South Carolina · Nonprofit
SC PROGRESSIVE NETWORK EDUCATION FUND
SC PROGRESSIVE NETWORK EDUCATION FUND (South Carolina) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $560,138 to it, the largest being SOUTHERN PARTNERS FUND INC ($277,555). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $292k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $560k
- Net assets
- $391k
What Sc Progressive Network Education Fund does
Mission
The purpose of this corporation is to establish and maintain programs and structures which shall promote human, civil, workers', and reproductive rights, environmental protection, and government reform through strategic planning, education, and advocacy.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The 2024 school was in person at our Columbia HQ and on Zoom statewide. There were 65 applicants with 36 graduates from the 16-week session. The school's classes are available on line to all, and regular ""deeper dive"" programs reach hundreds more. Approximately 1,600 participated in the school's programs in person and online in 2024.
$53,987 spent$31,865 earned by the program25% of program spendingOur DemocraSC Project encompassed all our previous civic education programs: * DemocraSC 101, a short course on the manner in which democracy is practiced in SC, was provided to hundreds of citizens, and shared on line with many more. * Our "Missing Voter Project" that since 2004 works to provide voter education to the majority of the state's minority youth who don't vote, was folded into our 17-year-old * Election Protection project. In 2024 our Election Protection effort printed and distributed to all 48 county NAACP branches, numerous organizations and volunteers: 5,000 "866-OUR-VOTE" signs, 40,000 Voter's Rights cards and Missing Voter Project information. These combined projects mobilized hundreds of volunteers across the state who provided thousands of citizens with voter education and election protection information.
$127,685 spentof which $20,000 as grants$14,000 earned by the program60% of program spendingThe Grass Roots Organizing Workshop is our headquarters building that is "the intersection of activism, art, and education." GROW houses our school and regular meetings of partner organizations, as well as a regular schedule of cultural programs from Jazz and Blues workshops to poetry reading and round table discussions of issues of current concern. The programs brought in around 2,500 activists, students and music aficionados in 2024, many regulars, but always with new folks who become regulars.
$30,741 spent$4,018 earned by the program14% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $212,413.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2022 to 2023, from $323k to $548k (+70%).
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: 2020 0% · 2021 0% · 2022 7% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
84% of SC PROGRESSIVE NETWORK EDUCATION FUND’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $15k → $135k.
6 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 SC PROGRESSIVE NETWORK EDUCATION FUND’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
SC PROGRESSIVE NETWORK EDUCATION FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
95% 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 SC PROGRESSIVE NETWORK EDUCATION FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 40% · 2021 73% · 2022 73% · 2023 62% — 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
33% of SC PROGRESSIVE NETWORK EDUCATION FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
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
SC PROGRESSIVE NETWORK EDUCATION FUND 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. $149k 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.
Against its field
SC PROGRESSIVE NETWORK EDUCATION FUND has grown faster than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like SC PROGRESSIVE NETWORK EDUCATION FUND
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
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- South Carolina Progressive Network · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SC PROGRESSIVE NETWORK EDUCATION FUND: 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 SC PROGRESSIVE NETWORK EDUCATION FUND?
- SC PROGRESSIVE NETWORK EDUCATION FUND (South Carolina) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $560,138 to it, the largest being SOUTHERN PARTNERS FUND INC ($277,555). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SC PROGRESSIVE NETWORK EDUCATION FUND have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $560,138 in grants to SC PROGRESSIVE NETWORK EDUCATION FUND, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SC PROGRESSIVE NETWORK EDUCATION FUND?
- SOUTHERN PARTNERS FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $277,555 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SC PROGRESSIVE NETWORK EDUCATION FUND 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 12 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