South Carolina · Nonprofit
DRAGON BOAT CHARLESTON
DRAGON BOAT CHARLESTON (South Carolina) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,696 to it, the largest being THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ($20,155). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $235k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $55k
- Net assets
- $270k
What Dragon Boat Charleston does
Mission
To encourage healing and healthy lifestyles through goal-oriented exercise, good nutrition, education and fellowship; to support the beneficial effects of physical activity in cancer survivorship; to provide a model for our community demonstrating courage, determination, and team cooperation; and to advance the sport of dragon boating as a method of wellness and healing for cancer survivors.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
For 17 years, Dragon Boat Charleston (DBC) has conducted its annual Dragon Boat Festival in May to celebrate cancer patients and survivors and to show thanks to those that support the programs we provide throughout the year for cancer patients and survivors.
$92,074 spent$23,000 earned by the program46% of program spendingThe programs and services of DBC all serve to promote the healing and healthy lifestyle of cancer survivors and their communities while redefining cancer survivorship. The organization is careful to provide programs of varying degrees so that every patient/survivor has a place "in the boat" regardless of ability, age, stage of disease or rehabilitation, or demographic. DBC offers practice paddling 4-5 times per week from March to November and offers off-water fitness programs during the winter months for cancer patients, survivors, and community paddlers who choose to support the organization and/or who have been touched by cancer, and for novice paddlers who are just learning about how our programs can help provide healing and prevent recurrence. We provide all services for free to cancer patients and survivors. Community paddlers pay a fee of $125/year for membership.
$105,990 spent$3,290 earned by the program54% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $198,064.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $298k to $361k (+21%).
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: 2021 32% · 2022 2% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of DRAGON BOAT CHARLESTON’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 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
Sarah Evans
Executive Director
Board chair
Laura Francis
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose $2k → $9k.
3 of 13 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 DRAGON BOAT CHARLESTON’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
DRAGON BOAT CHARLESTON leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
59% 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 DRAGON BOAT CHARLESTON.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 94% · 2021 62% · 2023 99% — 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
59% of DRAGON BOAT CHARLESTON'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. $26k 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
DRAGON BOAT CHARLESTON is better cushioned than half of the 8,464 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,464 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like DRAGON BOAT CHARLESTON
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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 DRAGON BOAT CHARLESTON: 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 DRAGON BOAT CHARLESTON?
- DRAGON BOAT CHARLESTON (South Carolina) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,696 to it, the largest being THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ($20,155). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DRAGON BOAT CHARLESTON have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $54,696 in grants to DRAGON BOAT CHARLESTON, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DRAGON BOAT CHARLESTON?
- THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $20,155 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DRAGON BOAT CHARLESTON 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 13 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