South Carolina · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SERVICES
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SERVICES (South Carolina) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,388,635 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC ($500,630). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $828k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $711k
What Center for Community Services does
Mission
The Center for Community Services empowers families to break the cycle of poverty through crisis assistance and employment readiness.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Center for Community Services unites several area nonprofits under one banner, providing a hub in the golden strip area where people who face challenging financial circumstances can come for both immediate assistance and long-term help in breaking the cycle of poverty.
$696,657 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $696,657.
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 2023 to 2024, from $759k to $638k (−16%).
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 21% · 2018 20% · 2019 27% · 2020 23% · 2021 46% · 2022 43% · 2023 18% · 2024 23% · 2025 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Brooks Derrick
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $50k → $225k.
1 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SERVICES’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
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SERVICES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
74% 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 CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 44% · 2019 59% · 2020 37% · 2021 41% · 2022 36% · 2023 42% — 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
63% of CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SERVICES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
93% of CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SERVICES'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. $178k 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.
Against its field
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SERVICES runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SERVICES
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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: 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 CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SERVICES?
- CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SERVICES (South Carolina) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,388,635 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC ($500,630). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,388,635 in grants to CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SERVICES, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SERVICES?
- UNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $500,630 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SERVICES 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 12 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