South Carolina · Nonprofit
JUMPSTART SOUTH CAROLINA
JUMPSTART SOUTH CAROLINA (South Carolina) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,085,127 to it, the largest being SOUTH CAROLINA CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION ($1,537,876). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.1M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $4.1M
- Net assets
- $6.2M
What Jumpstart South Carolina does
Mission
To break the back of recidivism and restore broken lives by providing faith-based discipleship, training, and mentoring for participants inside and outside prisons. Jumpstart partners with the community to disciple the incarcerated and assist returning citizens with re-entry services.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Rehabilitation program in 19 sc prisons with 7000+ participants since inception and 700+ in 2024. The program includes a 40-week intensive discipleship process, peer-to peer assessments to ensure accountability and drive growth. Curriculum focuses on transforming lives through worship, fellowship, mentoring, serving others, living with purpose, and reentry education. Core values include accountability, responsibility, and submission to authority. Over 3800 men and women have graduated from jumpstart. Graduates' rate of recidivism is significantly lower than the national and state averages remaining consistently below 5%.
$232,172 spent11% of program spendingProvision of low cost, safe, and stable housing with access to physical, mental, and dental healthcare to 78 clients during 2024, and more than 600 since inception. Also provided individual case management, mentoring, and financial stability training, as well as transportation to service providers, employment, and shopping, assistance with chemical dependency as needed, as well as opportunities for spiritual growth. Added 4 homes for a total of 11 homes and an opportunity center with space for classroom learning, job training, and community events.
$1,315,962 spent$216,514 earned by the program62% of program spendingProvided job training and assistance with employment for jumpstart graduates participating in the transitional housing program. Jumpstart has developed numerous strategic partnerships with employers that provide residents with opportunities to be hired directly or work first through the accelerator program, incuding its landscaping operation. Participants gain valuable work training and experience. Employment also included jobs in manufacturing, printing, and construction.
$568,406 spent$595,099 earned by the program27% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,116,540.
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 2022 to 2023, from $3.6M to $5.2M (+43%).
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.
78% of JUMPSTART SOUTH CAROLINA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Chief executive
Cary Sanders
CEO
Board chair
Michael Scharff
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $33k → $967k.
11 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% 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 JUMPSTART SOUTH CAROLINA’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
JUMPSTART SOUTH CAROLINA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
92% 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 JUMPSTART SOUTH CAROLINA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 92% · 2019 97% · 2020 68% · 2021 63% · 2022 59% · 2023 38% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
80% of JUMPSTART SOUTH CAROLINA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
89% of JUMPSTART SOUTH CAROLINA'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 $453k that is directly attributable, 52% of it comes from funders outside South Carolina, across 8 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
JUMPSTART SOUTH CAROLINA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like JUMPSTART SOUTH CAROLINA
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
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 JUMPSTART SOUTH CAROLINA: 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 JUMPSTART SOUTH CAROLINA?
- JUMPSTART SOUTH CAROLINA (South Carolina) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,085,127 to it, the largest being SOUTH CAROLINA CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION ($1,537,876). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does JUMPSTART SOUTH CAROLINA have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $4,085,127 in grants to JUMPSTART SOUTH CAROLINA, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JUMPSTART SOUTH CAROLINA?
- SOUTH CAROLINA CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,537,876 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JUMPSTART SOUTH CAROLINA 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 30 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing