South Carolina · Nonprofit
South Carolina Archives and History Foundation
South Carolina Archives and History Foundation (South Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,500 to it, the largest being SOUTH CAROLINA HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC ($11,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $55k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $14k
- Net assets
- $116k
What South Carolina Archives and History Foundation does
Mission
The Foundation promotes and funds various educational programs at the SC Department of Archives and History and works to stimulate interest in the state's history through various programs and activities. The Founation works to educate and bring attention to the Departnment's services to carry out its legislatively mandated core function of government
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
To provide financial support for the South Carolina Department of Archives and History
$48,594 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $48,594.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $41k to $70k (+72%).
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.
17% of South Carolina Archives and History Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Mr Fritz Hamer
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $11k → $3k.
From the IRS filings of South Carolina Archives and History Foundation’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
South Carolina Archives and History Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% 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
81% 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 South Carolina Archives and History Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% — broadly stable.
“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
81% of South Carolina Archives and History 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. 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
South Carolina Archives and History Foundation has grown faster than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like South Carolina Archives and History Foundation
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
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 South Carolina Archives and History 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds South Carolina Archives and History Foundation?
- South Carolina Archives and History Foundation (South Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,500 to it, the largest being SOUTH CAROLINA HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC ($11,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does South Carolina Archives and History Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $13,500 in grants to South Carolina Archives and History Foundation.
- Who is the largest funder of South Carolina Archives and History Foundation?
- SOUTH CAROLINA HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC is the largest funder on record, with $11,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like South Carolina Archives and History 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.
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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 2 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