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SUMTER COUNTY MUSEUM FOUNDATION

SUMTER COUNTY MUSEUM FOUNDATION (South Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,720,500 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAMS BRICE EDWARDS CHARITABLE TRUST ($1,720,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$456k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$1.7M
Net assets
$7.5M
1/1 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Sumter County Museum Foundation does

Mission

Provide financial support for the sumter county museum

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Resources were provided to the sumter county museum, a 501 (c)(3) organization, to assist in maintaining its operations and supporting itsls of preserving items.

    $215,000 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $215,000.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.6M) Expenses 100 ($56k) Net assets 100 ($3.6M)2018 Revenue 22 ($575k) Expenses 186 ($105k) Net assets 113 ($4.1M)2020 Revenue 27 ($697k) Expenses 186 ($105k) Net assets 145 ($5.2M)2021 Revenue 17 ($426k) Expenses 241 ($136k) Net assets 153 ($5.5M)2022 Revenue 24 ($610k) Expenses 299 ($169k) Net assets 166 ($6.0M)2023 Revenue 29 ($751k) Expenses 391 ($220k) Net assets 180 ($6.5M)2024 Revenue 44 ($1.1M) Expenses 466 ($263k) Net assets 204 ($7.4M)2025 Revenue 18 ($456k) Expenses 581 ($328k) Net assets 208 ($7.5M)
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Revenue (18)Expenses (581)Net assets (208)

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 $6.5M to $7.4M (+13%).

$3.7M
$4.2M
$5.3M
$5.6M
$6.0M
$6.5M
$7.4M
$7.5M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$2.5M
’17
$470k
’18
$593k
’20
$290k
’21
$442k
’22
$531k
’23
$862k
’24
$128k
’25
20
months of
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.

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Listed86556666
Joined·+0·+1+1+0+0+0
No longer listed·2·10000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $500k → $621k.

Funder
'19
'20
'21
'22
total
funders
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of SUMTER COUNTY MUSEUM FOUNDATION’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.

Where its funders are

100% of SUMTER COUNTY MUSEUM FOUNDATION's grant income comes from South Carolina funders.

SC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’19
’20
’21
’22
South Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like SUMTER COUNTY MUSEUM FOUNDATION

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 18%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

SC

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SUMTER COUNTY MUSEUM FOUNDATION: 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 SUMTER COUNTY MUSEUM FOUNDATION?
SUMTER COUNTY MUSEUM FOUNDATION (South Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,720,500 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAMS BRICE EDWARDS CHARITABLE TRUST ($1,720,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SUMTER COUNTY MUSEUM FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,720,500 in grants to SUMTER COUNTY MUSEUM FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SUMTER COUNTY MUSEUM FOUNDATION?
THE WILLIAMS BRICE EDWARDS CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $1,720,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SUMTER COUNTY MUSEUM FOUNDATION 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 1 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