South Carolina · Private foundation
Wherry Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $44k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 71%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 24
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $831k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 71% of the organizations Wherry Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 79% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k 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 | $44k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $66k | 71% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $106k | 88% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $5k | 87% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $13k | 63% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $13k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $24k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $20k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Furman University | $55,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Presbyterian Church on Edisto Island | $18,000 | 6 | n/a |
| 3gen Ministries | $15,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Davids Table Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Switch | $10,000 | 2 | 1% |
| All About God Ministries Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Greenville's Gift | $8,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Isaiah 117 House | $7,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Young Life | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| First Presbyterian Church Foundation | $5,500 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 41 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($103k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Wherry Family 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: South Carolina Christian Foundation · Scansource Charitable Foundation · Daniel-Mickel Foundation · United Way of Greenville County Inc · Dabo's All in Team Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · South Carolina Charities Inc · Prisma Health-Upstate · Don Waggoner & Zelma Waggoner Foundation · St Francis Hospital Inc · Charity Ball Board of Greenville · AWT Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Wherry Family Foundation
- How much does Wherry Family Foundation give?
- Wherry Family Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $44,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Wherry Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (47%), Education (19%), Human Services (9%).
- Who are Wherry Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Furman University ($55k), The Presbyterian Church on Edisto Island ($18k), 3gen Ministries ($15k).
- Does Wherry Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 71% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Wherry Family 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 Wherry Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include South Carolina Christian Foundation, Scansource Charitable Foundation, Daniel-Mickel Foundation.
- Where is Wherry Family Foundation based?
- Wherry Family Foundation is based in SC.
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