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PATTISON'S ACADEMY FOR COMPREHENSIVE EDU CATION

PATTISON'S ACADEMY FOR COMPREHENSIVE EDU CATION (South Carolina) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $518,755 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC ($483,275). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$1.3M
Revenue FY2020
9
Funders on record
$519k
Grants received
$0
Net assets
1/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($997k) Expenses 100 ($895k)2018 Revenue 114 ($1.1M) Expenses 131 ($1.2M)2019 Revenue 106 ($1.1M) Expenses 114 ($1.0M)2020 Revenue 127 ($1.3M) Expenses 129 ($1.2M)
2017201820192020
Revenue (127)Expenses (129)

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 76% · 2018 89% · 2019 92% · 2020 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$102k
17
$36k
18
$39k
19
$103k
20
0.4
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $8k → $235k.

2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)1% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $502k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Pattison's D R E A M Academy). These are real filings, and they are not money PATTISON'S ACADEMY FOR COMPREHENSIVE EDU CATION raised.

From the IRS filings of PATTISON'S ACADEMY FOR COMPREHENSIVE EDU CATION’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

PATTISON'S ACADEMY FOR COMPREHENSIVE EDU CATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

99% 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 PATTISON'S ACADEMY FOR COMPREHENSIVE EDU CATION.

93%
largest funder
98%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 87% · 2023 96%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

20% of PATTISON'S ACADEMY FOR COMPREHENSIVE EDU CATION's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 11% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y

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

98% of PATTISON'S ACADEMY FOR COMPREHENSIVE EDU CATION's grant income comes from South Carolina funders.

WA
NY
DE
SC

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

19
21
22
23
South Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 9 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like PATTISON'S ACADEMY FOR COMPREHENSIVE EDU CATION

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In South Carolina

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

69% of spending goes to programs.

Program 69%Management 31%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

SC

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Charleston County School District · exempt
  • Pattison's Academy · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PATTISON'S ACADEMY FOR COMPREHENSIVE EDU CATION: 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 PATTISON'S ACADEMY FOR COMPREHENSIVE EDU CATION?
PATTISON'S ACADEMY FOR COMPREHENSIVE EDU CATION (South Carolina) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $518,755 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC ($483,275). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PATTISON'S ACADEMY FOR COMPREHENSIVE EDU CATION have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $518,755 in grants to PATTISON'S ACADEMY FOR COMPREHENSIVE EDU CATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PATTISON'S ACADEMY FOR COMPREHENSIVE EDU CATION?
UNITED WAY ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC is the largest funder on record, with $483,275 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PATTISON'S ACADEMY FOR COMPREHENSIVE EDU CATION 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 FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), and the filings of 9funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing