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BENJAMIN E MAYS FAMILY RESOURCE CTR

BENJAMIN E MAYS FAMILY RESOURCE CTR (South Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $107,000 to it, the largest being CHILDREN'S TRUST OF SOUTH CAROLINA ($35,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$175k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$107k
Net assets
$2.4M
1/5 repeat funders
01What it does

What Benjamin E Mays Family Resource Ctr does

Mission

To provide resources and learning for pacolet and surrounding communities, so that all may reach their full potential in education, vocation, economic mobility and health.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The organization opened the center for swat training where 25 officers trained in the facility and on the grounds. The organization held a resource rally where 30 vendors and 45 community members were able to see the resources the organization makes available to the community. Twelve teams were able to use our field. The teams had a fan base of 200 people at each of eight games. The organization hosted a church board 1-day retreat where 12 church members met for the day. The organization hosted a clean-up day for the center where 14 community members participated to help clean the facility. The organization hosted two pastors' round table discussions with 12 local pastors. The organization partnered with upstate favor to host 6 group meetings for community members with addiction issues. The organization offered holiday food for the community for thanksgiving and christmas providing 120 families and over 400 individuals with food.

    $35,882 spentof which $500 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $35,882.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.

100 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($2.6M) Expenses 100 ($62k) Net assets 100 ($2.5M)2024 Revenue 7 ($175k) Expenses 516 ($322k) Net assets 94 ($2.4M)
20232024
Revenue (7)Expenses (516)Net assets (94)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $2.5M to $2.4M (−6%).

$2.5M
$2.4M
20232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 98%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

99% of BENJAMIN E MAYS FAMILY RESOURCE CTR’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$2.5M
’23
−$147k
’24
6.6
months of
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

Reed Brown

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

20232024
Listed1215
Joined·+4
No longer listed·1
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of BENJAMIN E MAYS FAMILY RESOURCE CTR’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

BENJAMIN E MAYS FAMILY RESOURCE CTR leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

70% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BENJAMIN E MAYS FAMILY RESOURCE CTR.

33%
largest funder
81%
top three
~4
effective funders

“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

100% of BENJAMIN E MAYS FAMILY RESOURCE CTR's grant income comes from South Carolina funders.

SC

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BENJAMIN E MAYS FAMILY RESOURCE CTR is better cushioned than half of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−84% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve6.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−93% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 19%Fundraising 5%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

SC

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BENJAMIN E MAYS FAMILY RESOURCE CTR: 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 BENJAMIN E MAYS FAMILY RESOURCE CTR?
BENJAMIN E MAYS FAMILY RESOURCE CTR (South Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $107,000 to it, the largest being CHILDREN'S TRUST OF SOUTH CAROLINA ($35,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BENJAMIN E MAYS FAMILY RESOURCE CTR have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $107,000 in grants to BENJAMIN E MAYS FAMILY RESOURCE CTR, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BENJAMIN E MAYS FAMILY RESOURCE CTR?
CHILDREN'S TRUST OF SOUTH CAROLINA is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BENJAMIN E MAYS FAMILY RESOURCE CTR 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 FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 5 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