South Carolina · Nonprofit
DORCHESTER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC
DORCHESTER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $295,269 to it, the largest being COASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC ($61,360). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.5M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $295k
- Net assets
- $4.9M
What Dorchester Habitat for Humanity Inc does
Mission
Dorchester habitat for humanity, inc.'s ("dhfh") mission statement is "putting god's love into action by bringing people together building homes and hope." dhfh was founded in 1993 and has built seventy-five (75) homes and three (3) rehabs. Dhfh is an approved affiliate of habitat for humanity international ("hfhi"), but it does not receive any monetary funding from hfhi. Dhfh builds new homes in partnership with low-wealth families in dorchester county, south carolina, who have a demonstrated need for affordable and decent housing. Habitat homes are built by dhfh's construction crew and hundreds of volunteers, including future and current habitat homeowners. Dhfh sells habitat homes to qualified future homeowners in its homeownership program.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Restore program - dhfh operates a restore which sells donated items to the general public tax-free and at reduced prices. Proceeds from restore sales are used to fund dhfh's construction and homeownership program. The restore is open each week monday through saturday from 9 am - 7 pm for shopping and to accept donations. The restore also performs scheduled pick-ups from homes and businesses six days a week. Local businesses and individuals generously donate new and gently used items to the restore. The restore utilizes hundreds of volunteers to keep administrative costs down.
$2,890,526 spent$1,891,346 earned by the program79% of program spendingConstruction and homeownership program - dhfh partners with low-wealth families in need of affordable and decent housing to build new homes that are sold to the qualified future homeowners. Dhfh's homeownership program requires that families: have lived and/or worked in dorchester county, south carolina for at least one year; demonstrate a need for affordable and decent housing; earn between 35%-80% of the median income for dorchester county, based upon the size of the family that will reside in the habitat home; have and maintain a housing expenses-to-income ratio of 32% or less; have and maintain a debt-to-income ratio at or below 40%; have and maintain a good credit history; work at least 425 "sweat-equity" hours in partnership with dhfh; and pass criminal record and sex offender registry checks.
$774,975 spent$830,227 earned by the program21% of program spendingN/a
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,665,501.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $4.7M to $5.3M (+12%).
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: 2022 6% · 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Jaye Jones Elliott
President & CEO
Board chair
Sandy O'Keefe
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $18k → $26k.
5 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 DORCHESTER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 16 of 17 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
DORCHESTER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
62% 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 DORCHESTER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 59% · 2021 33% · 2022 65% · 2023 41% — 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
75% of DORCHESTER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% 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
DORCHESTER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $109k 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.
Organizations like DORCHESTER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY 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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Habitat for Humanity International · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DORCHESTER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY 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 DORCHESTER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC?
- DORCHESTER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $295,269 to it, the largest being COASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC ($61,360). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DORCHESTER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $295,269 in grants to DORCHESTER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DORCHESTER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC?
- COASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC is the largest funder on record, with $61,360 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DORCHESTER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 17 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