South Carolina · Nonprofit
THE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION OF LOWER FLORENCE COUNTY
THE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION OF LOWER FLORENCE COUNTY (South Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,000 to it, the largest being KING FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION OF LOWER FLORENCE COUNTY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 15,926 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,926 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- United Way of Florence Countylocal
- The Consortium of Florida Education Foundations Incportfolio match
- Durotech Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
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: 2020 100% · 2022 96% · 2023 67% · 2024 58% · 2025 93%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of THE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION OF LOWER FLORENCE COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $25k → $2k.
From the IRS filings of THE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION OF LOWER FLORENCE COUNTY’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 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION OF LOWER FLORENCE COUNTY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% 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: 2020 100% · 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 THE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION OF LOWER FLORENCE COUNTY'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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- United Way of Florence CountylocalSC · funds 12 organizations near you
- The Consortium of Florida Education Foundations Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Durotech Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jefferson County Public Education Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Apple Federal Credit Union Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Friend to Friend Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tsic Inc Dba/Take Stock in Childrenportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Federation for Children Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Central Montana Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Round It Up America Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Reading Is Fundamental Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stuller Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like THE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION OF LOWER FLORENCE COUNTY
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 THE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION OF LOWER FLORENCE COUNTY: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION OF LOWER FLORENCE COUNTY?
- THE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION OF LOWER FLORENCE COUNTY (South Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,000 to it, the largest being KING FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION OF LOWER FLORENCE COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $27,000 in grants to THE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION OF LOWER FLORENCE COUNTY.
- Who is the largest funder of THE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION OF LOWER FLORENCE COUNTY?
- KING FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION OF LOWER FLORENCE COUNTY 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing