South Carolina · Nonprofit
SHARED CITY
SHARED CITY (South Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,675 to it, the largest being RIPPLE FUND ($12,360). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $151k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $35k
- Net assets
- $47k
What Shared City does
Mission
Shared City equips communities to do good/better through a strategic framework designed to align, engage, and activate all who give, serve, and seek support creating transformative paths to lasting stability for every neighbor in need.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Shared City originated the Nonprofit Equipping Pathway in 2024 and continued to significantly develop and expand its programming throughout 2025. The pathway is an ongoing, multi-program continuum for nonprofit founders and emerging leaders in the Greater Charleston region. In 2025, Shared City advanced the pathway through the launch of a free Personal Readiness Assessment (available digitally via SharedCityCHS.org), the release of an initial series of six downloadable Nonprofit EquipGuides, a 1.5-day Nonprofit Learning Lab workshop offered on a scholarship-funded, pay-what-you-can basis, and the delivery of 68 hours of scholarship-funded one-on-one nonprofit leadership coaching. These programs collectively reduce barriers to professional development for capacity-strapped nonprofit leaders and strengthen organizational health across the local charitable ecosystem, with additional programming planned for continued development in future years.
$77,944 spent100% of program spendingShared City developed and launched its proprietary "Effective Charity 101" curriculum a three-hour, action-oriented workshop offered quarterly to donors, volunteers, nonprofit staff, and community members. Shared City also launched a multi-platform digital education program and developed the "Invitation to Support" resource card, which was adopted by the North Charleston Police Department, the Charleston County Sheriff's Office, and multiple Charleston County Public Library branches for community distribution.
Shared City began active development of the "Shared Confidence" Badge and Designation program in partnership with locally-based charitable organizations and pilot nonprofits. This community-wide designation is being designed to provide transparency, accountability, and a shared standard for effective, trustworthy nonprofit practices helping donors and volunteers give and serve with greater confidence while incentivizing nonprofit excellence across the region.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $77,944.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $13k to $47k (+253%).
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.
77% of SHARED CITY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Rodney Freeman
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of SHARED CITY’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
SHARED CITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
45% 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 SHARED CITY.
“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.
Where its funders are
71% of SHARED CITY'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.
Against its field
SHARED CITY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SHARED CITY
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.
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SHARED CITY: 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 SHARED CITY?
- SHARED CITY (South Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,675 to it, the largest being RIPPLE FUND ($12,360). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SHARED CITY have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $34,675 in grants to SHARED CITY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SHARED CITY?
- RIPPLE FUND is the largest funder on record, with $12,360 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SHARED CITY 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 4 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