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Central Electric Power Cooperative Inc

Central is a generation and transmission (g&t) cooperative supplying power to nineteen member distribution cooperatives in south carolina. Central constructs transmission tap lines to serve substations owned by the distribution cooperatives.

$3.1M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2024
11
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$200,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$1,000,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 15
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$559M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Central Electric Power Cooperative Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23
Public BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving9$3.1M0%
FY202311$9.0M0%
FY202212$8.0M8%
FY20216$1.7M17%
FY202015$5.6M33%
FY201913$2.1Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Community Improvement$26MPublic Benefit$2.5MEnvironment$1.4M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 19 grantees

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($200k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Central Electric Power Cooperative Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSantee Electric Cooperative Inc: $4,455,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetPee Dee Electric Cooperative Inc: $3,640,490 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetFairfield Electric Cooperative Inc: $3,030,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetBlack River Electric Cooperative Inc: $2,750,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetAiken Electric Cooperative Inc: $2,591,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetNewberry Electric Cooperative Inc: $2,509,950 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetEdisto Electric Cooperative Inc: $2,049,150 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetBroad River Electric Cooperative Inc: $1,666,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetCoastal Electric Cooperative Inc: $1,608,037 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetBlue Ridge Electric Cooperative Inc: $1,548,856 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetYork Electric Cooperative Inc: $801,649 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetLittle River Electric Cooperative Inc: $658,916 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetLynches River Electric Cooperative Inc: $505,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetLaurens Electric Cooperative Inc: $502,265 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMarlboro Electric Cooperative Inc: $370,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTri-County Electric Cooperative Inc: $247,199 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBerkeley Electric Cooperative Inc: $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHorry Electric Cooperative Inc: $130,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPalmetto Electric Cooperative Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Palmetto Economic Development Corp Dba South Carolina Power TeamSC15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Central Electric Power Cooperative Inc

How much does Central Electric Power Cooperative Inc give?
Central Electric Power Cooperative Inc reported 9 grants totaling $3,102,199 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 15 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Central Electric Power Cooperative Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Community Improvement (87%), Public Benefit (9%), Environment (5%).
Who are Central Electric Power Cooperative Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Santee Electric Cooperative Inc ($4.5M), Pee Dee Electric Cooperative Inc ($3.6M), Fairfield Electric Cooperative Inc ($3.0M).
Does Central Electric Power Cooperative Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Central Electric Power Cooperative Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Palmetto Economic Development Corp Dba South Carolina Power Team.
Where is Central Electric Power Cooperative Inc based?
Central Electric Power Cooperative Inc is based in SC.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 20 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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