ANNUAL REPORT TWO-THOUSAND SEVENTEEN Message from the President and the Chairman of the Board

“I am only one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something, and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.” - Edward Everett Hale

As Foothills Community Foundation grows, so does our impact. Thanks to our generous donors and fund holders, we are celebrating numerous highlights from the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2017. Among these highlights, two stand out to us: • Grant making increased by 25.57% over the previous fiscal year • Total assets increased by 11.09% over the previous fiscal year. This is an indication of a foundation that is healthy, growing and having an impact in our service area of Anderson, Oconee and Pickens Counties. The Community Foundation offers several types of fund options to meet the varying financial and philanthropic goals of our donors. We are pleased to partner with our current donors in meeting their charitable objectives and we invite others to join our family of fund holders who are making an impact in this place we call home.

R. Dean Woods, President

Robert W. Orr, Chairman

OUR MISSION “To retain and nurture the charitable wealth in the three South Carolina counties of Anderson, Oconee and Pickens.” Partnering to improve the landscape of the community

Carolina Wren Project 2017 Dedication of The Dog Park Caton’s Alley 2017 marked the successful completion of the 4th project of the Foundation’s tba 100 initiative. Spearheaded by Dr. Marshall Meadors, III, the Dog Park project was the result of a partnership with the City of Anderson, Anderson County, AnMed Health, private donors and Foothills Community Foundation.

“Foothills Community Foundation looks for ways to be a catalyst for community improvement. We want to provide leadership and foster collabor ation. The tba 100 initiative demonstr ates how partnerships foster positive community Generator Park was the first tba 100 project. This photo shows the removal change” of the original generator from Portman Shoals Power Plant Dean Woods President Grant Celebration on October 25th

Tom and Sherrill Hall Fund to Anderson Emergency Kitchen

Crader-Vaughn Family Fund to Lakes and Bridges Charter School Fund

CHARITIES RECEIVING GRANTS AT THE GRANT CELEBRATION ON OCTOBER 25TH

Anderson Area YMCA Girl Scouts of America Anderson Arts Center Haven of Rest Anderson Emergency Soup Kitchen Hospice of the Upstate Anderson Free Clinic Lakes and Bridges Charter School Anderson Interfaith Ministries Meals on Wheels AnMed Health Foundation Omega Innovators Ann D. and James O. Herbert Fund to the Brighter Christmas Fund Medical Education Campus Fund Rotary Club of Anderson Mobile Mammography Centennial Operations Safe Harbor Brighter Christmas Fund Salvation Army Calvary Home for Children The Lot Project Cancer Association of Anderson United Way of Anderson County Clean Start Westside Community Center Foothills Alliance Young Life Carol E. Burdette Fund Wilkes Donor Advised Fund GAMAC to the Girl Scouts to Haven of Rest

EVENT SPONSORS

Robert W. and Sara Jane Orr Donor Advised Fund to Clean Start Rainey Donor Advised Fund to GAMAC, by Jane Mudd Suggs Johnson Donor Advised Sõl Flowers to Calvary Home, by the Jeff Roberts Family Fund to Young Life, by Gray Suggs Tom and Sherrill Hall Fund to Anderson Emergency Kitchen

Boseman Donor Advised Fund to Westside Community Center, by Jane Mudd

Art and Lauri Klugh Fund to Briar Patch Fund to AnMed Mobile Mammography The Lot Project by Julie and John Miller

Pruitt Foundation Fund to Hospice of the Upstate

Rainey Donor Advised Fund to GAMAC, by Jane Mudd Hughes Donor Advised Fund to the Rotary Club Centennial Project Agency Endowments Scholarship Funds Community Many nonprofit organizations establish an The creation of a scholarship fund can endowment fund with us in order to grow be structured to benefit students at any Foundation Initiatives assets to meet both current and future needs. education level or for a specific institution. Donors who wish to support a specific This provides a source of annual income and A scholarship fund can also be established nonprofit or cause can establish a designated helps maintain the organizational mission in to honor a loved one. fund with the Foundation. perpetuity. Anderson Country Club Dee Watkins American Heritage Forum Anderson Area Chamber of Commerce Golf Scholarship Fund Anderson International Festival Anderson Arts Center Tres Bailes Memorial Scholarship Anderson Regional Air Show Anderson Cemetery Fund Beth Park Memorial Scholarship Anderson Swim Club Booster Club Anderson Heritage Bill Barnette Band Scholarship AnMed Community Health Improvement Anderson Interfaith Ministries Chi Psi Scholarship Brighter Christmas Fund Calvary Home for Children Jonny A. Lyons Scholarship Carroll “Frog” Reames Sculpture Fund Clemson Community Foundation Fund Sandra Myers Memorial Scholarship Celebrate Anderson Friends of the Anderson County Library George A. Prince Memorial Ring Clemson University Bone Marrowthon Friends of the Anderson County Museum Thomas and Alfreida Wright Scholarship Go Play Outside Disc Golf Course Greater Anderson Musical Arts Consortium Junior Leadership Anderson Hospice of the Upstate Junior Leadership Pickens County Park Partners Lakes and Bridges Charter School Pendleton Historic Foundation Leadership Anderson Class 33 Sign Project Pendleton Presbyterian Church Cemetery William R. Phillips Memorial Trust Fund Maintenance Fund St. Patrick’s Day Breakfast Rotary Club of Anderson TBA 100 (To Benefit Anderson) Saint Luke’s Free Clinic William L. Watkins Unrestricted Fund Walhalla Rotary Club

Dean Woods, Foundation President, Rusty Burns, Anderson County Administrator, Dr. Marshall Meadors, Matt Harbin, City Council Member and Michael Cunningham, VP of Advancement, AnMed Health cut the ribbon on The Dog Park, July 12, 2017. Stone Creek Cove Golf Tournament and Auction sponsors presented a check for $17,174.39 to Foundation President Dean Woods to benefit the Brighter Christmas Fund

Field of Interest Funds Donor Advised Funds Field of interest funds are established to support Donor advised funds are established by Joye Family Charitable Fund particular interest areas, specific program donors who wish to actively participate in F. Stevon and Lynn A. Kay Fund initiatives, causes or geographic areas. the grant making process. Individuals who Lauri and Art Klugh Fund establish a donor advised fund recommend Lucas Family Fund Ben Comen, Living Without Limits charitable distributions to projects and J. Michael Magaha Fund Jeffcoat Initiative Fund organizations they want to support. Duke Energy Keowee Toxaway McDonald Charitable Fund Habitat Enhancement Fund Beatenbough Fund McDougald Family Fund Piedmont Health Assistance Fund Anita R. and James T. Boseman Fund C. L. Morehead, Jr. Fund Rocky River Conservancy Fund Briar Patch Fund Mosley Family Fund Brooks-Ivarson Fund Robert W. Sara Jane T. and Orr Fund Burt Family Fund Chris Painter Fund Carol E. Burdette Fund J. Roy Pennell, Jr. Fund Irvin L. Cauthen Fund Pickens Family Fund Crader-Vaughn Family Fund William B. Pickens Fund Mary Anne Douglas-Lake Fund Philip and Lucy Pidgeon Fund The Faith Fund J. Calhoun Pruitt, Jr. Fund Carole and Fred Foster Fund Pruitt Foundation Fund Father Francis A. Friend Fund Louise Weston and Robert M. Rainey Fund Irene B. Friend Fund Linda Kelley Smith (O’Quinn) Fund Gillespie Fund Suggs Johnson Fund The Great Outdoors Fund Ernest and Louise Trammell Fund Sue and John Greene Fund Mary Alyce and Barry Visioli Fund Thomas C. and Sherrill Knobel Hall Fund Wham Family Fund Harmon Fund Wilkes Fund James O. and Ann Dunaway Herbert Fund Dean Woods Fund Hughes Donor Advised Fund ARTS AND CULTURE Lander University Anderson Arts Center McCallie School Anderson International Festival Mercer University Friends of the Anderson County Museum New Covenant School GAMAC Newspapers in Education Georgia Museum of Art North Greenville University Pendleton Historic Foundation Pickens County Career & Technology Center SCETV Prince Memorial Ring Fund Tota l $131,327.20 Southern Wesleyan University St. Timothy’s School EDUCATION Tri County Technical College Anderson School of Theology Tri County Technical College Foundation Anderson University University of South Carolina Auburn University United Negro College Fund Charleston Southern University USC Development Foundation Christ School Washington & Lee University Clemson University Wilson Hall Coastal Carolina University Winthrop University College of Charleston 2017 Gr a nts Wofford College College of Charleston Foundation Total $66,746.68 Episcopal High School IPTAY

Haven of Rest staff members Katie Jaynes and Marissa Hughey Total Grants Awarded $922,962.00 Honea Path United Ministries HEALTH Leadership Anderson Sign Project AnMed Health Foundation Living Hope Presbyterian Church Cancer Association of Anderson Meals on Wheels DCEC New Mercies doclink North Anderson Presbyterian Church Foothills Alliance Oakdale Baptist Church Hospice of the Piedmont Pilot Club International Hospice of the Upstate Project Linus MDA Ripple of One MUSC Foundation Rotary Club of Walhalla Ohio State University Foundation Safe Harbor SC Research & Education Foundation Salvation Army of Anderson St. Luke’s Free Medical Clinic Genevieve and John Brown Sister Cities International Total $153,655.44 St. John’s United Methodist Church Ten at the Top YOUTH AND RECREATION COMMUNITY SERVICE The Shepherd’s Guild Anderson Area YMCA American Red Cross Thompson Centennial UMC Blue Ridge Council of the Boy Scouts Anderson Area Chamber of Trinity United Methodist Church Calvary Home for Children Commerce Triune Mercy Center Child Evangelism Fellowship Anderson Emergency Kitchen United Way of Anderson County First Flight Alliance Anderson Interfaith Ministries Upstate SC Alliance Go Play Outside Anderson Regional Air Show Upstate Warrior Solution Junior Leadership Pickens County Anderson Women’s Club Westside Community Center Kid Venture Playground Brett Crowe Memorial World Vision Omega Innovators Brighter Christmas Fund Total $294,942.60 Pickens County YMCA Central Carolina Thornwell Home Community Foundation ENVIRONMENT AND Total $48,853.93 Central Presbyterian Church GREENSPACE Christ Church EPC City of Seneca Episcopal Church of the Mediator Friends of Jocassee, Inc. First Presbyterian Church, Anderson SC Friends of Lake Keowee Society First Presbyterian Church, Highlands NC Rocky River Conservancy Foothills Community Foundation TBA 100 Dog Park Gatlinburg Relief Fund Troop 134, Boy Scouts of America Grace Episcopal Church Total $227,436.15 Greater Easley Chamber of Commerce Haven of Rest

Sterling and Jane Allen

Total Grants Awarded $922,962.00 Recipients of the Anderson Country Club Dee Watkins Golf Scholarship: Megan Smith, Hayden Saylors and Carleigh Greene

The Sandra Myers Memorial The George E. Prince Scholarship Memorial Ring The Sandra Myers Memorial Scholarship is awarded annually Prince Memorial Ring – The Prince Ring has been awarded to a West Oak High School senior pursuing a career in nursing. to Talon DeVinci Hawthorne, an exceptional graduate of T. This year, Bethany Dyar received a $1,500 scholarship to Tri L. Hanna High School selected by his peers for this award. County Technical College from the fund. Bethany plans a The Prince Ring Fund was established at the Foundation by nursing career in gerontology. members of the Drew and Sullivan families to honor the late Judge George E. Prince. Anderson Country Club Très Bailes Memorial Dee Watkins Golf Scholarship Scholarship Anderson Country Club Dee Watkins Golf Scholarship The Bailes Memorial scholarship is awarded to the salutatorian Fund has awarded three scholarships to outstanding area at Walhalla High School, in memory of the late Très Bailes. high school seniors. Megan Smith, from T. L. Hanna, Hayden This year, a statistical tie produced three winners, who each Saylors of Westside and Carleigh Greene of T. L. Hanna each received a $500 scholarship from the Bailes Fund. received a $1,500 scholarship. Miss Smith attends the Bridge • Emma Maclaine Hanvey who attends Clemson to Clemson, Mr. Saylors is enrolled at Coastal Carolina and University. Miss Greene attends Winthrop. • Catherine Lee who is enrolled at the University of South Carolina. • Jillian McNally who is a student at Clemson University. NEIGHBOR HELPING NEIGHBOR A Valuable Lesson Learned Growing Up In Tennessee

DONOR SPOTLIGHT Frank P. ‘Butch’ Hughes, III After retiring as publisher of the Anderson Independent-Mail, my wife and I decided to stay in Anderson, South Carolina.

As a newspaper publisher, I had the opportunity to be involved as a community leader in every community we’ve lived. I understand the importance of charitable giving. Neighbor helping neighbor – a valuable lesson I learned growing up in Tennessee.

I was aware of the Foothills Community Foundation and a few years ago I decided to create my own Donor Advised Fund. I found it a helpful way to organize and plan for my charitable contributions. Plus, it provides me with the tax benefits I need. Having a Donor Advised Fund at the Foundation is a way to maximize my contributions and make them last beyond a single donation.

Creating a Donor Advised Fund was easy and it provides me with flexibility tailored to my specific philanthropic interests. It gives me what I’ve always enjoyed, a hands on approach to giving. Helping others has just been a way of life for us. We value our partnership with the Foothills Community Foundation in helping us fulfill our charitable vision.

“Wherever we’ve been over my newspaper career, we’ve found ways to give back to the community.”

butch hughes

2017 Lyons Memorial Scholarship Recipients

Foothills Community Foundation is pleased to announce the 2017 recipients of the Jonny A. Lyons Memorial Scholarship. A bequest from Mrs. John Joseph Lyons provides scholarship assistance to graduating high school seniors who are descendants of former Orr-Lyons Mill employees. The Orr-Lyons Mill was a cotton spinning and weaving plant that was founded in 1899 and continued to operate until 1990.

The three recipients of the Lyons Scholarship for 2017 are Rachel Lee Collier, Alexander Hamby and Olivia Johnson. Miss Collier is a graduate of Belton-Honea Path High School who attends Lander University. Mr. Hamby, a student at Wofford College, graduated from Crescent High School. Miss Johnson, a T. L. Hanna graduate, attends Southern Wesleyan University. All three of these recipients descend from employees of the Orr Lyons Mill.

Rachel Collier Alexander Hamby Olivia Johnson A legacy woven through a century

Helen Cooper Wright worked as a highly skilled weaver at the Orr Lyons Mill in Anderson for more than 40 years. Mrs. Wright, who lived to be 100 years of age, only ceased her shifts at the mill when she reached mandatory retirement age.

Mrs. Jonny K. Lyons, married to Orr Mill president John Joseph Lyons for twenty- eight years, made a decision to honor those who had worked in the mill. She contacted Foothills Community Foundation and crafted an agreement to donate property to a fund that would provide scholarships to descendants of Orr Mill employees, long after the mill closure and her own death.

This year, Helen Wright’s hard work and Jonny Lyons’ lasting generosity have been woven together. One of the three recipients of the 2017 A young Olivia Johnson with her great Jonny Lyons Memorial Scholarship is Helen grandmother, Helen Wright Wright’s great granddaughter, Olivia Johnson. Olivia Johnson’s award marks the 30th scholarship awarded by Foothills Community Foundation since Jonny Lyons’ death in 2008. All scholarship recipients descend from employees of the former textile mill.

A Portrait of Jonny K. Lyons

Among the treasured memorabilia from Helen Wright’s decades at Orr-Lyons Mill is her Form W2 Withholding Tax Statement from 1956 – a year in which Helen’s take-home pay for an entire year was roughly the same as the $2,000 college scholarship awarded to her great gr anddaughter in 2017. Grants Awarded by Year At a Glance $1,600,000 $1,420,952 $1,400,000 $1,249,537 $1,200,000

$929,322 $1,000,000 $922,962

$800,000 $671,128 $735,039 $594,896 $602,425 $600,000

Total Grants $400,000 Awarded Since $200,000 Inception $0 $15,272,698.00 Growth of Total Assets

$15,000,000

$14,000,000 $13,562,291 d $13,000,000 $12,534,216 $12,000,000 $11,089,474 $12,535,957 $12,208,916 $11,000,000 $11,421,408 Total assests $10,000,000 $11,042,908 $9,000,000 $10,147,741 $13,562,291.00 $8,000,000 $7,000,000

$6,000,000 d Gr ants Awarded in 2017 by Category

EDUCATION: 94 $49,458.37 YOUTH & Total Number HEALTH: RECREATION: $133,655.44 $48,853.93 of funds

ARTS: $121,327.20

COMMUNITY SERVICE: $294,942.60

ENVIRONMENTAL & GREENSPACE: $227,436.15 Statement of Financial Position

JUNE 30, 2017 JUNE 30, 2016

ASSETS Cash 1,632,380 692,252 Marketable Securities and Real Estate 9,344,951 8,864,839 Fixed assets, net of accumulated depreciation 2,582,569 2,649,515 Other 2,391 2,310 Total 13,562,291 12,208,916

LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS Notes and Accounts Payable 1,208,024 1,268,219 Annuities Payable 841,321 874,034 Net Assets 11,512,946 10,066,663 Total 13,562,291 12,208,916

STATEMENT OF ACTIVITY Changes in Net Assets Investment Income 680,703 (128,384) Contributions 1,828,346 854,449 Other 95,045 89,122 Total 2,604,094 815,187

Less: Grants 987,411 867,138 Other Expenses 225,698 206,077

Increase in Net Assets 1,390,985 (258,028)

Annuity Gifts in Excess of (less than) Actuarial Liability 55,298 4,716

Net Assets, Beginning of Year 10,066,663 10,319,975

Net Assets, End of Year 11,512,946 10,066,663

TOTAL ASSETS 13,562,291 12,208,916

See audited financial statements for additional details R. Dean Woods, President • Cindy Ervin Kibler, Donor Services Director

The 2017 Foundation Executive Committee: Robert W. ‘Lujack’ Orr,Chariman , Glenn D. Buddin, Jr., Vice Chairman, Theresa G. Knoepp, MD,Treasurer , Rosemary F. Bailes, Secretary, and John A. Miller, Jr., Immediate Past Chairman

Chairman - Glenn D. Buddin, Jr.

Vice Chairman - Jeff Roberts James T. Boseman

Treasurer - Theresa G. Knoepp, MD Irvin L. Cauthen

Secretary - Ann D. Herbert Benjamin ‘Bo’ Crader Fred L. Foster Immediate Past Chairman - Robert W. “Lujack” Orr Linda P. McConnell Chairman Emeritus William Law Watkins John A. Miller, Jr.

Director Emeritus Jane W. Mudd Cordes Gaillard Seabrook, Jr. Robert M. Rainey Edward A. Spitz D. Gray Suggs Evans Whitaker, Ph.D. 2018 Board of Directors of 2018 Board