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JUST SAY SOMETHING INC

JUST SAY SOMETHING INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,608,421 to it, the largest being CHILDREN'S TRUST OF SOUTH CAROLINA ($1,393,477). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.9M
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$1.6M
Net assets
$549k
6/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 59%
01What it does

What Just Say Something Inc does

Mission

To keep kids from using tobacco, alcohol, drugs and other harmful substances.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Strengthening families program for children from 6 to 11 years old to help reduce at-risk behaviors among youth and child maltreatment while improving social compentencies, school performance, parent-child bonding, and effective paretning skills. Funded by the children's trust fund of sc.

    $246,082 spent
    18% of program spending
  2. Opiod prevention and abatement strategy program to promote a healthy, drug free community and to prevent childhood use of opiods.

    $685,793 spent
    50% of program spending
  3. Tobacco prevention strategy program to promote a healthy, drug free community and to prevent childhood use of tobacco.

    $129,910 spent
    10% of program spending
  4. Programs such as parenting awareness, youth internships and various other program services to promote a healthy, drug free community and to prevent childhood use of tobacco, alcohol, drugs, and other harmful substances.

    $297,453 spent$21,970 earned by the program
    22% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,359,238.

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 ($269k) Expenses 100 ($277k) Net assets 100 ($44k)2020 Revenue 136 ($366k) Expenses 156 ($433k) Net assets -62 ($-27230)2021 Revenue 180 ($483k) Expenses 179 ($495k) Net assets -125 ($-54603)2022 Revenue 180 ($483k) Expenses 168 ($463k) Net assets -105 ($-46169)2023 Revenue 293 ($785k) Expenses 236 ($651k) Net assets 234 ($102k)2024 Revenue 691 ($1.9M) Expenses 508 ($1.4M) Net assets 1254 ($549k)
201720202021202220232024
Revenue (691)Expenses (508)Net assets (1254)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 2023 to 2024, from $190k to $659k (+247%).

$66k
$60k
$32k
$44k
$190k
$659k
201720202021202220232024
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
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 19% · 2021 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

96% of JUST SAY SOMETHING INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,793 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.

−$8k
’17
−$67k
’20
−$11k
’21
$20k
’22
$134k
’23
$450k
’24
5.3
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.

201720202021202220232024
Listed291715141613
Joined··+1+2+4+4
No longer listed··3327
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $54k → $253k.

3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 JUST SAY SOMETHING INC’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

JUST SAY SOMETHING INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

97% 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 JUST SAY SOMETHING INC.

87%
largest funder
96%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 93% · 2019 99% · 2020 68% · 2021 84% · 2022 89% · 2023 97% — 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.

How long its funders stay

63% of JUST SAY SOMETHING INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

99% of JUST SAY SOMETHING INC's grant income comes from South Carolina funders.

IL
RI
DE
SC

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. $56k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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

JUST SAY SOMETHING INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin24% · top quartile
Months of reserve5.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)32% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like JUST SAY SOMETHING INC

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

97% of spending goes to programs.

Program 97%Management 2%Fundraising 2%

Governance

12
board members
100%
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 JUST SAY SOMETHING INC?
JUST SAY SOMETHING INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,608,421 to it, the largest being CHILDREN'S TRUST OF SOUTH CAROLINA ($1,393,477). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does JUST SAY SOMETHING INC have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,608,421 in grants to JUST SAY SOMETHING INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of JUST SAY SOMETHING INC?
CHILDREN'S TRUST OF SOUTH CAROLINA is the largest funder on record, with $1,393,477 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like JUST SAY SOMETHING INC 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 12 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