South Carolina · Nonprofit
EASTERN CAROLINA HOMELESSNESS ORG INC ECHO
EASTERN CAROLINA HOMELESSNESS ORG INC ECHO (South Carolina) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,025,822 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($1,756,250). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $7.5M
What Eastern Carolina Homelessness Org Inc Echo does
Mission
Services for homeless individuals including development and maintenance of databases for the purposes of providing assistance in obtaining proper and necessary identification documents and providing temporary and permament supportive housing for homeless persons
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Housing homeless persons with temporary and permanent supportive housing
$11,583,964 spent99% of program spendingCreating and maintaining databases to assist homeless individuals to obtain proper identification
$116,029 spent1% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $11,699,993.
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 $466k to $3.8M (+717%).
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: 2017 96% · 2018 95% · 2019 92% · 2020 75% · 2021 92% · 2022 99% · 2023 78% · 2024 76%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of EASTERN CAROLINA HOMELESSNESS ORG INC ECHO’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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
Joey Smoak
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Terri Nardslico
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $40k → $268k.
8 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% 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 EASTERN CAROLINA HOMELESSNESS ORG INC ECHO’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
EASTERN CAROLINA HOMELESSNESS ORG INC ECHO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 EASTERN CAROLINA HOMELESSNESS ORG INC ECHO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2019 56% · 2020 100% · 2021 59% · 2022 57% · 2023 93% — 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
25% of EASTERN CAROLINA HOMELESSNESS ORG INC ECHO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 23% 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
98% of EASTERN CAROLINA HOMELESSNESS ORG INC ECHO'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. Of the $44k that is directly attributable, 53% of it comes from South Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
EASTERN CAROLINA HOMELESSNESS ORG INC ECHO has grown faster than three-quarters of the 817 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 817 housing & shelter nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like EASTERN CAROLINA HOMELESSNESS ORG INC ECHO
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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Reverb LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds EASTERN CAROLINA HOMELESSNESS ORG INC ECHO?
- EASTERN CAROLINA HOMELESSNESS ORG INC ECHO (South Carolina) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,025,822 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($1,756,250). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does EASTERN CAROLINA HOMELESSNESS ORG INC ECHO have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $2,025,822 in grants to EASTERN CAROLINA HOMELESSNESS ORG INC ECHO, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EASTERN CAROLINA HOMELESSNESS ORG INC ECHO?
- GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,756,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EASTERN CAROLINA HOMELESSNESS ORG INC ECHO 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 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing