Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation
Spartanburg, SC · EIN 57-0937166. Reported 141 grants totalling $7,248,644 to 42 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation, the IRS classifies it under health care rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE E22I) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 42 distinct organizations, with 86% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is extreme concentration. A grantmaker sending three quarters of its money to one organization is in practice a support fund for that organization, whatever its classification says, and an unsolicited request is very unlikely to go anywhere.
- How much its list changes. 44% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,167. Half of what it reported fell between $6,000 and $20,000; the smallest was $840 and the largest $3,000,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Srhs | Spartanburg, SC | $6,199,770 | 74 | 5 | 2024 |
| Spartanburg Academic Movement | Spartanburg, SC | $428,570 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| St Lukes Free Medical Clinic of Spartanburg Inc | Spartanburg, SC | $44,167 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Project R E S T | Spartanburg, SC | $41,667 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Healthy Smiles of Spartanburg Inc | Spartanburg, SC | $39,167 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Family Effect | Greenville, SC | $38,767 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Angels Charge Ministry | Spartanburg, SC | $37,667 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Spartanburg Area Conservancy Inc | Spartanburg, SC | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Senior Centers of Cherokee County Inc | Gaffney, SC | $25,167 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Total Ministries of Spartanburg County | Spartanburg, SC | $25,167 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Childrens Cancer Partners of the Carolinas Inc | Spartanburg, SC | $21,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Regionalhealth Plus | Spartanburg, SC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Spartanburg County Foundation | Spartanburg, SC | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Faces and Voices of Recovery Greenville | Greenville, SC | $19,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Nancys Community Center Inc | Gaffney, SC | $17,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Childrens Advcy Ctr of Spartanburg Cherokee and Union Counties Inc | Spartanburg, SC | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Partners for Active Living | Spartanburg, SC | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Project Hope Foundation Inc | Greenville, SC | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ruths Gleanings | Spartanburg, SC | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cherokee County Meals-on-Wheels | Gaffney, SC | $10,167 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Divinity Care Facility Inc | Spartanburg, SC | $10,167 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Greer Relief & Resources Agency | Greer, SC | $10,167 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Mobile Meal Service of Spartanburg County Inc | Spartanburg, SC | $10,167 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Temple Education Ministries Inc | Inman, SC | $10,167 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| C4 Services Incorporated | Union, SC | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| KNOW2 | Gaffney, SC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Middle Tyger Community Center | Lyman, SC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Upstate Family Resource Center | Boiling Spgs, SC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Young Mens Christian Association of Greater Spartanburg | Spartanburg, SC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mission Dental South Carolina Inc | Spartanburg, SC | $9,300 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sc School for the Deaf and the Blind Foundation Inc | Spartanburg, SC | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Homeless Period Project | Greenville, SC | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Battlebetty Foundation | Fairforest, SC | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Lions Vision Services a South Carolina Charity | Columbia, SC | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Servants for Sight | Greenville, SC | $5,700 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Faith Home Inc | Greenwood, SC | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Helping Hands Ministries of Woodruff Area Inc | Woodruff, SC | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Hope Center for Children | Spartanburg, SC | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Louvenia D Barksdale Sickle Cell Anemia Foundation | Spartanburg, SC | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Robinhood Group | Union, SC | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Servants for Sight | Greenville, SC | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Spartanburg Shares | Spartanburg, SC | $4,200 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
15 of 42 (36%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Spartanburg Academic Movement
Funding to support Movement 2030 to improve academic achievement and readiness for the healthcare workforce. - Srhs
Funding to implement virtual reality systems to improve rehabilitation of motor function, cognition and movement in pediatric rehab, neurological outpatient rehab, and acute care. - Smc Facilities
TO UPGRADE THE OUTDOOR DINING AND PATIO AREA OUTSIDE OF THE MAIN CAFETERIA AREA BETWEEN SPARTANBURG MEDICAL CENTER AND THE REGIONAL OUTPATIENT CENTER. - Spartanburg Regional Hospice
TO RENOVATE THE SPARTANBURG REGIONAL HOSPICE HOME CHAPEL AND PATIO AREAS OF EACH PATIENT ROOM. - Ellen Sagar Nursing Home - Administration
TO FUND MEMORY CARE UNIT DESIGN ENHANCEMENTS, INCLUDING DOOR WRAPS, MURALS AND LIGHTING, THAT WILL IMPROVE SAFETY WHILE CREATING A MORE HOMELIKE ENVIRONMENT FOR RESIDENTS. - Smc - Ec
FUNDS USED TO RENOVATE AND OUTFIT A SPACE IN THE EMERGENCY CENTER TO HELP PROVIDE A SAFER AREA FOR THE PEDIATRIC, ADOLESCENT, GERIATRIC AND/OR SPECIAL NEEDS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH POPULATION.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 30 of 42 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 27 | $610,004 | $10,167 |
| 2021 | 35 | $3,601,000 | $8,791 |
| 2022 | 35 | $1,587,000 | $9,000 |
| 2023 | 16 | $662,855 | $15,000 |
| 2024 | 28 | $787,785 | $10,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,167 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in South Carolina.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 28 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 1692 Skylyn Drive, Spartanburg, SC, 29307.
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