 grants totaling $67,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Wateree Floodlands Memorial Forest fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (26%), International (13%), Philanthropy (12%).
- Who are Wateree Floodlands Memorial Forest's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($80k), Compassion International Incorporated ($75k), United Way of Kershaw County ($60k).
- Does Wateree Floodlands Memorial Forest fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Wateree Floodlands Memorial Forest accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Wateree Floodlands Memorial Forest?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Central Carolina Community Foundation, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Wateree Floodlands Memorial Forest based?
- Wateree Floodlands Memorial Forest is based in SC.
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