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CONGAREE LAND TRUST

EIN 57-0937485 COLUMBIA, SC

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Revenue 2024
$789,331
Expenses 2024
$547,798

Program services were 50.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C340
Classification
1200
Street
PO BOX 5232

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

THE CONGAREE LAND TRUST WAS ESTABLISHED TO PROMOTE VOLUNTARY CONSERVATION OF SCENIC LANDS, OPEN SPACES, FARMS, FORESTS, NATURAL AREAS AND SIGNIFICANT HABITATS IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA.

  • THE CONGAREE LAND TRUST WORKED TO CONSERVE AND PRESERVE CONSERVATION EASEMENTS TOTALING OVER 99,000 ACRES OF NATURAL AND SCENIC LANDS, FARMS, WATERWAYS, FORESTS, AND NATURAL AREAS IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA, BY ASSISTING LANDOWNERS WITH VOLUNTARY CONSERVATION. THE LAND TRUST WORKS WITH PRIVATE LANDOWNERS TO PROTECT LAND PRIMARILY THROUGH ESTABLISHING, CREATING, AND MONITORING PERPETUAL CONSERVATION EASEMENTS - RECORDED LEGAL AGREEMENTS THAT PROTECT THE LAND'S NATURAL AND SCENIC FEATURES BY RESTRICTING ITS USE AND DEVELOPMENT. THE LAND TRUST HOLDS THE CONSERVATION EASEMENT AND ACCEPTS RESPONSIBILITY FOR MONITORING COMPLIANCE WITH THE TERMS OF THE EASEMENT AND FOR DEFENDING THE EASEMENT SHOULD THE TERMS BE THREATENED OR VIOLATED. THE CONGAREE LAND TRUST ALSO PROVIDES EDUCATION, TRAINING, CONFERENCES, EVENTS, AND LITERATURE TO ITS INDIVIDUAL AND CORPORATE MEMBERS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC TO ENCOURAGE CONSERVATION AND APPRECIATION OF THE NATURAL AND SCENIC AREAS IN ITS AREA.

    Expenses $275,714 · Revenue $31,271

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.

  • Stuart J White

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $94,500
    From this org
    $90,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,500
    Hours/week
    40
  • Russell Bauknight

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Trey Boone

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Sharon Bryant

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Robert Bunch

    LAND PROTECT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Heath Carll

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Charles Carson

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Trip Chavis

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Iris Griffin

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Dallon Weathers Jr

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Robert G Davidson Jr

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Chris Kirk

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Art Laney

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ryan McCue

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kimberlee Neel

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Matt Riddle

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • David Sojourner

    VICE PRESIDE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jimmy Stevenson

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Hunter Suggs

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Josh Waters

    BOARD MEMBER

    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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $789,331
    Expenses
    $547,798
    Contributions
    $575,551
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $689,983
    Expenses
    $469,046
    Contributions
    $532,620
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $464,575
    Expenses
    $1,277,852
    Contributions
    $358,469
    Grants paid
    $806,071

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
    $870,774
    Expenses
    $449,613
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,846,171
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $768,071
    Expenses
    $429,794
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,894,348
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,070,629
    Expenses
    $381,010
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,240,639
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $617,028
    Expenses
    $500,100
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,569,143
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $494,658
    Expenses
    $375,690
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,498,801
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $543,484
    Expenses
    $386,455
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,443,670
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $354,981
    Expenses
    $312,569
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,547,609
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $335,063
    Expenses
    $306,932
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,076,205
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $268,194
    Expenses
    $300,505
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,055,791
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $284,533
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,829,606

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

  • LEE COUNTY STATE PARK

    no cash amount reported

    2022

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.