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SOUTH CAROLINA EDUCATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS INC

EIN 57-0739523 SPARTANBURG, SC

Revenue 2024
$2,513,429
Expenses 2024
$2,475,039

Program services were 96.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A320
Classification
1000
Street
401 E KENNEDY ST SUITE 1B

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).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

South Carolina Educational Communications, Inc. ("SCEC") supports and promotes educational public media activities in South Carolina and across the United States, including the development and creation of original content for broadcast and educational purposes. THE ACTIVITIES OF SCEC HAVE BEEN ESTABLISHED IN ORDER TO ASSIST AND FURTHER THE PURPOSES OF THE ETV ENDOWMENT OF SOUTH CAROLINA, INC. SCEC ALSO ENGAGES IN ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATED WITH EDUCATIONAL ENDEAVORS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

South Carolina Educational Communications, Inc. supports and promotes educational public media activities in South Carolina and across the United States, including the development and creation of original content for broadcast and educational purposes.

  • TELEVISION PRODUCTION EXPENSES: SCEC produces and/or presents programs used by South Carolina ETV for broadcast locally on SCETV's four statewide channels and nationally on PBS and its affiliate stations. These programs are funded in part by restricted grants from foundations, corporations and individuals as well as governmental entities. SCEC, along with the ETV Endowment of South Carolina and SCETV, also contributes substantial in-kind gifts to ensure program completion and distribution. During FY25, 27 programs were in production. Since its founding in 1982, SCEC has managed more than $122 million in restricted program production grants.

    Expenses $2,146,722

  • ANCILLARY - DISTANCE EDUCATION PROGRAMS: South Carolina Educational Communications partners with Converse University, an accredited, liberal arts university, to offer 18 online graduate-level mathematics courses. These courses are intended for certified teachers who are seeking recertification and include graduate-level mathematical pedagogy and math content for the elementary, middle and secondary teacher. A limited number of these courses can also be used toward a graduate degree at Converse University. SCEC also offers an additional 15 online professional development mathematics courses for teacher advancement credit. During FY25, SCEC processed a total of 208 graduate level and 43 professional development course registrations.

    Expenses $80,848 · Revenue $222,651

  • RADIO PRODUCTION EXPENSES: SCEC produces and/or presents programs used by South Carolina Public Radio for broadcast locally on SC Public Radio's nine radio stations and nationally on NPR and its affiliate stations. These programs are funded in part by restricted grants from foundations, corporations and individuals as well as governmental entities. SCEC, along with the ETV Endowment of South Carolina and SC Public Radio, also contributes substantial in-kind gifts to ensure program completion and distribution. Since its founding in 1982, SCEC has managed more than $122 million in restricted program production grants. In FY25, six programs were in production. Programs included "Walter Edgar's Journal", "ColaJazz", "Rapp on Jazz", "Shortwave Kitsch", "Rooted Rhythm "Who What When".

    Expenses $68,285

  • SCEC supports the production of educational website content that documents our state's history.

    Expenses $81,440

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Cal Land

    Vice-Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Robert M Rainey

    Secretary/Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sara Fisher

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dick McCoy

    Board Member - Retired

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Edward Sellers

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • James E Brogdon Jr

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jo Watson Hackl

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • McLeod Williamson

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Victoria J Killen

    Board Member - Retired

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • W M Self Jr

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Coby C Latham CPA CFRE

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $308,701
    From this org
    $12,320
    From related orgs
    $268,576
    Other
    $27,805
    Hours/week
    5 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $12,320 + $234,858 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $33,717 related
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $639 + $13,602 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $13,564 related
    Filer's total
    $12,959 + $295,741 related

  • Lauren Chivers

    Financial Officer

    Total calculated
    $190,724
    From this org
    $7,965
    From related orgs
    $163,859
    Other
    $18,900
    Hours/week
    5 + 35 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $7,965 + $144,938 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $18,921 related
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $406 + $8,662 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $9,832 related
    Filer's total
    $8,371 + $182,353 related

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,513,429
    Expenses
    $2,475,039
    Contributions
    $2,290,227
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,657,136
    Expenses
    $1,618,091
    Contributions
    $1,416,888
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,322,336
    Expenses
    $1,293,280
    Contributions
    $1,078,324
    Grants paid
    $0

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
    $1,310,356
    Expenses
    $1,252,071
    Assets (EOY)
    $539,307

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,784,149
    Expenses
    $1,781,495
    Assets (EOY)
    $446,801

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,057,659
    Expenses
    $1,011,523
    Assets (EOY)
    $437,802

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $756,279
    Expenses
    $796,041
    Assets (EOY)
    $366,705

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $739,415
    Expenses
    $790,649
    Assets (EOY)
    $418,277

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $896,876
    Expenses
    $909,889
    Assets (EOY)
    $466,913

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,490,099
    Expenses
    $1,577,099
    Assets (EOY)
    $484,344

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,820,644
    Expenses
    $1,814,107
    Assets (EOY)
    $578,599

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,200,531
    Expenses
    $2,127,632
    Assets (EOY)
    $579,341

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,900,013
    Assets (EOY)
    $507,885

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

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 2024 return

Declared as related by

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.