South Carolina · Nonprofit
Institute for Strategic and Equitable Development
Institute for Strategic and Equitable Development (South Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,238,000 to it, the largest being JOHN D AND CATHERINE T MACARTHUR FOUNDATION ($550,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Institute for Strategic and Equitable Development does
Mission
To promote impactful grant making, investments and economic development in communities of color through strategic planning, evaluation, project management and technical assistance services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Ised continued events for the sankofa series (as part of the presidents forum) to strategize and respond to post-affirmative action legislation (including recent shifts in support for dei programs, etc.). After completing the third season of the r.a.c.e. Podcast in 2024, which centered on a range of topics on equity, power, culture and leadership in philanthropy, a book and audiobook (entitled hear us know: racial equity in the workplace) were created and widely published in 2025 via audiobrary and other platforms. Ised also continued its collaborative project race, healing, and joy: centering black reproductive justice leadership. Ised worked with a new partner (harmonia rosales studio) on the 2025 educational tour for the chronicles of ori book project.
$1,136,753 spent$1,569,700 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,136,753.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $329k to $1.2M (+256%).
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 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Institute for Strategic and Equitable Development’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $75k → $50k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 Institute for Strategic and Equitable Development’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
Institute for Strategic and Equitable Development leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 85%; 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: 2017 100% · 2018 92% · 2019 61% · 2020 50% · 2021 43% · 2022 60% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
Institute for Strategic and Equitable Development draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $200k 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.
Against its field
Institute for Strategic and Equitable Development runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,127 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Institute for Strategic and Equitable Development
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Institute for Strategic and Equitable Development: 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 Institute for Strategic and Equitable Development?
- Institute for Strategic and Equitable Development (South Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,238,000 to it, the largest being JOHN D AND CATHERINE T MACARTHUR FOUNDATION ($550,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Institute for Strategic and Equitable Development have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $1,238,000 in grants to Institute for Strategic and Equitable Development, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Institute for Strategic and Equitable Development?
- JOHN D AND CATHERINE T MACARTHUR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $550,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Institute for Strategic and Equitable Development 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 2019–2025), 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