South Carolina · Nonprofit
Tri-County Play Collaborative
Tri-County Play Collaborative (South Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $270,000 to it, the largest being ALLIANCE FOR EARLY SUCCESS FKA BIRTH TO FIVE POLICY ALLIANCE ($200,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $55k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $270k
- Net assets
- $14k
What Tri-County Play Collaborative does
Mission
Tricounty Play Collaborative expands access to arts, culture, and nature for young children, families, and early educators from underserved communities. By connecting early learning experiences with local cultural and natural resources, we nurture curiosity, foster discovery, and bring literacy to life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Tricounty Play Collaborative continued its mission of expanding access to early learning, culture, and community connection for families across the Tri-County region. We hosted three Early Care Community of Practice gatherings, offering child care providers opportunities to reflect, collaborate, and engage in professional development rooted in equity and play-based learning. We held four Play and Read events at local libraries and community hubs, integrating literacy activities, culturally relevant storybooks, and interactive play experiences for young children and their caregivers. To address water safety disparities in underserved communities, we partnered with local organizations to offer Swimmershipsproviding families with young children access to swim instruction and water safety education. Tricounty Play Collaborative also led a Community Asset Mapping initiative designed to explore community interest in enhancing early math learning through local environments, such as parks and walking trails. Additionally, the organization participated in community-wide events, tabling to raise awareness about the benefits of early learning, and sustained a bilingual early care podcast to…
$32,288 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $32,288.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 Tri-County Play Collaborative’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
Tri-County Play Collaborative leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 Tri-County Play Collaborative.
“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
Tri-County Play Collaborative draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 3 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Tri-County Play Collaborative runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 10,305 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,305 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Tri-County Play Collaborative
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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Tri-County Play Collaborative?
- Tri-County Play Collaborative (South Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $270,000 to it, the largest being ALLIANCE FOR EARLY SUCCESS FKA BIRTH TO FIVE POLICY ALLIANCE ($200,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Tri-County Play Collaborative have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $270,000 in grants to Tri-County Play Collaborative, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Tri-County Play Collaborative?
- ALLIANCE FOR EARLY SUCCESS FKA BIRTH TO FIVE POLICY ALLIANCE is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Tri-County Play Collaborative 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 2025–2025), and the filings of 6 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing