South Carolina · Nonprofit
ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CENTER
ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CENTER (South Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $210,025 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $439k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $210k
- Net assets
- $-443896
What Economic Opportunity Center does
Mission
The opportunity center seeks to mitigate the skills gap that exists between the workforce and employers, as well as prepare the workforce and growing entrepreneurs to participate in the local economic systems, while creating new systems that promote social enterprise.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The opportunity center operates as a career and personal finance service center; providing employment and career counseling, one on one financial coaching and education, and low-cost financial products that build credit, savings and assets. Integrated or "bundled" services lead to concrete gains in net income and job retention. Additionally, long term job retention - holding a job for a year or more - almost doubles when financial coaching reinforces the work of employment counseling.
$209,211 spent$402,411 earned by the program100% of program spendingThe purpose of the business incubator is to stimulate the establishment and growth of small businesses, with a focus on protecting groups such as minority or women owned businesses and business that target low income communities, and to increase the number of successful companies originating and developing in the area. The business incubator is an important tool in the economic development toolkit of the area that would be a means to create new job opportunities for area residents, create higher wage jobs, contribute to the growth and success of emerging small businesses, and as a source to generate new tax revenue for north charleston.
$531 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $209,742.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $233k to $102k (−56%).
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: 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $25k → $20k.
1 of 3 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 ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CENTER’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
ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 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 ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CENTER'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. $100k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CENTER
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
85% 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
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Homes of Hope · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CENTER: 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 ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CENTER?
- ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CENTER (South Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $210,025 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $210,025 in grants to ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CENTER, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CENTER?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CENTER 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 2021–2025), 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