South Carolina · Nonprofit
ACADEMY OF HOPE INC
ACADEMY OF HOPE INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,600 to it, the largest being 1988 IRREV COCHRANE MEMORIAL TR ($30,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $31k
- Net assets
- $-103913
What Academy of Hope Inc does
Mission
To maximize the potential inherent in every student by building character, promoting critical thinking, encouraging intellectual curiosity, cultivating entrepreneurship and instilling a sense of global responsibility.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Enable the students of horry county to excel as scholars, professionals and citizens by offering unique opportunities that will challenge their intellectual abilities and give them hope to dream such opportunities. Include meaningful, rigorous coursework that will ultimately serve as a catalyst to affect positive change on both local and global platforms.
$1,395,511 spent$4,705 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,395,511.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $1.3M to $659k (−48%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 99% · 2018 98% · 2019 99% · 2020 99% · 2021 97% · 2022 100% · 2023 92% · 2024 100% · 2025 98%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of ACADEMY OF HOPE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Deloris Rozier
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of ACADEMY OF HOPE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ACADEMY OF HOPE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
ACADEMY OF HOPE INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ACADEMY OF HOPE INC receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $31k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ACADEMY OF HOPE INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ACADEMY OF HOPE INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ACADEMY OF HOPE INC?
- ACADEMY OF HOPE INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,600 to it, the largest being 1988 IRREV COCHRANE MEMORIAL TR ($30,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ACADEMY OF HOPE INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $30,600 in grants to ACADEMY OF HOPE INC.
- Who is the largest funder of ACADEMY OF HOPE INC?
- 1988 IRREV COCHRANE MEMORIAL TR is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACADEMY OF HOPE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing