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PALMETTO INNOVASPHERE INC

PALMETTO INNOVASPHERE INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being GREENVILLE LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$384k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$25k
Net assets
$212k
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Palmetto Innovasphere Inc does

Mission

To lead the advancement and growth of life science, biotechnology and digital health innovation resulting in corporate success and economic development for south carolina and the southeast region.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Champions of life science start-ups and scale-ups that nutures each company towards commercialization.

    $149,861 spent$180,000 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $149,861.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 = 20242024 Revenue 100 ($335k) Expenses 100 ($325k) Net assets 100 ($15k)2025 Revenue 115 ($384k) Expenses 58 ($187k) Net assets 1431 ($212k)
20242025
Revenue (115)Expenses (58)Net assets (1431)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 2024 to 2025, from $15k to $216k (+1361%).

$15k
$216k
20242025
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.

2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2024 54% · 2025 53%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

53% of PALMETTO INNOVASPHERE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (79% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 882 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$10k
’24
$197k
’25
14
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.

Chief executive

Cecilia Zapata-Harms

CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20242025
Listed38
Joined·+5
No longer listed·0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'25*
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of PALMETTO INNOVASPHERE INC’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.

Where its funders are

100% of PALMETTO INNOVASPHERE INC's grant income comes from South Carolina funders.

SC

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

PALMETTO INNOVASPHERE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 453 science & tech nonprofits its size.

Operating margin51% · top quartile
Months of reserve13.8mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)15% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 453 science & tech nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like PALMETTO INNOVASPHERE INC

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 10%Fundraising 10%

Governance

8
board members
75%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PALMETTO INNOVASPHERE INC: 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 PALMETTO INNOVASPHERE INC?
PALMETTO INNOVASPHERE INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being GREENVILLE LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PALMETTO INNOVASPHERE INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $25,000 in grants to PALMETTO INNOVASPHERE INC.
Who is the largest funder of PALMETTO INNOVASPHERE INC?
GREENVILLE LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PALMETTO INNOVASPHERE INC 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 1 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