South Carolina · Nonprofit
PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE
PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE (South Carolina) receives grants from 125 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,145,053 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,972,250). 76 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $77M
- Funders on record
- 125
- Grants received
- $25M
- Net assets
- $158M
What Presbyterian College does
Mission
The compelling purpose of Presbyterian College, as a church-related college, is to develop within the framework of christian faith the mental, physical, moral, and spiritual capacities of each student in (see schedule o)
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Presbyterian College is a private, residential, four-year liberal arts college. With small classes and faculty who want the best for students, our supportive community provides more than an exceptional liberal arts education. Presbyterian College empowers students to be servant leaders in their communities through challenging academics and a culture of honor and ethics. Presbyterian College has a graduate school of health sciences which includes school of pharmacy, physician assistant program, and an occupational therapy doctoral program. Each professional program is designed to improve the health of south carolinians and society in general by developing students with an unwavering ethical foundation who will positively (continued on schedule o)
$72,515,091 spentof which $29,199,108 as grants$61,852,547 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $72,515,091.
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 2018 to 2019, from $189M to $148M (−22%).
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: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 7% · 2022 3% · 2023 2% · 2024 0% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
9% of PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Board chair
Ruth Roper
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 37 funders to 62 funders, grant income rose $1.9M → $2.3M.
25 of 125 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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: $1.2M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Presbyterian College Real Estate Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE raised.
From the IRS filings of PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 125 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
PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
45% 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 PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 20% · 2019 34% · 2020 30% · 2021 23% · 2022 26% · 2023 13% — 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
55% of PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 21 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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
PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE's funding base is broadening — from 37 funders to 62 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 488 housing & shelter nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.5M on record.
- Department of Education$5.2M
- National Science Foundation$226k
- Department of Health and Human Services$82k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Presbyterian College Foundation · exempt
- Presbyterian College Real Estate Foundation · exempt
- Charitable Remainder Trust (1) · corp_trust
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE: 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 PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE?
- PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE (South Carolina) receives grants from 125 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,145,053 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,972,250). 76 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE have?
- IRS filings report 125 organizations giving $25,145,053 in grants to PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE, 76 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,972,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 125 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