South Carolina · Nonprofit
BROOKLAND CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ECONOMIC CHANGE
BROOKLAND CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ECONOMIC CHANGE (South Carolina) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,230,672 to it, the largest being BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina Foundation ($620,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $2.8M
What Brookland Center for Community Economic Change does
Mission
To engage and serve people of all ages and backgrounds while promoting advancements in health, education, economic empowerment, and improving the lives of residents in lexington and richland counties and neighboring communities throughout the midlands of south carolina.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Health education and behavioral services program provides health and human services education for diabetes and mental health for adults and teens. The diabetes intervention program (dip) for families is designed to reach african american and hispanic families living with type 2 diabetes in the high poverty communities of cayce, west columbia, and surrounding lexington and richland south carolina. The dip consists of weekly intensive lifestyle intervention (ili) sessions, a lifestyle change incentive program, and text messaging reminders, designed to increase access to health education. The mental health initiative offers free mental health first aid training to adults and teens on identifying, understanding and responding to signs of mental illness and substance use disorders. Since february 2022 over 300 persons have been trained.
$672,475 spent52% of program spendingProvide academic enrichment opportunities, during non-school hours for children in high poverty and low-performing schools. Helps students meet state and local student standards in core subjects, such as reading and math, steam focused subjects and other enrichment activities. Offered scouting opportunities to complement academic tutoring.
$231,048 spent18% of program spendingThrough the food and nutrition security program, the bccec seeks to decrease food insecurity in lexington and richland counties, south carolina community areas. Through partnerships with various granting agencies, the bccec intends to increase the accessibility and affordability of quality, health foods. This is accomplished through a food policy council, community gardens, farmer's markets, weekly distribution of food including fresh vegetables and fruits and a summer feeding program targeting children under age 18. The program seeks to provide a safe, nutritious, and secure food supply for residents who might not otherwise receive healthy food choices.
$270,483 spent21% of program spendingOther
$119,960 spent9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,293,966.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $2.0M to $3.2M (+59%).
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: 2020 61% · 2021 74% · 2022 66% · 2023 67% · 2024 63%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of BROOKLAND CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ECONOMIC CHANGE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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
Bennie L Sulton
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $10k → $86k.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 BROOKLAND CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ECONOMIC CHANGE’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
BROOKLAND CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ECONOMIC CHANGE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
38% 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 BROOKLAND CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ECONOMIC CHANGE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 71% · 2021 76% · 2022 44% · 2023 58% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
50% of BROOKLAND CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ECONOMIC CHANGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
83% of BROOKLAND CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ECONOMIC CHANGE's grant income comes from South Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $91k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states 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.
Against its field
BROOKLAND CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ECONOMIC CHANGE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding BROOKLAND CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ECONOMIC CHANGE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.3M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$2.2M
- Department of the Interior$1.6M
- Department of Agriculture$485k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like BROOKLAND CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ECONOMIC CHANGE
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
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
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Brookland Baptist Church · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BROOKLAND CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ECONOMIC CHANGE: 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 BROOKLAND CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ECONOMIC CHANGE?
- BROOKLAND CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ECONOMIC CHANGE (South Carolina) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,230,672 to it, the largest being BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina Foundation ($620,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BROOKLAND CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ECONOMIC CHANGE have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $1,230,672 in grants to BROOKLAND CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ECONOMIC CHANGE, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BROOKLAND CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ECONOMIC CHANGE?
- BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $620,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BROOKLAND CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ECONOMIC CHANGE 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 11 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