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PALMETTO CONSERVATION FOUNDATION

EIN 57-0907043 COLUMBIA, SC

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Revenue 2024
$2,962,128
Expenses 2024
$3,187,797

Program services were 82.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C340
Classification
1200
Street
722 KING 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 · 2024

Mission

TO FOSTER AN APPRECIATION FOR SOUTH CAROLINA'S NATURAL AND CULTURAL RESOURCES, PROVIDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR ACTIVE RECREATION ON THE PALMETTO TRAIL AND OTHER TRAIL YSTEMS THAT CAN BE ENJOYED BY ALL IN SOUTH CAROLINA, REGARDLESS OF GENDER, RACE, CREED, AGE OR ABILITY.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE PALMETTO TRAIL IS DEDICATED TO BUILDING, PROTECTING AND MAINTAINING A STATEWIDE MULTI-USE NATURE BASED TRAIL THAT PROVIDES A CONTINUOUS TRAIL SPANNING FROM THE MOUNTAINS TO THE SEA ACROSS SOUTH CAROLINA. OUR MISSION IS TO PROMOTE THE HEALTH AND WELLNESS OF SOUTH CAROLINIANS THROUGH OUTDOOR RECREATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES, FOSTER ECONOMIC VITALITY IN OUR COMMUNITIES THROUGH ECO-TOURISM AND INSPIRE A DEEP APPRECIATION AND STEWARDSHIP OF SOUTH CAROLINA'S NATURAL AND CULTURAL RESOURCES THROUGH CONSERVATION ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION. PALMETTO TRAIL, SOUTH CAROLINA'S LARGEST TRAIL SYSTEM CAN BE ENJOYED BY ALL IN SOUTH CAROLINA, REGARDLESS OF GENDER, RACE, CREED, AGE, OR ABILITY.

  • THE PALMETTO TRAIL IS DEDICATED TO BUILDING, PROTECTING AND MAINTAINING A STATEWIDE MULTI-USE NATURE BASED TRAIL THAT PROVIDES A CONTINUOUS TRAIL SPANNING FROM THE MOUNTAINS TO THE SEA ACROSS SOUTH CAROLINA. OUR MISSION IS TO PROMOTE THE HEALTH AND WELLNESS OF SOUTH CAROLINIANS THROUGH OUTDOOR RECREATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES, FOSTER ECONOMIC VITALITY IN OUR COMMUNITIES THROUGH ECO-TOURISM, AND INSPIRE A DEEP APPRECIATION AND STEWARDSHIP OF SOUTH CAROLINA'S NATURAL AND CULTURAL RESOURCES THROUGH CONSERVATION ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION. PALMETTO TRAIL, SOUTH CAROLINA'S LARGEST TRAIL SYSTEM CAN BE ENJOYED BY ALL IN SOUTH CAROLINA, REGARDLESS OF GENDER, RACE, CREED, AGE, OR ABILITY.

    Expenses $2,629,983

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Jeffrey Archie

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25
  • Phil Gaines

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25
  • Grady Johnson

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25
  • Mikee Johnson

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25
  • Sam Konduros

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25
  • Dr Tracy MacPherson

    BOARD CHAIRM

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25
  • William Mitchell

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25
  • Jess Powell

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.25
  • Mary Roe

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,962,128
    Expenses
    $3,187,797
    Contributions
    $2,907,942
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,922,770
    Expenses
    $2,384,348
    Contributions
    $1,836,118
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,987,720
    Expenses
    $1,448,300
    Contributions
    $2,935,272
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,605,403
    Expenses
    $1,448,300
    Contributions
    $1,552,955
    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
    $829,042
    Expenses
    $1,053,537
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,874,790
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,173,250
    Expenses
    $896,529
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,634,101
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $799,375
    Expenses
    $811,091
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,333,450
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,071,734
    Expenses
    $824,797
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,398,779
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,071,734
    Expenses
    $824,797
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,398,779
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,040,081
    Expenses
    $1,280,265
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,764,793
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,069,961
    Expenses
    $1,752,857
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,939,319
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $778,055
    Expenses
    $864,353
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,355,377
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $855,093
    Expenses
    $912,802
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,470,950
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,262,740
    Expenses
    $909,134
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,521,174

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

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 as related by

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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.