South Carolina · Nonprofit
MEDIA REFORM SC LLC
MEDIA REFORM SC LLC (South Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $78,140 to it, the largest being SOUTHERN IMAGINATION FOUNDATION ($22,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
MEDIA REFORM SC LLC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 14,524 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,524 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Frances P Bunnelle Foundation Coastal Community Foundation of Scshared fundersportfolio match
- Central Carolina Community Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Pathfinder Foundation Incshared funderslocal
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.
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 MEDIA REFORM SC LLC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $8k → $10k.
3 of 6 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 MEDIA REFORM SC LLC’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
MEDIA REFORM SC LLC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 78%; 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 MEDIA REFORM SC LLC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 58% · 2020 100% · 2021 59% · 2022 71% · 2023 50% — 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.
Where its funders are
MEDIA REFORM SC LLC draws 95% 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. $34k 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 6 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Frances P Bunnelle Foundation Coastal Community Foundation of Scshared fundersportfolio matchSC · backs 33 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Central Carolina Community Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchSC · backs 74 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Pathfinder Foundation Incshared funderslocalDE · backs 30 organizations that share your funders · funds 26 organizations near you
- Kw Beverage Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Williams Brice Edwards Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- South Carolina Childrens Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- South Carolina Humanities Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Falk-Griffin Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Southern Partners Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Smith Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Corporation for Public Broadcastingportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like MEDIA REFORM SC LLC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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 MEDIA REFORM SC LLC: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds MEDIA REFORM SC LLC?
- MEDIA REFORM SC LLC (South Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $78,140 to it, the largest being SOUTHERN IMAGINATION FOUNDATION ($22,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MEDIA REFORM SC LLC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $78,140 in grants to MEDIA REFORM SC LLC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MEDIA REFORM SC LLC?
- SOUTHERN IMAGINATION FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $22,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MEDIA REFORM SC LLC 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 6funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing