Form 990 for tax year 2025

Totals

Total revenue

$2,395,989

Total expenses

$2,215,743

Contributions and grants received

$1,625,516

Grants paid

$251,583

Program service revenue

$713,735

Investment income

$27,441

Other revenue

$29,297

Total assets, end of year

$2,153,175

Total liabilities, end of year

$739,517

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$1,413,658

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$1,927,855

Management and general expenses

$232,842

Fundraising expenses

$55,046

Program service expenses (Part III)

$1,927,855

Program services were 87.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2025

• Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

  Expenses $998,739 · Grants $251,583 · Revenue $713,735

• Growing Networks and Elevating Innovation: We bring people together to build power and share information and resources. Programs: The Business Success Center held 12 Lunch and Learns training more than 225 business owners and 3 Business Resource Mixers attracting more than 250 people. Landowner Resource workshops (3 trainings held resulting in 10 environmental quality incentives program (EQIP) applications, 50 farmers and landowners attended, and 10 farmers obtain a farm tract number) and SC Electric Cooperative Empowerment Program (4 trainings were held and 129 electric cooperative members attended trainings and 1 member successfully ran for an electric cooperative board).(Continued on Schedule O)Landowner Resources WorkshopThe Landowner Workshop Program focuses on providing critical support for historically underserved producers to increase local market opportunities and long-term capacity. Program participants learned different uses and value of their land, how to increase profitability, and conservation planning.Impact: 3 Workshops Hosted50 Farmers and Landowners attended the Workshops10 Farmers obtained a Farm and Tract number required to access USDA financial resources10 farmers received technical assistance in accessing USDA EQIP resourcesSouth Carolina Electric Cooperative Empowerment ProgramThe South Carolina Electric Cooperative Empowerment Program (SCECEP) is a series of community engagement events that educate community leaders on how they can serve on the Board of Trustees of their local electric cooperative.The goals of the SCECEP are to teach attendees:How electric cooperatives serve and operate in their communitiesThe role of the Board of Trustees on electric cooperativesHow attendees can run for election on their local electric cooperative's Board of TrusteesTo impact policy decisionsImpact:4 Electric Cooperative Member Trainings Held 129 Electric Cooperative Members Attended Trainings1 Electric Cooperative Member Successfully ran for a Cooperative Board Seat

  Expenses $605,739

• Attracting and Deploying Resources: We bring new and additional resources, often financial, to the state and to the community economic development field. Programs: $60,000 in community impact fund grants were deployed, $160,000 in community garden and hoop house grants were funded along with $30,000 in mini-grants to support voter registration efforts.Community Impact Fund Grant ProgramThe Community Impact Fund (CIF) is made possible by generous funding from the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation. (Continued on Schedule O)Its purpose is to make grants available to SCACED member organizations for capacity building initiatives, development of affordable housing and/or other economic development projects.Impact:$60,000 in grants awarded to 8 SCACED Members Voter Engagement Mini-Grant ProgramIn a democratic society, every vote counts, and election years brings higher visibility to issues and opportunities for policy change. Nonprofits play a crucial role in ensuring that all voices in the community are heard and represented. South Carolina Association for Community Economic Development (SCACED) will be announcing its' voter engagement mini grants process to support nonprofits voter engagement efforts.Impact:$30,000 in grants awarded to 54 organizationsCommunity Garden & Hoop House Grant ProgramSCACED partnered with USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) in their South Carolina Food Connection Community Gardens Project to support the creation and growth of community gardens and hoop houses in food insecure areas and among high-risk and underserved populations, including racial and ethnic minorities and rural residents.Impact: 14 Community Garden grant awards in the amount of $70,00010 Hoop House grant awards in the amount of $90,000Minority, Women and Veteran Owned Business Support: The Business Success Center at the Opportunity CenterThe Opportunity Center, a partnership of four South Carolina nonprofit organizations, is a unique collaboration focused on impacting low-wealth communities of the Tri- County. This innovative space provides workforce development, small business incubators, and coworking spaces benefiting entrepreneurs and start-ups, while maintaining offices of local non-profits actively working in the community and economic development sector. Key among the programs provided, a unique and critical component of The Opportunity Center is the business incubator program known as the Business Success Center. Defined as an entrepreneurial ecosystem builder, this program focuses on helping small business owners and entrepreneurs establish, grow, and sustain their operations especially for communities of color. Impact: 12 Lunch and Learns training more than 225 business owners 3 Business Resource Mixers attracting more than 250 people

  Expenses $323,377

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

• Homes of Hope

  $20,000

  The Opportunity Center

• Southern Carolina Regional CDC Inc

  $17,000

  Community Impact Fund and Resiliency

• Lincoln Preservation and Historical Society

  $15,000

  Fiscal Agent Pass Through

• Allendale County ALIVE

  $10,000

  Resiliency

• Anderson Interfaith Ministries

  $10,000

  Resiliency

• Habitat for Humanity of York County

  $10,000

  Resiliency

• Latino Communications CDC

  $10,000

  Resiliency

• New America Corporation

  $10,000

  Resiliency

• SC UpLift Community Outreach

  $10,000

  Resiliency

• South Carolina Office of Rural Health

  $10,000

  Resiliency

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2025

Filed

24 September 2026

IRS schema version

2025v4.2

Source object

202642679349300349

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