Funding search · water quality and access · South Carolina
Who funds water quality and access work in South Carolina
14 funders have a record of paying for water quality and access work by South Carolina recipients: 32 grants totaling $3.7M, most recently in 2025 — mostly private foundations, plus grantmaking charities. The largest by matched giving are Darla Moore and Richard Rainwater ($500,000), Kelly Family Foundation ($320,150) and Kohler Trust for Clean Water ($2.2M).
From IRS Form 990-PF and 990 Schedule I filings, 2019–2025. Grants already paid to South Carolina recipients — evidence of what these funders back, not open calls.
Largest: $100,000 to PEE DEE LAND TRUST — funding to help conserve,and promote appreciation of resources of the pee dee watershed of sc
Largest: $225,000 to Sea Island Hunger Awareness Fund — to fight island hunger with healthy food and clean water one meal at a time.
Kohler Trust for Clean WaterKohler, WICharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $2.2M · through 2024Largest: $1.3M to WATER MISSION — improving water quality, sanitation or sustainability
Largest: $224,000 to SOUTH CAROLINA DEPT OF INS — 80143 studying barriers keeping residents of two s.c. watersheds from living in healthy, equitable, and resilient communities and how to surmount them
Largest: $25,000 to WATER MISSION — support programs to increase access to clean drinking water
Largest: $3,000 to WINYAH RIVERS FOUNDATION INC (DBA WINYAH RIVERS ALLIANCE) — nc waccamaw watershed - water quality monitoring by citizen scientists
Largest: $50,000 to PORT ROYAL SOUND FOUNDATION — preserving the port royal sound through environmental education, experiential learning, and water quality research
Largest: $106,250 to UNITED STATES ENDOWMENT FOR FORESTRY AND COMMUNITI — quantified ventures chicagoland srf watershed coordinator
Center for Heirs' Property PreservationNorth Charleston, SCCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $39,346 · through 2024Largest: $13,000 to Coastal Carolina University — create a regional resiliency implementation workplan that will engage diverse stakeholders and build their capacity to plan and execute future resilience strategies, projects and o…
Largest: $10,000 to WATER MISSION — provide clean water
Largest: $17,000 to Gills Creek Watershed Association — working to restore educate and advocate for improving and sustaining water quality in the gills creek watershed
Largest: $10,000 to SALVATION ARMY — to deliver emergency food, clean water, and shelter to families in crisis
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