South Carolina · Nonprofit
LIBERTY STEAM CHARTER SCHOOL
LIBERTY STEAM CHARTER SCHOOL (South Carolina) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,495,808 to it, the largest being NEW SCHOOLS FUND ($340,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $4.7M
What Liberty Steam Charter School does
Mission
Liberty steam charter works to provide all students with equal access to a world-class k-12 education in an academically rigorous and student-centered learning environment, creating graduates who will be thoughtful and engaged citizens prepared to take on the leadership challenges of the 21st century.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Liberty Steam Charter Schools operated schools at 2 locations in sumter, south carolina. The school operates within the south carolina public charter school district and it served approximately 913 students from kindergarten through grade five during the 2024-2025 school year.
$9,740,292 spent$106,051 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $9,740,292.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2024 to 2025, from $8.7M to $18M (+105%).
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: 2021 16% · 2022 59% · 2023 76% · 2024 56% · 2025 83%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of LIBERTY STEAM CHARTER SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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
Trevor Ivey
Executive director
Board chair
Greg A Thompson
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $5k → $103k.
6 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 LIBERTY STEAM CHARTER SCHOOL’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
LIBERTY STEAM CHARTER SCHOOL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
83% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund LIBERTY STEAM CHARTER SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 55% · 2022 52% · 2023 40% — 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of LIBERTY STEAM CHARTER SCHOOL's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 40% 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
LIBERTY STEAM CHARTER SCHOOL draws 69% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $191k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states 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
LIBERTY STEAM CHARTER SCHOOL has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like LIBERTY STEAM CHARTER SCHOOL
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
84% 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 LIBERTY STEAM CHARTER SCHOOL: 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 LIBERTY STEAM CHARTER SCHOOL?
- LIBERTY STEAM CHARTER SCHOOL (South Carolina) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,495,808 to it, the largest being NEW SCHOOLS FUND ($340,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LIBERTY STEAM CHARTER SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $1,495,808 in grants to LIBERTY STEAM CHARTER SCHOOL, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIBERTY STEAM CHARTER SCHOOL?
- NEW SCHOOLS FUND is the largest funder on record, with $340,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIBERTY STEAM CHARTER SCHOOL 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 20 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