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UPSTATE INSTITUTE OF YOUTH PROGRAMS

UPSTATE INSTITUTE OF YOUTH PROGRAMS (South Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $144,985 to it, the largest being SMITH PETE AND SALLY FOUNDATION ($134,665). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$385k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$145k
Net assets
$87k
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 7%
01What it does

What Upstate Institute of Youth Programs does

Mission

Youth support in academics and athletics

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Student academics

    $18,479 spent
    28% of program spending

  2. Student institutional supplies

    $15,373 spent
    23% of program spending

  3. Student travel

    $14,475 spent
    22% of program spending

  4. Tutoring

    $17,292 spent
    26% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $65,619.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($155k) Expenses 100 ($115k) Net assets 100 ($40k)2018 Revenue 232 ($360k) Expenses 316 ($363k) Net assets 92 ($37k)2019 Revenue 245 ($380k) Expenses 337 ($388k) Net assets 74 ($30k)2020 Revenue 348 ($541k) Expenses 378 ($434k) Net assets 337 ($136k)2021 Revenue 243 ($378k) Expenses 326 ($374k) Net assets 346 ($140k)2022 Revenue 277 ($430k) Expenses 412 ($473k) Net assets 239 ($97k)2023 Revenue 264 ($410k) Expenses 391 ($449k) Net assets 142 ($58k)2024 Revenue 287 ($446k) Expenses 400 ($460k) Net assets 108 ($44k)2025 Revenue 248 ($385k) Expenses 297 ($341k) Net assets 215 ($87k)
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Revenue (248)Expenses (297)Net assets (215)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $30k to $136k (+355%).

$40k
$37k
$30k
$136k
$140k
$97k
$58k
$44k
$87k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 79% · 2019 86% · 2020 93% · 2021 96% · 2022 69% · 2023 76% · 2024 78%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of UPSTATE INSTITUTE OF YOUTH PROGRAMS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (83% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 6,387 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$40k
’17
−$3k
’18
−$7k
’19
$106k
’20
$4k
’21
−$43k
’22
−$39k
’23
−$14k
’24
$43k
’25
3.1
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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.

Chief executive

Thwanda Davidson

CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $22k → $19k.

Funder
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funders
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From the IRS filings of UPSTATE INSTITUTE OF YOUTH PROGRAMS’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

UPSTATE INSTITUTE OF YOUTH PROGRAMS 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

93%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 94% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 52% — 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.

Where its funders are

UPSTATE INSTITUTE OF YOUTH PROGRAMS draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 3 states in all.

MO
NC
SC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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South Carolina out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

UPSTATE INSTITUTE OF YOUTH PROGRAMS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,482 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin11% · above the median
Months of reserve3.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding UPSTATE INSTITUTE OF YOUTH PROGRAMS receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.7M on record.

Federal$2.7M
grants $2.7Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Education$2.7M

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 INSTITUTE OF YOUTH PROGRAMS

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

North Charleston Sc Youth Resistance Inc69%Upstate Educatonal Fund68%Upstate Family Resource Center68%Kids Upstate67%Upstate Circle of Friends66%Youth and Equine Ministries of the Upstate65%Urban League of the Upstate65%Elevations Youth Development Outreach Inc65%

Nationally

Inspiring Minds Raleigh-Durham Inc71%Up Rva69%North Charleston Sc Youth Resistance Inc69%It Takes Two Inc69%Upstate Educatonal Fund68%Premier Athletics for Youth Development68%Upstate Family Resource Center68%Upright Athletics68%
05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

19% of spending goes to programs.

Program 19%Management 81%Fundraising 0%

Governance

0
board members
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UPSTATE INSTITUTE OF YOUTH PROGRAMS: 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 INSTITUTE OF YOUTH PROGRAMS?
UPSTATE INSTITUTE OF YOUTH PROGRAMS (South Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $144,985 to it, the largest being SMITH PETE AND SALLY FOUNDATION ($134,665). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does UPSTATE INSTITUTE OF YOUTH PROGRAMS have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $144,985 in grants to UPSTATE INSTITUTE OF YOUTH PROGRAMS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of UPSTATE INSTITUTE OF YOUTH PROGRAMS?
SMITH PETE AND SALLY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $134,665 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like UPSTATE INSTITUTE OF YOUTH PROGRAMS 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 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