South Carolina · Nonprofit
YWCA OF GREATER CHARLESTON
YWCA OF GREATER CHARLESTON (South Carolina) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $691,647 to it, the largest being YWCA USA INC ($238,250). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $797k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $692k
- Net assets
- $12M
What YWCA of Greater Charleston does
Mission
The YWCA of Greater Charleston is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all. The ywca promotes the strengthening of both current and future generations youth and family development in the community and to innovate with new and creative solutions to community issues.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Racial equity and inclusion workshops: the rei is a 2 day training program designed to help leaders and organizations who want to proactilvely understand and address the root cause of systemic racism, both in their organization and in the community where the organizaiton is working. 81 people participated in this training in fy25.
$41,301 spent9% of program spendingMlk tribute: our inaugural mlk celebration in 1972 was one of the first national tributes of its kind. It is south carolina's largest and longest running commemorative mlk tribute. The events span 6 days, attracting more than 30,000 celebrants from every walk of life-each one focused on eliminating racism across our city, state, and nation. Events consist of a business and professional breakfast, youth speak out/open mic, tri-county ecumenical service, harvey gantt triumph award, mlk holiday parade, patron drive and youth summit.
$94,297 spent20% of program spendingWe360: this 8 session program will run for 4 weeks in the summer for girls who have a business or a skill/hobby that could be developed into a business concept. The series offers courses that help students learn to build budgets, manage time, develop pitches, create price lists, utilize technology and social media and other necessary tools for being successful entrpreneurs. Target participants are women of color, 18-44 who have a business concept or a business and are ready to move into the business plan phase of entrpreneurship. During fy25 there were a total of 42 participants. Y-girls code: y-girls code is dedicated to closing the gender gap in technoloty by increasing the number of girls interested in technology and creating a pipeline of future engineers. The girls learn key concepts behind computer programming languages, whether their goal is to build an app, create a website or program a robot. Additionally, the club environment encourages sisterhood, and activities are designed to increase self-awareness, confident, and esteem. She strong: she strong is an ongoing program for high school students who seek to engage with their communities and develop as leaders and…
$20,347 spent4% of program spendingWhat women bring: highlights extraordinary women in their respective fieldsfrom business and education to healthcare, law, public service, and beyond. Each year, we have the privilege of sitting down with our selected honorees to hear their personal stories. These conversations give insight into their journeys, challenges, and the impact they're making, offering inspiration to people of all backgrounds.along with other, programs.
$324,768 spent68% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $480,713.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2020 to 2021, from $7.4M to $11M (+47%).
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: 2020 1% · 2021 6% · 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
13% of YWCA OF GREATER CHARLESTON’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Courtney Johnson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $10k → $149k.
3 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 YWCA OF GREATER CHARLESTON’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 20 of 21 funders by total. 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
YWCA OF GREATER CHARLESTON leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
81% 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 YWCA OF GREATER CHARLESTON.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 50% · 2019 49% · 2020 24% · 2021 44% · 2022 35% · 2023 50% — 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
20% of YWCA OF GREATER CHARLESTON's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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 FY2023, 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
YWCA OF GREATER CHARLESTON draws 92% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $169k 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
YWCA OF GREATER CHARLESTON runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like YWCA OF GREATER CHARLESTON
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
55%
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 YWCA OF GREATER CHARLESTON: 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 YWCA OF GREATER CHARLESTON?
- YWCA OF GREATER CHARLESTON (South Carolina) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $691,647 to it, the largest being YWCA USA INC ($238,250). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YWCA OF GREATER CHARLESTON have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $691,647 in grants to YWCA OF GREATER CHARLESTON, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YWCA OF GREATER CHARLESTON?
- YWCA USA INC is the largest funder on record, with $238,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YWCA OF GREATER CHARLESTON 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 21 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