South Carolina · Nonprofit
CHARLESTON DEFENDERS INC
CHARLESTON DEFENDERS INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $486 to it, the largest being EQUITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($486). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $34k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $486
- Net assets
- $3k
What Charleston Defenders Inc does
Mission
To provide competitive, local, and affordable baseball opportunities to rising pre-teens in and around charleston sc
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
This is the organizations first active year. The expenses of $64,345 was solely used to aid the organizations primary purpose
$33,836 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $33,836.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $9k to $3k (−71%).
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.
100% of CHARLESTON DEFENDERS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of CHARLESTON DEFENDERS INC’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
CHARLESTON DEFENDERS INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 1 state in all.
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
CHARLESTON DEFENDERS INC has grown faster than half of the 9,557 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,557 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like CHARLESTON DEFENDERS INC
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHARLESTON DEFENDERS INC: 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 CHARLESTON DEFENDERS INC?
- CHARLESTON DEFENDERS INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $486 to it, the largest being EQUITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($486). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHARLESTON DEFENDERS INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $486 in grants to CHARLESTON DEFENDERS INC.
- Who is the largest funder of CHARLESTON DEFENDERS INC?
- EQUITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $486 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHARLESTON DEFENDERS INC 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 2023–2025), 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