COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO) — Wednesday morning, the local nonprofit “Curing Kids Cancer” announced a $5 million endowment gift to Prisma Health Children’s Hospital.

The good news comes as the organization celebrates its 20th anniversary.

“Curing Kids Cancer” began in 2005, after Grainne and Clay Owen lost their nine year old son, Killian, to leukemia.

“I started this charity sitting at my kitchen table, and honestly if you had told me then we’d be standing here today — having raised $33 million and being able to donate $5 million as an endowment with Killian’s name on it — I would say you’re absolutely crazy,” says Grainne.

The endowment will be known as “Killian’s hope for a United South Carolina.”

“When we lost Killian, it was obviously not what we wanted to happen. It was devastating. But

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