South Carolina · Nonprofit
COASTAL HIGH SCHOOL
COASTAL HIGH SCHOOL (South Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,034 to it, the largest being PROJECT LEAD THE WAY INC ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.4M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Coastal High School does
Mission
Coastal High School's mission is to engage students in authentic project based learning that will improve academic achievement, critical and creative thinking, and awarness of their leadership roles in our community and environment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Coastal High School is a public charter school that engages students in authentic project-based learning that will improve academic achievement, critical and creative thinking, and awarness of their leadership roles in our community and environment.
$765,723 spent$82,047 earned by the program33% of program spendingCoastal High School is a small charter school whose focus is to build new leaders by using project-based learning which strengthens students' ability to provide creative answers to real world problems. Project-based learning is a teaching method in which students gain knowledge and skills by working for an extended period of time to investigate and respond to authentic, engaging, and complex questions, problems, or challenges. Project-based lessons are not stand-alone by subject but on the contrary combine writing, researching, math, arts, and science to use a wholistic approach to solving the problem at hand.
$765,722 spent33% of program spendingTo build leaders you must create servers. Chs requires community service from every student as a part of its charter in order to graduate. Chs believes that serving the community's needs is how leaders are founded in their community. To serve the community through leadership you must know your community.
$765,722 spent33% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,297,167.
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 $5.9M to $12M (+104%).
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 98% · 2018 95% · 2019 97% · 2020 98% · 2021 98% · 2022 98% · 2023 93% · 2024 97% · 2025 83%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of COASTAL HIGH SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Rita D'Ippolito
Board chairwoman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $0 → $34.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $11M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Limestone Charter Association). These are real filings, and they are not money COASTAL HIGH SCHOOL raised.
From the IRS filings of COASTAL HIGH SCHOOL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 2 of 3 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
COASTAL HIGH SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund COASTAL HIGH SCHOOL.
“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
COASTAL HIGH SCHOOL 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. $34 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
COASTAL HIGH SCHOOL has grown faster than half 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 COASTAL HIGH SCHOOL
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
66% 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 COASTAL HIGH SCHOOL: 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 COASTAL HIGH SCHOOL?
- COASTAL HIGH SCHOOL (South Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,034 to it, the largest being PROJECT LEAD THE WAY INC ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COASTAL HIGH SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $10,034 in grants to COASTAL HIGH SCHOOL.
- Who is the largest funder of COASTAL HIGH SCHOOL?
- PROJECT LEAD THE WAY INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COASTAL HIGH SCHOOL 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 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