South Carolina · Nonprofit
SPARTANBURG COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP
SPARTANBURG COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP (South Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,498,725 to it, the largest being SOUTH CAROLINA FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS BOARD OF TRUSTEES ($7,544,243). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
SPARTANBURG COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP has grown faster than half of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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.
- Mary Black Foundation Incshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Spartanburg Academic Movementlocalportfolio match
- Balmer Foundationshared funderslocal
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.
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 92% · 2020 77% · 2021 73% · 2022 47%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of SPARTANBURG COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% 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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $669k → $1.5M.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 SPARTANBURG COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP’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 COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 98%; 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 SPARTANBURG COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 69% · 2022 95% · 2023 56% — 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
100% of SPARTANBURG COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP's grant income comes from South Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
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 6 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Mary Black Foundation Incshared funderslocalportfolio matchSC · backs 53 organizations that share your funders · funds 57 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Spartanburg Academic Movementlocalportfolio matchSC · funds 16 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Balmer Foundationshared funderslocalSC · backs 23 organizations that share your funders · funds 34 organizations near you
- North Carolina Partnership for Children Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Children's Trust of South Carolinaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of the Midlandsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Early Years Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Virginia Early Childhood Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wake County Smart Start Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Falatok Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundationshared funderslocalSC · backs 35 organizations that share your funders · funds 40 organizations near you
- South Carolina Independent Colleges and Universitiesshared fundersSC · backs 13 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 SPARTANBURG COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP
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.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- South Carolina First Steps to Schoo · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SPARTANBURG COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP: 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 SPARTANBURG COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP?
- SPARTANBURG COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP (South Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,498,725 to it, the largest being SOUTH CAROLINA FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS BOARD OF TRUSTEES ($7,544,243). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SPARTANBURG COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $9,498,725 in grants to SPARTANBURG COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPARTANBURG COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP?
- SOUTH CAROLINA FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS BOARD OF TRUSTEES is the largest funder on record, with $7,544,243 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPARTANBURG COUNTY FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS PARTNERSHIP 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 6funders 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