South Carolina · Nonprofit
PRIMARY CARE ASSOCIATION OF SC INC
PRIMARY CARE ASSOCIATION OF SC INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $166,706 to it, the largest being CareQuest Institute for Oral Health Inc ($85,800). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.5M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $167k
- Net assets
- $3.7M
What Primary Care Association of Sc Inc does
Mission
To provide unified, supportive infrastructure that facilitates access to community based primary, behavioral and other health care services to every community in south carolina.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
The association's navigator grant ended in august 2024 thus, the contracts with community health centers throughout the state of south carolina for outreach and enrollment services were phased out.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
As the designated primary care association for the state of south carolina, scphca provides training, technical assistance, and support to community health centers and other community-based safety net providers, in the areas of chronic disease management, improving access to care, patient outcomes, intimate partner violence, maternal health, and population health. Scphca further provides workforce support including recruitment and retention and health professionals education/training, health center leader and board support, and helps improve health centers' financial sustainability by offering revenue cycle management training and guidance to health centers on adapting to changes in the healthcare funding and regulatory landscape. Scphca hosted its clinical network retreat with 284 attendees, chc billing and coding bootcamp with 77 attendees, annual conference and board governance retreat with 242 attendees, and sea retreat with 229 attendees, many of which offered continuing education credits to various staff in attendance. These conferences included clinical topics, pharmacy, revenue cycle (including certification opportunities), financial, board governance, dental, oud,…
$2,325,250 spentof which $4,320 as grants$1,121,361 earned by the program41% of program spendingScphca operates a health center voucher program, partnering with health centers and other healthcare providers across the state of south carolina to provide eligible farm workers and their families with access to comprehensive medical, dental, behavioral health, vision, pharmacy, and enabling services. Per 2024 uds reporting, the health center program provided 9,991 clinical encounters to 1,974 patients, exceeding the patient target and improved in nine (9) uds clinical outcome measures for the farmworker patients we serve. Developed a referral partnership with a local non-profit that supplies menstrual education and essential supplies and a group of ophthalmologists who provide eye surgeries and other advanced ophthalmologic care/services free of charge to those in need.
$1,630,625 spentof which $264 as grants29% of program spendingScphca is the health center controlled network grantee for the state of south carolina. Through the hccn program, nineteen participating health centers receive support for emerging health information technology (hit), quality improvement, data analytics, and patient engagement. Using technology and these strategic objectives, the hccn helps to identify clinical quality measures that need to be addressed for target patient populations early in the year enabling proactive outreach to those patients most in need. The hccn further applies technology to reduce provider burden and increase patient engagement and satisfaction, thereby preparing health centers for participation in value-based care delivery models while building resilience for the future. During the grant period august 1, 2022 to july 31, 2025, the hccn grant saved participating health centers more than $1m for data analytics and reporting infrastructure and ai-enabled health quality improvement models through shared service and strategic purchasing agreements. The hccn partnered with two (2) south carolina managed care organizations (mcos) that covered implementation and ongoing subscription costs for participating health…
$914,790 spent16% of program spendingAll other program services.
$801,469 spent14% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,672,134.
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 2020 to 2021, from $3.3M to $4.3M (+31%).
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 81% · 2018 79% · 2019 76% · 2020 76% · 2021 74% · 2022 82% · 2023 84% · 2024 83% · 2025 80%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of PRIMARY CARE ASSOCIATION OF SC INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Vicki Young
CEO (as of 6/24)
Board chair
Ann Lewis
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $21k → $86k.
From the IRS filings of PRIMARY CARE ASSOCIATION OF SC 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.
How concentrated its funding is
PRIMARY CARE ASSOCIATION OF SC INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
87% 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 PRIMARY CARE ASSOCIATION OF SC INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
PRIMARY CARE ASSOCIATION OF SC INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
PRIMARY CARE ASSOCIATION OF SC INC is better cushioned than half of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding PRIMARY CARE ASSOCIATION OF SC INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $31.2M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$31.2M
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 PRIMARY CARE ASSOCIATION OF SC 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PRIMARY CARE ASSOCIATION OF SC INC?
- PRIMARY CARE ASSOCIATION OF SC INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $166,706 to it, the largest being CareQuest Institute for Oral Health Inc ($85,800). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PRIMARY CARE ASSOCIATION OF SC INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $166,706 in grants to PRIMARY CARE ASSOCIATION OF SC INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PRIMARY CARE ASSOCIATION OF SC INC?
- CareQuest Institute for Oral Health Inc is the largest funder on record, with $85,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PRIMARY CARE ASSOCIATION OF SC 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.
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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 4 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