South Carolina · Nonprofit
NEIGHBORHOOD FOCUS
NEIGHBORHOOD FOCUS (South Carolina) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,564,290 to it, the largest being SOUTH CAROLINA CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION ($384,503). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $852k
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $903k
What Neighborhood Focus does
Mission
Our mission is to share hope and create opportunities for under-resourced students and families in the white horse road corridor of greenville, sc through christ-centered educational and social enrichment.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Designed to engage students in a high-quality, out-of-school time program, Neighborhood Focus is organized to help students stay on the pathway to high school graduation and life success. Our programs seek to ensure that students (1) transition successfully into and out of the various levels of school and are prepared for academic success, (2) remain actively engaged in a structured, relational character education and discipleship program, and (3) develop the necessary social, emotional and life skills that the next generation needs to achieve personal and professional success. As the only free, faith-based out-of-school time program equipped to serve the hispanic student population in the challenging white horse road corridor of greenville, Neighborhood Focus employs a holistic approach to provide access to high-quality expanded learning programs, reduce risky adolescent behaviors, and develop students' post-secondary skills for career and life success. Historically, Neighborhood Focus primarily served elementary-aged students. To help address an unmet need in the community to provide quality programs designed specifically for middle and high school students as well, we expanded…
$285,249 spent$2,914 earned by the program100% of program spendingCommunity outreach ministries, benefiting approximately 500 persons, include the following: english as a second language (esl) classes; educational programs for nutrition, exercise and healthy living; support for hospital and private practice supported free medical clinics and health fairs for dental, vision and mammogram screenings; food and meal distribution, back to school supplies, and christmas and easter outreach events.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $285,249.
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 2023 to 2024, from $493k to $906k (+84%).
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.
97% of NEIGHBORHOOD FOCUS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
D Keith Groce
Executive director
Board chair
Thomas Willcox
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $110k → $118k.
11 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 NEIGHBORHOOD FOCUS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 28 of 29 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
NEIGHBORHOOD FOCUS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
53% 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 NEIGHBORHOOD FOCUS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 23% · 2019 32% · 2020 25% · 2021 57% · 2022 33% · 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
73% of NEIGHBORHOOD FOCUS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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 NEIGHBORHOOD FOCUS'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. $585k 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
NEIGHBORHOOD FOCUS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 21,648 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,648 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like NEIGHBORHOOD FOCUS
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
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
63%
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 NEIGHBORHOOD FOCUS: 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 NEIGHBORHOOD FOCUS?
- NEIGHBORHOOD FOCUS (South Carolina) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,564,290 to it, the largest being SOUTH CAROLINA CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION ($384,503). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEIGHBORHOOD FOCUS have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $1,564,290 in grants to NEIGHBORHOOD FOCUS, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEIGHBORHOOD FOCUS?
- SOUTH CAROLINA CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $384,503 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEIGHBORHOOD FOCUS 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 29 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