South Carolina · Nonprofit
CFA Society South Carolina
CFA Society South Carolina (South Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $321,846 to it, the largest being CFA INSTITUTE ($321,846). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $52k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $322k
- Net assets
- $235k
What CFA Society South Carolina does
Mission
CFA Society South Carolina promotes the highest ethical standards and professional excellence within the local investment community. CFA Society South Carolina is an association of local investment professionals, consisting of portfolio managers, security analysts, investment advisers, and other financial practitioners, that has served CFA charterholders and CFA Program candidates locally for the last 15 years.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Membership We are proud to promote the highest ethical standards and professional excellence within the local investment community. CFA Society South Carolina is an association of local investment professionals, consisting of portfolio managers, security analysts, investment advisers, and other financial practitioners, that has served CFA charterholders and CFA Program candidates locally for over two decades.CFA Society South Carolina has over 238 members and is a member society with CFA Institute. Our members are part of a global network of more than 190,000 finance and investment professionals in more than 160 countries and territories. Our goal is to make a difference in the future of the profession at local level.Research ChallengeThe CFA Institute Research Challenge is an annual global competition that provides university students with hands-on mentoring and intensive training in financial analysis and professional ethics. Each student will be tested on their analytic, valuation, report writing, and presentation skills. They gain real-world experience as they assume the role of a research analyst.
$68,666 spentof which $500 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $68,666.
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 $255k to $235k (−8%).
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.
0% of CFA Society South Carolina’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (75% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $30k → $21k.
From the IRS filings of CFA Society South Carolina’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.
Where its funders are
CFA Society South Carolina draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 1 state in all.
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
CFA Society South Carolina receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $322k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 employment nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CFA Society South Carolina: 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 CFA Society South Carolina?
- CFA Society South Carolina (South Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $321,846 to it, the largest being CFA INSTITUTE ($321,846). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CFA Society South Carolina have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $321,846 in grants to CFA Society South Carolina, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CFA Society South Carolina?
- CFA INSTITUTE is the largest funder on record, with $321,846 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CFA Society South Carolina 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 1 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