South Carolina · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF THE HUNLEY INC
FRIENDS OF THE HUNLEY INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,473 to it, the largest being SOUTHERN CULTURE FOUNDATION INC ($6,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $775k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $15k
- Net assets
- $529k
What Friends of the Hunley Inc does
Mission
To procure, manage, and expend charitable donations for the raising,restoration, preservation, and display of the h. L. Hunley submarine andrelated artifacts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Friends of the hunley, inc. (foth) procures donations and raises funds to support the conservation and display of the civil war submarine, h.l. Hunley, and its associated artifacts. Foth manages public tours of the submarine, given by volunteers. The tours are educational and provide the history of the submarine, the technology employed for itssuccess, and the science of its conservation. Foth also manages hunley-related merchandise sales via a physical store and an on-line web store. Foth offers a membership program which generates revenue as well as provides knowledge about the submarine through a newsletter and access to special features on foth website but does not provide any additional benefits as members. All proceeds from tours, merchandise sales, and memberships are used to conserve and display the submarine and artifacts.
$445,148 spent$282,511 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $445,148.
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 $1.7M to $1.4M (−20%).
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: 2021 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
61% of FRIENDS OF THE HUNLEY INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Samuel W Howell Iv
Chairman of the board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $2k → $2k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 FRIENDS OF THE HUNLEY INC’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
FRIENDS OF THE HUNLEY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 63% · 2019 100% · 2020 91% · 2021 100% · 2022 90% · 2023 48% — 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.
Where its funders are
FRIENDS OF THE HUNLEY INC draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $328 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
FRIENDS OF THE HUNLEY INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FRIENDS OF THE HUNLEY INC
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
56% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
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 FRIENDS OF THE HUNLEY INC: 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 FRIENDS OF THE HUNLEY INC?
- FRIENDS OF THE HUNLEY INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,473 to it, the largest being SOUTHERN CULTURE FOUNDATION INC ($6,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE HUNLEY INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $15,473 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE HUNLEY INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE HUNLEY INC?
- SOUTHERN CULTURE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE HUNLEY INC 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 7 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