South Carolina · Nonprofit
LYDIAS BOWELS OF MERCY HOME INC
LYDIAS BOWELS OF MERCY HOME INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,616 to it, the largest being DUKE ENERGY FOUNDATION ($16,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $32k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $39k
- Net assets
- $0
What Lydias Bowels of Mercy Home Inc does
Mission
To help eliminate poverty and food insecurity through resource dissemination, social services, and educational programs.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Provide a helping hand to members of the community though homeless outreach closet ministry and food community giveaway.
$6,459 spentof which $7,000 as grants76% of program spendingPreparing youth for the real world by teaching them important concepts such as responsibility discipline and teamwork.
$1,387 spentof which $2,000 as grants16% of program spendingHealth [:amp:] wellness program - community business partnerships
$627 spentof which $700 as grants7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $8,473.
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 2021 to 2022, from $12k to $6k (−50%).
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.
100% of LYDIAS BOWELS OF MERCY HOME INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Barbara Black
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $3k → $7k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 LYDIAS BOWELS OF MERCY HOME INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 5 of 7 funders by total. 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
LYDIAS BOWELS OF MERCY HOME INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
44% 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 LYDIAS BOWELS OF MERCY HOME INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 99% · 2021 100% · 2022 50% · 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.
Where its funders are
LYDIAS BOWELS OF MERCY HOME INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
LYDIAS BOWELS OF MERCY HOME INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 14,851 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,851 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like LYDIAS BOWELS OF MERCY HOME 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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LYDIAS BOWELS OF MERCY HOME 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 LYDIAS BOWELS OF MERCY HOME INC?
- LYDIAS BOWELS OF MERCY HOME INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,616 to it, the largest being DUKE ENERGY FOUNDATION ($16,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LYDIAS BOWELS OF MERCY HOME INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $38,616 in grants to LYDIAS BOWELS OF MERCY HOME INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LYDIAS BOWELS OF MERCY HOME INC?
- DUKE ENERGY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $16,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LYDIAS BOWELS OF MERCY HOME 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 7 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