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JAMES E CLYBURN SCHOLARSHIP AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION

JAMES E CLYBURN SCHOLARSHIP AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION (South Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $289,000 to it, the largest being PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH AND MANUFACTURERS OF AMERICA ($100,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$468k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$289k
Net assets
$40k
5/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%
01What it does

What James E Clyburn Scholarship and Research Foundation does

Mission

To enhance the quality of life of persons in need through the awarding of scholarships for academic study. Also, to award grants for research in education, government, politics and social services.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The James E. Clyburn Scholarship and Research Foundation was formed to secure funds for worthy scholarship recipients desiring to further their education beyond high school. The organization provided $1,000 cash scholarships and a laptop computer with software to 200 graduating high school students planning to attend colleges and universities.

    $452,855 spentof which $381,270 as grants$609,633 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $452,855.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($602k) Expenses 100 ($523k) Net assets 100 ($115k)2021 Revenue 96 ($576k) Expenses 100 ($521k) Net assets 148 ($170k)2022 Revenue 102 ($617k) Expenses 100 ($522k) Net assets 229 ($265k)2023 Revenue 87 ($523k) Expenses 132 ($692k) Net assets 83 ($96k)2024 Revenue 93 ($562k) Expenses 115 ($601k) Net assets 67 ($77k)2025 Revenue 78 ($468k) Expenses 90 ($471k) Net assets 35 ($40k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (78)Expenses (90)Net assets (35)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 2022 to 2023, from $265k to $96k (−64%).

$115k
$170k
$265k
$96k
$77k
$40k
202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

130% of JAMES E CLYBURN SCHOLARSHIP AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$79k
’20
$55k
’21
$95k
’22
−$168k
’23
−$39k
’24
−$3k
’25
1.0
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

James Bennett

Chairperson

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202020212022202320242025
Listed446667
Joined·+0+3+0+0+1
No longer listed·01000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $31k → $10k.

2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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: $8k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest James E Clyburn Scholarship and Research Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money JAMES E CLYBURN SCHOLARSHIP AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION raised.

From the IRS filings of JAMES E CLYBURN SCHOLARSHIP AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION’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

JAMES E CLYBURN SCHOLARSHIP AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

93% 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 JAMES E CLYBURN SCHOLARSHIP AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION.

35%
largest funder
73%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 46% · 2019 53% · 2020 53% · 2021 50% · 2022 38% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.

“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

JAMES E CLYBURN SCHOLARSHIP AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION draws 92% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 2 states in all.

SC
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
South Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $51k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

JAMES E CLYBURN SCHOLARSHIP AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION's revenue fell 22% between 2020 and 2025.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Months of reserve1.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−5% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

96% of spending goes to programs.

Program 96%Management 1%Fundraising 3%

Governance

7
board members
86%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

SC

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Questions and answers

Who funds JAMES E CLYBURN SCHOLARSHIP AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION?
JAMES E CLYBURN SCHOLARSHIP AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION (South Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $289,000 to it, the largest being PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH AND MANUFACTURERS OF AMERICA ($100,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does JAMES E CLYBURN SCHOLARSHIP AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $289,000 in grants to JAMES E CLYBURN SCHOLARSHIP AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of JAMES E CLYBURN SCHOLARSHIP AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION?
PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH AND MANUFACTURERS OF AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like JAMES E CLYBURN SCHOLARSHIP AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 7 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