South Carolina · Nonprofit
Community Foundation of the Lowcountry
Community Foundation of the Lowcountry (South Carolina) receives grants from 102 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,541,010 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,285,655). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. Community Foundation of the Lowcountry administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
Hosts funds for others
Community Foundation of the Lowcountry administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programCommunity Foundation of the Lowcountry runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$55M
Recipients
407
Contributions on record
$10M
Donors on record
105
Payments out run 5.3x the contributions on record, which says the incoming side is incomplete rather than that the vehicle is unusually busy: most donors to a fund like this are individuals, who file no return for us to read.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inclocalportfolio match
- Patrick Family Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Deloitte Foundationshared funders
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2023 6% · 2024 1% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 37 funders, grant income rose $162k → $3.2M.
37 of 102 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $871k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Community Foundation of the Lowcountry). These are real filings, and they are not money Community Foundation of the Lowcountry raised.
From the IRS filings of Community Foundation of the Lowcountry’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 102 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
57% of Community Foundation of the Lowcountry's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $4.1M that is directly attributable, 52% of it comes from South Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 102 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inclocalportfolio matchSC · funds 104 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Patrick Family Foundationlocalportfolio matchSC · funds 41 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Deloitte Foundationshared fundersCT · backs 64 organizations that share your funders
- Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues Inc Dba Funders for Lgbtq Issuesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tisbest Philanthropyshared fundersWA · backs 101 organizations that share your funders
- The Self Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Scholarship America Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pathfinder Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cfleadsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Encouragement Foundation Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Elliot and Eleanor Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- League of California Community Foundationsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding Community Foundation of the Lowcountry receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.2M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.2M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$500k
- Department of the Interior$487k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 36 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Jim and Margaret Krum Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Community Foundation of the Lowcountry: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Community Foundation of the Lowcountry?
- Community Foundation of the Lowcountry (South Carolina) receives grants from 102 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,541,010 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,285,655). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. Community Foundation of the Lowcountry administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does Community Foundation of the Lowcountry have?
- IRS filings report 102 organizations giving $9,541,010 in grants to Community Foundation of the Lowcountry, 47 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Community Foundation of the Lowcountry?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,285,655 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Community Foundation of the Lowcountry find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 102funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing