South Carolina · Nonprofit
VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE AMERICA
VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE AMERICA (South Carolina) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $93,305 to it, the largest being THE WATERWHEEL FOUNDATION ($35,529). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2021
- $33k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $93k
- Net assets
- $0
What Volunteers in Medicine America does
Mission
To build and support a national network of free health clinics that utilize volunteer active-practicing and retired health professionals in caring for low-income, uninsured and underserved populations
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.
Program
In 2020 our network of 95 clinic affiliates in 30 states provided care to 69,000 unduplicated patients thanks to the dedicated effort of 7,500 clinical and 3,000 non clinical volunteers. 54% of our patients are minorities, 59% are female and 90% are between the ages of 19 to 64. Among the services provided were 200,000 medical visits, 22,500 dental visits and 18,000 behavioral health visits. Due to the challenges of the covid-19 pandemic and additional 38,000 medical appointments were telemedicine encounters. Three new clinics joined the volunteers in medicine alliance in 2020
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $485k to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2021: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $13k → $9k.
6 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE AMERICA’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
VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE AMERICA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
59% 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 VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE AMERICA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 58% · 2021 66% — 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
17% of VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE AMERICA's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 13% 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 FY2021, 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
59% of VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE AMERICA's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $39k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside South Carolina, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $55k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states 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.
Organizations like VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE AMERICA
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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
13%
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 VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE AMERICA: 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 VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE AMERICA?
- VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE AMERICA (South Carolina) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $93,305 to it, the largest being THE WATERWHEEL FOUNDATION ($35,529). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE AMERICA have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $93,305 in grants to VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE AMERICA, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE AMERICA?
- THE WATERWHEEL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $35,529 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE AMERICA 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), and the filings of 8 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