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District 5 Foundation for Educational Excellence

District 5 Foundation for Educational Excellence (South Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,746 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$78k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$17k
Net assets
$96k
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%
01What it does

What District 5 Foundation for Educational Excellence does

Mission

The purpose of this charitable foundation is to secure and distribute contributions from individuals, estates, government, corporations, foundations and any other source for the educational benefit of the students of School District Five of Lexington and Richland Counties.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Sponsor event to raise funds for all exempt purpose programs. More than 50 community and school donors contributed 79 items for the silent auction that netted $24,120. Program income and expense includes a one-time special soccer competition that netted more than $4,750.

    $22,533 spent$46,653 earned by the program
    41% of program spending
  2. Provide snacks and meals to free and reduced lunch students on non-school days. Funds supported for distribution to 13 schools.

    $17,205 spent$10,122 earned by the program
    32% of program spending
  3. Provide support to District Educators and Students. Funds distributed to students of local high schools and CATE Center to support academic projects.

    $14,612 spent$9,014 earned by the program
    27% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $54,350.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($139k) Expenses 100 ($120k) Net assets 100 ($142k)2018 Revenue 87 ($121k) Expenses 90 ($107k) Net assets 110 ($156k)2019 Revenue 88 ($123k) Expenses 132 ($158k) Net assets 85 ($121k)2020 Revenue 74 ($103k) Expenses 88 ($105k) Net assets 84 ($118k)2021 Revenue 95 ($131k) Expenses 93 ($111k) Net assets 98 ($139k)2022 Revenue 92 ($128k) Expenses 150 ($180k) Net assets 62 ($87k)2023 Revenue 43 ($59k) Expenses 51 ($61k) Net assets 60 ($86k)2024 Revenue 56 ($78k) Expenses 57 ($68k) Net assets 68 ($96k)
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Revenue (56)Expenses (57)Net assets (68)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 2021 to 2022, from $139k to $87k (−37%).

$142k
$156k
$121k
$118k
$139k
$87k
$86k
$96k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

42% of District 5 Foundation for Educational Excellence’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 26,798 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$19k
’17
$14k
’18
−$35k
’19
−$3k
’20
$20k
’21
−$52k
’22
−$1k
’23
$10k
’24
17
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.

20202021202220232024
Listed54448
Joined·+0+2+2+6
No longer listed·1222
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $6k → $286.

3 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 District 5 Foundation for Educational Excellence’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

District 5 Foundation for Educational Excellence leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% 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 District 5 Foundation for Educational Excellence.

60%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 97% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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 District 5 Foundation for Educational Excellence'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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

District 5 Foundation for Educational Excellence runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 21,859 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin13% · above the median
Months of reserve16.9mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−8% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

Organizations like District 5 Foundation for Educational Excellence

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 5%Fundraising 0%

Governance

20
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for District 5 Foundation for Educational Excellence: 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 District 5 Foundation for Educational Excellence?
District 5 Foundation for Educational Excellence (South Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,746 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does District 5 Foundation for Educational Excellence have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $16,746 in grants to District 5 Foundation for Educational Excellence, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of District 5 Foundation for Educational Excellence?
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like District 5 Foundation for Educational Excellence 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.

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 3 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