South Carolina · Nonprofit
The Foundation for Fort Mill Schools Inc
The Foundation for Fort Mill Schools Inc (South Carolina) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $255,903 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($85,715). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
The Foundation for Fort Mill Schools Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 22,771 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,771 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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.
- York Electric Trust Inclocal
- Durotech Foundationportfolio match
- Apple Federal Credit Union Foundationportfolio match
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.
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.
102% of The Foundation for Fort Mill Schools Inc’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 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $41k → $10k.
5 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 Foundation for Fort Mill Schools 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 Foundation for Fort Mill Schools Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
56% 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 Foundation for Fort Mill Schools Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 85% · 2020 50% · 2021 75% · 2022 60% · 2023 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.
How long its funders stay
29% of The Foundation for Fort Mill Schools Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
53% of The Foundation for Fort Mill Schools 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 $121k that is directly attributable, 86% of it comes from South Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $134k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 statesis 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.
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. Your 13 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- York Electric Trust InclocalSC · funds 35 organizations near you
- Durotech Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Apple Federal Credit Union Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Friend to Friend Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Consortium of Florida Education Foundations Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Halstead Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The John W Harris Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- J Tylee Wilson Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- North Carolina Glaxosmithkline Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kinman-Oldfield Fam Fdn Trportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Clt Host 2020 Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Mary H Cain 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 Foundation for Fort Mill Schools Inc
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Foundation for Fort Mill Schools Inc: 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 Foundation for Fort Mill Schools Inc?
- The Foundation for Fort Mill Schools Inc (South Carolina) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $255,903 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($85,715). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does The Foundation for Fort Mill Schools Inc have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $255,903 in grants to The Foundation for Fort Mill Schools Inc, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Foundation for Fort Mill Schools Inc?
- FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS is the largest funder on record, with $85,715 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Foundation for Fort Mill Schools 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 13funders 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