South Carolina · Nonprofit
South Carolina Opportunity Now
South Carolina Opportunity Now (South Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $295,000 to it, the largest being AMERICAN FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN INC ($155,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
South Carolina Opportunity Now has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,657 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,657 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2022
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- EdChoice Incshared fundersportfolio match
- Yes Every Kid Incshared fundersportfolio match
- National School Choice Awareness Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.
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.
100% of South Carolina Opportunity Now’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $70k → $35k.
From the IRS filings of South Carolina Opportunity Now’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 Opportunity Now leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% 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
100% 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 Opportunity Now.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 74% · 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
South Carolina Opportunity Now draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 1 state in all.
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.
Funders to approach
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 2 funders put you under-funded among the 98 organizations that share them.
- EdChoice Incshared fundersportfolio matchIN · backs 13 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Yes Every Kid Incshared fundersportfolio matchVA · backs 9 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- National School Choice Awareness Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio matchFL · backs 15 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Campaign for Great Public Schoolsshared fundersportfolio matchOR · backs 6 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- South Carolina Childrens Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Spartanburg Academic Movementportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Patrick Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Home School Legal Defense Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The McNair Law Firm Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Joanna Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Jobs First Coalition Incshared fundersWI · backs 3 organizations that share your funders
- Heart of Iowa School Tuition Organization Incshared fundersIA · backs 2 organizations that share your funders
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.
Organizations like South Carolina Opportunity Now
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.
In South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for South Carolina Opportunity Now: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds South Carolina Opportunity Now?
- South Carolina Opportunity Now (South Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $295,000 to it, the largest being AMERICAN FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN INC ($155,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does South Carolina Opportunity Now have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $295,000 in grants to South Carolina Opportunity Now, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of South Carolina Opportunity Now?
- AMERICAN FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN INC is the largest funder on record, with $155,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like South Carolina Opportunity Now 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2022 (financials across 2021–2022), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing