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RICHLAND COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION PARTNERS FKA ACHIEVE COLUMBIA

RICHLAND COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION PARTNERS FKA ACHIEVE COLUMBIA (South Carolina) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $359,539 to it, the largest being CENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($114,448). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$81k
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$360k
Net assets
$13k
6/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 36%
01What it does

What Richland County Public Education Partners Fka Achieve Columbia does

Mission

Our mission is to strengthen the public education system through impactful programming that engages parents, empowers educators, fosters community involvement and enriches student experiences.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Through partnership with schools, united way midlands and sc department of education the parents as leaders program equipped participating parents to navigate public education and connect them to resources for children.

    $104,204 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $104,204.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($197k) Expenses 100 ($214k) Net assets 100 ($67k)2022 Revenue 100 ($197k) Expenses 86 ($184k) Net assets 120 ($81k)2023 Revenue 118 ($232k) Expenses 120 ($256k) Net assets 85 ($57k)2024 Revenue 56 ($111k) Expenses 67 ($144k) Net assets 36 ($24k)2025 Revenue 41 ($81k) Expenses 43 ($92k) Net assets 20 ($13k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (41)Expenses (43)Net assets (20)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 2023 to 2024, from $57k to $24k (−58%).

$101k
$81k
$57k
$24k
$13k
20212022202320242025
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of RICHLAND COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION PARTNERS FKA ACHIEVE COLUMBIA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 26,798 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

−$17k
’21
$14k
’22
−$24k
’23
−$33k
’24
−$11k
’25
2.7
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

Alana Grant

Executive director

Board chair

Cody Smith

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $13k → $83k.

4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of RICHLAND COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION PARTNERS FKA ACHIEVE COLUMBIA’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

RICHLAND COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION PARTNERS FKA ACHIEVE COLUMBIA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

86% 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 RICHLAND COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION PARTNERS FKA ACHIEVE COLUMBIA.

32%
largest funder
67%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2018 100% · 2019 53% · 2020 55% · 2021 40% · 2022 59% · 2023 63% — 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

25% of RICHLAND COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION PARTNERS FKA ACHIEVE COLUMBIA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

53% of RICHLAND COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION PARTNERS FKA ACHIEVE COLUMBIA's grant income comes from South Carolina funders.

MN
NY
OH
SC

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

’17
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
South Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $161k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

RICHLAND COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION PARTNERS FKA ACHIEVE COLUMBIA's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−13% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−20% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like RICHLAND COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION PARTNERS FKA ACHIEVE COLUMBIA

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

92%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds RICHLAND COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION PARTNERS FKA ACHIEVE COLUMBIA?
RICHLAND COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION PARTNERS FKA ACHIEVE COLUMBIA (South Carolina) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $359,539 to it, the largest being CENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($114,448). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does RICHLAND COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION PARTNERS FKA ACHIEVE COLUMBIA have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $359,539 in grants to RICHLAND COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION PARTNERS FKA ACHIEVE COLUMBIA, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of RICHLAND COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION PARTNERS FKA ACHIEVE COLUMBIA?
CENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $114,448 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RICHLAND COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION PARTNERS FKA ACHIEVE COLUMBIA 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 13 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