South Carolina · Nonprofit
East Cooper Community Outreach
East Cooper Community Outreach (South Carolina) receives grants from 82 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,605,621 to it, the largest being THE ADELE A & HAROLD J WESTBROOK FOUNDATION ($1,200,000). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.3M
- Funders on record
- 82
- Grants received
- $7.6M
- Net assets
- $9.4M
What East Cooper Community Outreach does
Mission
We provide assistance, guidance, and resources to help our neighbors navigate through life's challenges. Together with the community's support, ECCO is able to provide food assistance, a clothing closet, dental and medical care, and financial assistance all in one location.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
(See Schedule O for program descriptions, impact numbers and annual highlights.)
$3,545,019 spentof which $2,594,878 as grants91% of program spending(See Schedule O for program descriptions, impact numbers and annual highlights.)
$367,705 spentof which $7,871 as grants9% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,912,724.
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 2021 to 2022, from $4.1M to $7.7M (+89%).
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: 2018 1% · 2019 2% · 2020 5% · 2021 8% · 2022 2% · 2023 2% · 2024 1% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of East Cooper Community Outreach’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
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
Stephanie M Kelley
Executive Director
Board chair
Molly Hall
Chairperson of Legal affairs
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 37 funders, grant income rose $303k → $1.7M.
14 of 82 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 East Cooper Community Outreach’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 82 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
East Cooper Community Outreach has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
57% 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 East Cooper Community Outreach.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 25% · 2019 27% · 2020 20% · 2021 15% · 2022 36% · 2023 31% — 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.
How long its funders stay
56% of East Cooper Community Outreach's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
50% of East Cooper Community Outreach'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. $2.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
East Cooper Community Outreach runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like East Cooper Community Outreach
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
86% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for East Cooper Community Outreach: 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 East Cooper Community Outreach?
- East Cooper Community Outreach (South Carolina) receives grants from 82 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,605,621 to it, the largest being THE ADELE A & HAROLD J WESTBROOK FOUNDATION ($1,200,000). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does East Cooper Community Outreach have?
- IRS filings report 82 organizations giving $7,605,621 in grants to East Cooper Community Outreach, 51 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of East Cooper Community Outreach?
- THE ADELE A & HAROLD J WESTBROOK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like East Cooper Community Outreach 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 82 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