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MISSION LEXINGTON

MISSION LEXINGTON (South Carolina) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,255,746 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS ($412,164). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.7M
Funders on record
22
Grants received
$1.3M
Net assets
$2.0M
10/22 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 20%
01What it does

What Mission Lexington does

Mission

Mission Lexington was formed to meet the needs of lexington county residents in crisis by providing life essentials, resources and guidance.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Social services: Mission Lexington's social services team works to provide proper assistance to lexington county residents in need during their time of crisis. We provide access to food, clothing, utilities, housing and resources so that clients (our neightbors as we prefer to call them) can become stabililized and sustainable. The work done by this team is tedious and crucial and requires a large amount of discernment to ensure that our resources are being used in the best interest of everyone involved. Our social services team works with local businesses, government agencies, organizations, individuals and more than 80 member churches to meet the needs of our neighbors daily.

    $130,371 spent
    12% of program spending
  2. Donation center: Mission Lexington's donation center is the lifeblood of the organization. Donors are able to drop off new and gently used household items as well as food for the food pantry. An average month produces over 240 household donation drop-offs and approximately 45,000 pounds of food. In addition, our donation center rescues food and unsold household goods from multiple grocers and retail establishents in lexington country each weekday. Items are processed for our food pantry, thrift stores, christmas shop (for children), re-housing purposes (fire, domestic violence, etc.) and treasure trove (high-end thrift items).

    $394,244 spent
    35% of program spending
  3. Mission Lexington was formed to meet the needs of lexington county residents in crisis by providing life essentials, resources and guidance.

    $604,616 spent
    54% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,129,231.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($731k) Expenses 100 ($765k) Net assets 100 ($1.3M)2020 Revenue 140 ($1.0M) Expenses 105 ($805k) Net assets 117 ($1.5M)2021 Revenue 141 ($1.0M) Expenses 119 ($909k) Net assets 126 ($1.6M)2022 Revenue 148 ($1.1M) Expenses 137 ($1.0M) Net assets 129 ($1.7M)2023 Revenue 182 ($1.3M) Expenses 167 ($1.3M) Net assets 136 ($1.8M)2024 Revenue 234 ($1.7M) Expenses 192 ($1.5M) Net assets 158 ($2.0M)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (234)Expenses (192)Net assets (158)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $1.8M to $2.1M (+16%).

$1.3M
$1.5M
$1.7M
$1.7M
$1.8M
$2.1M
201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 9% · 2021 10% · 2022 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

66% of MISSION LEXINGTON’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,814 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$35k
’19
$217k
’20
$120k
’21
$33k
’22
$57k
’23
$239k
’24
8.2
months of
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.

201920202021202220232024
Listed111012566
Joined·+1+7+4+1+2
No longer listed·251102
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $106k → $183k.

7 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 MISSION LEXINGTON’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 20 of 22 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

MISSION LEXINGTON leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 MISSION LEXINGTON.

33%
largest funder
74%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 68% · 2019 51% · 2020 42% · 2021 53% · 2022 30% · 2023 30% — 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

78% of MISSION LEXINGTON's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

99% of MISSION LEXINGTON's grant income comes from South Carolina funders.

MO
NC
SC
GA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
South Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $388k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

MISSION LEXINGTON holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,274 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin14% · above the median
Months of reserve8.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)19% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,274 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 14%Fundraising 9%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

75%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

SC

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Questions and answers

Who funds MISSION LEXINGTON?
MISSION LEXINGTON (South Carolina) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,255,746 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS ($412,164). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MISSION LEXINGTON have?
IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $1,255,746 in grants to MISSION LEXINGTON, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MISSION LEXINGTON?
UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS is the largest funder on record, with $412,164 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MISSION LEXINGTON 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 22 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing