Making an Impact through Community Leadership
The Spartanburg County Foundation is a trusted philanthropic leader with a rich history and track record of engaging people, institutions, and resources to collaboratively address Spartanburg County’s most critical needs and quality of life indicators. The Foundation’s ability to build relationships across the public, private, and nonprofit sectors has enabled us to effectively engage the community in creating long-term, positive change.
$1,078,318
Awarded through SCF
Grantmaking Strategy in 2025
34
Organizations awarded
competitive grants in 2025
400+
Participants in NONPROFIT
CONNECT EVENTS in 2025
Initiatives
Partnerships
The Spartanburg County Foundation embraces and values the importance of building strong partnerships to effectively lead in addressing Spartanburg County’s critical indicators. We work closely across sectors with residents, nonprofits, community leaders, businesses, philanthropic leaders, and local governments, each bringing their own unique strengths to the table, which results in scaled initiatives with amplified progress and an increased impact.
The Spartanburg Interfaith Alliance
The Spartanburg Interfaith Alliance is a county-wide network of clergy, lay leaders, and faith communities that have joined together for the purpose of contributing to the common good.
The Institute for Youth Justice
The Institute for Youth Justice introduces students to the criminal justice system to help them gain a deeper understanding of its inner-workings, eliminate misconceptions, and build long-lasting relationships with criminal justice officials.
Strategic Spartanburg
Strategic Spartanburg developed out of the Community Indictors Project launched by the Spartanburg County Foundation in 1987. In 2023, Strategic Spartanburg received its own 501c3 designation and is operating as an independent organization.
Spartanburg Academic Movement
An all-in partnership of schools and colleges, businesses, governments, foundations, faith communities, and individuals across Spartanburg County in pursuit of high levels of educational achievement.
Spartanburg Joint Funders
Six organizations, including the Spartanburg County Foundation, Mary Black Foundation, Spartanburg Regional Foundation, United Way of the Piedmont, Spartanburg Academic Movement, and the Chapman Cultural Center, make up the Spartanburg Joint Funders, a group committed to intentional collaboration and coordination. Each member is an individual nonprofit organization with a unique mission doing impressive, impactful work across our community. We often find issues common across all our focus areas. Together, we can learn more about the issues, develop strategies to address them, and sometimes even co-fund solutions. By aligning our knowledge and resources around a shared community issue, we can achieve more powerful collective impact. We collaborate with nonprofit partners, grassroots community members, government institutions, the business sector, and other funders to advance health, civic engagement, community vibrancy, and economic prosperity for all.
Upcoming Events
The Foundation plays a unique role in connecting the community as a convener, bringing people together from all sectors around issues and opportunities. As a knowledge source and thought leader, the Foundation promotes collaboration and embraces innovation through various deliveries to foster awareness, inform decision-making, and spark collective action on problems facing the people of Spartanburg.