South Carolina · Nonprofit
Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation
Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation (South Carolina) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,297,460 to it, the largest being THE DUKE ENDOWMENT ($4,913,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $9.3M
- Net assets
- $67M
What Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation does
Mission
To generate philanthropic support to advance health.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Through grants and contributions from donors, Spartanburg Regional Foundation supports the health and wellbeing of the community. In FY25, the Foundation provided funding for more than 70 projects that promote health in accordance with donor designations. A small sample of the accomplishments achieved with these funds include: 1. Supported cancer research programs and purchase of cancer screening equipment. 2. Provided financial assistance to patients through various funds for help with prescriptions, medical equipment, education, and other needs while undergoing treatment. 3. Convened community partners to begin implementation of a comprehensive, community-wide behavioral health plan.
$6,710,310 spentof which $6,462,000 as grants90% of program spendingSpartanburg Regional Foundation awards grants to areas of Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System from its unrestricted funds through an annual grant cycle. Just a few of the areas funded include: 1. Funding the culinary medicine program and teaching kitchen 2. Supporting initiatives to advance the patience experience through compassionate connected care. 3. Funding medication safety and education initiatives for patients
$439,485 spentof which $439,485 as grants6% of program spendingSpartanburg Regional Foundation makes an impact on community health in the upstate of South Carolina by awarding grants to local nonprofit organizations. In FY25, The Foundation funded 13 community grants providing operational support to organizations that provide care to patients in Spartanburg, Cherokee, and Union Counties. The Foundation also continued its support for the Movement 2030 initiative.
$337,486 spentof which $337,486 as grants5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,487,281.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $61M to $49M (−19%).
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: 2021 14% · 2022 14% · 2023 16% · 2024 3% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
69% of Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
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
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Polly Edwards-Padgett
Executive Director
Board chair
Sally Spencer
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $330k → $1.1M.
9 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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: $88k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation raised.
From the IRS filings of Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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.
How concentrated its funding is
Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
35% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 39% · 2019 67% · 2020 72% · 2021 60% · 2022 67% · 2023 43% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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.
How long its funders stay
55% of Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Against its field
Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,969 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,969 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.7M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$4.4M
- Department of Justice$346k
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.
Organizations like Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Spartanburg Regional Health Services District · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation?
- Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation (South Carolina) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,297,460 to it, the largest being THE DUKE ENDOWMENT ($4,913,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $9,297,460 in grants to Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation?
- THE DUKE ENDOWMENT is the largest funder on record, with $4,913,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation 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 31 funders 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 October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing