South Carolina · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR CREATIVE PARTNERSHIPS
CENTER FOR CREATIVE PARTNERSHIPS (South Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,500 to it, the largest being SOUTH CAROLINA HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC ($23,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $27k
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What Center for Creative Partnerships does
Mission
Center for Creative Partnerships is a Conscience and Social Justice organization that promotes community involvement through the arts and humanities, including civil and human rights. One of the organization's principal goals is to restore and maintain the long-term viability of historical, cultural, and community icons.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Center for Creative Partnerships is integral to the redevelopment of the City of Orangeburg, focusing on history, civil rights, the arts, and community, and is part of the Development Team chosen by the City to re-envision Railroad Corner, the historic black business district across from two historically Black Colleges (HBCUs) to include a Civil Rights Museum. The Center has secured ownership of All-Star Bowling Lanes and will preserve this important African American Heritage Site as a historic site, a community asset, and a state-of-the-art Bowling Center, creating the first Civil Rights Bowling Lanes/Justice Center, on the national African American Civil Rights Network. It will honor the victims of one of the most violent episodes in the civil rights movement, while creating a bowling center for fun and reconciliation for the community and the universities, attracting visitors from around the world. Phase I is supported by a $500,000 African American Civil Rights grant in the amount of $500,000 from the Historic Preservation Fund administered by the National Park Service, Department of the Interior.HISTORYCenter for Creative Partnerships was created in the late 1990s by…
$76,481 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $76,481.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $836k to $2.6M (+216%).
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: 2022 97% · 2024 49% · 2025 96%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of CENTER FOR CREATIVE PARTNERSHIPS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 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
William C Hine
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $12k → $15k.
From the IRS filings of CENTER FOR CREATIVE PARTNERSHIPS’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 CREATIVE PARTNERSHIPS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
89% 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 CREATIVE PARTNERSHIPS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 75% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of CENTER FOR CREATIVE PARTNERSHIPS'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. 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 CREATIVE PARTNERSHIPS holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding CENTER FOR CREATIVE PARTNERSHIPS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.8M on record.
- Department of the Interior$2.8M
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 CENTER FOR CREATIVE PARTNERSHIPS
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
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER FOR CREATIVE PARTNERSHIPS: 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 CREATIVE PARTNERSHIPS?
- CENTER FOR CREATIVE PARTNERSHIPS (South Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,500 to it, the largest being SOUTH CAROLINA HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC ($23,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR CREATIVE PARTNERSHIPS have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $26,500 in grants to CENTER FOR CREATIVE PARTNERSHIPS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR CREATIVE PARTNERSHIPS?
- SOUTH CAROLINA HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC is the largest funder on record, with $23,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR CREATIVE PARTNERSHIPS 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 2 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