South Carolina · Nonprofit
SOUTH CAROLINA EMPOWERMENT CENTRE
SOUTH CAROLINA EMPOWERMENT CENTRE (South Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $162,956 to it, the largest being FACT FORWARD ($138,997). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $654k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $163k
- Net assets
- $18k
What South Carolina Empowerment Centre does
Mission
SCEC launched to address the increasing challenges facing youth along with their families in generational poverty by providing support mentorship and services that encourage youth to realize their full potential.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
SCEC programs were established to break the cycle of generational poverty. SCEC Academy engages all teenagers who are straight-A students to school-disengaged students. SCEC Academy views all teenagers as At-promise students instead of At-risk students. SCEC Academy assesses the student and provides out-of-the-box tutoring and high low-tech rigorous learning experiences. SCEC Outreach addresses teen pregnancy prevention substance abuse prevention intervention and postventions assisting teens to live healthy safe and rewarding lives. South Carolina Empowerment Centre provides youth and their families with tools skills and resources. Anti-hunger programs are one of our biggest resources which include youth food boxes senior food boxes emergency feeding summer feeding and more. SCECs Industries programs support youth in their exploration of future careers. SCEC Industries supports teenagers with a comprehensive array of services that focuses on assisting teenagers ages 14 to 18.
$698,848 spent100% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $698,848.
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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $71k to $18k (−75%).
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.
83% of SOUTH CAROLINA EMPOWERMENT CENTRE’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. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Allen Lawson
Executive Director
Board chair
Angel Bible
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $6k → $3k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 EMPOWERMENT CENTRE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 5 of 6 funders by total. 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 EMPOWERMENT CENTRE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 EMPOWERMENT CENTRE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 96% · 2022 98% · 2023 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
100% of SOUTH CAROLINA EMPOWERMENT CENTRE'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. $84 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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 EMPOWERMENT CENTRE has grown faster 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 SOUTH CAROLINA EMPOWERMENT CENTRE
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
99% 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 SOUTH CAROLINA EMPOWERMENT CENTRE: 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 EMPOWERMENT CENTRE?
- SOUTH CAROLINA EMPOWERMENT CENTRE (South Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $162,956 to it, the largest being FACT FORWARD ($138,997). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOUTH CAROLINA EMPOWERMENT CENTRE have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $162,956 in grants to SOUTH CAROLINA EMPOWERMENT CENTRE, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTH CAROLINA EMPOWERMENT CENTRE?
- FACT FORWARD is the largest funder on record, with $138,997 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTH CAROLINA EMPOWERMENT CENTRE 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 6 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