South Carolina · Nonprofit
Carolina Crown INC
Carolina Crown INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,114 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($15,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.6M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $54k
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Carolina Crown INC does
Mission
Carolina Crown, a premier world-class performing arts organization, is dedicated to enriching communities by inspiring lifelong excellence in young people. We achieve this through exceptional educational and performance opportunities within the performing arts. Our vision is to foster a more vibrant, connected, and compassionate world through the transformative power of the Crown experience. At the heart of this mission is the acclaimed Crown Drum Corps, composed of talented students aged 16 to 22 from across the globe. These young performers come together to create unforgettable moments on the field, traveling nationwide to compete and collaborate with other elite ensembles. Through their captivating performances, the Crown Drum Corps not only showcases the art of marching music but also helps expand and strengthen performing arts communities worldwide.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The world champion drum and bugle corps consist of student ages sixteen (16) to twenty-two (22) that come from around the world to perform alongside their peers. The corps travels around the nation for tours and to compete against other similar corps. Carolina Crown aims to develop integrity, commitment, respect, and excellence in the rising generation.
$2,780,358 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,780,358.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $1.5M to $3.2M (+112%).
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: 2021 72%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Joe Roach
Executive Director
Board chair
Joe Rosemond
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $1k → $23k.
4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% 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 Carolina Crown 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
Carolina Crown INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
85% 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 Carolina Crown INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 61% · 2021 46% · 2022 70% · 2023 36% — 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
80% of Carolina Crown INC's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 56% 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
75% of Carolina Crown INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $14k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside South Carolina, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $41k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Government funding Carolina Crown INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record.
- Department of Defense$20k
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 Carolina Crown 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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Carolina Crown 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 Carolina Crown INC?
- Carolina Crown INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,114 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($15,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Carolina Crown INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $54,114 in grants to Carolina Crown INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Carolina Crown INC?
- MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Carolina Crown 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 9 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