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South Carolina First Steps to School Readiness Board of Trustees

Per south carolina code section 59-152-30: "the goals for south carolina first steps to school readiness are to: (1) provide parents with access to the support they might seek and want to strengthen their families and to promote the optimal development of their preschool children; (2) increase comprehensive services so children have…

$56M
Granted FY2025still arriving
47
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$32M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 58% of SOUTH CAROLINA FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS BOARD OF TRUSTEES’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k7 grants · $1.6M
  • $250k+40 grants · $54M
$396,153
Median grant
1
States reached
$35M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PRIVATE 4K CHILD CARE CENTERS$32,397,609
GREENVILLE COUNTY FIRST STEPS PARTN$1,346,772
RICHLAND COUNTY FIRST STEPS PARTNER$1,230,998
YORK COUNTY FIRST STEPS PARTNERSHIP$1,184,739
LEXINGTON COUNTY FIRST STEPS PARTNE$1,178,033
SPARTANBURG COUNTY FIRST STEPS PART$1,141,787
BERKELEY COUNTY FIRST STEPS PARTNER$979,024
CHARLESTON COUNTY FIRST STEPS PARTN$977,422
HORRY COUNTY FIRST STEPS PARTNERSHI$779,881
FLORENCE COUNTY FIRST STEPS PARTNER$646,647
BEAUFORT COUNTY FIRST STEPS PARTNER$631,551
ANDERSON COUNTY FIRST STEPS PARTNER$630,825
LEE COUNTY FIRST STEPS PARTNERSHIP$609,150
WILLIAMSBURG COUNTY FIRST STEPS PAR$606,782
DILLON COUNTY FIRST STEPS PARTNERSH$575,635
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 72% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%GREENVILLE COUNTY FIRST STEPS PARTN: $1.4M → 10%CHARLESTON COUNTY FIRST STEPS PARTN: $1.0M → 12%HORRY COUNTY FIRST STEPS PARTNERSHI: $780k → 13%SPARTANBURG COUNTY FIRST STEPS PART: $1.2M → 15%RICHLAND COUNTY FIRST STEPS PARTNER: $1.3M → 16%FLORENCE COUNTY FIRST STEPS PARTNER: $647k → 20%LEE COUNTY FIRST STEPS PARTNERSHIP: $642k → 28%GREENVILLE COUNTY FIRST STEPS PARTN: $1.1M → 10%CHARLESTON COUNTY FIRST STEPS PARTN: $977k → 12%HORRY COUNTY FIRST STEPS PARTNERSHI: $745k → 13%SPARTANBURG COUNTY FIRST STEPS PART: $1.1M → 15%RICHLAND COUNTY FIRST STEPS PARTNER: $1.3M → 16%GREENVILLE COUNTY FIRST STEPS PARTN: $1.3M → 10%CHARLESTON COUNTY FIRST STEPS PARTN: $975k → 12%HORRY COUNTY FIRST STEPS PARTNERSHI: $700k → 13%SPARTANBURG COUNTY FIRST STEPS PART: $926k → 15%RICHLAND COUNTY FIRST STEPS PARTNER: $1.2M → 16%GREENVILLE COUNTY FIRST STEPS PARTNERSHIP: $1.0M → 10%CHARLESTON COUNTY FIRST STEPS PARTN: $968k → 12%HORRY COUNTY FIRST STEPS PARTNERSHI: $685k → 13%SPARTANBURG COUNTY FIRST STEPS PART: $863k → 15%RICHLAND COUNTY FIRST STEPS PARTNER: $1.2M → 16%GREENVILLE COUNTY FIRST STEPS PARTN: $1.1M → 10%CHARLESTON COUNTY FIRST STEPS PARTNERSHIP: $787k → 12%HORRY COUNTY FIRST STEPS PARTNERSHI: $659k → 13%SPARTANBURG COUNTY FIRST STEPS PART: $714k → 15%RICHLAND COUNTY FIRST STEPS PARTNER: $843k → 16%GREENVILLE COUNTY FIRST STEPS PARTN: $1.0M → 10%CHARLESTON COUNTY FIRST STEPS PARTN: $735k → 12%SPARTANBURG COUNTY FIRST STEPS PART: $678k → 15%SC EDUCATION OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE: $1.0M → 16%BERKELEY COUNTY FIRST STEPS PARTNER: $877k → 9%GREENVILLE COUNTY FIRST STEPS PARTN: $1.1M → 10%CHARLESTON COUNTY FIRST STEPS PARTN: $733k → 12%SPARTANBURG COUNTY FIRST STEPS PART: $673k → 15%RICHLAND COUNTY FIRST STEPS PARTNERSHIP: $808k → 16%GREENVILLE COUNTY FIRST STEPS PARTN: $990k → 10%CHARLESTON COUNTY FIRST STEPS PARTN: $727k → 12%SPARTANBURG COUNTY FIRST STEPS PARTNERSHIP: $669k → 15%RICHLAND COUNTY FIRST STEPS PARTNER: $804k → 16%GREENVILLE COUNTY FIRST STEPS PARTN: $1.0M → 10%CHARLESTON COUNTY FIRST STEPS PARTN: $693k → 12%RICHLAND COUNTY FIRST STEPS PARTNER: $799k → 16%RICHLAND COUNTY FIRST STEPS PARTNER: $750k → 16%LEXINGTON COUNTY FIRST STEPS PARTNE: $1.2M → 16%LEXINGTON COUNTY FIRST STEPS PARTNE: $1.1M → 16%LEXINGTON COUNTY FIRST STEPS PARTNE: $1.0M → 16%LEXINGTON COUNTY FIRST STEPS PARTNERSHIP: $684k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$326M · 48 repeat orgs$206k to everyone else

48 repeat relationships — 47 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
1

Total granted

$326M
$206k

Still filing today

96%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • GC
    GREENVILLE COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP
    9× · 2017–2025 · $10M · revenue +39% · 87% of their budget
  • RC
    RICHLAND COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP
    9× · 2017–2025 · $9.0M · revenue +100% · 42% of their budget
  • LC
    LEXINGTON COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP
    9× · 2017–2025 · $7.6M · revenue +65% · 97% of their budget

Funded once

  • NC
    NEWBERRY COUNTY FIRST STEPS PARTNERSHIP
    one grant, 2017 · $206k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
South Carolina First Steps to School Readiness Board of Trustees

Per south carolina code section 59-152-30: "the goals for south carolina first steps to school readiness are to: (1) provide parents with access to the support they might seek and want to strengthen their families and to promote the…

Education
2
Partnership for Children of Cumberland County Inc

The partnership's mission is to be the driving force to engage partners to achieve lasting positive outcomes for all children, beginning at birth.

Education
3
Onslow County Partnership for Children

When they have challenges, we connect all children and their families to programs and resources that provide opportunities and hope.

Education
4
Smart Start of Forsyth County

To promote equitable access to quality, comprehensive early childhood development and education in response to the needs of our community.

Education
5
Durham's Partnership for Children

To ensure every child in durham enters school ready to succeed, we lead community strategies for children birth to 5, and their families that promote healthy development and learning and echance access to high quality care.

Education
6
North Carolina Partnership for Children Inc

The north carolina partnership for children (ncpc) is the lead organization and backbone of the smart start network, setting statewide vision, policy, and funding priorities. while local partnerships translate the statewide vision into…

Education
7
The First Step
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8
Early Years Inc

Early years leads efforts to strengthen accessible and affordable quality early care and education by providing support for families, communities and the workforce. early years 's primary purpose is to provide services, research and…

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9
Southwest Human Development Incorporated

Southwest human development strengthens the foundation arizona's children need for a great start in life.

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10
Children & Family Resource Center of Henderson County Inc

To nurture the development of children by building a strong foundation of family and community.

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11
Franklin Granville Vance Smart Start Inc

Our mission is to advance and advocate for a high quality, comprehensive, accountable system of care and education for children 0-5, which builds a foundation leading to a productive and successful life. our goal is to prepare our children…

Human Services
12
Caldwell County Smart Start a Partnership for Young Children

Helping caldwell county children arrive at school healthy and prepared for success.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Abbeville County First Steps to School Readiness Partnership and the most unlike its peers is Laurens County First Steps to School Readiness Partnership. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%0%<5yr12%0%5–10yr15%0%10–20yr24%100%20–35yr9%0%35–55yr19%0%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr12%0%5–10yr15%0%10–20yr24%100%20–35yr9%0%35–55yr19%0%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/47
the rest of the field
12%
3,449/28,742

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

46 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 46 of the 49 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

44
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/46
Grantees still filing
43/46
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PRIVATE 4K CHILD CARE CENTERS — $168,089,520 · OtherPRIVATE 4K CHILD CARE CENTERS+10 more — $20,364,567 · Other+10 moreGREENVILLE COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP — $10,124,635 · EducationGREENVILLE COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINE…RICHLAND COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP — $9,004,190 · EducationRICHLAND COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS…CHARLESTON COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP — $7,637,661 · EducationCHARLESTON COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINE…LEXINGTON COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP — $7,570,676 · EducationLEXINGTON COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINES…SPARTANBURG COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP — $7,544,243 · EducationSPARTANBURG COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READIN…YORK COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP — $7,282,126 · EducationBERKELEY COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP — $6,097,457 · EducationHORRY COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP — $5,936,122 · Education+30 more — $76,822,309 · Education+30 more
Other$188,454,087Education$138,019,419

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGREENVILLE COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP — $10,124,635 over 9y, 87% of budgetRICHLAND COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP — $9,004,190 over 9y, 42% of budgetCHARLESTON COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP — $7,637,661 over 9y, 87% of budgetLEXINGTON COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP — $7,570,676 over 9y, 97% of budgetSPARTANBURG COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP — $7,544,243 over 9y, 20% of budgetYORK COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP — $7,282,126 over 9y, 97% of budgetBERKELEY COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP — $6,097,457 over 9y, 96% of budgetHORRY COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP — $5,936,122 over 9y, 100% of budgetANDERSON COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP — $4,415,462 over 9y, 99% of budgetBEAUFORT COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP — $4,134,328 over 9y, 98% of budgetFLORENCE COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP — $4,092,560 over 9y, 92% of budgetAIKEN COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS — $3,714,013 over 9y, 99% of budgetSUMTER COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP — $3,461,770 over 9y, 100% of budgetDORCHESTER COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP — $3,367,003 over 9y, 99% of budgetORANGEBURG COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP — $3,112,863 over 9y, 97% of budgetPICKENS COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP — $3,090,318 over 9y, 95% of budgetDILLON COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP — $2,972,872 over 9y, 98% of budgetLEE COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP — $2,920,154 over 9y, 47% of budgetDARLINGTON COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP — $2,906,266 over 9y, 86% of budgetCHESTERFIELD COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP — $2,892,894 over 9y, 83% of budgetLANCASTER COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP — $2,738,734 over 9y, 18% of budgetWILLIAMSBURG COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP — $2,647,767 over 9y, 99% of budgetMARION COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP — $2,486,643 over 9y, 100% of budgetCOLLETON COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP — $2,392,041 over 9y, 92% of budgetGREENWOOD COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP — $2,324,253 over 9y, 99% of budgetBARNWELL COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP — $2,212,021 over 9y, 71% of budgetGEORGETOWN COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP — $2,183,784 over 9y, 99% of budgetFAIRFIELD COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP — $2,175,681 over 9y, 100% of budgetCHEROKEE COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP — $2,149,195 over 9y, 99% of budgetBAMBERG COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP — $2,130,405 over 9y, 98% of budgetMCCORMICK COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP — $2,094,716 over 9y, 97% of budgetCLARENDON COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP — $2,088,185 over 9y, 99% of budgetUNION COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP — $2,046,286 over 9y, 99% of budgetCALHOUN COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP — $1,998,528 over 9y, 99% of budgetOCONEE COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS — $1,947,856 over 9y, 100% of budgetKERSHAW COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP — $1,943,182 over 9y, 100% of budgetEDGEFIELD COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP — $1,940,440 over 9y, 97% of budgetNEWBERRY COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP — $1,933,948 over 8y, 96% of budgetJASPER COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP — $1,931,062 over 9y, 94% of budgetCHESTER COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP — $1,924,609 over 9y, 99% of budgetLAURENS COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP — $1,916,243 over 9y, 100% of budgetMARLBORO COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP — $1,896,217 over 9y, 100% of budgetALLENDALE COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP — $1,887,824 over 9y, 99% of budgetSALUDA COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP — $1,879,501 over 9y, 98% of budgetHAMPTON COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP — $1,871,040 over 9y, 100% of budgetABBEVILLE COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP — $1,806,780 over 9y, 99% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds GREENVILLE COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds RICHLAND COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds CHARLESTON COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds LEXINGTON COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds SPARTANBURG COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds YORK COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds BERKELEY COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds HORRY COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds ANDERSON COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds BEAUFORT COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds FLORENCE COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds AIKEN COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS ↗
  • Who funds SUMTER COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds DORCHESTER COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds ORANGEBURG COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds PICKENS COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds DILLON COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds LEE COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds DARLINGTON COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds CHESTERFIELD COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds LANCASTER COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAMSBURG COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds MARION COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds COLLETON COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds GREENWOOD COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds BARNWELL COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds FAIRFIELD COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds CHEROKEE COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds BAMBERG COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds MCCORMICK COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds CLARENDON COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds UNION COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds CALHOUN COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds OCONEE COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS ↗
  • Who funds KERSHAW COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds EDGEFIELD COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds NEWBERRY COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds JASPER COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP ↗

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Save The Children Fed…United Way of the Mid…Children's Trust of S…Central Carolina Comm…Coastal Community Fou…
Save The Children Federation IncCT23.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Save The Children Federation Inc · United Way of the Midlands · Children's Trust of South Carolina · Central Carolina Community Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization South Carolina First Steps to School Readiness Board of Trustees funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 49 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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