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South Carolina · Nonprofit
SOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE (South Carolina) is funded by 43 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $3,975,009 in grants to it, the largest being HOLLINGSWORTH FUNDS INC ($570,000). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
SOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE is better cushioned than half of the 4,251 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,251 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
The funding model — what share of revenue comes from contributions, programs, investments and other sources — and whether it's shifting.
34% of SOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
$28k from 6 funders in 2025, up from $271k and 11 in 2017.
5 of 43 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of SOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 funders by total. Association, not causation.
SOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 45% · 2019 23% · 2020 24% · 2021 26% · 2022 46% · 2023 39% · 2024 30% · 2025 36% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
57% of SOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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.
SOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE is locally rooted: 51% of its grant income comes from South Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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. Your 43 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
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.
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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
61% of spending goes to programs.
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Operates in 1 state
Every figure is 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 43funders 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. view filing