South Carolina · Nonprofit
KERSHAW AREA MUSIC SUPPORTERS
KERSHAW AREA MUSIC SUPPORTERS (South Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,500 to it, the largest being JOHN T STEVENS FOUNDATION ($12,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $38k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $13k
- Net assets
- $18k
What Kershaw Area Music Supporters does
Mission
To support local public school band prog
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Funds used to purchase band supplies, rent band equipment for students who are in financial need, and to maintain and repair the schools band equipment.
$12,591 spent64% of program spendingFunds expended to recognize the accomplishments of band students through concerts, year-end band banquet, and year-end band performing trips at special events or locations.
$4,957 spent25% of program spendingFunds used to offset the cost to students of band uniforms and to purchase flags for the student flag corp.
$2,229 spent11% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $19,777.
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 2017 to 2018, from $4k to $5k (+32%).
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.
100% of KERSHAW AREA MUSIC SUPPORTERS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $3k → $5k.
From the IRS filings of KERSHAW AREA MUSIC SUPPORTERS’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
KERSHAW AREA MUSIC SUPPORTERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% 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% · 2020 100% · 2021 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
100% of KERSHAW AREA MUSIC SUPPORTERS's grant income comes from South Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
KERSHAW AREA MUSIC SUPPORTERS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 14,279 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,279 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
Organizations like KERSHAW AREA MUSIC SUPPORTERS
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.
Public support
88%
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 KERSHAW AREA MUSIC SUPPORTERS: 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 KERSHAW AREA MUSIC SUPPORTERS?
- KERSHAW AREA MUSIC SUPPORTERS (South Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,500 to it, the largest being JOHN T STEVENS FOUNDATION ($12,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KERSHAW AREA MUSIC SUPPORTERS have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $12,500 in grants to KERSHAW AREA MUSIC SUPPORTERS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KERSHAW AREA MUSIC SUPPORTERS?
- JOHN T STEVENS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $12,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KERSHAW AREA MUSIC SUPPORTERS 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), 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