South Carolina · Nonprofit
CHILDREN'S TRUST OF SOUTH CAROLINA
CHILDREN'S TRUST OF SOUTH CAROLINA (South Carolina) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,901,644 to it, the largest being THE DUKE ENDOWMENT ($9,148,210). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $21M
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $5.9M
What Children's Trust of South Carolina does
Mission
To strengthen families, organizations, and communities to prevent child abuse and neglect.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Program funding: childrens trust financially supports community-based organizations in delivering proven prevention programs. These programs are evidence-based, employ two generation strategies serving parents and their children, and are rooted in the protective factors framework. Childrens trust funds healthy families america, nurse-family partnership, parents as teachers, positive parenting program (triple p), and strengthening families program. Childrens trust also funds child abuse prevention month activities, as well as provides financial resources and general operating support to family resource centers. With funding from the federal maternal, infant, and early childhood home visiting grant and matching funds from state allocations, childrens trust awarded more than 8.2 million to 15 local implementing agencies to provide home visiting services with the healthy families america, parent as teachers, and nurse-family partnership models. These agencies served 1,537 families, including 1,318 children, and administered 18,717 home visits. This funding supports 88 positions across the state, helping to serve families in 40 of the 46 counties. Childrens trust hosted more than 250…
$12,440,155 spentof which $12,365,093 as grants64% of program spendingStrategy and accountability: childrens trust provides financial management and oversight and programmatic technical assistance to its funded partners, working closely with them to guarantee that program models are implemented with fidelity, measured for effectiveness, and delivered with intended results. To maximize and ensure its prevention investments, the organization also conducts research, studies and shares best practices from around the country, and provides data and insights for child maltreatment and well-being in south carolina. Childrens trust conducted its annual partnership assessment. Ninety-four percent of partners stated that the advantages of participation outweighed any disadvantages, and of these, approximately two-thirds reported that the benefits greatly exceeded the drawbacks. In the area of supporting partner needs, 87 percent of community-based organizations reported that children's trust met their needs for child abuse and neglect prevention either frequently (23%) or almost always (64%). For training and technical assistance, 94.2% of partners agreed that providing technical assistance enhanced their ability to deliver prevention services, leading to…
$3,756,548 spentof which $3,750 as grants19% of program spendingAdvocacy and messaging: childrens trust uses various strategies and communication channels to grow support and awareness for the work of preventing child abuse and neglect and building family well-being. Messaging educates families and child-serving professionals on prevention strategies, and advocates with thought-leaders and policy makers for greater prevention investments. Childrens trust leads the coordinated effort for child abuse prevention (cap) month in south carolina. Partners at 210 locations, including every county office of the s.c. Department of social services, received messaging materials and took part in awareness activities for child abuse prevention month. Childrens trust provided direct financial support to ten organizations for their events and activities, reaching approximately 5,000 people, including parents, children and other community members. The campaign tools webpage received 128,450 page views and 343,021 event downloads and clicks on links, including the findhelp search on scparents.org, advocacy resources, training materials, program connections, a donation link, and more. Multiple jurisdictions also issued proclamations, with governor mcmaster…
$1,939,268 spent10% of program spendingTraining and partner capacity building: childrens trust empowers local partners and stakeholders to build change, promote prevention practices, and grow family well-being in their communities. To accomplish this, the organization trains child-serving professionals, convenes coalitions and networks and promotes best practices and standards of quality. Childrens trust partnered with the s.c. Department of social services to provide financial and technical support to two thriving families counties, orangeburg and newberry. Family solutions in orangeburg opened a family resource center with this support. In newberry, the building thriving communities foundation is setting groundwork for launching a family resource center to serve the community. Through partnerships with state agencies and community organizations, nearly 111 participants became certified ace trainers, joining over 600 others from diverse backgrounds. These trainers led in-person and virtual sessions for over 1,400 individuals throughout the year.
$1,191,609 spentof which $34,830 as grants6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $19,327,580.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $11M to $14M (+27%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 92% · 2018 91% · 2019 82% · 2020 98% · 2021 98% · 2022 97% · 2023 98% · 2024 98% · 2025 97%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of CHILDREN'S TRUST OF SOUTH CAROLINA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Sue Williams
CEO
Board chair
Philip Vann
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 12 funders, grant income fell $2.2M → $774k.
5 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 CHILDREN'S TRUST OF SOUTH CAROLINA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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
CHILDREN'S TRUST OF SOUTH CAROLINA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 85%; 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: 2017 82% · 2018 53% · 2019 85% · 2020 61% · 2021 86% · 2022 90% · 2023 75% — 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
48% of CHILDREN'S TRUST OF SOUTH CAROLINA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.
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
CHILDREN'S TRUST OF SOUTH CAROLINA draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Against its field
CHILDREN'S TRUST OF SOUTH CAROLINA holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding CHILDREN'S TRUST OF SOUTH CAROLINA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $99.9M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$99.1M
- Department of Justice$742k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CHILDREN'S TRUST OF SOUTH CAROLINA
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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 CHILDREN'S TRUST OF SOUTH CAROLINA: 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 TRUST OF SOUTH CAROLINA?
- CHILDREN'S TRUST OF SOUTH CAROLINA (South Carolina) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,901,644 to it, the largest being THE DUKE ENDOWMENT ($9,148,210). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHILDREN'S TRUST OF SOUTH CAROLINA have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $13,901,644 in grants to CHILDREN'S TRUST OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILDREN'S TRUST OF SOUTH CAROLINA?
- THE DUKE ENDOWMENT is the largest funder on record, with $9,148,210 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILDREN'S TRUST OF SOUTH CAROLINA 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 33 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