South Carolina · Nonprofit
THE SOUTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION OF OPTICIANS
THE SOUTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION OF OPTICIANS (South Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being AMERICAN BOARD OF OPTICIANRY AND NATIONAL CONTACT LENS EXAMINERS INC ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $132k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $552k
What The South Carolina Association of Opticians does
Mission
Provide quality continuing education to licensed opticians and apprentices. The association sponsors a review course twice a year for apprentices who are preparing to take the licensing exam.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
N/a for 501 (c) (6)
$37,262 spent$60,125 earned by the program100% of program spendingN/a for 501 (c) (6)
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $37,262.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $507k to $552k (+9%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of THE SOUTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION OF OPTICIANS’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.
Where its funders are
THE SOUTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION OF OPTICIANS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 1 state in all.
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.
Organizations like THE SOUTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION OF OPTICIANS
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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE SOUTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION OF OPTICIANS: 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 SOUTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION OF OPTICIANS?
- THE SOUTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION OF OPTICIANS (South Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being AMERICAN BOARD OF OPTICIANRY AND NATIONAL CONTACT LENS EXAMINERS INC ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE SOUTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION OF OPTICIANS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to THE SOUTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION OF OPTICIANS.
- Who is the largest funder of THE SOUTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION OF OPTICIANS?
- AMERICAN BOARD OF OPTICIANRY AND NATIONAL CONTACT LENS EXAMINERS INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE SOUTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION OF OPTICIANS 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 1 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