South Carolina · Nonprofit
METANOIA
METANOIA (South Carolina) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,018,909 to it, the largest being COASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC ($977,151). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.5M
- Funders on record
- 57
- Grants received
- $6.0M
- Net assets
- $18M
What Metanoia does
Mission
We amplify opportunities for a thriving community with families in chicora and surrounding historically black neighborhoods by honing the unique assets that exist here.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Housing development:Metanoia is a non-profit housing developer within a city with some of the fastest rising housing costs and highest eviction rates in the nation. As a certified community housing development organization (chdo), we offer repairs to homeowners on a low fixed income. We also acquire and renovate vacant properties and build new homes for both affordable homeownership and rental opportunities. Metanoia is also land banking property for future affordable housing in a community that is threatened by gentrification. Metanoia is also working with local policy makers to ensure the creation of additional affordable housing in our region.
$1,019,941 spentof which $106,656 as grants$560,961 earned by the program39% of program spendingLeadership development (myla - Metanoia youth leadership academy):the Metanoia youth leadership academy offers year-round leadership development for students in the most disinvested neighborhoods in north charleston. We offer after school programming for 50 students during the school year and 100 students during the summer months. We serve students from 1st to 12th grades and offer internships for college graduates that have been students in our programs. Metanoia students outperform their peers on standardized testing and attend college at a much higher rate than their peer groups. As a part of this effort, Metanoia also operates a youth employment initiative that provides high school students practical job experience. During the summers Metanoia operates a children's defense fund freedom school where 94% of scholars either gain (82.3%) or maintain (11.6%) their reading levels during the critical summer months.
$980,301 spent38% of program spendingEconomic development:Metanoia seeks the economic revitalization of the communities we serve that is beneficial to the current families within those communities. We have done this through offering training to minority contractors, starting student run small businesses, providing a local manufacturer a low interest loan for expansion to create additional jobs and working on the revitalization of a downtown commercial strip through the neighborhood. We have provided below market space to several black entrepreneurs to help support their business growth along this corridor. Metanoia is also working on the adaptive reuse of the former chicora elementary school a 57,000 sq/ft facility that will house a cristo rey high school and an auditorium for use by the neighborhood. Metanoia is also working with local municipal leaders to support small business infrastructure within the communities we serve.
$323,201 spent13% of program spendingCall to action: Metanoia works with the citizens of the community to mobilize community voice around issues that they identify as important. The organization has worked to organize the community to get a new elementary school built, change neighborhood zoning laws, and achieve mitigation funding from a rail facility being built adjacent to the community. Metanoia also hosts volunteers that work in partnership with community residents on projects and programs that benefit the community. Any organizing of the community around issues of importance is non-partisan and issue oriented.
$260,206 spent10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,583,649.
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 2022 to 2023, from $13M to $24M (+81%).
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 28% · 2018 27% · 2019 8% · 2020 0% · 2021 16% · 2022 26% · 2023 3% · 2024 21% · 2025 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of METANOIA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Monifa Ellington
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 19 funders to 14 funders, grant income fell $529k → $347k.
13 of 57 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 METANOIA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 57 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
METANOIA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
62% 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 METANOIA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 23% · 2019 20% · 2020 17% · 2021 44% · 2022 18% · 2023 28% — 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
38% of METANOIA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
METANOIA draws 69% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 22 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
METANOIA holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,127 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding METANOIA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.5M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$2.4M
- National Endowment for the Arts$100k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like METANOIA
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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Old Chicora Landlord LLC · disregarded
- Old Chicora Sponsor Holdings LLC · disregarded
- Old Chicora Enterprises LLC · disregarded
- Metanoia Old Chicora Sponsor Ml LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds METANOIA?
- METANOIA (South Carolina) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,018,909 to it, the largest being COASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC ($977,151). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does METANOIA have?
- IRS filings report 57 organizations giving $6,018,909 in grants to METANOIA, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of METANOIA?
- COASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC is the largest funder on record, with $977,151 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like METANOIA 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 57 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