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EMERALD CITY ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION

EMERALD CITY ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION (South Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,147 to it, the largest being THE HACK FOUNDATION INC ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$62k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$36k
Net assets
$115k
2/4 repeat funders
01What it does

What Emerald City Rotary Club Foundation does

Mission

The foundation as formed is to operate in support of the charitable goals and intentions of emerald city rotary club.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. To provide funding for the dolly parton imagination library

    $47,568 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $47,568.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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.

100 = 20242024 Revenue 100 ($72k) Expenses 100 ($47k) Net assets 100 ($104k)2025 Revenue 86 ($62k) Expenses 110 ($51k) Net assets 110 ($115k)
20242025
Revenue (86)Expenses (110)Net assets (110)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $104k to $115k (+10%).

$104k
$115k
20242025
Total assets

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.

2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

96% of EMERALD CITY ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,549 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$25k
’24
$11k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $16k → $5k.

2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 EMERALD CITY ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION’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

EMERALD CITY ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

69%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 37% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 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

EMERALD CITY ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 2 states in all.

SC
GA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’21
’22
’23
South Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

EMERALD CITY ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin17% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−14% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like EMERALD CITY ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

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

SC

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EMERALD CITY ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION: 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 EMERALD CITY ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION?
EMERALD CITY ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION (South Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,147 to it, the largest being THE HACK FOUNDATION INC ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does EMERALD CITY ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $36,147 in grants to EMERALD CITY ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of EMERALD CITY ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION?
THE HACK FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like EMERALD CITY ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 4 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