South Carolina · Nonprofit
Leadership South Carolina
Leadership South Carolina (South Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,150 to it, the largest being DOMINION ENERGY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($32,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $266k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $42k
- Net assets
- $480k
What Leadership South Carolina does
Mission
To provide South Carolinians an opportunity to advance their leadership skills while broadening their understanding of issues and opportunities facing the State.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Identification, selection, and development of emerging leaders in South Carolina.
$103,844 spent41% of program spendingEnhancement of awareness and understanding of critical issues facing the State.
$68,929 spent27% of program spendingPresentation of diverse perspectives as presented by leaders from all segments of public and private sectors to participants.
$68,929 spent27% of program spendingDevelopment of close associations with other leaders throughout the State who are mutually interested in investing their time and talents to benefit South Carolina.
$12,753 spent5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $254,455.
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 $324k to $559k (+72%).
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: 2017 36% · 2021 8% · 2022 9% · 2023 43%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
19% of Leadership South Carolina’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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
Joel F Jernigan II
Exec. Director
Board chair
Grayson A Kelly
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $6k → $13k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 Leadership 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
Leadership South Carolina leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 99%; 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 91% · 2020 100% · 2021 72% · 2022 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
Leadership South Carolina draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k 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
Leadership South Carolina holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Leadership 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
79% 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 Leadership 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 Leadership South Carolina?
- Leadership South Carolina (South Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,150 to it, the largest being DOMINION ENERGY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($32,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Leadership South Carolina have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $42,150 in grants to Leadership South Carolina, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Leadership South Carolina?
- DOMINION ENERGY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $32,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Leadership 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 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