South Carolina · Nonprofit
LANCASTER COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING
LANCASTER COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING (South Carolina) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $152,976 to it, the largest being The Springs Close Foundation Inc ($55,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
LANCASTER COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,983 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Leadership Kershaw Foundationlocal
- Young at Heart Resourcesportfolio match
- Northeast Missouri Area Agency on Agingportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2018 90% · 2019 87% · 2020 89% · 2022 92% · 2023 80% · 2024 79% · 2025 83%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of LANCASTER COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $8k → $30k.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 COUNCIL ON AGING’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 COUNCIL ON AGING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 40% · 2021 99% · 2022 43% · 2023 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of LANCASTER COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
83% of LANCASTER COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING'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. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 9 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Leadership Kershaw FoundationlocalGA · funds 10 organizations near you
- Young at Heart Resourcesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Northeast Missouri Area Agency on Agingportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Area Agency on Aging for North Floridaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Southeast Missouri Area Agency on Aging Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Meals on Wheels Texasportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- East Central Il Area Agency on Aging Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Western Illinois Area Agency on Agingportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ten County Aging Board Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Lancaster County InclocalSC · funds 9 organizations near you
- Home Instead Charitiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Elderbridge Agency on Agingportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding LANCASTER COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $329k on record.
- Corporation for National and Community Service$329k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like LANCASTER COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 COUNCIL ON AGING: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds LANCASTER COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING?
- LANCASTER COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING (South Carolina) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $152,976 to it, the largest being The Springs Close Foundation Inc ($55,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LANCASTER COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $152,976 in grants to LANCASTER COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LANCASTER COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING?
- The Springs Close Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $55,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LANCASTER COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 9funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing