South Carolina · Nonprofit
Vital Connections of the Midlands
Vital Connections of the Midlands (South Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,418,699 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS ($2,153,609). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $962k
What Vital Connections of the Midlands does
Mission
Vital Connections of the Midlands will provide high-quality, comprehensive early care and education. We will support family well being and nurturing relationships between children and their parents. We will encourage lifelong learning, while shaping and preparing families and children to succeed educationally, socially, emotionally, physically and intellectually in today's world. We will be recognized as an early childhood leader in our community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Vital Connections of the Midlands provides high-quality, comprehensive early care and education to three child care centers that are community based and serve primarily low-income families. Our child care centers provided services during the fiscal year to approximately 130 children and their families through education and care of the children and by supporting family well being and nurturing relationships between children and their parents.
$2,354,853 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,354,853.
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 2019 to 2020, from $413k to $843k (+104%).
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 64% · 2018 74% · 2019 76% · 2020 78% · 2021 70% · 2022 74% · 2023 88% · 2024 91% · 2025 88%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Vital Connections of the Midlands’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
John Browne
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $302k → $196k.
From the IRS filings of Vital Connections of the Midlands’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
Vital Connections of the Midlands leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% 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
89% 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 Vital Connections of the Midlands.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 90% · 2019 100% · 2020 90% · 2021 88% · 2022 79% · 2023 74% — 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
89% of Vital Connections of the Midlands'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. 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
Vital Connections of the Midlands's revenue grew 28% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Vital Connections of the Midlands receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $14.3M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$14.3M
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 Vital Connections of the Midlands
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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Vital Connections of the Midlands: 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 Vital Connections of the Midlands?
- Vital Connections of the Midlands (South Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,418,699 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS ($2,153,609). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Vital Connections of the Midlands have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $2,418,699 in grants to Vital Connections of the Midlands, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Vital Connections of the Midlands?
- UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS is the largest funder on record, with $2,153,609 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Vital Connections of the Midlands 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 4 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