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Robert Burns Society of the Midlands

Robert Burns Society of the Midlands (South Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $306,356 to it, the largest being Glencoe Foundation Inc ($306,356). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$306k
Net assets
$4k
1/1 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Robert Burns Society of the Midlands does

Mission

Promoting Celtic Culture

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Scholarships are given for piping and dancing to individuals in need

    $500 spent
    27% of program spending
  2. The Society maintains an inventory of clan banners which are used for social functions to promote cultural heritage

    $1,324 spent
    73% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $1,824.

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 ($2k) Expenses 100 ($5k) Net assets 100 ($6k)2018 Revenue 168 ($4k) Expenses 90 ($4k) Net assets 97 ($6k)2019 Revenue 72 ($2k) Expenses 57 ($3k) Net assets 81 ($5k)2020 Revenue 184 ($4k) Expenses 75 ($4k) Net assets 109 ($7k)2021 Revenue 47 ($1k) Expenses 41 ($2k) Net assets 86 ($5k)2022 Revenue 24 ($585) Expenses 49 ($2k) Net assets 69 ($4k)2023 Revenue 60 ($1k) Expenses 55 ($3k) Net assets 51 ($3k)2024 Revenue 78 ($2k) Expenses 40 ($2k) Net assets 50 ($3k)2025 Revenue 73 ($2k) Expenses 51 ($2k) Net assets 66 ($4k)
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Revenue (73)Expenses (51)Net assets (66)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 2019 to 2020, from $5k to $7k (+35%).

$6k
$6k
$5k
$7k
$5k
$4k
$3k
$3k
$5k
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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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of Robert Burns Society of the Midlands’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$2k
’17
−$210
’18
−$966
’19
$924
’20
−$789
’21
−$2k
’22
−$1k
’23
−$25
’24
−$653
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of Robert Burns Society of the Midlands’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

Robert Burns Society of the Midlands draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 1 state in all.

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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

Robert Burns Society of the Midlands's revenue fell 27% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−37% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds Robert Burns Society of the Midlands?
Robert Burns Society of the Midlands (South Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $306,356 to it, the largest being Glencoe Foundation Inc ($306,356). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Robert Burns Society of the Midlands have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $306,356 in grants to Robert Burns Society of the Midlands, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Robert Burns Society of the Midlands?
Glencoe Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $306,356 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Robert Burns Society of the Midlands 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 1 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