Foundations · IRS 990 filings

Foundations in Columbia, South Carolina

58
foundations with a Columbia address
$71.4M
grants paid, FY2023–FY2025
13
say they accept unsolicited
$10,000
median grant

Grantlas lists 58 foundations that gave a Columbia, South Carolina address on their tax filing — 52 private foundations and 6 grantmaking charities such as community foundations and United Ways — from filings for FY2023–FY2025. Together they paid out $71.4 million in grants in their latest filing year, and 13 of them (22%) say they accept unsolicited requests.

Not every foundation here is a Columbia foundation. The city is the mailing address on the foundation’s tax filing, and when a bank or a law firm runs the trust that is the bank’s address, not the place it gives to. Check where a foundation gives before you write.

Top 25 of 58 foundations

Ranked by what they paid in grants in their latest filing, with the ones that accept unsolicited requests first, then the ones whose filing doesn’t say.

Foundations in Columbia, South Carolina
The Chapman Family Charitable TrustAccepts$10,000$305,000$2,500–$80,000No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The Solomon Jackson Jr FoundationAccepts$201,800$256,500$8,000–$256,500No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Dick Smith Foundation IncAccepts$3,840$176,940$250–$50,000No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Kw Beverage Foundation IncAccepts$5,000$175,862$500–$36,500No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Adams Foundation of South CarolAccepts$62,500$125,000$25,000–$100,000No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Owen Family Foundation IncAccepts$2,200$75,059$670–$20,000Within 5% over 3 yearsFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
D L Scurry FoundationAccepts$73,247$74,794$71,700–$74,794No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Christian Ministries InternationalAccepts$3,875$61,430$600–$53,680Up 15% over 3 yearsFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The Smith Family FoundationAccepts$5,000$55,000$1,000–$9,000No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2023Locked: fit score and contacts
Write to Change IncAccepts$300$23,450$100–$11,500No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
FLO Cares FoundationAccepts$900$2,275$275–$1,100No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Our Refuge Ninety OneAccepts$1,050$1,050—No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
South Carolina Law SoftballAccepts$750$750—No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Central Carolina Community FoundationCommunity foundationNot stated$17,784Over $5k only$26.5M$5,009–$2.3MNo grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
United Way of the MidlandsFederationNot stated$50,968Over $5k only$7.3M$5,500–$1.5MNo grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
United Way Association of South Carolina IncFederationNot stated$147,763Over $5k only$4.2M$8,051–$533,185No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Columbia Jewish FederationFederationNot stated$16,200Over $5k only$103,795$5,004–$105,000No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Columbia Jewish FoundationGrantmaking charityNot stated$276,414Over $5k only$101,045$101,045–$451,782No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Building Industry Charitable Foundation IncGrantmaking charityNot stated—Over $5k only$71,982—No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
BlueCross BlueShield of South CarolinaInvitation only$250,000$21.3M$15,000–$2.8MNo grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Darnall W and Susan F Boyd FoundationInvitation only$150,000$6.8M$445–$2.1MNo grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Jim Hudson FoundationInvitation only$30,000$660,500$1,000–$338,000No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Mumtaz FoundationInvitation only$5,000$599,500$500–$200,000No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Norman J and Gerry Sue ArnoldInvitation only$10,000$380,000$500–$65,000No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
South Carolina Urban EntomologyInvitation only$246,000$230,000$230,000–$262,000No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
  • Median grant and grant range come from each funder’s grant schedule; a dash means there is none to report. Community foundations and other charities list only grants over $5,000, so their figures run high.
  • “One grant” means a schedule with a single grant — no median, nothing to range over. “One amount” means several grants, all the same size.
  • A median grant larger than the grants paid is not a mistake: the grant schedule and the year’s total come from different parts of the tax filing, and a foundation can list a grant it approved in a year it paid out less.
  • 3-yr trend compares the latest filing year with the year two before it, so it needs grants on file for both. Most foundations file one year of grants, so most rows show a dash.

33 more foundations — see all in Grantlas

Data from 990-PF and Form 990 filings, FY2023–FY2025. Updated November 8, 2026.