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The Cooper River Bridge Run Inc

The Cooper River Bridge Run Inc (South Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $129,000 to it, the largest being THE US CHARITABLE GIFT TRUST ($49,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$3.1M
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$129k
Net assets
$2.9M
4/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%
01What it does

What The Cooper River Bridge Run Inc does

Mission

The Cooper River Bridge Run, Inc. provides a world class 10-K road race and other related events and promotes continuous physical activity and a healthy lifestyle through education, opportunity and motivation.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The Cooper River Bridge Run is the best organized and best conducted 10-K race in the world. It includes world-class competition in a unique setting with unparalleled participant satisfaction. It broadens community cooperation and participation in healthy events throughout the year. The Cooper River Bridge Run serves as a model of health motivation for other communities throughout the world. The 2025 Cooper Bridge Run took place on April 5, 2025. The Cooper River Bridge Run has a tremendous impact on the local Community, the Hospitality and Tourism industry and other business entities by generating thirty-three ($33) million dollars in one weekend. (See Schedule O)CRBR also supports the Lowcountry through our Charity Connection and Grants programs. The CRBR is also proud to promote Health and Wellness which improves the quality of life.

    $2,371,937 spentof which $111,030 as grants$2,332,862 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,371,937.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.6M) Expenses 100 ($2.5M) Net assets 100 ($1.4M)2018 Revenue 97 ($2.5M) Expenses 104 ($2.6M) Net assets 94 ($1.3M)2019 Revenue 97 ($2.5M) Expenses 93 ($2.3M) Net assets 109 ($1.5M)2020 Revenue 28 ($726k) Expenses 44 ($1.1M) Net assets 83 ($1.2M)2021 Revenue 7 ($182k) Expenses 20 ($503k) Net assets 60 ($833k)2022 Revenue 155 ($4.0M) Expenses 126 ($3.1M) Net assets 124 ($1.7M)2023 Revenue 99 ($2.5M) Expenses 90 ($2.2M) Net assets 146 ($2.0M)2024 Revenue 112 ($2.9M) Expenses 104 ($2.6M) Net assets 168 ($2.3M)2025 Revenue 122 ($3.1M) Expenses 103 ($2.6M) Net assets 210 ($2.9M)
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Revenue (122)Expenses (103)Net assets (210)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $1.7M to $2.4M (+43%).

$1.6M
$1.6M
$1.7M
$2.4M
$2.5M
$2.1M
$2.4M
$2.5M
$3.1M
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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.

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2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 3% · 2018 4% · 2019 5% · 2020 11% · 2021 68% · 2022 4% · 2023 7% · 2024 8% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

24% of The Cooper River Bridge Run Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,893 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$98k
’17
−$80k
’18
$199k
’19
−$355k
’20
−$321k
’21
$887k
’22
$313k
’23
$302k
’24
$588k
’25
7.1
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.

Board chair

Mike Seekings

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed151516171010101017
Joined·+1+3+7+1+0+1+1+8
No longer listed·12680111
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $500 → $47k.

3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% 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 The Cooper River Bridge Run 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

The Cooper River Bridge Run Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

77% 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 The Cooper River Bridge Run Inc.

38%
largest funder
84%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2021 83% · 2022 77% · 2023 41% — diversifying over time.

“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

77% of The Cooper River Bridge Run Inc'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 $30k that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from funders outside South Carolina, across 2 states.

MO
SC

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

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South Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $100k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

The Cooper River Bridge Run Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin19% · top quartile
Months of reserve7.1mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like The Cooper River Bridge Run 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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

93% of spending goes to programs.

Program 93%Management 4%Fundraising 3%

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

SC

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Questions and answers

Who funds The Cooper River Bridge Run Inc?
The Cooper River Bridge Run Inc (South Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $129,000 to it, the largest being THE US CHARITABLE GIFT TRUST ($49,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does The Cooper River Bridge Run Inc have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $129,000 in grants to The Cooper River Bridge Run Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of The Cooper River Bridge Run Inc?
THE US CHARITABLE GIFT TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $49,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like The Cooper River Bridge Run 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 5 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