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SOUTHERN CONSERVATION TRUST INC

EIN 58-2036727 FAYETTEVILLE, GA

Revenue 2025
$1,259,098
Expenses 2025
$1,403,016

Program services were 72.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1200
Street
305 BEAUREGARD BLVD

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

Mission

THE SOUTHERN CONSERVATION TRUST elevates nature through exceptional stewardship of public and conserved lands and by providing environmental education TO ALL AGES.

  • Stewardship- protecting and enhancing the conservation values of the lands acquired by the trust, and doing so in perpetuity, is an important aspect of the trust's work. the trust evaluates each property it holds for its conservation value, as well as the threats to these values, and develops and implements a stewardship plan based on this analysis. the plan includes detailed monitoring on an annual basis. current costs associated with the trust's stewardship efforts are expensed as incurred. the costs of future obligations represent a commitment of the trust and will be recorded as they are incurred.

    Expenses $519,559 · Revenue $304,489

  • Public Nature Areas - Protecting and enhancing the conservation values of lands acquired by the Trust is some of the most important work in which the Trust is involved. It is the responsibility of the Stewardship Program to protect conservation values and to be a good neighbor and community member for all Trust properties through science-based management. The Trust evaluates every property for its conservation value, the threats to these values, and for opportunities to enhance conservation values through responsible management.

    Expenses $181,088

  • Conservation - The Trust conserves the most important and threatened land using all the tools of private, voluntary land conservation. The Trust works exclusively with willing landowners to find ways to conserve, forever, the scenic and natural values of the land and water. Landowners donate or sell a conservation interest in their land, such as development rights or full ownership, to the Trust. The Trust manages the land under a stewardship plan and, if necessary, legally defends its conservation values. The Trust also identifies priority conservation lands to purchase. Further, the Trust conserves working forest and agricultural land for the purpose of keeping the land in resource production. The Trust conserved 56,538 acres.

    Expenses $171,270 · Revenue $4,715

  • EDUCATION - Southern Conservation Trust provides hands-on environmental education programs that connect people of all ages with the natural world. Each year, more than 3,500 students participate in educational experiences at the Trust's approximately 14-acre Nature Center campus in downtown Fayetteville, Georgia. Programming includes curriculum-aligned field trips, in-school outreach, monthly public education programs, multi-week summer camps, and customized STEM-based learning experiences led by experienced environmental educators. The Nature Center features live animal ambassadors and interactive exhibits that foster environmental stewardship through immersive learning. Southern Conservation Trust also partners with municipalities to expand environmental education opportunities throughout neighboring communities and collaborates with Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta to provide outdoor education and leadership experiences. Through these initiatives, the Trust inspires lifelong appreciation for nature while supporting classroom learning and conservation awareness.

    Expenses $147,865 · Revenue $39,497

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.

  • CHRIS DOANE

    President & CEO

    Total calculated
    $145,703
    From this org
    $126,764
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $18,939
    Hours/week
    40

  • RANDY CARDOZA

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.5

  • RICH COCOS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.5

  • DAVID CONTI

    BOARD MEMEBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.5

  • BRIAN CARDOZA

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.5

  • DAN CUPERTINO

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.5

  • DAN DAVIS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.5

  • SCOTT SMITH

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.5

  • TIFFANY WOODS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.5

  • CATHY BERGGREN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.5

  • BONNIE HELANDER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.5

  • MEREDITH MARTIN

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4.2

  • JIM WASHBURN

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4.2

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $1,259,098
    Expenses
    $1,403,016
    Contributions
    $525,430
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,505,988
    Expenses
    $2,137,003
    Contributions
    $276,654
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,905,656
    Expenses
    $2,129,061
    Contributions
    $344,702
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,611,673
    Expenses
    $2,160,294
    Contributions
    $1,896,414
    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
    $75,606
    Expenses
    $2,235,049
    Assets (EOY)
    $28,472,286

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,723,843
    Expenses
    $1,822,596
    Assets (EOY)
    $30,613,027

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $609,510
    Expenses
    $250,392
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,288,572

  • 2016 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $0
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    $0

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $285,795
    Expenses
    $301,324
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,859,749

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $142,688
    Expenses
    $151,173
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,878,877

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $105,951
    Expenses
    $172,604
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,504,682

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $143,104
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,467,040

  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $136,090
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,448,312

  • 2010 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $175,506
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,404,534

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

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.

Declared on its 2025 return

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.

Disregarded entities on its 2025 return

  • LITTLE BEAR CREEK RESERVE LLC

    PUBLIC NATURE PRESERVE · GA · assets $792,542

  • SOUTHERN CONSERVATION HOLDINGS LLC

    PURCHASE LAND IN FAYETTE COUNTY · GA

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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.