Darlington Community Foundation
Darlington, SC · EIN 85-3378589. Reported 51 grants totalling $674,509 to 44 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, 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. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 44 distinct organizations, with 33% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 18% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $8,000. Half of what it reported fell between $8,000 and $8,000; the smallest was $6,000 and the largest $168,614. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Macedonia Life Skills Center Macedonia Life Skills Center | Darlington, SC | $219,809 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Harvest Hope Food Bank | Columbia, SC | $50,700 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Greater Darlington Chamber of Comme Rce Lamar and Society Hill | Darlington, SC | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| First Church of God | Darlington, SC | $28,000 | 2 | 1 | 2022 |
| New Vision Community Development Corporation | Hartsville, SC | $26,000 | 3 | 2 | 2022 |
| Darlington County School District Darlington County School District | Darlington, SC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Mount Calvary Cdc | Hartsville, SC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Anointed Outreach Ministries Anointed Outreach Ministries | Darlington, SC | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Bethany Baptist Church Bethany Baptist Church | Lamar, SC | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Bethel AME Church Bethel AME Church | Darlington, SC | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Bethesda Baptist Church Bethesda Baptist Church | Society Hill, SC | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Center Baptist Church Center Baptist Church | Darlington, SC | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Cherry Grove Baptist Church | Darlington, SC | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Christ Cathedral Ministries | Hartsville, SC | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Divine Destiny Ministries | Hartsville, SC | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Federated Organizations of Darlington Inc | Darlington, SC | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Flat Creek Baptist Church Flat Creek Baptist Church | Darlington, SC | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Friendship Missionary Baptist Churc Friendship Missionary Baptist Churc | Darlington, SC | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Greater Mt Tema Holiness Church Greater Mt Tema Holiness Church | Darlington, SC | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Household of Faith Church Household of Faith Church | Hartsville, SC | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Jerusalem Baptist Church Jerusalem Baptist Church | Hartsville, SC | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Jordan Chapel Free Will Church Jordan Chapel Free Will Church | Olanta, SC | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Kay Branch Baptist Church Kay Branch Baptist Church | Hartsville, SC | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Liberty Christian Assembly Church Liberty Christian Assembly Church | Hartsville, SC | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church | Darlington, SC | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mt Rona Missionary Baptist Church Mt Rona Missionary Baptist Church | Society Hill, SC | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Nazareth Apostolic Church in Jesus Christ Inc | Hartsville, SC | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| New Hopewell Missionary Church New Hopewell Missionary Church | Darlington, SC | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| New Jerusalem Apostolic Church of Jesus Inc | Florence, SC | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| New Life Empowerment Missionary Chu New Life Empowerment Missionary Chu | Hartsville, SC | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Olive Grove Baptist Church Building Fund | Coward, SC | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| One Church Worship Family One Church Worship Family | Florence, SC | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Palmetto Missionary Baptist Church Palmetto Missionary Baptist Church | Darlington, SC | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Purpose to Live Ministries Purpose to Live Ministries | Darlington, SC | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Round O Baptist Church | Darlington, SC | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Salem Missionary Baptist Church Salem Missionary Baptist Church | Sumter, SC | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Savannah Grove Free Will Church Savannah Grove Free Will Church | Coward, SC | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Shiloh United Methodist Church Shiloh United Methodist Church | Darlington, SC | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| St Mark Pentecostal Holiness Church | Lamar, SC | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| St Matthews United Apostolic Church St Matthews United Apostolic Church | Darlington, SC | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Tabernacle Worship Center | Darlington, SC | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mended Heart Ministries | Bennettsville, SC | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Restoration & Delverance Outreach Ministry Inc | Olanta, SC | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| St James United Methodist Church St James United Methodist Church | Darlington, SC | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
4 of 44 (9%) received money in more than one year over the 4 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 kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 16 of 44 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- 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 | 3 | $218,414 | $29,800 |
| 2021 | 2 | $19,195 | $9,597 |
| 2022 | 45 | $421,900 | $8,000 |
| 2023 | 1 | $15,000 | $15,000 |
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 the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
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 $8,000 -- 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 Darlington Community Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 516, Darlington, SC, 29540.
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