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COMMUNITYWORKS INC

COMMUNITYWORKS INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,428,545 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($5,000,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$5.3M
Funders on record
37
Grants received
$11M
Net assets
$19M
17/37 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 37%
01What it does

What Communityworks Inc does

Mission

Communityworks is a publicly supported organization and certified community development financial institution that provides funding to promote affordable housing and community development to help stabilize low wealth families and communities in the state of south carolina.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Communityworks is a publicly supported organization and certified community development financial institution that provides funding to promote affordable housing and community development to help stabilize low wealth families and communities in the state of south carolina.

    $3,211,466 spent$1,935,442 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,211,466.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($3.7M) Expenses 100 ($2.2M) Net assets 100 ($8.8M)2020 Revenue 219 ($8.2M) Expenses 151 ($3.4M) Net assets 112 ($9.8M)2021 Revenue 193 ($7.2M) Expenses 159 ($3.5M) Net assets 153 ($13M)2022 Revenue 110 ($4.1M) Expenses 131 ($2.9M) Net assets 167 ($15M)2023 Revenue 86 ($3.2M) Expenses 125 ($2.8M) Net assets 171 ($15M)2024 Revenue 184 ($6.8M) Expenses 169 ($3.8M) Net assets 206 ($18M)2025 Revenue 143 ($5.3M) Expenses 185 ($4.1M) Net assets 220 ($19M)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (143)Expenses (185)Net assets (220)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $30M to $36M (+23%).

$18M
$21M
$26M
$28M
$30M
$36M
$39M
2019202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
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2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 34% · 2020 18% · 2021 12% · 2022 26% · 2023 20% · 2024 15% · 2025 40%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

55% of COMMUNITYWORKS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,214 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.5M
’19
$4.8M
’20
$3.6M
’21
$1.2M
’22
$428k
’23
$3.1M
’24
$1.2M
’25
61
months of
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

Gustavo Nieves-Lugo

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2019202020212022202320242025
Listed25212321161316
Joined·+3+4+2+1+0+7
No longer listed·724634
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $190k → $595k.

9 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 COMMUNITYWORKS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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

COMMUNITYWORKS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

78% 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 COMMUNITYWORKS INC.

44%
largest funder
64%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 34% · 2019 47% · 2020 36% · 2021 75% · 2022 23% · 2023 34% — 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

31% of COMMUNITYWORKS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

55% of COMMUNITYWORKS INC's grant income comes from South Carolina funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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South Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.5M 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

COMMUNITYWORKS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.

Operating margin23% · top quartile
Months of reserve61.3mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding COMMUNITYWORKS INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $11.4M on record.

Federal$11.4M
grants $11.4Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of the Treasury$7.3M
  • Small Business Administration$3.9M
  • Department of Agriculture$110k

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 COMMUNITYWORKS INC

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

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 20%Fundraising 1%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

58%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

SC

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMUNITYWORKS INC: 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 COMMUNITYWORKS INC?
COMMUNITYWORKS INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,428,545 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($5,000,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does COMMUNITYWORKS INC have?
IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $11,428,545 in grants to COMMUNITYWORKS INC, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITYWORKS INC?
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $5,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COMMUNITYWORKS INC 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 37 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