South Carolina · Nonprofit
MEETING STREET SCHOOLS
MEETING STREET SCHOOLS (South Carolina) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,923,597 to it, the largest being BEEMOK FAMILY FOUNDATION ($34,278,121). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $47M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $40M
- Net assets
- $309M
What Meeting Street Schools does
Mission
Empowering children with the excellent, life-changing education they deserve.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Pre-k3-8th grade instruction: meeting streets school operates four schools serving about 1,700 students across charleston and spartanburg, sc. The network was founded in 2008 to give hard-working students the opportunity to receive an education that will transform their lives. Meeting Street Schools is known for its commitment to excellence and high expectations. Meeting Street Schools' model is centered on rigorous instruction beginning with a full-day program for 3-year-olds and continuing through eighth grade. Schools also emphasize strong family partnerships. Thanks to the generosity of donors, Meeting Street Schools provided $6,137,502 in tuition assistance to families with demonstrated financial need during the 2024-2025 school year.
$41,448,204 spent$282,221 earned by the program81% of program spendingPhilanthropic investments: meeting streets schools makes strategic investments in projects and causes that further its mission. The largest of these commitments is the meeting street scholarship fund, which provides up to $40,000 for college that can be used for tuition, fees, housing or food. In 2024-25, this helped make college dreams a reality for more than 300 high-achieving students with demonstrated financial need. The scholarship is available to students who: graduate from a charleston county public high school; demonstrate financial need and academic achievement; and enroll in one of south carolina's best colleges. Meeting Street Schools alumni are eligible for the meeting street alumni scholarship.
$5,626,924 spentof which $5,613,447 as grants11% of program spendingExcellence in teaching awards: the excellence in teaching awards recognizes teachers who make a meaningful impact on the academic achievement of students in schools. The awards are philanthropically funded in Meeting Street Schools and charleston county, and they are provided on top of teachers' base salaries. During the 2024-25 school year, more than 500 teachers earned a total of $3.9 million in awards - $1.8 million in charleston county schools and $2.1 million in Meeting Street Schools. Support for this innovative compensation model is growing across south carolina, with an additional 13 schools participating in the program during the 2024-25 school year; the funding for those awards is provided by the state and other private donors.
$3,955,330 spentof which $1,819,119 as grants8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $51,030,458.
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 2021 to 2022, from $31M to $288M (+821%).
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 63% · 2018 73% · 2019 38% · 2020 48% · 2021 60% · 2022 7% · 2023 57% · 2024 52% · 2025 60%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
73% of MEETING STREET SCHOOLS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Christopher Eide
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $88k → $1.3M.
18 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 MEETING STREET SCHOOLS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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
MEETING STREET SCHOOLS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 97%; 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 57% · 2018 93% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 97% · 2022 46% · 2023 67% — growing more concentrated.
“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
57% of MEETING STREET SCHOOLS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 37% 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
88% of MEETING STREET SCHOOLS's grant income comes from South Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $746k arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
MEETING STREET SCHOOLS 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 MEETING STREET SCHOOLS
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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 7 related entities
- Meeting Street Academy - Charleston LLC · disregarded
- Meeting Street Academy - Spartanburg LLC · disregarded
- Meeting Street Elementary at Brentwood LLC · disregarded
- Meeting Street Elementary at Burns LLC · disregarded
- Mss Investment Holdings LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MEETING STREET SCHOOLS?
- MEETING STREET SCHOOLS (South Carolina) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,923,597 to it, the largest being BEEMOK FAMILY FOUNDATION ($34,278,121). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MEETING STREET SCHOOLS have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $39,923,597 in grants to MEETING STREET SCHOOLS, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MEETING STREET SCHOOLS?
- BEEMOK FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $34,278,121 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MEETING STREET SCHOOLS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 35 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