South Carolina · Nonprofit
CREATIVE ADVANCEMENT CENTERS INC
CREATIVE ADVANCEMENT CENTERS INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $208,245 to it, the largest being JOHN I SMITH CHARITIES INC ($115,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $98k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $208k
- Net assets
- $47k
What Creative Advancement Centers Inc does
Mission
Outreach activities for disadvantaged youths
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
After school tutoring program by teachers includingsupplies provided to the students by the program
$66,314 spentof which $47,841 as grants93% of program spendingFull course nutritional meal provided for students enrolled in the program
$4,775 spent7% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $71,089.
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 2019 to 2020, from $34k to $78k (+131%).
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.
98% of CREATIVE ADVANCEMENT CENTERS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $17k → $15k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 CREATIVE ADVANCEMENT CENTERS 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
CREATIVE ADVANCEMENT CENTERS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 88% · 2019 100% · 2020 64% · 2021 77% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
100% of CREATIVE ADVANCEMENT CENTERS 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. $47k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
CREATIVE ADVANCEMENT CENTERS INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 21,859 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like CREATIVE ADVANCEMENT CENTERS 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.
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CREATIVE ADVANCEMENT CENTERS INC?
- CREATIVE ADVANCEMENT CENTERS INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $208,245 to it, the largest being JOHN I SMITH CHARITIES INC ($115,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CREATIVE ADVANCEMENT CENTERS INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $208,245 in grants to CREATIVE ADVANCEMENT CENTERS INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CREATIVE ADVANCEMENT CENTERS INC?
- JOHN I SMITH CHARITIES INC is the largest funder on record, with $115,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CREATIVE ADVANCEMENT CENTERS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 6 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