South Carolina · Nonprofit
The South Carolina Education Foundation
The South Carolina Education Foundation (South Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $85,716 to it, the largest being DOMINION ENERGY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($80,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $187k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $86k
- Net assets
- $60k
What The South Carolina Education Foundation does
Mission
Support programs of SC Department of Education
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Teacher of the Year Program -- See Schedule O
$120,072 spent64% of program spendingMilitary Honor Cord Ceremony -- See Schedule O
$7,956 spent4% of program spendingAfrican American History Calendar Ceremony -- See Schedule O
$3,909 spent2% of program spendingUnited States Senate Youth Program - See Schedule O
$3,711 spent2% of program spendingSouth Carolina Principal of Excellence Award - See Schedule O
$25,730 spentof which $25,000 as grants14% of program spendingThe SCEF also supports SCDE internal and external recognition/stakeholder events based on the discretion of the State Superintendent of Education.
$25,754 spent14% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $187,132.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $181k to $99k (−45%).
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.
100% of The South Carolina Education Foundation’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 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Ian Headley
Executive Director
Board chair
Ellen Weaver
President / Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $23k → $15k.
From the IRS filings of The South Carolina Education Foundation’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 South Carolina Education Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 87% · 2021 85% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
The South Carolina Education Foundation draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
The South Carolina Education Foundation receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $86k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like The South Carolina Education Foundation
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.
Public support
0%
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 South Carolina Education Foundation: 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 Education Foundation?
- The South Carolina Education Foundation (South Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $85,716 to it, the largest being DOMINION ENERGY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($80,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The South Carolina Education Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $85,716 in grants to The South Carolina Education Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The South Carolina Education Foundation?
- DOMINION ENERGY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $80,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The South Carolina Education Foundation 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 2022–2025), 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