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South Carolina · Nonprofit
SOUTH CAROLINA FIRST STEPS TO (South Carolina) is funded by 3 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $2,601,136 in grants to it, the largest being SOUTH CAROLINA FIRST STEPS TO ($2,561,136). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
SOUTH CAROLINA FIRST STEPS TO has grown faster than half of the 21,488 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,488 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
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.
100% of SOUTH CAROLINA FIRST STEPS TO’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (55% for the typical peer).
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Grant income rose $363k → $573k on a roughly flat funder count — a concentrated base.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 FIRST STEPS TO’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
SOUTH CAROLINA FIRST STEPS TO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 97% · 2019 100% · 2020 97% · 2021 100% · 2022 96% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
SOUTH CAROLINA FIRST STEPS TO is locally rooted: 99% 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 3 funders put you under-funded 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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
95% of spending goes to programs.
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Part of a family of 1 related entity
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2018–2023), and the filings of 3funders 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