SOUTH CAROLINA ENVIRONMENTAL LAW PROJECT INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

C010

Classification

1200

Street

PO BOX 1380

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 · 2025

• IN THE FACE OF THE WORSENING CLIMATE CRISIS AND ESCALATING LOSS OF WILDLIFE, HABITAT, AND HEALTHY ECOSYSTEMS, IN 2021 SCELP ADOPTED A NEW 5- YEAR PLAN, INCLUDING THREE AMBITIOUS PROGRAMMATIC GOALS. TO PROTECT LIFE-SUSTAINING NATURAL SYSTEMS, SCELP HAS CONTINUED ACTING AS THE LAST LINE OF DEFENSE AGAINST HARMFUL LAND USES, USING LITIGATION AND ADVOCACY TO ESTABLISH NEW AND BETTER LAW FOR LAND, WATER AND WILDLIFE; AND SUPPORTING NATURE-BASED LAWS AND POLICIES THAT PROMOTE RESILIENCE AND ADAPTATION. TO PROTECT WATER FROM CURRENT AND FUTURE THREATS, SCELP HAS BEEN ADVOCATING FOR SUSTAINABLE WATER USES, FOR CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION OF WATER QUALITY AND AQUATIC LIFE, AND FOR LEGAL PROTECTIONS FOR STATE-OF-THE ART STORMWATER AND FLOODPLAIN PRACTICES. TO ADVANCE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ACROSS SOUTH CAROLINA, SCELP'S LEGAL ADVOCACY HAS BEEN COUNTERING ENVIRONMENTAL INEQUITIES IN FRONTLINE COMMUNITIES, CARRYING FORWARD SCELP'S ORIGINAL MOTTO "NO CASE IS TOO SMALL" WHENEVER A VULNERABLE COMMUNITY SEEKS ASSISTANCE IN OUR AREAS OF EXPERTISE. OUR AREAS OF EXPERTISE INCLUDE COASTAL MANAGEMENT, WATER AND WETLANDS, WILDLIFE AND HABITAT CONSERVATION, LANDFILLS, NUCLEAR AND TOXIC WASTE. EACH PROGRAM SERVICE INCLUDES LEGAL ADVICE AND CONSULTATION, LEGAL ADVOCACY TO IMPROVE PROJECTS AND MANAGEMENT DECISIONS WITHOUT THE NEED FOR LITIGATION, AND FORMAL LEGAL CHALLENGES AND ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS.

  Expenses $1,584,795 · Revenue $190,003

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

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

• 2025

  Revenue

  $2,003,666

  Expenses

  $2,224,736

  Contributions

  $1,614,837

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2024

  Revenue

  $1,592,997

  Expenses

  $1,970,780

  Contributions

  $1,383,988

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $1,422,895

  Expenses

  $1,598,041

  Contributions

  $1,305,920

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $3,659,496

  Expenses

  $1,476,192

  Contributions

  $3,532,820

  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

  $1,646,818

  Expenses

  $1,195,843

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,508,788

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,057,153

  Expenses

  $936,761

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,052,927

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $909,055

  Expenses

  $802,549

  Assets (EOY)

  $909,907

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $860,554

  Expenses

  $658,444

  Assets (EOY)

  $780,625

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $780,818

  Expenses

  $615,547

  Assets (EOY)

  $584,165

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $507,932

  Expenses

  $528,516

  Assets (EOY)

  $409,570

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $548,362

  Expenses

  $436,759

  Assets (EOY)

  $425,511

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $477,886

  Expenses

  $419,454

  Assets (EOY)

  $310,452

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $409,303

  Expenses

  $431,917

  Assets (EOY)

  $261,162

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $358,718

  Assets (EOY)

  $274,929

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

• FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS

  $410,000

  2022 · CHARITABLE GIFT

• FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS

  $210,000

  2023 · CHARITABLE GIFT

• FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS

  $210,000

  2024 · CHARITABLE GIFT

• SOUTH CAROLINA BAR FOUNDATION INC

  $60,300

  2024 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• FRANCES P BUNNELLE FOUNDATION

  $49,500

  2024 · ENVIRONMENT

• COASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC

  $47,000

  2023 · ENVIRONMENT

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $46,000

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• COASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC

  $43,000

  2022 · ENVIRONMENT GRANT

• SOUTH CAROLINA BAR FOUNDATION INC

  $37,000

  2022 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• SOUTH CAROLINA BAR FOUNDATION INC

  $37,000

  2023 · GENERAL SUPPORT

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.

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