South Carolina · Nonprofit
Come Closer
Come Closer (South Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,404 to it, the largest being SOUTH CAROLINA CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION ($59,404). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $106k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $69k
- Net assets
- $36k
What Come Closer does
Mission
Come Closer exists to unite Gods people in addressing Spartanburgs deepest needs. We raise awareness of needs among the faith community. We raise awareness of effective pathways for impact and when necessary help to establish new pathways.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
1. Serve the Burg Together - This event brought together 341 Christians to learn about needs that exist in our pre-service day gathering. Over 600 volunteers from 32 churches then served our community at 29 different strategic locations. This resulted in over 1,500 hours of targeted community service.
$26,663 spent39% of program spending2. Reaching Inside - This 2024 25 project raised awareness of the need for spiritual investment among inmates in our County Detention Center with leaders and members of over 40 churches as well as the larger community through social media. Volunteer chaplain applicants recruited and spiritual literature Bibles & discipleship books provided for 2025.
$8,580 spent13% of program spending3. Christian Business Leader Engagement - This project raised awareness among Christian business leaders in churches of community needs and offered pathways of engagement for businesses and employees
$33,194 spent49% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $68,437.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 $38k to $37k (−3%).
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 Come Closer’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Eric Vander Ploeg
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 86% 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 Come Closer’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
Come Closer leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% 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 Come Closer.
“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
86% of Come Closer's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from South Carolina funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $59k 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
Come Closer has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,334 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Come Closer
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Come Closer: 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 Come Closer?
- Come Closer (South Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,404 to it, the largest being SOUTH CAROLINA CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION ($59,404). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Come Closer have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $69,404 in grants to Come Closer, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Come Closer?
- SOUTH CAROLINA CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $59,404 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Come Closer 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 2024–2025), 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