South Carolina · Nonprofit
HORSE CREEK ACADEMY
HORSE CREEK ACADEMY (South Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,221 to it, the largest being AIKEN HORSE PARK FOUNDATION ($3,925). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $18M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $5k
- Net assets
- $633k
What Horse Creek Academy does
Mission
Our mission is to create an innovative and challenging learning environment that teaches the whole learner through the pillars of connection, flexibility, and service
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The primary purpose of Horse Creek Academy (hca) is to provide a quality education to a diverse group of students in grades 4k through twelfth grade. We will provide a challenging curriculum using best practices that are data driven. We provide that education through natural experiences, investigative research, hands on activities, and parental involvement. Hca currently educates approximately 1350 children pre-k4 through 12th grade with varying abilities and backgrounds. We advance student knowledge through use of the state's core of non-academic subjects including chorus, physical education, computers, and library. We also provide extra curricular activies such as science club, drama, tutoring, drama, related arts, small engine repair, band, music, dance, agriculture, and nail tech and intramural sports such as girls and boys basketball and volleyball.
$14,333,691 spent$1,146,950 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $14,333,691.
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 2020 to 2021, from $8.4M to $27M (+223%).
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: 2017 96% · 2018 93% · 2019 95% · 2020 96% · 2021 97% · 2022 96% · 2023 91% · 2024 92% · 2025 92%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of HORSE CREEK ACADEMY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% 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.
Chief executive
Dr Ann Marie Taylor
Executive director
Board chair
Jared Chambliss
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $196 → $1k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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: $59M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Limestone Charter Association). These are real filings, and they are not money HORSE CREEK ACADEMY raised.
From the IRS filings of HORSE CREEK ACADEMY’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
HORSE CREEK ACADEMY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 88% · 2023 57% — 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
92% of HORSE CREEK ACADEMY'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. $950 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
HORSE CREEK ACADEMY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like HORSE CREEK ACADEMY
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HORSE CREEK ACADEMY: 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 HORSE CREEK ACADEMY?
- HORSE CREEK ACADEMY (South Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,221 to it, the largest being AIKEN HORSE PARK FOUNDATION ($3,925). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HORSE CREEK ACADEMY have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $5,221 in grants to HORSE CREEK ACADEMY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HORSE CREEK ACADEMY?
- AIKEN HORSE PARK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,925 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HORSE CREEK ACADEMY 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 3 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