South Carolina · Nonprofit
YOUNG SCIENTISTS OF SC
YOUNG SCIENTISTS OF SC (South Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $107,239 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($62,257). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $82k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $107k
- Net assets
- $70k
What Young Scientists of Sc does
Mission
Our Mission is to promote and provide Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math opportunities to school-aged children of the South Carolina Lowcountry to reduce generational poverty.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
STEAM Community Outreach Events reaching 25,000 people over 1,200 man-hours
$3,609 spent6% of program spendingProvided one scholarship to one student to attend Kettering University (student is an alumnus of our Elementary, Middle, and High School Programs)
$2,377 spent4% of program spendingTravel and program supplies for FLL, FTC, and FRC Robotics Teams directly benefiting 129 school-age children
$51,727 spent90% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $57,713.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $32k to $71k (+122%).
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.
89% of YOUNG SCIENTISTS OF SC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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
Amelia Bongiorno
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $96 → $43k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 YOUNG SCIENTISTS OF SC’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
YOUNG SCIENTISTS OF SC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% 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
100% 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 YOUNG SCIENTISTS OF SC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 60% · 2023 59% — 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
69% of YOUNG SCIENTISTS OF SC'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 $34k 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. $74k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Against its field
YOUNG SCIENTISTS OF SC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,200 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,200 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like YOUNG SCIENTISTS OF SC
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.
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 YOUNG SCIENTISTS OF SC: 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 YOUNG SCIENTISTS OF SC?
- YOUNG SCIENTISTS OF SC (South Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $107,239 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($62,257). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does YOUNG SCIENTISTS OF SC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $107,239 in grants to YOUNG SCIENTISTS OF SC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YOUNG SCIENTISTS OF SC?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $62,257 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YOUNG SCIENTISTS OF SC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), 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