South Carolina · Nonprofit
SPARTANBURG ACADEMIC MOVEMENT
SPARTANBURG ACADEMIC MOVEMENT (South Carolina) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,338,863 to it, the largest being BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC ($23,050,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $39M
- Net assets
- $20M
What Spartanburg Academic Movement does
Mission
Spartanburg Academic Movement is an "all-in" partnership of schools and colleges, businesses, governments, foundations, faith communities and individuals across spartanburg county in pursuit of high levels of educational achievement. The collective mission is we ensure spartanburg county's children and youth reach academic and life success by convening partners, aligning resources and advancing opportunity for all.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The history and a detailed description of sam's program accomplishments are available on the organization's website: www.learnwithsam.org. The Spartanburg Academic Movement (sam) is both a non-profit organization and a collaborative impact movement to improve the economic mobility of spartanburg county residents, anchored in academic acheivement, cradle through career. Sam was formed in 2013, combining the work of the children's services alliance and the college hub to create the cradle through career perspective for community building and action. Sam works to ensure that children and youth reach academic and life success by convening program and service delivery partners, aligning resources, and driving equity across achievement indicators. Sam specifically monitors academic achievement indicators: kindergarten readiness, third grade reading, eighth grade math, college/career-ready high school graduation, postsecondary enrollment, and postsecondary persistence and completion. Sam published countywide achievement data, disaggregated by race/ethnicity, gender and socio-economic status indicators to drive equity. To date, sam has built collaborative action/collective impact…
$2,313,336 spentof which $303,108 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,313,336.
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 2023 to 2024, from $11M to $21M (+99%).
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 23% · 2018 12% · 2019 4% · 2020 3% · 2021 5% · 2022 9% · 2023 1% · 2024 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of SPARTANBURG ACADEMIC MOVEMENT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $149k → $3.3M.
4 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $627k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Mary Black Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money SPARTANBURG ACADEMIC MOVEMENT raised.
From the IRS filings of SPARTANBURG ACADEMIC MOVEMENT’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
SPARTANBURG ACADEMIC MOVEMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
89% 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 SPARTANBURG ACADEMIC MOVEMENT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 95% · 2019 52% · 2020 97% · 2021 86% · 2022 78% · 2023 80% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
38% of SPARTANBURG ACADEMIC MOVEMENT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
SPARTANBURG ACADEMIC MOVEMENT draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states 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
SPARTANBURG ACADEMIC MOVEMENT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,064 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,064 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding SPARTANBURG ACADEMIC MOVEMENT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $9.0M on record.
- Department of Education$9.0M
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 SPARTANBURG ACADEMIC MOVEMENT
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
95% 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 SPARTANBURG ACADEMIC MOVEMENT: 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 SPARTANBURG ACADEMIC MOVEMENT?
- SPARTANBURG ACADEMIC MOVEMENT (South Carolina) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,338,863 to it, the largest being BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC ($23,050,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SPARTANBURG ACADEMIC MOVEMENT have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $39,338,863 in grants to SPARTANBURG ACADEMIC MOVEMENT, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPARTANBURG ACADEMIC MOVEMENT?
- BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC is the largest funder on record, with $23,050,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPARTANBURG ACADEMIC MOVEMENT 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 21 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