Nucor Corp. is giving $100,000 to the One SC Fund to help South Carolina families hit by Hurricane Matthew, the steelmaker announced Wednesday at the Governor’s Mansion in Columbia.

Giff Daughtridge, vice president and general manager of Nucor Steel Berkeley, the company’s sheet and structural steel mill in Huger, announced the donation alongside Gov. Nikki Haley, according to SCETV and The Post and Courier.

“At Nucor, we take great pride in supporting the communities where we work and live every day,” Daughtridge said, according to SCETV. “We also take pride in our South Carolina heritage, where our steelmaking history was born over 50 years ago. So naturally, the over 2,000 South Carolina Nucor teammates at our 4 divisions want to do their part to help the families and neighborhoods that need support and rebuilding.”

Nucor, the largest steel producer in the country, has four divisions in South Carolina and employs more than 2,000 people in the state, SCETV reported.

With the gift, the fund has raised more than $800,000 since the hurricane, according to SCETV.

“This is South Carolina at her best. We have incredible corporate partners, and $100,000 is an amazing contribution to a fund that is going to help so many people,” Haley said, according to SCETV. “To have over $800,000 come in from individuals all across our state and from great companies like Nucor Steel goes back to the heart of South Carolina.”

Where the money goes

The donation goes directly to relief organizations helping the neediest victims of the storm, which hit the state Oct. 8, The Post and Courier reported.

Haley started the One SC Fund after the historic flooding of October 2015. It has distributed $2 million to nonprofits helping residents rebuild from that disaster, South Carolina Public Radio reported. After Matthew, Haley expanded the fund’s mission to cover hurricane victims, working with the Central Carolina Community Foundation, according to SCETV.

“What we’ve found very, very helpful was we started the One SC Fund last year, and what that did was allowed neighbors to help neighbors, businesses who wanted to contribute to the state to help those in need,” Haley said earlier this month, South Carolina Public Radio reported.

Nonprofits can apply for grants from the fund, and money for immediate needs will be reviewed and sent out as soon as possible, according to South Carolina Public Radio. Requests to help with rebuilding will be reviewed in the coming months as needs are assessed.

The storm’s toll

Recovery is still under way. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has approved $11 million in relief for 3,268 applicants, and residents in 24 counties, including the three in the Charleston area, can apply for grants and loans, The Post and Courier reported.

According to figures from Haley, 174 homes were destroyed by the Category 1 storm and about 2,000 suffered minor to major damage, the newspaper reported. Power has been restored across the state after a record 861,000 outages.

“South Carolina is getting back to work, back into an economy that is going to move again,” Haley said Wednesday, according to The Post and Courier.

The Berkeley mill

Nucor Steel Berkeley, in Huger, started operating in 1996, according to Nucor’s annual report for that year. The mill makes sheet steel and structural steel, and its facilities cover about 2.3 million square feet, the company said in its latest annual report. Nucor also runs a bar mill in Darlington.

In 2014, the Berkeley mill started up a capital project of nearly $100 million that lets it produce wider and thinner high-strength steel, Nucor said in its annual report. The steel is used in metal buildings, rail cars, water heaters, automobiles, heavy equipment and motor laminations, according to the company.

Nucor is based in Charlotte.