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CHARLESTON DAY SCHOOLINC

CHARLESTON DAY SCHOOLINC (South Carolina) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,341,364 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($528,188). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$8.4M
Revenue FY2025
35
Funders on record
$1.3M
Grants received
$12M
Net assets
22/35 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%

Against its field

CHARLESTON DAY SCHOOLINC's revenue grew 66% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve3.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($5.1M) Expenses 100 ($5.4M) Net assets 100 ($8.7M)2018 Revenue 98 ($5.0M) Expenses 99 ($5.3M) Net assets 97 ($8.4M)2021 Revenue 128 ($6.5M) Expenses 107 ($5.7M) Net assets 116 ($10M)2022 Revenue 137 ($7.0M) Expenses 113 ($6.1M) Net assets 116 ($10M)2023 Revenue 152 ($7.7M) Expenses 123 ($6.6M) Net assets 133 ($11M)2024 Revenue 161 ($8.2M) Expenses 155 ($8.3M) Net assets 137 ($12M)2025 Revenue 166 ($8.4M) Expenses 155 ($8.3M) Net assets 141 ($12M)
2017201820212022202320242025
Revenue (166)Expenses (155)Net assets (141)Peer revenue range

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
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

15% of CHARLESTON DAY SCHOOLINC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,312 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$306k
17
$333k
18
$781k
21
$862k
22
$1.1M
23
$165k
24
$91k
25
3.8
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $34k → $275k.

7 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)58% 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 CHARLESTON DAY SCHOOLINC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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

CHARLESTON DAY SCHOOLINC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

58% 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 CHARLESTON DAY SCHOOLINC.

39%
largest funder
63%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 31% · 2019 57% · 2020 47% · 2021 32% · 2022 35% · 2023 38%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

53% of CHARLESTON DAY SCHOOLINC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

58% of CHARLESTON DAY SCHOOLINC'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 $564k that is directly attributable, 70% of it comes from funders outside South Carolina, across 14 states.

MN
NY
MA
NV
IN
OH
RI
AZ
TN
NC
SC
AL
GA
FL

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

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23
South Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $777k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states 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.

03Its place in the field

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. Your 35 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 CHARLESTON DAY SCHOOLINC

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

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

72% of spending goes to programs.

Program 72%Management 26%Fundraising 3%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

SC

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • 114 Queen Street LLC · disregarded
  • 7 Magazine Street LLC · disregarded
  • 122 Logan Street LLC · disregarded

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHARLESTON DAY SCHOOLINC: 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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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 CHARLESTON DAY SCHOOLINC?
CHARLESTON DAY SCHOOLINC (South Carolina) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,341,364 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($528,188). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CHARLESTON DAY SCHOOLINC have?
IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $1,341,364 in grants to CHARLESTON DAY SCHOOLINC, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHARLESTON DAY SCHOOLINC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $528,188 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHARLESTON DAY SCHOOLINC 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 35funders 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