South Carolina · Nonprofit
UPSTATE CIRCLE OF FRIENDS
UPSTATE CIRCLE OF FRIENDS (South Carolina) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $765,918 to it, the largest being THE JOLLEY FOUNDATION ($179,541). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $766k
- Net assets
- $553k
What Upstate Circle of Friends does
Mission
Our mission is a solid commitment to expand opportunities, enhance the quality of life, and the progressions of at-risk children and their families through educational, recreational, and social programs.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Upstate Circle of Friends provides a variety of services to help at-risk youth and their families. These include food programs out of ucf's kitchen, providing up to two hot meals daily for youth and senior citizens in need, funded by usda programs; at-risk youth leaders-learners-earners programming through afterschool and summer programs funded through dept. Of social servicees, foundation grants, and individual support; vetforward housing program providing quality homes for qualified homeless veterans through local and regional organizations; urban farming teaching garden to educate the community on the benefits of a home garden in partnership with marantha farms and wellnes with usda funding; and more through collaborations with other nonprofits within the community.
$1,241,164 spent95% of program spendingUpstate Circle of Friends used fixed assets to provide services for the youths and families.
$60,540 spent5% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,301,704.
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 $698k to $1.1M (+57%).
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 40% · 2022 33% · 2023 9% · 2024 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
26% of UPSTATE CIRCLE OF FRIENDS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $30k → $132k.
1 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 UPSTATE CIRCLE OF FRIENDS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 18 of 19 funders by total. 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
UPSTATE CIRCLE OF FRIENDS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
30% 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 UPSTATE CIRCLE OF FRIENDS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 60% · 2020 37% · 2021 70% · 2022 33% · 2023 38% — diversifying over time.
“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
22% of UPSTATE CIRCLE OF FRIENDS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
64% of UPSTATE CIRCLE OF FRIENDS's grant income comes from South Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k 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
UPSTATE CIRCLE OF FRIENDS's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 7 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,274 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding UPSTATE CIRCLE OF FRIENDS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $385k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$334k
- Appalachian Regional Commission$51k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like UPSTATE CIRCLE OF FRIENDS
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 UPSTATE CIRCLE OF FRIENDS: 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 UPSTATE CIRCLE OF FRIENDS?
- UPSTATE CIRCLE OF FRIENDS (South Carolina) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $765,918 to it, the largest being THE JOLLEY FOUNDATION ($179,541). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UPSTATE CIRCLE OF FRIENDS have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $765,918 in grants to UPSTATE CIRCLE OF FRIENDS, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UPSTATE CIRCLE OF FRIENDS?
- THE JOLLEY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $179,541 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UPSTATE CIRCLE OF FRIENDS 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 19 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