How do I find funders for a civil rights and advocacy nonprofit in South Carolina?

Start with the funders already giving to civil rights and advocacy in South Carolina, currently Movement Resources, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc, Central Carolina Community Foundation. Then look at who funds the civil rights and advocacy organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into South Carolina from out of state.

How much grant money goes to civil rights and advocacy in South Carolina?

$74M reached 83 civil rights and advocacy organizations in South Carolina, from 196 funders. 71% came from funders also based in South Carolina.

How recent is this data?

It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

Funding · South Carolina · Civil rights and advocacy

Who funds civil rights and advocacy in South Carolina

Funding is concentrated: The Movement Foundation Inc alone draws 63% of every civil rights and advocacy grant dollar in South Carolina. One funder dominates the giving, Movement Resources, at 63% of the total.

$74M

granted

organizations

71%

from in-state

The short version

196 funders gave $74M to 83 civil rights and advocacy organizations in South Carolina across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
71% of that came from funders also based in South Carolina; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of civil rights and advocacy in South Carolina is Movement Resources, at $47M.
The civil rights and advocacy organization drawing the most is The Movement Foundation Inc, at $47M.

Largest funders of civil rights and advocacy in South Carolina

The funders giving the most to civil rights and advocacy organizations in South Carolina, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1Movement Resources$47M 2American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc$4M 3Central Carolina Community Foundation$1M 4A Wider Circle Inc$1M 5Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc$1M 6The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation$1M 7Tides Foundation$1M 8The Spaulding-Paolozzi Foundation$1M 9Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$874k 10Freeman Foundation$860k

Civil rights and advocacy organizations in South Carolina that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

The Movement Foundation Inc$47M

73 other civil rights and advocacy organizations$8M

Mother Emanuel Memorial Foundation$5M American Civil Liberties Union of South Carolina Foundation Inc$3M

How to find civil rights and advocacy funders in South Carolina

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Start with the funders already active in South Carolina
The funders giving the most to civil rights and advocacy in South Carolina are Movement Resources, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc, Central Carolina Community Foundation. A funder already writing civil rights and advocacy checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the civil rights and advocacy organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.
3
Add the out-of-state funders reaching in
29% of civil rights and advocacy money in South Carolina comes from funders elsewhere, so national civil rights and advocacy funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in South Carolina.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a civil rights and advocacy nonprofit in South Carolina?: Start with the funders already giving to civil rights and advocacy in South Carolina, currently Movement Resources, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc, Central Carolina Community Foundation. Then look at who funds the civil rights and advocacy organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into South Carolina from out of state.
Who is the largest civil rights and advocacy funder in South Carolina?: Movement Resources gives the most to civil rights and advocacy organizations in South Carolina, $47M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to civil rights and advocacy in South Carolina?: $74M reached 83 civil rights and advocacy organizations in South Carolina, from 196 funders. 71% came from funders also based in South Carolina.
How recent is this data?: It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.