South Carolina · Nonprofit
SOUTH CAROLINA I-77 ALLIANCE
SOUTH CAROLINA I-77 ALLIANCE (South Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $117,500 to it, the largest being DUKE ENERGY FOUNDATION ($50,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $118k
- Net assets
- $4.1M
What South Carolina I-77 Alliance does
Mission
The alliance seeks to attract investment, new commerce, and high-quality jobs to four counties along the I-77 corridor of south carolina. The sole mission of the alliance is to position and market chester, fairfield, lancaster, richland, and york counties as a world-class business location.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Marketing trips to meet with prospective companies face-to-face.
$160,463 spent8% of program spendingElectronic marketing and advertising plan implemented
$301,697 spent15% of program spendingSoftware & data services provided to member counties
$151,760 spent7% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$1,463,232 spent70% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,077,152.
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 2020 to 2021, from $3.4M to $4.4M (+27%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 34% · 2018 45% · 2019 38% · 2020 32% · 2021 84% · 2022 88% · 2023 75% · 2024 80% · 2025 81%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of SOUTH CAROLINA I-77 ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Christopher Finn
Interim president & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $25k → $43k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 I-77 ALLIANCE’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 I-77 ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
43% 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 I-77 ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 59% — 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.
Where its funders are
SOUTH CAROLINA I-77 ALLIANCE draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k 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 I-77 ALLIANCE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,127 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like SOUTH CAROLINA I-77 ALLIANCE
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 I-77 ALLIANCE: 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 I-77 ALLIANCE?
- SOUTH CAROLINA I-77 ALLIANCE (South Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $117,500 to it, the largest being DUKE ENERGY FOUNDATION ($50,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOUTH CAROLINA I-77 ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $117,500 in grants to SOUTH CAROLINA I-77 ALLIANCE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTH CAROLINA I-77 ALLIANCE?
- DUKE ENERGY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTH CAROLINA I-77 ALLIANCE 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 4 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