South Carolina · Nonprofit
FLORENCE-DARLINGTON TECHNICAL COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
FLORENCE-DARLINGTON TECHNICAL COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (South Carolina) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,649,421 to it, the largest being DRS BRUCE & LEE FOUNDATION ($600,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $798k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $3.0M
What Florence-Darlington Technical College Educational Foundation does
Mission
Raise monies through private funding to be used for the educational benefits of students. The foundation does not discriminate based on race, color, or creed.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Raise monies through private funding to be used for educational benefits of students in the form of full and partial scholarships to florence darlington technical college.
$357,699 spent65% of program spendingRaise monies through private funding to be used for educational benefits of students in the form of program expenses at florence darlington technical college. The program expenses include, but are not limited to, the purchase of needed equipment supplies in various departments, specialty equipment utilized in specialty training for various careers with manufacturers and additional training programs offered through the college.
$193,017 spent35% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $550,716.
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 2018 to 2019, from $7.4M to $2.1M (−72%).
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.
100% of FLORENCE-DARLINGTON TECHNICAL COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
Dwayne Brockington
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $334k → $259k.
4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $50k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Eastern Carolina Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money FLORENCE-DARLINGTON TECHNICAL COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of FLORENCE-DARLINGTON TECHNICAL COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL 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
FLORENCE-DARLINGTON TECHNICAL COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
63% 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 FLORENCE-DARLINGTON TECHNICAL COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 100% · 2019 55% · 2020 100% · 2021 93% · 2022 97% · 2023 60% — diversifying over time.
“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
40% of FLORENCE-DARLINGTON TECHNICAL COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
99% of FLORENCE-DARLINGTON TECHNICAL COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION'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. $468k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
FLORENCE-DARLINGTON TECHNICAL COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FLORENCE-DARLINGTON TECHNICAL COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FLORENCE-DARLINGTON TECHNICAL COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION?
- FLORENCE-DARLINGTON TECHNICAL COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (South Carolina) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,649,421 to it, the largest being DRS BRUCE & LEE FOUNDATION ($600,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FLORENCE-DARLINGTON TECHNICAL COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $1,649,421 in grants to FLORENCE-DARLINGTON TECHNICAL COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FLORENCE-DARLINGTON TECHNICAL COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION?
- DRS BRUCE & LEE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $600,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FLORENCE-DARLINGTON TECHNICAL COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL 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.
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 11 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