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RICHLAND COUNTY SHERIFF'S FOUNDATION INC

RICHLAND COUNTY SHERIFF'S FOUNDATION INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $300,328 to it, the largest being SOZOSEI FOUNDATION INC ($200,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$267k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$300k
Net assets
$144k
3/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 44%
01What it does

What Richland County Sheriff's Foundation Inc does

Mission

To aid the richland county sheriff's department by purchasing protective equipment and assisting families of officers either injured or killed in the line of duty.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provided police dogs along with food and safety vests for the dogs provided for sheriff department's annual award's banquet provided family support services provided funds to purchase uniforms and supplies for those individuals who wish to serve as reserve deputies

    $239,563 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $239,563.

02The 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($264k) Expenses 100 ($145k) Net assets 100 ($196k)2018 Revenue 70 ($184k) Expenses 131 ($190k) Net assets 97 ($190k)2019 Revenue 76 ($200k) Expenses 137 ($198k) Net assets 98 ($192k)2020 Revenue 48 ($127k) Expenses 121 ($176k) Net assets 73 ($144k)2021 Revenue 175 ($460k) Expenses 258 ($374k) Net assets 118 ($231k)2022 Revenue 73 ($191k) Expenses 241 ($348k) Net assets 38 ($74k)2023 Revenue 80 ($211k) Expenses 111 ($161k) Net assets 63 ($124k)2024 Revenue 101 ($267k) Expenses 171 ($247k) Net assets 73 ($144k)
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Revenue (101)Expenses (171)Net assets (73)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 2021 to 2022, from $231k to $74k (−68%).

$196k
$190k
$192k
$144k
$231k
$74k
$124k
$144k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

70% of RICHLAND COUNTY SHERIFF'S FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (73% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,446 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$119k
’17
−$6k
’18
$2k
’19
−$48k
’20
$87k
’21
−$157k
’22
$50k
’23
$20k
’24
6.7
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.

2017201820192021202220232024
Listed141288888
Joined·+0+2·+0+1+1
No longer listed·26·011
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $2k → $10k.

From the IRS filings of RICHLAND COUNTY SHERIFF'S FOUNDATION 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

RICHLAND COUNTY SHERIFF'S FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% 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

67%
largest funder
87%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 93% · 2023 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.

How long its funders stay

25% of RICHLAND COUNTY SHERIFF'S FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 27% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

RICHLAND COUNTY SHERIFF'S FOUNDATION INC draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 5 states in all.

MN
NY
NJ
VA
SC

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

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

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

RICHLAND COUNTY SHERIFF'S FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,356 unclassified nonprofits its size.

Operating margin8% · above the median
Months of reserve6.7mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)0% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,356 unclassified nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like RICHLAND COUNTY SHERIFF'S FOUNDATION 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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

97% of spending goes to programs.

Program 97%Management 3%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

SC

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RICHLAND COUNTY SHERIFF'S FOUNDATION INC: 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 RICHLAND COUNTY SHERIFF'S FOUNDATION INC?
RICHLAND COUNTY SHERIFF'S FOUNDATION INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $300,328 to it, the largest being SOZOSEI FOUNDATION INC ($200,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does RICHLAND COUNTY SHERIFF'S FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $300,328 in grants to RICHLAND COUNTY SHERIFF'S FOUNDATION INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of RICHLAND COUNTY SHERIFF'S FOUNDATION INC?
SOZOSEI FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RICHLAND COUNTY SHERIFF'S FOUNDATION 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 11 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