South Carolina · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR COURAGE & RENEWAL
CENTER FOR COURAGE & RENEWAL (South Carolina) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,248,962 to it, the largest being THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ($1,842,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $4.2M
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What Center for Courage & Renewal does
Mission
The Center for Courage & Renewal exists to nurture deep integrity and relational trust, building the foundation for a more loving, equitable, and healthy world. Through circle of trust retreats and other programs rooted in the courage & renewal approach we nurture supportive communities of reflection and practice to help people come alive with a renewed sense of purpose, build trustworthy relationships, and cultivate the courage to rise to today's challenges, making a difference within themselves and their communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Our core programs are educational programs where participants learn skills that nurture resilience, build relational trust, and show up with greater integrity in their lives and work. In fy 24/25 we held seven 5-week online foundations programs focused on the foundational tenets of the courage & renewal approach which served 201 participants. We hosted two courage & renewal practicum programs which served 41 participants. The practicum builds on previous training by supporting people to turn learning into actions that make an impact on their daily lives and within their families, communities, and workplaces. We also prepare people to facilitate circle of trust retreats in their communities and institutions. In fy 24/25, we engaged 32 facilitator apprentices and 30 mentors in our facilitator preparation program.
$499,161 spent$406,115 earned by the program45% of program spendingCcr offers a variety of ways for people to connect with other members of the courage & renewal community for ongoing support and practice. Our membership & belonging program supports an online community platform using technology which aims to deepen community engagement and connection opportunities, expand and enrich our program offerings and foster leadership and self organizing among members. In this fiscal year our community platform grew to over 700 members. Members can join various sector or affinity based communities of practice, attend community-specific events, and share resources. Two communities the practitioner learning community and the facilitator collaboration are specifically for alumni of related core programs to support ongoing formation and connection.
$424,480 spent38% of program spendingCcr's sector programs provide communities of reflection and practice for leaders in a variety of fields including: education, non-profits, business, healthcare, human services and religion. This supports their efforts to work within their own communities and professions from a place of greater integrity in ways that are life-giving and renewing for themselves, and the people they serve. In fy2024/25, we continued flourishing in ministry programs with a focus on serving black, indigenous, people of color spiritual leaders and activists (about 10 for each retreat) and including a pilot for korean-speaking ministry leaders (12 from both the usa and south korea). We also continued our souls on deck cohort experience with 32 ccr facilitators from across the usa and europe. Our healing the heart of higher education conference hosted over 200 attendees. In this fiscal year, members of our facilitator collaboration offered 122 programs and retreats including sector-based experiences like courage to teach, as well as courage to lead cross-professional experiences reaching over 1,464 participants in countries around the world.
$189,847 spent17% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,113,488.
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 2024 to 2025, from $2.0M to $2.6M (+31%).
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 3% · 2022 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of CENTER FOR COURAGE & RENEWAL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Ade Adeniji
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 11 funders to 8 funders, grant income fell $1.4M → $230k.
10 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 COURAGE & RENEWAL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 22 of 23 funders by total. 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 COURAGE & RENEWAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
56% 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 COURAGE & RENEWAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 53% · 2019 94% · 2020 92% · 2021 65% · 2022 87% · 2023 87% — growing more concentrated.
“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
41% of CENTER FOR COURAGE & RENEWAL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
53% of CENTER FOR COURAGE & RENEWAL'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 $2.0M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside South Carolina, across 8 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
CENTER FOR COURAGE & RENEWAL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CENTER FOR COURAGE & RENEWAL
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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CENTER FOR COURAGE & RENEWAL?
- CENTER FOR COURAGE & RENEWAL (South Carolina) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,248,962 to it, the largest being THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ($1,842,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR COURAGE & RENEWAL have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $4,248,962 in grants to CENTER FOR COURAGE & RENEWAL, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR COURAGE & RENEWAL?
- THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,842,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR COURAGE & RENEWAL 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 23 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