South Carolina · Nonprofit
SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTH CAROLINA
SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTH CAROLINA (South Carolina) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,480,880 to it, the largest being SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ($6,980,260). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.9M
- Funders on record
- 65
- Grants received
- $8.5M
- Net assets
- $9.9M
What Special Olympics South Carolina does
Mission
Special Olympics South Carolina provides year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of olympics-type sports and competitions for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their families, other special olympics athletes and the community. Our program is also more than just sports. Special Olympics South Carolina's year round programs also include initiatives in health, education and community building that addresses inactivity, injustice, intolerance and social isolation by encouraging and empowering people of all abilities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Special olympics games, information and support of individuals with intellectual disabilities in south carolina to include over 400 competitions and trainings for over 28,000 athletes across the state of south carolina at no cost to the participants.
$4,005,381 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,005,381.
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.
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 $8.4M to $9.9M (+18%).
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 8% · 2018 7% · 2019 24% · 2020 32% · 2021 38% · 2022 32% · 2023 34% · 2024 34%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Board chair
Allison Sullivan
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $690k → $1.3M.
15 of 65 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTH CAROLINA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 65 funders by total. 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
SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTH CAROLINA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTH CAROLINA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 72% · 2019 91% · 2020 80% · 2021 87% · 2022 87% · 2023 89% — 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
39% of SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTH CAROLINA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTH CAROLINA draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $955k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.
Organizations like SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTH CAROLINA
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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTH CAROLINA: 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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTH CAROLINA?
- SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTH CAROLINA (South Carolina) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,480,880 to it, the largest being SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ($6,980,260). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTH CAROLINA have?
- IRS filings report 65 organizations giving $8,480,880 in grants to SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTH CAROLINA, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTH CAROLINA?
- SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,980,260 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTH CAROLINA 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 65 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing