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South Carolina · Nonprofit
JAMES ISLAND CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL (South Carolina) is funded by 2 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $10,500 in grants to it, the largest being United Way Worldwide ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
JAMES ISLAND CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL is better cushioned than half of the 3,811 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,811 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2023
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
The funding model — what share of revenue comes from contributions, programs, investments and other sources — and whether it's shifting.
97% of JAMES ISLAND CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (26% for the typical peer).
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Grant income rose $500 → $10k on a roughly flat funder count — a concentrated base.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 JAMES ISLAND CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
JAMES ISLAND CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% 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: 2017 100% · 2019 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
JAMES ISLAND CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina — its reputation reaches beyond the state, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
88% of spending goes to programs.
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2018–2023), and the filings of 2funders 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. view filing