Virginia · Nonprofit
SOUTHEAST RURAL COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC
SOUTHEAST RURAL COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC (Virginia) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,054,820 to it, the largest being RURAL COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE PARTNERSHIP INCORPORATED ($25,736,218). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $26M
- Net assets
- $4.1M
What Southeast Rural Community Assistance Project Inc does
Mission
Southeast rural community assistance project, inc. (sercap) was organized for the purpose of promoting and assisting the development of water and wastewater facilities in maryland, delaware, virginia, north carolina, south carolina, georgia, and florida. The primary concern is for low-income persons who lack the financial resources to obtain adequate water and wastewater facilities. Since 1969, sercap has also assisted in the development of facilities in low-income rural areas by: organizing people, helping apply for financing, coordinating system design of individual well sites, and providing information related to the construction, operations, and maintenance of water and wastewater facilities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Training and technical assistance: the epa npa 1 grant program allows sercap to provide training and technical assistance (ta) for small, rural community water systems. Epa npa 1 specifically focuses on providing clean, safe drinking water to these small, rural communities. The training and ta provided under this grant program frequently supports compliance, and helps small water systems to gain and/or maintain compliance with local, state, and federal water regulations. However, these funds do not cover any fines/fees associated with systems being out of compliance. Approximately 410 projects and 50 trainings completed.
$3,002,605 spent$178,555 earned by the program33% of program spendingEnvironmental: the environmental finance center provides training and application assistance to low-income communities to help them gain access to grants and loans for critical water, wastewater, and other environmental projects. Furthermore, the efc's assistance will center on helping communities access srf (state revolved funds) and other state and federal grants and loans.
$2,168,707 spent$32,620 earned by the program24% of program spendingCommunity development: the rural community development (rcd) grant from hhs: ocs, also provides training and technical assistance (ta) to small, rural water and wastewater systems. This grant funding allows sercap to impact four key issues facing lmi rural areas in the southeast us, including: clean drinking water, environmentally sound wastewater solutions, critical infrastructure, and community development. Sercap's technical assistance providers (taps) support these communities by providing training to community boards, training to w/ww operators, and necessary ta, including: w/ww needs assessments, planning & operations, economic development, and more. Approximately 70 projects and 15 trainings completed.
$1,958,144 spentof which $572,488 as grants$34,337 earned by the program22% of program spendingHousing
$1,236,750 spentof which $71,842 as grants$174,548 earned by the program14% of program spendingLoan fund
$717,802 spentof which $23,704 as grants$152,229 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,084,008.
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 2024 to 2025, from $11M to $12M (+15%).
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 94% · 2018 94% · 2019 93% · 2020 92% · 2021 90% · 2022 87% · 2023 91% · 2024 90% · 2025 90%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of SOUTHEAST RURAL COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (30% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Hope F Cupit
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $1.8M → $3.4M.
1 of 7 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 SOUTHEAST RURAL COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC’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
SOUTHEAST RURAL COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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 SOUTHEAST RURAL COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 98% · 2022 96% · 2023 98% — 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
SOUTHEAST RURAL COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $135k 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
SOUTHEAST RURAL COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC is better cushioned than half of the 132 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 132 public benefit nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding SOUTHEAST RURAL COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $19.8M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$11.2M
- Environmental Protection Agency$4.4M
- Department of Agriculture$3.3M
- Department of the Treasury$973k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like SOUTHEAST RURAL COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 6 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- 347 West Campbell LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOUTHEAST RURAL COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC: 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 SOUTHEAST RURAL COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC?
- SOUTHEAST RURAL COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC (Virginia) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,054,820 to it, the largest being RURAL COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE PARTNERSHIP INCORPORATED ($25,736,218). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOUTHEAST RURAL COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $26,054,820 in grants to SOUTHEAST RURAL COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTHEAST RURAL COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC?
- RURAL COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE PARTNERSHIP INCORPORATED is the largest funder on record, with $25,736,218 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTHEAST RURAL COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 7 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