South Carolina · Nonprofit
Children's Center at USC
Children's Center at USC (South Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,506,957 to it, the largest being University of South Carolina Educational Foundation ($5,506,957). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.2M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $5.5M
- Net assets
- $20k
What Children's Center at USC does
Mission
Our mission is to provide the best quality education and care for children and to become a national model for early childhood education. In addition to providing a healthy learning environment for children, the center also provides an opportunity for researchers (university of south carolina faculty and students) to study and implement the best practices in the classroom.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To Provide the best quality education for children from six weeks to five years of age and to become a national model for early childhood education.
$3,158,606 spent$2,287,151 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,158,606.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2019 to 2020, from $158k to $92k (−42%).
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.
27% of Children's Center at USC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Board chair
Lumi Bakos
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $595k → $672k.
From the IRS filings of Children's Center at USC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 1 of 2 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Children's Center at USC'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. 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
Children's Center at USC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Children's Center at USC
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.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Children's Center at USC: 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 Children's Center at USC?
- Children's Center at USC (South Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,506,957 to it, the largest being University of South Carolina Educational Foundation ($5,506,957). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Children's Center at USC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $5,506,957 in grants to Children's Center at USC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Children's Center at USC?
- University of South Carolina Educational Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $5,506,957 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Children's Center at USC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 2 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