South Carolina · Nonprofit
THE PALMETTO SCHOOL
THE PALMETTO SCHOOL (South Carolina) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $363,563 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($220,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $978k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $364k
- Net assets
- $-788529
What The Palmetto School does
Mission
To provide a safe and individualized education experience that stimulates academic achievement and personal empowerment for abused, neglected, abandoned, or homeless children.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Palmetto School at the children's attention home was organized under the sc charter school act in 2004. Since that time the school has served over 500 children. The school was developed to meet the educational needs of children who were living at the children's attention home, an emergency shelter for children that have been removed from parental custody by the department of social services due to abuse, neglect, and/or abandonment. Prior to the school's charter, the children living at the home attended school in local elementary and middle schools. Because the children had been removed from their homes and moved to an unfamiliar location, they struggled in school. The Palmetto School at the children's attention home was developed as a safe environment, with smaller classes that provide individualized education services to meet the needs of that child.
$530,407 spent$951,546 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $530,407.
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 2018 to 2019, from $1.3M to $581k (−54%).
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 61% · 2018 67% · 2019 76% · 2020 76% · 2021 84% · 2022 88% · 2023 99% · 2024 96% · 2025 97%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of THE PALMETTO SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Deann Segal
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income fell $37k → $17k.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% 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 PALMETTO SCHOOL’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 PALMETTO SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
83% 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 PALMETTO SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 47% · 2019 76% · 2020 91% · 2021 76% · 2022 68% · 2023 69% — growing more concentrated.
“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
38% of THE PALMETTO SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
63% of THE PALMETTO SCHOOL'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 $136k that is directly attributable, 91% of it comes from South Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $228k 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 PALMETTO SCHOOL runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like THE PALMETTO SCHOOL
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
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE PALMETTO SCHOOL: 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 PALMETTO SCHOOL?
- THE PALMETTO SCHOOL (South Carolina) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $363,563 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($220,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE PALMETTO SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $363,563 in grants to THE PALMETTO SCHOOL, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE PALMETTO SCHOOL?
- FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS is the largest funder on record, with $220,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE PALMETTO SCHOOL 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 11 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