South Carolina · Nonprofit
HELP OF SUMMERVILLE
HELP OF SUMMERVILLE (South Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $136,272 to it, the largest being COASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC ($79,562). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $105k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $136k
- Net assets
- $47k
What Help of Summerville does
Mission
Assisting needy families in times of crisis
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Payment of Utilities (electricity, gas) for 381 families
$0 spentof which $65,870 as grants0% of program spendingPayment of Rent or Mortgage for 43 families
$0 spentof which $6,981 as grants0% of program spendingPayment for Water and Sewer. For 49 families.
$0 spentof which $7,476 as grants0% of program spendingMedical and Other 2 individuals
$0 spentof which $249 as grants0% of program spendingPayment for Food. For 2 families.
$0 spentof which $270 as grants0% of program spendingTotal Administration Expenses for all Assistance
$13,897 spent100% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $13,897.
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.
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 $77k to $26k (−66%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Gray Thomas
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $9k → $19k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 HELP OF SUMMERVILLE’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
HELP OF SUMMERVILLE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
79% 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 HELP OF SUMMERVILLE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 72% · 2021 76% · 2022 100% · 2023 62% — 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
59% of HELP OF SUMMERVILLE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $57k that is directly attributable, 54% of it comes from South Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $80k 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.
Organizations like HELP OF SUMMERVILLE
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.
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HELP OF SUMMERVILLE: 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 HELP OF SUMMERVILLE?
- HELP OF SUMMERVILLE (South Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $136,272 to it, the largest being COASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC ($79,562). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HELP OF SUMMERVILLE have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $136,272 in grants to HELP OF SUMMERVILLE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HELP OF SUMMERVILLE?
- COASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC is the largest funder on record, with $79,562 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HELP OF SUMMERVILLE 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 5 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