South Carolina · Nonprofit
SCBIO FOUNDATION
SCBIO FOUNDATION (South Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $63,933 to it, the largest being UPSTATE AFFILIATE ORGANIZATION ($43,933). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
SCBIO FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 458 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 458 science & tech nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Furman Universitylocalportfolio match
- United Way of Greenville County Inclocal
- The McNair Law Firm Foundationportfolio match
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.
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 20% · 2023 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of SCBIO FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (89% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $10k.
From the IRS filings of SCBIO FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
How concentrated its funding is
SCBIO FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
Where its funders are
100% of SCBIO FOUNDATION's grant income comes from South Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Furman Universitylocalportfolio matchSC · funds 16 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Greenville County InclocalSC · funds 111 organizations near you
- The McNair Law Firm Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- North Carolina Biotechnology Centerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- M B Kahn Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nc Ideaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- South Carolina Student Loan Corpportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Prisma Health-Midlandsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Georgetown Memorial Hospitalportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mary Black Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like SCBIO FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Scbio · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SCBIO FOUNDATION: 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. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds SCBIO FOUNDATION?
- SCBIO FOUNDATION (South Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $63,933 to it, the largest being UPSTATE AFFILIATE ORGANIZATION ($43,933). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SCBIO FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $63,933 in grants to SCBIO FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SCBIO FOUNDATION?
- UPSTATE AFFILIATE ORGANIZATION is the largest funder on record, with $43,933 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SCBIO FOUNDATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing