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GREATER GOOD GREENVILLE

GREATER GOOD GREENVILLE (South Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $377,535 to it, the largest being HOLLINGSWORTH FUNDS INC ($200,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$602k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$378k
Net assets
$419k
3/6 repeat funders
01What it does

What Greater Good Greenville does

Mission

Greater Good Greenville multiplies the good of nonprofit organizations, philanthropic funders, and caring community members with know-how, resources, and connections to each other for collective action on our community's most pressing challenges.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Greater Good Greenville multiplies the good of nonprofit organizations, philanthropic funders, and caring community members with know-how, resources, and connections to each other for collective action on our community's most pressing challenges. We do this through regular trainings on topics such as communications, hr, accounting, and evaluation; support for civic engagement; and project management for collaborative projects.

    $534,705 spent$21,476 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $534,705.

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 ($483k) Expenses 100 ($425k) Net assets 100 ($425k)2025 Revenue 125 ($602k) Expenses 143 ($609k) Net assets 99 ($419k)
20242025
Revenue (125)Expenses (143)Net assets (99)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $433k to $421k (−3%).

$433k
$421k
20242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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

95% of GREATER GOOD GREENVILLE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,439 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$58k
’24
−$6k
’25
7.5
months of
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

Derek Lewis

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20242025
Listed1615
Joined·+3
No longer listed·4
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

From the IRS filings of GREATER GOOD GREENVILLE’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

GREATER GOOD GREENVILLE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

53% 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 GREATER GOOD GREENVILLE.

53%
largest funder
96%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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

96% of GREATER GOOD GREENVILLE's grant income comes from South Carolina funders.

MO
NC
SC

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

GREATER GOOD GREENVILLE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Months of reserve7.5mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)25% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like GREATER GOOD GREENVILLE

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.

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 10%Fundraising 2%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

99%

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 GREATER GOOD GREENVILLE: 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 GREATER GOOD GREENVILLE?
GREATER GOOD GREENVILLE (South Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $377,535 to it, the largest being HOLLINGSWORTH FUNDS INC ($200,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GREATER GOOD GREENVILLE have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $377,535 in grants to GREATER GOOD GREENVILLE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GREATER GOOD GREENVILLE?
HOLLINGSWORTH FUNDS INC is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GREATER GOOD GREENVILLE 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 6 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