South Carolina · Nonprofit
CHALLENGES INC SC
CHALLENGES INC SC (South Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $115,100 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($63,100). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
CHALLENGES INC SC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,726 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,726 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- United Way of Greenville County Inclocal
- Hope in the Hills Incorporated Healing Appalachiaportfolio match
- National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directorsdba Nastadportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $30k → $16k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 CHALLENGES INC SC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 4 of 5 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
CHALLENGES INC SC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 CHALLENGES INC SC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 67% · 2021 60% · 2022 64% · 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
61% of CHALLENGES INC SC'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 $45k that is directly attributable, 78% of it comes from funders outside South Carolina, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $70k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- United Way of Greenville County InclocalSC · funds 111 organizations near you
- Hope in the Hills Incorporated Healing Appalachiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directorsdba Nastadportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lowcountry Food Bank Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Harm Reduction Coalitionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- West Virginia First Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Adult & Teen Challenge USAportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Medical Society of South Carolinaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chester Healthcare Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fact Forwardportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Harbor Homes Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like CHALLENGES INC SC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
85% 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 CHALLENGES INC SC: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CHALLENGES INC SC?
- CHALLENGES INC SC (South Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $115,100 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($63,100). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHALLENGES INC SC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $115,100 in grants to CHALLENGES INC SC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHALLENGES INC SC?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $63,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHALLENGES INC SC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 5funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing