South Carolina · Nonprofit
LEE ACADEMY OF BISHOPVILLE INC
LEE ACADEMY OF BISHOPVILLE INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $814,036 to it, the largest being James Purdy Barrow Foundation ($800,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.9M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $814k
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Lee Academy of Bishopville Inc does
Mission
Lee Academys mission is to provide quality private education for students from grades K-3 through senior year of high school.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education funds - provides a quality education for grades k3-12. The schools curriculm includes math, science, english, reading, writing, history, physical education and social studies fro 491 students.
$2,090,333 spentof which $386,473 as grants$1,967,289 earned by the program86% of program spendingRemaining programs
$185,355 spent$271,580 earned by the program8% of program spendingActivity fund - provides students the educational experience of participating in organizations such as school government, yearbook, and beta club, approximately 225 participants. See schedule o
$160,125 spent$168,667 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,435,813.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $2.2M to $2.5M (+15%).
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: 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 3% · 2022 21% · 2023 18% · 2024 2% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $103k → $100k.
1 of 4 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 LEE ACADEMY OF BISHOPVILLE 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
LEE ACADEMY OF BISHOPVILLE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% 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 97% · 2021 94% · 2022 98% · 2023 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
LEE ACADEMY OF BISHOPVILLE INC draws 100% 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. $759 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.
Organizations like LEE ACADEMY OF BISHOPVILLE 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LEE ACADEMY OF BISHOPVILLE INC: 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 LEE ACADEMY OF BISHOPVILLE INC?
- LEE ACADEMY OF BISHOPVILLE INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $814,036 to it, the largest being James Purdy Barrow Foundation ($800,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEE ACADEMY OF BISHOPVILLE INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $814,036 in grants to LEE ACADEMY OF BISHOPVILLE INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEE ACADEMY OF BISHOPVILLE INC?
- James Purdy Barrow Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $800,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEE ACADEMY OF BISHOPVILLE 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 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