South Carolina · Nonprofit
LOWCOUNTRY LEADERSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL
LOWCOUNTRY LEADERSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL (South Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,612 to it, the largest being CHILDREN'S CANCER COOPERATIVE INC ($1,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.3M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $2k
- Net assets
- $3.5M
What Lowcountry Leadership Charter School does
Mission
The mission of Lowcountry Leadership Charter School is to provide a safe, exceptional academic environment that cultivates independent learning, character enrichment, and regional awareness while developing accountable leaders, community stewards, and diverse thinkers through project-based experiences.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Lowcountry Leadership Charter School educates students in preschool to 12th grade through a project-based education distinguished by academic excellence built on the premise of developing self-directed learners. The school provides a nurturing environment that builds positive self-esteem and an internal moral compass. They provide consistent, defined, and well thought out opportunities for teachers to act as facilitators and students to act as mentors and authentic experiences that connect the classroom to the real world making learning both relevant and meaningful.
$4,728,395 spent$546,742 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,728,395.
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 2019 to 2020, from $8.4M to $12M (+42%).
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 94% · 2018 94% · 2019 89% · 2020 94% · 2021 95% · 2022 89% · 2023 89% · 2024 92% · 2025 90%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of LOWCOUNTRY LEADERSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% 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.
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.
Board chair
John Brandon
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $2k → $39.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 LOWCOUNTRY LEADERSHIP 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
LOWCOUNTRY LEADERSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% 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: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 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.
Where its funders are
100% of LOWCOUNTRY LEADERSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL's grant income comes from South Carolina funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $112 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
LOWCOUNTRY LEADERSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like LOWCOUNTRY LEADERSHIP 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
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LOWCOUNTRY LEADERSHIP 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 LOWCOUNTRY LEADERSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL?
- LOWCOUNTRY LEADERSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL (South Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,612 to it, the largest being CHILDREN'S CANCER COOPERATIVE INC ($1,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LOWCOUNTRY LEADERSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,612 in grants to LOWCOUNTRY LEADERSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LOWCOUNTRY LEADERSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL?
- CHILDREN'S CANCER COOPERATIVE INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LOWCOUNTRY LEADERSHIP 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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