South Carolina · Nonprofit
MATHER INTERPRETATIVE CENTER
MATHER INTERPRETATIVE CENTER (South Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being Community Foundation of the Lowcountry ($16,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $21k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $25k
- Net assets
- $22k
What Mather Interpretative Center does
Mission
To preserve the cultural heritage of Mather School where students and community are valued and have opportunities for storytelling creativity service experiential learning and entrepreneurship.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Launching the second cohort of Mather Next Generation leadership and mentorship project for young girls and co-sponsored Beaufort County School District Black History Conference.
$3,275 spent23% of program spendingBegan the Voices of Mather project to collect stories from Mather School attendees to preserve and use innovative approaches in information gathering digitization and communication technologies online and on site.
$8,873 spent62% of program spendingContinued to receive over 200 visitors to the museum; continuing to work towards the best practices for acquisition and cultural resource preservation
$2,218 spent15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $14,366.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $17k to $22k (+35%).
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 MATHER INTERPRETATIVE CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Rufus Pinckney
Chairman of the Board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 MATHER INTERPRETATIVE CENTER’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
MATHER INTERPRETATIVE CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% 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
100% 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 MATHER INTERPRETATIVE CENTER.
“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
64% of MATHER INTERPRETATIVE CENTER's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $9k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from South Carolina funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16k 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
MATHER INTERPRETATIVE CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like MATHER INTERPRETATIVE CENTER
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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MATHER INTERPRETATIVE CENTER?
- MATHER INTERPRETATIVE CENTER (South Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being Community Foundation of the Lowcountry ($16,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MATHER INTERPRETATIVE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $25,000 in grants to MATHER INTERPRETATIVE CENTER, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MATHER INTERPRETATIVE CENTER?
- Community Foundation of the Lowcountry is the largest funder on record, with $16,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MATHER INTERPRETATIVE CENTER 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 2024–2025), 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