South Carolina · Nonprofit
SLAVE DWELLING PROJECT INC
SLAVE DWELLING PROJECT INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $367,200 to it, the largest being 1772 FOUNDATION INC ($138,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $285k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $367k
- Net assets
- $127k
What Slave Dwelling Project Inc does
Mission
To bring historians, students, faculty, writers, legislators, organizations, corporations, artists, and the general public together to educate, collaborate, and organize resources to save these historical slave dwelling structures that are important to our american history.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Educational presentations and exhibits given through interpreters and historians in period dress with audiences reaching up to 5000 people of the general public. These educational lectures, workshops, and presentations were presented both live and via online streaming. Also offers hands on educational experiences by allowing participants to spend the night in historical slave dwelling structures throughout the southeast united states to educate the public on the hardships the enslaved people endured and to encourage the preservation of these important historical structures.
$172,450 spent$120,826 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $172,450.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $61k to $127k (+108%).
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.
58% of SLAVE DWELLING PROJECT INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $18k.
From the IRS filings of SLAVE DWELLING PROJECT INC’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
SLAVE DWELLING PROJECT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 58% · 2019 60% · 2020 51% · 2021 58% · 2022 66% · 2023 86% — 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 SLAVE DWELLING PROJECT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% 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
SLAVE DWELLING PROJECT INC draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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
SLAVE DWELLING PROJECT INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like SLAVE DWELLING PROJECT INC
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
78% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SLAVE DWELLING PROJECT INC: 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 SLAVE DWELLING PROJECT INC?
- SLAVE DWELLING PROJECT INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $367,200 to it, the largest being 1772 FOUNDATION INC ($138,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SLAVE DWELLING PROJECT INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $367,200 in grants to SLAVE DWELLING PROJECT INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SLAVE DWELLING PROJECT INC?
- 1772 FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $138,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SLAVE DWELLING PROJECT INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 11 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