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CHARITY BALL BOARD OF GREENVILLE

CHARITY BALL BOARD OF GREENVILLE (South Carolina) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $221,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($72,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$15k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$221k
Net assets
$25k
5/9 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Charity Ball Board of Greenville does

Mission

The rose ball raises funds to benefit the physical, emotional, educational and cultural needs of the greenville county community.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The rose ball is sponsored by they Charity Ball Board of Greenville, sc. Since 1971, the rose ball has distributed over $5,000,000 to benefit the physical, emotional, educational and cultural needs of the people of greenville county. Held biennially, the rose ball has a reputation of being one of the most beautiful and elegant affairs in the southeast.in 2023, the rose ball raised over $613,000 in donations and assisted 16 non-profit organizations in the greenville county community

    $526,015 spentof which $522,000 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $526,015.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($393k) Expenses 100 ($391k) Net assets 100 ($9k)2018 Revenue 6 ($23k) Expenses 2 ($9k) Net assets 259 ($22k)2019 Revenue 130 ($512k) Expenses 131 ($511k) Net assets 265 ($23k)2020 Expenses 0 ($547) Net assets 259 ($22k)2021 Revenue 109 ($429k) Expenses 110 ($431k) Net assets 241 ($21k)2022 Revenue 4 ($14k) Expenses 1 ($4k) Net assets 359 ($31k)2023 Revenue 132 ($519k) Expenses 137 ($535k) Net assets 172 ($15k)2024 Revenue 4 ($15k) Expenses 1 ($4k) Net assets 293 ($25k)
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Revenue (4)Expenses (1)Net assets (293)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $31k to $15k (−52%).

$9k
$22k
$23k
$22k
$21k
$31k
$15k
$25k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$2k
’17
$14k
’18
$515
’19
−$547
’20
−$1k
’21
$10k
’22
−$16k
’23
$10k
’24
70
months of
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.

20172019202120232024
Listed1212121313
Joined····+5
No longer listed····5
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $16k → $34k.

1 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 CHARITY BALL BOARD OF GREENVILLE’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

CHARITY BALL BOARD OF GREENVILLE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

78% 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 CHARITY BALL BOARD OF GREENVILLE.

33%
largest funder
70%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2019 45% · 2021 48% · 2022 55% · 2023 53% — 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

0% of CHARITY BALL BOARD OF GREENVILLE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

94% of CHARITY BALL BOARD OF GREENVILLE's grant income comes from South Carolina funders.

DE
SC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’19
’21
’22
’23
South Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $72k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like CHARITY BALL BOARD OF GREENVILLE

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

54% of spending goes to programs.

Program 54%Management 46%Fundraising 0%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

SC

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHARITY BALL BOARD OF GREENVILLE: 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 CHARITY BALL BOARD OF GREENVILLE?
CHARITY BALL BOARD OF GREENVILLE (South Carolina) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $221,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($72,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CHARITY BALL BOARD OF GREENVILLE have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $221,000 in grants to CHARITY BALL BOARD OF GREENVILLE, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHARITY BALL BOARD OF GREENVILLE?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $72,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHARITY BALL BOARD OF GREENVILLE 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 2017–2024), 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