South Carolina · Nonprofit
The Harbor Entrepreneur Center
The Harbor Entrepreneur Center (South Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $70,078 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($60,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $70k
- Net assets
- $207k
What The Harbor Entrepreneur Center does
Mission
To create collision among the entrepreneur community. By nature, entrepreneurs are problem solvers. We believe by connecting the thinkers, the doers and visionaries we will support the economic vitality of the region. An entrepreneur's journey is a unique one. Founded and operated by entrepreneurs who live the journey, The Harbor leverages this experience to support entrepreneurs at any stage.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Our shared workspace is aligned with our mission to create collision in the entrepreneurial community. Our short-term office space is for entrepreneurs who learn from each other and will hopefully outgrow our space and get their own office. The space also houses JRS Coding School where we train students to become Jr. Level software developers in just 14 weeks, and our peer to peer mentoring program Forum where high level entrepreneurs learn and grow from each other's experiences. (Continued on Schedule O)We offer a few different membership options for you to choose from and they are all month-to-month. Float Space: If you need to get out of the house or you're feeling distracted at your local coffee shop, this is the plan foryou! Dedicated Desk Space: Pick a spot and make it your own. This is perfect if you have additional monitors, printers, files, etc. that you need a place for.Private Office/Pod: This plan is perfect for growing teams who are working towards getting their own office and need a place to get things done until then.Accelerator ProgramThe Harbor Accelerator Program brings a new concept to Charleston's booming entrepreneur economy by giving participants the…
$1,100,267 spent$787,192 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,100,267.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $127k to $359k (+182%).
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: 2017 27% · 2018 23% · 2019 10% · 2020 12% · 2021 25% · 2022 9% · 2023 22% · 2024 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
34% of The Harbor Entrepreneur Center’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Grady Johnson
Executive Director
Board chair
Christina Lock
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $25k.
3 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $15k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money The Harbor Entrepreneur Center raised.
From the IRS filings of The Harbor Entrepreneur Center’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 Harbor Entrepreneur Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% 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
100% 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 Harbor Entrepreneur Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 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
100% of The Harbor Entrepreneur Center'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $70k 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.
Against its field
The Harbor Entrepreneur Center has grown faster than half of the 4,203 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like The Harbor Entrepreneur Center
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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Harbor Entrepreneur Center: 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 The Harbor Entrepreneur Center?
- The Harbor Entrepreneur Center (South Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $70,078 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($60,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does The Harbor Entrepreneur Center have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $70,078 in grants to The Harbor Entrepreneur Center, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Harbor Entrepreneur Center?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $60,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Harbor Entrepreneur Center 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 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