South Carolina · Nonprofit
Ideas to Inspire
Ideas to Inspire (South Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $55k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $20k
- Net assets
- $4k
What Ideas to Inspire does
Mission
Organize and present TEDxTalks for general public.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
TEDxCharleston was held April 22-23 at the Charleston Music Hall in Charleston, SC. The half-day events consisted of 13 speakers and four performance acts offering talks and enterainment in TED Talk like format. The main event, on April 23, attracted a live audience of about 900 people and an online audience of many thousands who either viewed the event using the available live streaming services, or subsequently watched the videos of talks and performances afterwards on social media (YouTube). A dress rehearsal event the day before (April 22) attracted an audience of about 500 local high school and college students who were offered a free sneak preview of the event. The event is predominently supported financially by proceeds from ticket sales, with some additional funding received through sponsorships and donations. Major costs and expenses include the venue rental and staffing, production equipment and resources, marketing and promotion, and miscellaneous costs related to logistics and event preparation (including a 3-month coaching progam for all speakers). Other than some contracted services for production and event support, all TEDxCharleston team members are volunteers. The…
$54,850 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $54,850.
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 $13k to $43k (+240%).
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.
19% of Ideas to Inspire’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Mike Sottak
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $10k.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Ideas to Inspire’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.
Where its funders are
100% of Ideas to Inspire'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k 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
Ideas to Inspire's revenue fell 35% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like Ideas to Inspire
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
85%
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 Ideas to Inspire: 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 Ideas to Inspire?
- Ideas to Inspire (South Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Ideas to Inspire have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $20,000 in grants to Ideas to Inspire, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Ideas to Inspire?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Ideas to Inspire 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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