South Carolina · Nonprofit
APPARENT WINDS
APPARENT WINDS (South Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $190,850 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($121,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $187k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $191k
- Net assets
- $4k
What Apparent Winds does
Mission
Apparent wind is a global expedition dedicated to collecting and sharing stories of environmental and cultural preservation while conducting marine research aboard sailing vessel.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In 2024 Apparent Winds had one of its most pivotal years to date. We started the year filming and collecting stories of people from the lowcountry region of south carolina who are protecting their environment and culture. These stories include indigenous leaders, fishermen and women, scientist and lawmakers. All stories were then produced into short episodes and are available to the public. While in south carolina, we also conductedour final refit aboard resilience, preparing her for service around the world. This refit included the installation of a trawl arm for micro plastics researc as well as an a frame for deployment of heavy equipment from the boat. In may of 2024 resilience was finally launched just in time for an expedition to the hudson cannon. This expedition available to view on you tube ended up being a major success as we made breakthrough discoveries about the migration and feding patterns of the highly endangered north atlantic right
$190,520 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $190,520.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $23k to $4k (−83%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of APPARENT WINDS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Stephen Berger
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 82% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of APPARENT WINDS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
APPARENT WINDS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
82% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund APPARENT WINDS.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
82% of APPARENT WINDS's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $34k that is directly attributable, 71% of it comes from funders outside South Carolina, across 4 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $157k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
APPARENT WINDS's revenue fell 63% between 2022 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like APPARENT WINDS
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for APPARENT WINDS: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds APPARENT WINDS?
- APPARENT WINDS (South Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $190,850 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($121,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does APPARENT WINDS have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $190,850 in grants to APPARENT WINDS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of APPARENT WINDS?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $121,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like APPARENT WINDS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 7 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing