South Carolina · Nonprofit
Spirit of Sebastian
Spirit of Sebastian (South Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $41,500 to it, the largest being Community Foundation of the Lowcountry ($31,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $195k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $42k
- Net assets
- $0
What Spirit of Sebastian does
Mission
The Spirit of Sebastian Foundation was formed to educate and raise awareness about the dangers of drug and alcohol abuse among youth parents and the community through prevention programs educational events and outreach activities. The organization also supports individuals and families affected by addiction by helping connect them with rehabilitation resources counseling services and recovery support. The foundation exists to promote prevention healing recovery and healthier communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The organization provides drug and alcohol prevention education rehabilitation support assistance and community outreach services to youth adults and families in the Lowcountry community. The organization serves individuals and families affected by substance abuse by helping provide access to rehabilitation programs counseling resources sober living support and prevention education. Key activities include organizing educational presentations in schools and community settings hosting prevention and awareness events for parents and youth collaborating with recovery organizations and treatment centers and providing financial assistance to individuals who cannot afford rehabilitation treatment. Program accomplishments during the year included supporting multiple individuals seeking recovery treatment conducting community prevention and awareness initiatives increasing education about the dangers of fentanyl and substance abuse and strengthening partnerships with local organizations dedicated to recovery and prevention efforts. Success is measured through the number of individuals assisted community outreach events conducted participation levels and increased awareness within the…
$98,693 spentof which $74,605 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $98,693.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $14k to $0 (−100%).
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.
83% of Spirit of Sebastian’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% 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 Spirit of Sebastian’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
Spirit of Sebastian leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% 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
76% 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 Spirit of Sebastian.
“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
76% of Spirit of Sebastian's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from South Carolina funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $32k 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
Spirit of Sebastian runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Spirit of Sebastian
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Spirit of Sebastian: 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 Spirit of Sebastian?
- Spirit of Sebastian (South Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $41,500 to it, the largest being Community Foundation of the Lowcountry ($31,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Spirit of Sebastian have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $41,500 in grants to Spirit of Sebastian, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Spirit of Sebastian?
- Community Foundation of the Lowcountry is the largest funder on record, with $31,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Spirit of Sebastian 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 FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), and the filings of 2 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