- Revenue 2024
- $8,682,962
- Expenses 2024
- $542,943
Program services were 69.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- C340
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- PO BOX 728
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
Performing activities pursuant to the maintenance and preservation of natural areas for the benefit of the public
Activities or mission (Part I)
To protect special places in trust for the future. The places we strive to protect include the Blue Ridge Escarpment The Magnificent Blue Wall, key Upstate South Carolina rivers, waterfalls, and riparian resources and other important natural areas. We accomplish this by collaborating with landowners, other land trusts, government agencies and foundations to secure title, conservation easements or other protected status in perpetui9ty got these important natural lands and resources.
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In an effort to accomplish our goals of protecting the vital forests, watersheds, rivers and public spaces of South Carolinas Blue Ridge mountains we work with conservation partners across the state. This fiscal year we acquired additional properties, for which we will either become the long-term stewards and managers of the property, or subject to a conservation easement. When appropriate, the property may be donated to a state or federal agency like SC State Parks, SC Department of Natural Resources, or the Sumter National Forest.
Expenses $153,157
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Purchase 365 acres across from Chestnut Ridge Heritage Preserve along Highway 11 in Greenville County which will become a new state park and will continue our preservation work along Scenic Highway 11.
Expenses $119,343
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Purchase of 218 acres adjacent to the Greenville Watershed at Cedar Mountain in northern Greenville County. The property contains a granitic outcrop and a beautiful forest and a high hazard earthen dam that will be removed to preserve the natural waterflow and surrounding flora.
Expenses $63,852
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Protection of 190 acres outside Travelers Rest and adjacent to Saluda Gorge property along the North Saluda River. The property protects a stunning forest, headwaters and a section of rapids on the river.
Expenses $40,043
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.
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Mac Stone
Executive Dir.
- Total calculated
- $155,100
- From this org
- $155,100
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 50
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $155,100
- Bonus
- not reported
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- not reported
- Nontaxable benefits
- not reported
- Filer's total
- $155,100
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Frank Holleman III
President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0
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Bradford Wyche
Vice President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0
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Fannie I Cromwell
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0
-
Cary Hall
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0
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Doug Harper
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0
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Glenn Hilliard
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0
-
Wes Cooler
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0
-
Crystal Ball O'Conner
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0
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Jacqueline Oliver
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 50
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
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2024
- Revenue
- $8,682,962
- Expenses
- $542,943
- Contributions
- $9,609,365
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2023
- Revenue
- $4,098,284
- Expenses
- $323,821
- Contributions
- $4,736,146
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2022
- Revenue
- $2,792,460
- Expenses
- $434,480
- Contributions
- $4,457,195
- Grants paid
- $1,500
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
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2024 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
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2023 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
-
2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,710,257
- Expenses
- $408,879
- Assets (EOY)
- $32,395,718
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2021 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $4,081,165
- Expenses
- $298,132
- Assets (EOY)
- $30,619,974
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2020 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
-
2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,870,174
- Expenses
- $1,199,289
- Assets (EOY)
- $24,541,304
-
2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $2,468,724
- Expenses
- $940,563
- Assets (EOY)
- $23,467,497
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2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $2,105,109
- Expenses
- $491,228
- Assets (EOY)
- $22,954,027
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2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,258,955
- Expenses
- $334,441
- Assets (EOY)
- $18,634,684
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
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2023 CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES;SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC & COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
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$30,000
2023 EASEMENT ASSISTANCE
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$18,440
2024 EASEMENT ASSISTANCE
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DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING
$11,750
2024 ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS
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2023 GENERAL SUPPORT
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2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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2023 FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE
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$769
2022 SOIL CONSERVATION
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.