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Wateree Community Actions Inc

Wateree Community Actions Inc (South Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,277 to it, the largest being PROSPERITY NOW ($11,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$30M
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$11k
Net assets
$5.8M
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Wateree Community Actions Inc does

Mission

To combat poverty in designated counties of South Carolina

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. To combat poverty in designated counties of South Carolina

    $28,008,622 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $28,008,622.

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 ($17M) Expenses 100 ($16M) Net assets 100 ($394k)2018 Revenue 107 ($18M) Expenses 107 ($17M) Net assets 204 ($805k)2019 Revenue 109 ($18M) Expenses 112 ($18M) Net assets 227 ($893k)2020 Revenue 131 ($22M) Expenses 124 ($20M) Net assets 603 ($2.4M)2021 Revenue 129 ($22M) Expenses 132 ($21M) Net assets 190 ($748k)2022 Revenue 163 ($27M) Expenses 162 ($26M) Net assets 889 ($3.5M)2023 Revenue 151 ($25M) Expenses 152 ($24M) Net assets 1202 ($4.7M)2024 Revenue 183 ($30M) Expenses 178 ($29M) Net assets 1478 ($5.8M)
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Revenue (183)Expenses (178)Net assets (1478)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 2022 to 2023, from $5.9M to $13M (+126%).

$1.9M
$2.3M
$2.4M
$5.8M
$6.3M
$5.9M
$13M
$8.2M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 94% · 2019 82% · 2021 94% · 2023 89% · 2024 80%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of Wateree Community Actions Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,400 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$511k
’17
$411k
’18
$88k
’19
$1.7M
’20
$177k
’21
$1.0M
’22
$598k
’23
$1.8M
’24
2.3
months of
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.

Board chair

Mary Kirkland

Chairperson

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Joined·+0+0+4+0+0+0+1
No longer listed·0020000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $38 → $11k.

Funder
'22
'23
total
Prosperity Nowunclassified
$11k
funders
1
3

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 Wateree Community Actions Inc’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

Wateree Community Actions Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% 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

98% 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 Wateree Community Actions Inc.

98%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 98% — 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

Wateree Community Actions Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 2 states in all.

NY
DC

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $77 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Wateree Community Actions Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,288 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin6% · above the median
Months of reserve2.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,288 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

Organizations like Wateree Community Actions Inc

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 20%Fundraising 0%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
✓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.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

SC

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Wateree Community Actions Inc: 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 Wateree Community Actions Inc?
Wateree Community Actions Inc (South Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,277 to it, the largest being PROSPERITY NOW ($11,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Wateree Community Actions Inc have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $11,277 in grants to Wateree Community Actions Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Wateree Community Actions Inc?
PROSPERITY NOW is the largest funder on record, with $11,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Wateree Community Actions Inc 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 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