South Carolina · Nonprofit
RAYS OF HOPE
RAYS OF HOPE (South Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $250 to it, the largest being Wolf & Company Charitable Foundation Inc ($250). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- Heritage Classic Foundationlocal
- Elton Family Foundationportfolio match
- The Gifford Family Foundationportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of RAYS OF HOPE’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
RAYS OF HOPE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 1 state in all.
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.
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.
- Heritage Classic FoundationlocalSC · funds 71 organizations near you
- Elton Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Gifford Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- OK Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Craig and Connie Thatcher Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arlette & William J Coleman Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Phase One Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Noll Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Johnny Damon Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Hardy Bunch Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gabriel & Claudia Navarro Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cancer League of Colorado Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 RAYS OF HOPE
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RAYS OF HOPE: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds RAYS OF HOPE?
- RAYS OF HOPE (South Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $250 to it, the largest being Wolf & Company Charitable Foundation Inc ($250). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RAYS OF HOPE have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $250 in grants to RAYS OF HOPE.
- Who is the largest funder of RAYS OF HOPE?
- Wolf & Company Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RAYS OF HOPE 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 FY2018 (financials across 2018–2018), and the filings of 1funders 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