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PALMETTO PROMISE INSTITUTE

EIN 26-3077338 COLUMBIA, SC

Revenue 2025
$1,105,360
Expenses 2025
$1,744,501

Program services were 83.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
E057
Classification
2000
Street
PO BOX 12676

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Oran Smith

    Senior Fellow

    Total calculated
    $138,846
    From this org
    $138,846
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Wendy Damron

    President

    Total calculated
    $130,000
    From this org
    $130,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Jeff Yelton

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jim DeMint

    Founding Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dan Adams

    Imm Past Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Louie L Cason Jr

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Stewart Rodman

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Van Hipp

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rick Timmons

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Phil Hughes

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Richard Gilder III

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Barry Wynn

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Luanne Zurlo

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $1,105,360
    Expenses
    $1,744,501
    Contributions
    $1,077,996
    Grants paid
    $973,042
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $3,296,721
    Expenses
    $1,708,169
    Contributions
    $3,174,945
    Grants paid
    $1,058,454
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $640,125
    Expenses
    $530,245
    Contributions
    $639,857
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $597,131
    Expenses
    $669,588
    Contributions
    $597,129
    Grants paid
    $96,000

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $465,796
    Expenses
    $528,153
    Assets (EOY)
    $291,616

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $560,359
    Expenses
    $544,390
    Assets (EOY)
    $319,900

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $645,195
    Expenses
    $538,459
    Assets (EOY)
    $324,744

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $560,539
    Expenses
    $505,612
    Assets (EOY)
    $204,742

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $473,510
    Expenses
    $525,804
    Assets (EOY)
    $146,350

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $551,452
    Expenses
    $460,257
    Assets (EOY)
    $203,151

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $490,432
    Expenses
    $464,360
    Assets (EOY)
    $108,110

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $514,953
    Expenses
    $436,084
    Assets (EOY)
    $114,559

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2023

Tax period
1 January 2023 to 31 December 2023
Principal officer
Wendy Damron
Mailing address
PO BOX 12676COLUMBIA SC 292112676

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 19 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2022 return

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 23 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.