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SUSTAIN SOUTH CAROLINA INTERSECTION COMMERCE AND CONSERVATION

EIN 83-3354091 COLUMBIA, SC

Revenue 2025
$1,113,749
Expenses 2025
$992,524

Program services were 98.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C30
Classification
1200
Street
1704 LAUREL ST

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

We are connecting the sustainability goals of business in South Carolina with local solutions for the benefit of our economy, environment, and people.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Sustain SC exists to build and grow a more sustainable future for South Carolina at the intersection of commerce and conservation. To do this, Sustain SC works with businesses to help them meet their sustainability goals.Sustain SC focuses on four pillars: grow our economy through economic development and recruitment; help organizations flourish in South Carolina; assist municipalities in improving resiliency; and educate decision makers on the economic importance of sustainability.

  • Sustain SC exists to build and grow a more sustainable future for South Carolina at the intersection of commerce and conservation. To do this, Sustain SC works with businesses to help them meet their sustainability goals.Sustain SC focuses on four pillars: grow our economy through economic development and recruitment; help organizations flourish in South Carolina; assist municipalities in improving resiliency; and educate decision makers on the economic importance of sustainability.

    Expenses $981,882 · Revenue $302,025

As filed on the 2025 return.

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.

  • Leslie Skardon

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $163,750
    From this org
    $163,750
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $155,750
    Bonus
    $8,000
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $163,750

  • Cynthia Davis

    Senior VP Commerce

    Total calculated
    $122,870
    From this org
    $122,870
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Kristen Gunter

    Senior VP Conservation

    Total calculated
    $115,000
    From this org
    $115,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Emily Skaggs

    Marketing & Events Coordinator

    Total calculated
    $101,643
    From this org
    $101,643
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Blaire Belk

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ashley McLeod

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Anna DeLage

    Ex-Officio

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Nancy Thompson

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Susie Shannon

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Maria Whitehead

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Norris Thigpen

    Ex-Officio

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • John Boyd

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sean Connolly

    Ex-Officio

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ben Duncan

    Ex-Officio

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Travis Tarbet

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Robert Etheridge

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kristy Ellenberg

    Ex-Officio

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Shannon Bobertz

    Ex-Officio

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Scott Phillips

    Ex-Officio

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Trip Chavis

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Hope Lanier Freeman

    Past Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • John Lummus

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Danny Kassis

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dale Threatt-Taylor

    Chair

    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, 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
    $1,113,749
    Expenses
    $992,524
    Contributions
    $802,900
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,143,445
    Expenses
    $1,033,632
    Contributions
    $941,500
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,362,165
    Expenses
    $1,287,323
    Contributions
    $1,011,850
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,286,179
    Expenses
    $755,463
    Contributions
    $1,048,755
    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
    $468,026
    Expenses
    $398,215
    Assets (EOY)
    $132,983

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $292,509
    Expenses
    $250,741
    Assets (EOY)
    $49,215

  • 2019 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $65,000
    Expenses
    $60,832
    Assets (EOY)
    $18,486

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.

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.

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.