South Carolina · Nonprofit
THE GAMECOCK CLUB
THE GAMECOCK CLUB (South Carolina) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,268,189 to it, the largest being GARNET TRUST FOUNDATION ($853,707). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
THE GAMECOCK CLUB runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,681 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,681 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, 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.
- Prisma Health-Midlandslocal
- Mark and Mary Ann Kaufman Foundationportfolio match
- Quiet Angel Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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.
97% of THE GAMECOCK CLUB’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $9k → $2k.
9 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 GAMECOCK CLUB’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 GAMECOCK CLUB leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
97% 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 GAMECOCK CLUB.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 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.
Where its funders are
59% of THE GAMECOCK CLUB'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 $922k that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from South Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 14 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Prisma Health-MidlandslocalSC · funds 27 organizations near you
- Mark and Mary Ann Kaufman Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Quiet Angel Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Suitt Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Stagman Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Easton Sports Development Foundation IIportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Thomas and Elizabeth Laffont Family Foundation C/O Coatue Managementportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nathan Fluegelman Memorial Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- KYOCERA AVX Components Foundation (fka AVX-Kyocera Foundation)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jae S Lim Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foley Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Strive Foundation Incportfolio 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 GAMECOCK CLUB
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- University of South Carolina · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE GAMECOCK CLUB: 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 GAMECOCK CLUB?
- THE GAMECOCK CLUB (South Carolina) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,268,189 to it, the largest being GARNET TRUST FOUNDATION ($853,707). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE GAMECOCK CLUB have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $2,268,189 in grants to THE GAMECOCK CLUB, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE GAMECOCK CLUB?
- GARNET TRUST FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $853,707 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE GAMECOCK CLUB 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 14funders 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