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SPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILI ES & YOUTH OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC
SPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILI ES & YOUTH OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,592,355 to it, the largest being CHILDREN'S TRUST OF SOUTH CAROLINA ($1,563,855). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $6.2M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $63k
What Specialized Alternatives for Famili Es & Youth of South Carolina Inc does
Mission
At safy, our vision is to create thriving families and communities where every individual, regardless of background or circumstance, can reach their full potential.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Foster care - safy of south carolina provides therapeutic/treatment foster care to children who experience trauma and are removed from family via court action. Safy recruits and trains foster families to provide safe and stable environments while addressing the emotional and behavioral needs of the child and make positive changes in their lives. Our overall goal is to assist children achieve permanancy.
$4,325,852 spent$5,104,038 earned by the program82% of program spendingEmpowering families - safy of south carolina's family preservation services walk alongside the family, building lifelong skills, enabling the family to achieve physical, social, and emotional well-being. We provide families with the tools needed to develop and maintain strong foundations. Safy's services can range from parenting education to anger management, substance abuse treatment, or any brief and focused intervention that resolves problems threatening stability.
$225,943 spent$212,455 earned by the program4% of program spendingMental health services - safy of south carolina provides mental health counseling to the foster youth and outpatient clients in the vicinity of the offices. Services include family focused prevention services which serve to keep families together.
$705,202 spent$720,870 earned by the program13% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,256,997.
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 2017 to 2018, from $2.2M to $967k (−56%).
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: 2023 9% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of SPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILI ES & YOUTH OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
James Pozy
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $239k → $151k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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: $499k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Specialized Alternatives for Families & Youth of America Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money SPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILI ES & YOUTH OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC raised.
From the IRS filings of SPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILI ES & YOUTH OF SOUTH CAROLINA 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
SPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILI ES & YOUTH OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% 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 SPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILI ES & YOUTH OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 95% · 2019 95% · 2020 98% · 2021 100% · 2022 95% · 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
100% of SPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILI ES & YOUTH OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC'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. $26k 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
SPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILI ES & YOUTH OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC's revenue fell 47% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like SPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILI ES & YOUTH OF SOUTH CAROLINA 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 South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% 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
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 9 related entities
- Safy of America Inc · exempt
- Safy Holding Company · exempt
- Safy of Ohio Inc · exempt
- Safy of Indiana Inc · exempt
- Safy of Nevada Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILI ES & YOUTH OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC?
- SPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILI ES & YOUTH OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,592,355 to it, the largest being CHILDREN'S TRUST OF SOUTH CAROLINA ($1,563,855). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILI ES & YOUTH OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $1,592,355 in grants to SPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILI ES & YOUTH OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILI ES & YOUTH OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC?
- CHILDREN'S TRUST OF SOUTH CAROLINA is the largest funder on record, with $1,563,855 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILI ES & YOUTH OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC 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 3 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