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CHARLESTON SISTER CITIES INTERNATIONAL INC

CHARLESTON SISTER CITIES INTERNATIONAL INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $600 to it, the largest being JOHN WINTHROP CHARITABLE TRUST ($600). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$18k
Revenue FY2023
1
Funders on record
$600
Grants received
$403
Net assets
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%

Against its field

CHARLESTON SISTER CITIES INTERNATIONAL INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,998 international nonprofits its size.

Operating margin2% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−35% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,998 international nonprofits under $100k, FY2023

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 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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($101k) Expenses 100 ($93k) Net assets 100 ($8k)2020 Revenue 93 ($93k) Expenses 90 ($83k) Net assets 230 ($17k)2021 Revenue 74 ($74k) Expenses 93 ($87k) Net assets 65 ($5k)2022 Revenue 29 ($30k) Expenses 38 ($36k) Net assets -16 ($-1241)2023 Revenue 18 ($18k) Expenses 19 ($18k) Net assets 5 ($403)
20192020202120222023
Revenue (18)Expenses (19)Net assets (5)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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of CHARLESTON SISTER CITIES INTERNATIONAL INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,010 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$8k
19
$10k
20
$13k
21
$6k
22
$397
23
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $100 → $500.

Funder
'17
'23
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of CHARLESTON SISTER CITIES INTERNATIONAL 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

100% of CHARLESTON SISTER CITIES INTERNATIONAL INC's grant income comes from South Carolina funders.

SC

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

17
23
South Carolina out of state home

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.

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.

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 SISTER CITIES INTERNATIONAL INC

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.

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 SISTER CITIES INTERNATIONAL 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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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 SISTER CITIES INTERNATIONAL INC?
CHARLESTON SISTER CITIES INTERNATIONAL INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $600 to it, the largest being JOHN WINTHROP CHARITABLE TRUST ($600). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CHARLESTON SISTER CITIES INTERNATIONAL INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $600 in grants to CHARLESTON SISTER CITIES INTERNATIONAL INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHARLESTON SISTER CITIES INTERNATIONAL INC?
JOHN WINTHROP CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHARLESTON SISTER CITIES INTERNATIONAL 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 FY2023 (financials across 2019–2023), and the filings of 1funders 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