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JAMES ISLAND CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL

JAMES ISLAND CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL (South Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,500 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$28M
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$11k
Net assets
$16M
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What James Island Charter High School does

Mission

James Island Charter High School is a large, comprehensive high school that offers career-technical education certification possibilities, 22 varsity sports teams, outstanding fine arts programs, and numerous advanced coursework options, providing opportunities for earning college-level credits.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provide a quality high school education for 1,600+ students. The focus of the unique charter of jihcs is the international baccalaureate (1b) program, as the only high school in charleston county that offers a full 1b diploma program.

    $22,603,288 spent$913,134 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $22,603,288.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($16M) Expenses 100 ($14M) Net assets -68 ($-9927929)2018 Revenue 107 ($17M) Expenses 108 ($15M) Net assets -155 ($-22589826)2019 Revenue 114 ($18M) Expenses 126 ($18M) Net assets -158 ($-22917250)2020 Revenue 120 ($19M) Expenses 121 ($17M) Net assets -144 ($-20931237)2021 Revenue 132 ($21M) Expenses 132 ($19M) Net assets -146 ($-21228023)2022 Revenue 162 ($26M) Expenses 159 ($23M) Net assets -141 ($-20487590)2023 Revenue 169 ($27M) Expenses 182 ($26M) Net assets 100 ($15M)2024 Revenue 165 ($26M) Expenses 184 ($26M) Net assets 102 ($15M)2025 Revenue 175 ($28M) Expenses 187 ($26M) Net assets 110 ($16M)
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Revenue (175)Expenses (187)Net assets (110)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 $28M to $19M (−31%).

$11M
$13M
$14M
$17M
$23M
$28M
$19M
$18M
$19M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 98% · 2018 98% · 2019 98% · 2020 98% · 2021 98% · 2022 97% · 2023 96% · 2024 96% · 2025 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

95% of JAMES ISLAND CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,251 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.6M
’17
$1.5M
’18
$220k
’19
$1.7M
’20
$2.2M
’21
$3.0M
’22
$862k
’23
$52k
’24
$1.1M
’25
4.8
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

Clarissa Walker-Whaley

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed1013991010131313
Joined·+4+5+7+1+6+10+2+5
No longer listed·19706725
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $500 → $10k.

Funder
'17
'19
total
funders
1
1

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. 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 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

95% 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 ISLAND CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL.

95%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

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. 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

95% of JAMES ISLAND CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL'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. Of the $500 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside South Carolina, across 1 state.

GA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

JAMES ISLAND CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL is better cushioned than half of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin4% · below the median
Months of reserve4.8mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Organizations like JAMES ISLAND CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 15%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds JAMES ISLAND CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL?
JAMES ISLAND CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL (South Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,500 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does JAMES ISLAND CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $10,500 in grants to JAMES ISLAND CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL.
Who is the largest funder of JAMES ISLAND CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL?
UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like JAMES ISLAND CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL 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 2 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