SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN HIGHLANDS CONSERVANCY

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

C340

Classification

1000

Street

372 MERRIMON AVE

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

• Over the past fiscal year we completed 19 major conservation transactions discussed below which protected 2,820 acres of key mountain lands. This includes 15 fee simple purchases and 4 conservation easement purchases. The total value of the 19 transactions was $28.1 million. Landowner donation value was $3 million. The purchase price of the transactions was $25.1 million. At times the organization purchases land below appraised value in transactions that were not planned to be bargain purchases. In this tax year that difference totaled $0.3 million.

  Expenses $7,901,210 · Grants $18,500 · Revenue $21,722

• The $25.1 million purchase prices came in the form of private philanthropic contributions and federal and state grants. We are now working on more than 50 significant transactions, which we hope will protect another 7,700 acres in the next 12-18 months. One particular transaction included above was the Richmond Hill Park Addition Its transaction value was $12.4 million.

• Our Farmland Access Program supports local communities, local food production, and the long- term productive use of farmland. We work with different members of the farming community to ensure that our agricultural resources stay productive - providing local food from local farms. We continue to work toward our goals to Protect and Steward land, and to advance opportunities for access to land, in order to carry out SAHCs Vision and Mission. Our Connecting People with Nature program connects people with land for outdoor recreation, health, fitness, well-being and learning. We led 34 outings for over 700 people to protected places.

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

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

  $30,646,831

  Expenses

  $8,457,147

  Contributions

  $28,796,108

  Grants paid

  $18,500

• 2023

  Revenue

  $47,982,742

  Expenses

  $4,225,803

  Contributions

  $47,063,165

  Grants paid

  $182,463

• 2022

  Revenue

  $10,962,249

  Expenses

  $3,782,111

  Contributions

  $10,856,052

  Grants paid

  $820,872

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

• 2024 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2023 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2022 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $12,655,425

  Expenses

  $6,396,426

  Assets (EOY)

  $74,900,022

• 2021 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $8,832,084

  Expenses

  $5,946,795

  Assets (EOY)

  $70,393,648

• 2020 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $18,992,771

  Expenses

  $4,451,653

  Assets (EOY)

  $65,419,215

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,866,546

  Expenses

  $4,225,719

  Assets (EOY)

  $48,456,213

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $10,838,988

  Expenses

  $3,650,985

  Assets (EOY)

  $48,686,167

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

• NC Dept of Administration

  $810,972

  2022 · Land Conservation

• NC Dept of Administration

  $136,213

  2023 · Land Conservation

• Bonesteel Films Inc

  $46,250

  2023 · George Masa documentary

• Bonesteel Films Inc

  $18,500

  2024 · George Masa documentary

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS

  $11,330,515

  2024 · CHARITABLE GIFT

• FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS

  $4,897,842

  2022 · CHARITABLE GIFT

• FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS

  $2,414,163

  2023 · CHARITABLE GIFT

• THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC

  $714,320

  2024 · ENHANCING THE ENVIRONMENT

• REWILD

  $300,000

  2024 · RESEARCH CONSERVATION

• THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC

  $258,600

  2023 · ENHANCING THE ENVIRONMENT

• ROCKY MOUNTAIN ELK FOUNDATION INC

  $250,000

  2024 · LAND PROTECTION

• THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC

  $201,001

  2022 · ENHANCING THE ENVIRONMENT

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $171,410

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $156,050

  2024 · ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS

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

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

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