South Carolina · Nonprofit
SCBIO
SCBIO (South Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being GREENVILLE LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $25k
- Net assets
- $628k
What Scbio does
Mission
Scbio is a member organization that exists to support and advance the south carolina life sciences industry through collaboration, economic development initiaties, advocacy, workforce development, enhanced purchasing power and education. This mission furthers our goal of ensuring that south carolina's companies, research institutions, and citizens reap the economic and societal benefits of a world-class life sciences cluster.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The Scbio annual conference is one of the premier life sciences events in the southeast. Here, south carolina industry professionals learn the latest trends from global leaders, meet new clients and discover new achievements in the fastest-growing economic sector in south carolina. Beginning in 2011, the Scbio annual conference has grown to over 500 attendees from 24 u.s. States, hosting speakers from international companies such as novo nordisk and federal leaders from the white house office of science and technology policy.
$369,723 spent$392,322 earned by the program41% of program spendingScbio is the lead economic development trade association representing the life sciences industry in the state. Raising awareness of the fastest-growing sector within south carolina and beyond is essential to connecting industry leaders, helping them meet business goals, and recruiting more life sciences sector businesses to the palmetto state. Scbio's marketing efforts contribute to these efforts in making south carolina a regional hub for the industry.
$244,497 spent$254,587 earned by the program27% of program spendingScbio organizes and leads south carolina's participation in the bio convention. This is the world's largest industry gathering, bringing together thousands of global biotechnology and biopharmaceutical leaders. Scbio hosts south carolina's large exhibit booth (pavilion), featuring approximately 10 to 15 start-up companies and additional life sciences businesses, totaling approximately 50 delegates.
$281,074 spent$411,405 earned by the program31% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $895,294.
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.
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 $435k to $727k (+67%).
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: 2022 42% · 2023 20% · 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 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.
Chief executive
James Chappell
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
Left out of every figure on this page: $24k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Prisma Health). These are real filings, and they are not money SCBIO raised.
From the IRS filings of SCBIO’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
100% of SCBIO's grant income comes from South Carolina funders.
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.
Organizations like SCBIO
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.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Scbio Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SCBIO: 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. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds SCBIO?
- SCBIO (South Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being GREENVILLE LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SCBIO have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $25,000 in grants to SCBIO.
- Who is the largest funder of SCBIO?
- GREENVILLE LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SCBIO 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 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