South Carolina · Nonprofit
Lancaster County Community Center
Lancaster County Community Center (South Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,051 to it, the largest being The Springs Close Foundation Inc ($17,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $48k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $23k
- Net assets
- $239k
What Lancaster County Community Center does
Mission
To enhance the positive quality of individual, family, and community by working with the community to contribute, facilitate, and promote solutions for the enrichment of all.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Deltas Actively Mentoring and Educating Seniors - hosted its annual Crimson Caf Holiday Party for Seniors on Saturday, December 13, 2025, at the Lancaster County Community Center. This event was a physical and mental wellness initiative targeting active seniors ages 60 and older and was held in partnership with the Lancaster County Community Center.
$11,347 spent26% of program spendingUSCL Family Fun Day - The Fun Day featured outdoor bouncy houses, Dj, mobile games, mock games of soccer and volleyball, and food trucks. The purpose was to introduce programs offered by the University and recruit students. Participants received T-shirts, balloons, and raffle tickets.
$11,097 spent26% of program spendingCenter for Heirs Property Preservation: The Sustainable Forestry Collaborative Learning Workshop - The three-hour workshop answered questions on how to fix the problem and manage the land. Most Heirs property in the Lowcountry is land that was either purchased by or deeded to African Americans after emancipation.
$10,198 spent23% of program spendingThe Community Center provided in-kind space for youth groups to meet monthly. Girl Scouts Troop 970. Delta GEMS, NAACP Youth Council, Free Photo Shoot, Carolina Community Actions, State Girl Scout Recruitment, Donation of Financial Literacy materials to AMEZ Church.
$10,798 spent25% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $43,440.
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 2020 to 2021, from $97k to $183k (+88%).
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.
13% of Lancaster County Community Center’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (77% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Dr Charmaine Stradford
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $3k → $11k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Lancaster County Community Center’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
Lancaster County Community Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% 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: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 54% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Lancaster County Community Center'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. $51 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.
Against its field
Lancaster County Community Center runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,328 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,328 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Lancaster County Community Center
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
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Lancaster County Community Center: 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 Lancaster County Community Center?
- Lancaster County Community Center (South Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,051 to it, the largest being The Springs Close Foundation Inc ($17,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Lancaster County Community Center have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $23,051 in grants to Lancaster County Community Center, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Lancaster County Community Center?
- The Springs Close Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $17,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Lancaster County Community Center 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 3 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