South Carolina · Nonprofit
SUMTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION
SUMTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION (South Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $166,034 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAMS BRICE EDWARDS CHARITABLE TRUST ($100,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $166k
- Net assets
- $20k
What Sumter Education Foundation does
Mission
Provide books and equipment to all grade
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Teacher appreciation awards
$1,000 spent7% of program spendingSumter school district stem award
$13,360 spent93% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $14,360.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $143k to $30k (−79%).
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.
100% of SUMTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Patty Patterson
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10k → $26k.
From the IRS filings of SUMTER EDUCATION 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.
How concentrated its funding is
SUMTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 71% · 2020 83% · 2021 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 SUMTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION'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. 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
SUMTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,183 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like SUMTER EDUCATION 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SUMTER EDUCATION 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 EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
- SUMTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION (South Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $166,034 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAMS BRICE EDWARDS CHARITABLE TRUST ($100,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SUMTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $166,034 in grants to SUMTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SUMTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
- THE WILLIAMS BRICE EDWARDS CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SUMTER EDUCATION 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.
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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 2021–2024), 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