South Carolina · Nonprofit
Communities in Schools of South Carolina
Communities in Schools of South Carolina (South Carolina) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,605,443 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC ($3,132,966). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.8M
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $7.6M
- Net assets
- $7.1M
What Communities in Schools of South Carolina does
Mission
Our mission is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Communities in Schools site coordinator works with volunteers, partners, and the local community to provide students with the supports they need to succeed both inside and outside the classroom. We provide these supports in three different tiers.Tier 1: School-wide servicesTier 2: Targeted programsTier 3: Individualized support(Continued on Schedule O)Behavioral Supports - We bring evidenced-based programs that encourage positive behavioral responses to resolve internal or external conflict with new skills to self-regulate and promote student well-being.Academic Support - Our staff find creative ways to help students progress academically by creating optimal learning environments. We connect students with volunteer tutors and study groups to support reading and math skills, showing them the connection between what they learn in school and how it applies in real life.Integrated Student Supports - Our school-based staff partner with teachers to identify challenges students face in class or at home and coordinate with community partners to bring outside resources inside schools through our evidence-based model of Integrated Student Supports.
$3,963,316 spentof which $26,205 as grants$844,867 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,963,316.
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 2021 to 2022, from $2.2M to $5.5M (+150%).
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 40% · 2018 31% · 2019 18% · 2020 14% · 2021 12% · 2022 18% · 2023 24% · 2024 17% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of Communities in Schools of South Carolina’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.
Chief executive
Jamie Cooper
President & CEO
Board chair
Mark Fell
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $599k → $649k.
8 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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: $291k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Communities in Schools of the Midlands Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Communities in Schools of South Carolina raised.
From the IRS filings of Communities in Schools of South Carolina’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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
Communities in Schools of South Carolina leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 60%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
70% 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 Communities in Schools of South Carolina.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 81% · 2018 84% · 2019 92% · 2020 87% · 2021 56% · 2022 16% · 2023 46% — 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
57% of Communities in Schools of South Carolina's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
76% of Communities in Schools of South Carolina'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. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
Communities in Schools of South Carolina has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Communities in Schools of South Carolina receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $113k on record.
- Corporation for National and Community Service$113k
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 Communities in Schools 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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 Communities in Schools 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 Communities in Schools of South Carolina?
- Communities in Schools of South Carolina (South Carolina) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,605,443 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC ($3,132,966). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Communities in Schools of South Carolina have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $7,605,443 in grants to Communities in Schools of South Carolina, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Communities in Schools of South Carolina?
- UNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,132,966 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Communities in Schools 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.
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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 40 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing