South Carolina · Nonprofit
MISS RUBY'S KIDS
MISS RUBY'S KIDS (South Carolina) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $942,939 to it, the largest being FRANCES P BUNNELLE FOUNDATION COASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SC ($295,867). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $332k
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $943k
- Net assets
- $288k
What Miss Ruby's Kids does
Mission
Mrk builds strong foundations in early literacy and lifelong learning in georgetown county's children to enter school ready to succeed.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Miss Ruby's Kids supports early literacy and school readiness through two connected programs. Parentchild+ provides twice-weekly home visits that model positive parentchild interaction and build early literacy, numeracy, and social-emotional skills, while empowering parents as their child's first teacher. The home-based child care program strengthens the quality of care in local home-based settings through coaching, training, and resources that promote safe, nurturing, literacy-rich environments. Together, these programs expand access to high-quality early learning for families across georgetown county.
$263,370 spent90% of program spendingMiss Ruby's Kids matches parentchild+ graduates with trained volunteer education mentors once they enter school. Mentors visit their mentees at school for at least 30 minutes each week, offering consistent encouragement, academic support, and positive relationship building. The program provides group mentoring opportunities, enrichment activities, and family engagement to help students stay connected and confident throughout their educational journey.
$20,944 spent7% of program spendingThrough our little ruby's libraries, Miss Ruby's Kids helps to expand children's access to books by placing free, community-based mini-libraries across georgetown county. Each library is stewarded by local volunteers who help keep them stocked with high-quality, age-appropriate books children can take home and keep. A key focus of the program is selecting books that reflect the diverse identities, cultures, and experiences of the children and families we serve, helping foster belonging, confidence, and a love of reading. Little ruby's libraries helps ensure that all children have consistent access to engaging reading materials year-round.
$7,093 spent2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $291,407.
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 $171k to $263k (+54%).
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: 2021 35% · 2025 59%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of MISS RUBY'S KIDS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Natasha Brockington
Executive director
Board chair
Nancy Patton
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $66k → $121k.
9 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 MISS RUBY'S KIDS’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
MISS RUBY'S KIDS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
79% 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 MISS RUBY'S KIDS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 35% · 2019 46% · 2020 46% · 2021 25% · 2022 45% · 2023 25% — 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.
How long its funders stay
45% of MISS RUBY'S KIDS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
55% of MISS RUBY'S KIDS'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 $429k that is directly attributable, 56% of it comes from funders outside South Carolina, across 11 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $514k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
MISS RUBY'S KIDS is better cushioned than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MISS RUBY'S KIDS
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MISS RUBY'S KIDS: 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 MISS RUBY'S KIDS?
- MISS RUBY'S KIDS (South Carolina) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $942,939 to it, the largest being FRANCES P BUNNELLE FOUNDATION COASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SC ($295,867). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MISS RUBY'S KIDS have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $942,939 in grants to MISS RUBY'S KIDS, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MISS RUBY'S KIDS?
- FRANCES P BUNNELLE FOUNDATION COASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SC is the largest funder on record, with $295,867 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MISS RUBY'S KIDS 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 24 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