South Carolina · Nonprofit
Sumter United Ministries
Sumter United Ministries (South Carolina) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $802,354 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($360,900). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $802k
- Net assets
- $2.8M
What Sumter United Ministries does
Mission
To assess the needs of sumter county residents in crisis and provide counseling, and/ or food, and/or clothing, and/or financial assistance for fuel, utilities, medical care, prescription drugs, transportation and housing, and/or medical care, and/or emergency shelter, and/or construction repairs to residence.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The crisis relief ministry provided financial assistance to 535 people for utilities, heating, rent, and transportation. Also, provided an additional 5,865 in-kind assistance (food, clothing, diapers/hygiene, medical supplies, furniture, school supplies, thanksgiving food box, and christmas gifts). The ministry also provided financial assistance for 64 people for home repairs and ramps. The ministry also provided an additional 4,224 in-kind assistance (home repairs, ramps, meals, school supplies, medicine, medical and dental).
$451,194 spentof which $279,492 as grants36% of program spendingThe construction ministry - purpose is to make homes safe, dry, and secure for those in need.
$435,791 spentof which $385,144 as grants34% of program spendingThe emergency shelter construction - provide beds and meals to those in need.
$269,689 spentof which $28,529 as grants21% of program spendingThe free clinics - medical supplies, dental, prescriptions, food, and rent for those in need.
$110,228 spentof which $31,115 as grants9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,266,902.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2020 to 2021, from $1.4M to $2.1M (+45%).
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: 2018 3% · 2019 3% · 2020 17% · 2021 20% · 2022 31% · 2023 5% · 2024 6% · 2025 7%. 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.
Chief executive
Mark Champagne
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $31k → $167k.
5 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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 Sumter United Ministries’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 14 of 15 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
Sumter United Ministries leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
90% 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 Sumter United Ministries.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 52% · 2019 55% · 2020 53% · 2021 44% · 2022 44% · 2023 68% — 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
44% of Sumter United Ministries's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
65% of Sumter United Ministries'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 $278k that is directly attributable, 82% of it comes from South Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $524k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 Sumter United Ministries
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
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Sumter United Ministries: 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 United Ministries?
- Sumter United Ministries (South Carolina) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $802,354 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($360,900). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Sumter United Ministries have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $802,354 in grants to Sumter United Ministries, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Sumter United Ministries?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $360,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Sumter United Ministries 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 15 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