South Carolina · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR SCHOLARSHIP ADMINISTRATION
CENTER FOR SCHOLARSHIP ADMINISTRATION (South Carolina) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,060,777 to it, the largest being LKQ COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,063,286). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Center for Scholarship Administration does
Program
The Center for Scholarship Administration (csa) provides corporations, foundations, trust funds, and individual philanthropists scholarship selection and administration management that is experienced, professional, and cost efficient whil lending the program an integrity not inherent in internal selection committees. Currently, csa awards over 7,000,000 annually in scholarship funds. Funds are given for scholarships and scholarship endowment programs. Recipients are attending more than 1,000 public and private colleges and universities. Csa an independent non-profit scholarship administrative service in conjunction with leading businesses, individuals, and trusts awards scholarship dollars every year to deserving students. Scholarships are awarded for tuition, fees, and room and board expenses. The largest growing single institutional budget item is financial aid for students. Escalating costs are keeping deserving students away from an education and diverting them into the workforce u
$1,253,072 spent
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
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 2017 to 2018, from $4.5M to $2.9M (−35%).
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
Sandra Lee
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $636k.
1 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 SCHOLARSHIP ADMINISTRATION’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 SCHOLARSHIP ADMINISTRATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
57% 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 SCHOLARSHIP ADMINISTRATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 51% · 2020 59% · 2021 56% · 2022 63% · 2023 83% — 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
40% of CENTER FOR SCHOLARSHIP ADMINISTRATION's funders are still giving 3 years 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
52% of CENTER FOR SCHOLARSHIP ADMINISTRATION'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 $997k 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. $1.1M 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 SCHOLARSHIP ADMINISTRATION holds deeper cash reserves 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 SCHOLARSHIP ADMINISTRATION
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER FOR SCHOLARSHIP ADMINISTRATION: 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 SCHOLARSHIP ADMINISTRATION?
- CENTER FOR SCHOLARSHIP ADMINISTRATION (South Carolina) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,060,777 to it, the largest being LKQ COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,063,286). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR SCHOLARSHIP ADMINISTRATION have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $2,060,777 in grants to CENTER FOR SCHOLARSHIP ADMINISTRATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR SCHOLARSHIP ADMINISTRATION?
- LKQ COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,063,286 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR SCHOLARSHIP ADMINISTRATION 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.
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 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