South Carolina · Nonprofit
Center for Heirs' Property Preservation
Center for Heirs' Property Preservation (South Carolina) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,889,842 to it, the largest being WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ($3,076,305). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $7.9M
- Funders on record
- 47
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $6.8M
What Center for Heirs' Property Preservation does
Mission
(See Schedule O)
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Legal services: chpp provided legal education and direct legal services, which resulted in the following: quantitatively, chpp conducted 12 (proposed 12) education seminars on heirs' property issues and resolution and forestland management which increased knowledge among 110 hulos, resulting in 625 (proposed 800) hulos coming into chpp for additional information and help. Chpp accepted 76 full clients and resolved 56 titles on land with a tax-assessed value of $7.1m. Chpp attorneys and volunteers also drafted 212 simple wills at clinics, 159 wills at chpp's offices, and 22 advanced directives to help prevent the growth of heirs' property.heirs' property hulo story: resolving property titlesms. Coleman is a widow that had property willed to her. She had questions about the probate process and chpp's legal team corrected a few critical items previously filed in the probate court. We assisted in filing the deed. We are proud to announce that the two property titles were cleared this year for ms. Coleman. During the process, ms. Coleman's children learned more about the probate process for future generations. Chpp's legal team looks forward to assisting additional families with their…
$1,315,232 spent40% of program spendingSustainable forestry: chpp provided hulos with forestry education, technical assistance and helped them access: financial assistance, expert partners, usda programs and connected them to markets to sell their timber products, which resulted in the following: -23 of the proposed 26 educational workshops were conducted at which 643 of the projected 410 individuals learned the importance of sustainably managing their family forests for maximum profit. -245 of the projected 150 hulos received technical assistance from forestry experts. -of the 70 proposed forestry intakes, 48 were conducted. -38 hulos received a total of $195,909 in financial assistance from the us department of agriculture for natural resources conservation service (usda/nrcs) cost-share programs to implement their forest management plans.forestry landowner story foresters walter whetstone, david bourgeois, and james williams met with ms. Chisolm, a dedicated landowner from colleton county who has been working with chpp for the past five years. With chpp's support, ms. Chisolm initially secured usda funding to develop a comprehensive forest management plan for her land. Last year, ms. Chisolm collaborated with chpp…
$1,086,758 spent33% of program spendingCommunity engagement: the community engagement (ce) department works together with partner organizations, landowners and the community at-large to increase awareness of the issue of heirs' property and how it can be prevented and resolved to allow families to use their land. In addition to the seminars mentioned under the legal sections and the forestry workshops listed in the forestry section, ce staff completed 105 presentations and information tables to inform participants about chpp's services reaching 4,306 people. On august 11 -12, 2023, chpp held its 8th annual rural and limited resource landowner symposium at the florence chpp in florence, sc. 180 people attended this event. This year, the keynote address was delivered by deputy regional forester, sherry reaves, region 8, u.s. Forest service. Participants were able to learn about the programs and services offered by the forest service and other usa agencies, such as the natural resources conservation service and farm service agency. Informative panels focused on chpp's expansion, estate planning, meeting the florence county probate judge and landowner and partner perspectives on the sustainable forest management process.
$558,908 spent17% of program spendingMobile basin heirs' property support initiative (mbhpsi) during this fiscal year, chpp expanded the number of partners participating in the mbhpsi. In addition to the initial partner of the mississippi center for justice (mcj), chpp supported the mississippi association of cooperatives (mac) and winston county self help cooperatives (wcshc) to provide land use services to heirs' property landowners in mississippi. Additionally, international paper joined the mbhpsi funders of world wildlife fund and kimberly to support expansion to the "alabama side" of the mobile basin. This funding allowed nonprofit partners in alabama to be engaged to deliver legal services (legal services alabama) and land use services (limited resources landowner education assistance network - lr lean) to help hulos resolve heirs' property issues and sustainably manage and utilize their land.more than 8,000 landowners benefited from the education, legal services and technical assistance delivered through the mbhpsi. The details of the services and accomplishments achieved by these implementation partners are as follows:mcj:-33 legal education seminars were completed with 5,855 of the individuals having…
$366,437 spentof which $330,452 as grants$7,500 earned by the program11% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,327,335.
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 2021 to 2022, from $2.4M to $4.8M (+104%).
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: 2017 38% · 2018 43% · 2019 51% · 2020 31% · 2021 30% · 2022 37% · 2023 26% · 2024 43%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Center for Heirs' Property Preservation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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
Jennie L Stephens Phd
Chief Executive Officer
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $367k → $2.0M.
14 of 47 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 Center for Heirs' Property Preservation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 47 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
Center for Heirs' Property Preservation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
60% 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 Center for Heirs' Property Preservation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 33% · 2019 29% · 2020 26% · 2021 32% · 2022 21% · 2023 35% — 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
60% of Center for Heirs' Property Preservation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% 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
Center for Heirs' Property Preservation draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
Center for Heirs' Property Preservation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding Center for Heirs' Property Preservation receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $35.9M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$35.9M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Center for Heirs' Property Preservation
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- CHPP Holdings LLC · disregarded
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Center for Heirs' Property Preservation: 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 Center for Heirs' Property Preservation?
- Center for Heirs' Property Preservation (South Carolina) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,889,842 to it, the largest being WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ($3,076,305). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Center for Heirs' Property Preservation have?
- IRS filings report 47 organizations giving $15,889,842 in grants to Center for Heirs' Property Preservation, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Center for Heirs' Property Preservation?
- WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,076,305 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Center for Heirs' Property Preservation 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 47 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing