Open Foundations · South Carolina

The Springs Close Foundation Inc

Fort Mill, South Carolina · EIN 570426344. Its Form 990-PF says giving is not restricted to organizations picked in advance, which is how a private foundation files that it accepts unsolicited requests. It paid $2.0M across 100 grants in 2024, a median of $10K each.

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$2.0M
paid in 2024
100
grants paid
$10K
median grant
28%
to first-time recipients
$36.3M
assets on file

How to apply, as filed

Straight off Part XV of the return. Where the foundation left a line blank, this says so rather than guessing.

Send requests to
Schedule 3
Address
168 Skipper St, Fort Mill, SC, 29715
Phone
8035482002
Email
Not stated in the filing
Form the request should take
Schedule 3
Submission deadline
Schedule 3
Restrictions on awards
Schedule 3

As filed on the Form 990-PF for tax year 2024, IRS filing object id 202503179349103675. Printed word for word, including the entries that only say to see a website or an attachment.

What it funds, in its own words

The words that come up most often across the purposes it wrote on its 2024 grants. These are the foundation's own words, not a category we assigned.

emergency basedcommunity healthearly childhoodeducation earlychildhood development

Biggest grants in 2024

The 15 largest of the 100 grants paid in 2024, with the purpose the foundation wrote for each.

#RecipientStateAmountPurpose as filed
1Chester County School DistrictSC$270,720PUBLIC EDUCATION and EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT
2Lancaster County First StepsSC$136,000EMERGENCY NEED BASED GRANTS
3Fort Mill School DistrictSC$121,125PUBLIC EDUCATION and EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT
4Children's Attention HomeSC$110,000EMERGENCY NEED BASED GRANTS
5Winthrop UniversitySC$70,000PUBLIC EDUCATION and EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT
6Children's Attention HomeSC$65,000EMERGENCY NEED BASED GRANTS
7Carolina Community Care- Charity Care ProgramSC$52,800EMERGENCY NEED BASED GRANTS
8Battered But Not BrokenSC$50,000COMMUNITY SERVICE and HEALTH
92023 Retiring Board Members (5 Members) - Grant of ChoosingSC$46,000EMERGENCY NEED BASED GRANTS
10KareSC$41,000EMERGENCY NEED BASED GRANTS
11Christian ServicesSC$39,000EMERGENCY NEED BASED GRANTS
12Greater New Hope Christian AssocSC$37,000EMERGENCY NEED BASED GRANTS
13Mount Calvary Outreach CenterSC$36,665EMERGENCY NEED BASED GRANTS
14United Way - ChesterSC$35,000EMERGENCY NEED BASED GRANTS
15Fort Lawn Community CenterSC$31,400EMERGENCY NEED BASED GRANTS

Giving by year, and who received it

Grants paid by year

Every year of this foundation's grants that Civly holds
Tax yearGrantsPaid
2020130$1.5M
2021112$6.6M
202294$1.5M
202382$1.6M
2024100$2.0M

Where the money went

Share of 2024 grant dollars by recipient state
South Carolina100%

Who decides

Officers, directors and trustees as filed, with the year of the return they appeared on.

Avery S BivensDirector · 2024
Claude P CloseDirector · 2024
D Peyton WorleyVice President/Treasurer · 2024
Elliott S CloseDirector · 2024
Frances a CloseDirector · 2024
Fred WitherspoonDirector · 2024
Georgette BoulwareDirector · 2024
Greg CloseDirector · 2024
H William Close JrChairman of the Board · 2024
Michele LinebergerExecutive Director · 2024
Nikki Godfrey-hillDirector · 2024
R Alexander SullivanVice President/Secretary · 2024
W Dehler HartDirector · 2024

Every figure on this page is that foundation's own latest filed year, which is 2022 or later. This foundation is listed because its Form 990-PF says it does not restrict giving to preselected organizations and it paid at least 5 grants totaling $100K or more that year. Latest-year grants and terms per foundation from IRS 990-PF e-file returns; the newest tax year is partial until the IRS finishes releasing it. Grants are de-duplicated on funder, year, recipient and amount, so identical repeat grants collapse into one and totals can run low. Full method.

Source: IRS Form 990-PF e-file releases (public domain). Analysis: Civly.

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