South Carolina · Nonprofit
COMPASS OF CAROLINA INC
COMPASS OF CAROLINA INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,373,730 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC ($838,946). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $859k
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $510k
What Compass of Carolina Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to provide compassionate direction to individuals and families in need through counseling, education and financial benefits management.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Programs
Family counseling services: compass provided services to counseling clients in areas such as counseling for couples, individuals, children and families.
$128,077 spent$53,202 earned by the program15% of program spendingFamily financial counseling: compass provided services representative payee clients. Our rep payee program is designed to assist senior citizens, individuals with disabilities, and veterans who have been deemed medically, mentally, or physically incapable of managing their own federal benefits to ensure our clients' basis living requirements are met.
$274,116 spent$181,734 earned by the program31% of program spendingFamily violence intervention program (fvip): compass provided services to fvip clients. Our family violience intervention program is unique in its holistic approach to serve not only the victims of abuse (adults and children), but also batterers as well.
$476,454 spent$181,922 earned by the program54% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $878,647.
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 2022 to 2023, from $2.3M to $3.3M (+42%).
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 16% · 2018 14% · 2019 14% · 2020 26% · 2021 22% · 2022 14% · 2023 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
51% of COMPASS OF CAROLINA INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 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
Laurie Rovin
Executive director
Board chair
John Riddle
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 9 funders, grant income fell $221k → $159k.
5 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 COMPASS OF CAROLINA INC’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
COMPASS OF CAROLINA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
84% 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 COMPASS OF CAROLINA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 70% · 2019 81% · 2020 69% · 2021 45% · 2022 71% · 2023 38% — 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
38% of COMPASS OF CAROLINA INC'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
79% of COMPASS OF CAROLINA INC'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. $49k 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
COMPASS OF CAROLINA INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 21,636 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,636 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Organizations like COMPASS OF CAROLINA 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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 COMPASS OF CAROLINA 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 COMPASS OF CAROLINA INC?
- COMPASS OF CAROLINA INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,373,730 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC ($838,946). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMPASS OF CAROLINA INC have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $1,373,730 in grants to COMPASS OF CAROLINA INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMPASS OF CAROLINA INC?
- UNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $838,946 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMPASS OF CAROLINA 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 22 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