North Carolina · Nonprofit
ASSOCIATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE ENO RIVER VALLEY INC
ASSOCIATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE ENO RIVER VALLEY INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,347,600 to it, the largest being CONSERVATION TRUST FOR NORTH CAROLINA ($498,593). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $8.0M
What Association for the Preservation of the Eno River Valley Inc does
Mission
To conserve and protect the natural, historical, and cultural resources of the eno river basin.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In 2025 the eno river association (era) completed the third year of its five year strategic plan. Major accomplishments related to our land & stewardship work include the transfer of the historic occoneechee speedway to eno river state park and support for cleanup and recovery efforts to address the impacts of tropical depression chantal. Over the course of the year, era protected 335 acres of new land in the eno watershed, and held 95 stewardship workdays that resulted in over 2000 pounds of trash being removed, 774 native plants planted, and 28 acres of habitat restored. Era's environmental education work continued to thrive with 28 school programs, 44 program events, and 30 different education partners. Era's signature event, the festival for the eno, hosted over 21,000 attendees in 2025 with over 650 volunteers contributing over 2900 volunteer hours.
$1,155,883 spent$452,578 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,155,883.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2024 to 2025, from $12M to $8.0M (−32%).
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: 2021 9% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
68% of ASSOCIATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE ENO RIVER VALLEY INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Ryan Fehrman
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 20 funders, grant income fell $262k → $249k.
10 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 ASSOCIATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE ENO RIVER VALLEY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 funders by total. 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
ASSOCIATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE ENO RIVER VALLEY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
65% 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 ASSOCIATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE ENO RIVER VALLEY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 68% · 2019 56% · 2020 42% · 2021 19% · 2022 46% · 2023 22% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
75% of ASSOCIATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE ENO RIVER VALLEY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
64% of ASSOCIATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE ENO RIVER VALLEY INC's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
ASSOCIATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE ENO RIVER VALLEY INC's revenue grew 70% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ASSOCIATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE ENO RIVER VALLEY INC
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE ENO RIVER VALLEY INC?
- ASSOCIATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE ENO RIVER VALLEY INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,347,600 to it, the largest being CONSERVATION TRUST FOR NORTH CAROLINA ($498,593). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ASSOCIATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE ENO RIVER VALLEY INC have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $2,347,600 in grants to ASSOCIATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE ENO RIVER VALLEY INC, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASSOCIATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE ENO RIVER VALLEY INC?
- CONSERVATION TRUST FOR NORTH CAROLINA is the largest funder on record, with $498,593 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASSOCIATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE ENO RIVER VALLEY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 38 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