South Carolina · Nonprofit
CHARLESTON LEADERS INC
CHARLESTON LEADERS INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,275 to it, the largest being POST AND COURIER FOUNDATION ($17,586). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $91k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $24k
- Net assets
- $-60374
What Charleston Leaders Inc does
Mission
The mission of charleston leaders is to foster and develop leadership in our community. We accomplish this mission by engaing our buinsess community with various programming throught the year, creating and supporting school initiatives that develop leadership at a younger age, and strengthening community leadership through programming and support.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Fall leader fundraiser - this engagement event brings leaders together to support and grow a leadership community. 2024 was our inaugural year for this event. We held a "yacht rock" fundraiser in mt pleasant. It was overwhelmingly supported by our community with over 235 attendees, 15 sponsorships and featured a live and silent auction providing funding to support our mission. In 2024, we raised $61,366 at this event.
$61,474 spent63% of program spendingLeader golf event - this fundraiser event occurs annually and is well received in the community. It continues to grow in popularity and fundraising. It supports our mission through engaging leaders around ourcause. The goal is to engage our leaders in an activity and develop relationships that grow year over year. Through this style of fundraising we have a captive and excited audience of business professionals that learn about our mission on a deeper level. The proceeds of this event supports our mission and monetarily supports and funds our new leader academy program. In 2024 we raised $25,560 at this event
$25,110 spent26% of program spendingLeader academy is a program for high school sophomores to discover leadership potential within themselves. This program is designed to match students with community needs, community resources and community opportunities and will provide monthly interaction withcommunity leaders and partners in a variety of discussion opportunities to examine issues facing our region. All sessions and program costs are provided by charleston leaders and their business community partners. Participation will be fully funded through donations and sponsorship from our business partners and additional grant funding. Sessions will be held atthe college of charleston at the riley center on lockwood blvd. Unless otherwise noted. Transportation for leader field trips will be provided by charleston county schools after breakfast at the riley center.some eligibility requirements and standards will include: academic achievement, expression of interest, full participation, leadership demonstration, and community recommendations. Through donations and grant funding in 2024, this program raised $10,805
$10,805 spent11% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $97,389.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2022 to 2023, from $12k to $33k (+182%).
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 LEADERS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (77% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Ruthann K Hipps
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $4k → $4k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 LEADERS 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.
How concentrated its funding is
CHARLESTON LEADERS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 92% · 2022 85% — 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.
Where its funders are
96% of CHARLESTON LEADERS INC's grant income comes from South Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $189 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.
Against its field
CHARLESTON LEADERS INC's revenue fell 16% between 2019 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,397 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like CHARLESTON LEADERS 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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHARLESTON LEADERS 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 LEADERS INC?
- CHARLESTON LEADERS INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,275 to it, the largest being POST AND COURIER FOUNDATION ($17,586). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHARLESTON LEADERS INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $24,275 in grants to CHARLESTON LEADERS INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHARLESTON LEADERS INC?
- POST AND COURIER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $17,586 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHARLESTON LEADERS 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 5 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing