South Carolina · Nonprofit
CHEROKEE HISTORICAL & PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC
CHEROKEE HISTORICAL & PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $249,125 to it, the largest being TIMKEN FOUNDATION OF CANTON ($106,062). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $249k
- Net assets
- $3.5M
What Cherokee Historical & Preservation Society Inc does
Mission
To preserve local historical artifacts
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Program
Preservation of local historical records and artifacts.
$307,136 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $307,136.
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 2019 to 2020, from $1.2M to $2.0M (+67%).
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 23% · 2018 25% · 2019 24% · 2020 17% · 2021 18% · 2022 16% · 2023 13% · 2024 12% · 2025 11% · 2026 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of CHEROKEE HISTORICAL & PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 10 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
Pamela Cazel
Executive director
Board chair
Patricia Jelacic
Board president
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $56k → $3k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 CHEROKEE HISTORICAL & PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC’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
CHEROKEE HISTORICAL & PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 50% · 2021 68% · 2022 94% · 2023 95% — 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.
Where its funders are
CHEROKEE HISTORICAL & PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC draws 53% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
CHEROKEE HISTORICAL & PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 88 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 88 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2026
Organizations like CHEROKEE HISTORICAL & PRESERVATION SOCIETY 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 South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
54%
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 CHEROKEE HISTORICAL & PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC: 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 CHEROKEE HISTORICAL & PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC?
- CHEROKEE HISTORICAL & PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $249,125 to it, the largest being TIMKEN FOUNDATION OF CANTON ($106,062). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHEROKEE HISTORICAL & PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $249,125 in grants to CHEROKEE HISTORICAL & PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHEROKEE HISTORICAL & PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC?
- TIMKEN FOUNDATION OF CANTON is the largest funder on record, with $106,062 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHEROKEE HISTORICAL & PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 6 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