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SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN HIGHLANDS CONSERVANCY

EIN 62-1098890 ASHEVILLE, NC

Revenue 2024
$30,646,831
Expenses 2024
$8,457,147

Program services were 93.4% 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
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).

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.

  • Carl Silverstein

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $180,607
    From this org
    $139,126
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $41,481
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $160,500
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $4,815
    Nontaxable benefits
    $15,292
    Filer's total
    $180,607

  • Kristy Urguhart

    Associate Director

    Total calculated
    $168,370
    From this org
    $135,756
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $32,614
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $150,500
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $4,515
    Nontaxable benefits
    $13,355
    Filer's total
    $168,370

  • Sheryl Aikman

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Larry Pender

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Pam Kelley

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Janet Garret

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Kayla Carter

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sarah Davis

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mary Fanslow

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kevin Fitzgerald

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jeff Hatling

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • John McLendon

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Maria Palamar

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Spencer Scheidt

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Allison Williams

    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 — 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

Nonprofiteer parses the Form 990 only. 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.

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

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

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 10 September 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.