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CONSERVATION VOTERS OF SC EDUC FUND

CONSERVATION VOTERS OF SC EDUC FUND (South Carolina) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,613,036 to it, the largest being UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION ($2,041,500). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.1M
Funders on record
23
Grants received
$4.6M
Net assets
$980k
15/23 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 91%
01What it does

What Conservation Voters of Sc Educ Fund does

Mission

Elevating public dialogue regarding environmental issues by educating citizens and maximizing the participation in environmental decisions at the state and local level.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The organization engaged in efforts to educate the public regarding environmental issues, including by conducting public-opinion research, and by building and facilitating coalitions and community partnerships to speak out on protections for safe drinking water, healthy air, clean energy and protections from climate change.

    $271,131 spentof which $70,000 as grants
    39% of program spending
  2. The organization engaged in training and capacity building efforts for organizational staff, partners, and volunteers relating to specific communication tools, techniques, and tactics as part of efforts to improve public outreach and discourse relating to protections for safe drinking water, healthy air, clean energy and protections from climate change.

    $428,999 spent
    61% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $700,130.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($384k) Expenses 100 ($291k) Net assets 100 ($241k)2018 Revenue 134 ($516k) Expenses 202 ($589k) Net assets 70 ($168k)2019 Revenue 140 ($539k) Expenses 163 ($474k) Net assets 97 ($233k)2020 Revenue 183 ($701k) Expenses 210 ($612k) Net assets 134 ($323k)2021 Revenue 210 ($806k) Expenses 195 ($568k) Net assets 232 ($560k)2022 Revenue 265 ($1.0M) Expenses 314 ($914k) Net assets 272 ($656k)2023 Revenue 259 ($996k) Expenses 281 ($817k) Net assets 356 ($860k)2024 Revenue 285 ($1.1M) Expenses 347 ($1.0M) Net assets 406 ($980k)
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Revenue (285)Expenses (347)Net assets (406)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $733k to $1.0M (+42%).

$243k
$170k
$244k
$349k
$592k
$733k
$1.0M
$1.1M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

94% of CONSERVATION VOTERS OF SC EDUC FUND’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,293 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$93k
’17
−$73k
’18
$65k
’19
$89k
’20
$238k
’21
$105k
’22
$179k
’23
$85k
’24
2.9
months of
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

Cynthia Powell

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed66667576
Joined·+2+0+1+2+0+4+1
No longer listed·2011222
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $239k → $910k.

6 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 CONSERVATION VOTERS OF SC EDUC FUND’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

CONSERVATION VOTERS OF SC EDUC FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

91% 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 CONSERVATION VOTERS OF SC EDUC FUND.

44%
largest funder
72%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 64% · 2019 77% · 2020 61% · 2021 58% · 2022 70% · 2023 48% — growing more concentrated.

“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

64% of CONSERVATION VOTERS OF SC EDUC FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

CONSERVATION VOTERS OF SC EDUC FUND draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 8 states in all.

IL
NY
CA
CO
DE
NC
DC
GA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’22
’23
South Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $232k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CONSERVATION VOTERS OF SC EDUC FUND has grown faster than half of the 2,186 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin8% · below the median
Months of reserve2.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)16% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like CONSERVATION VOTERS OF SC EDUC FUND

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

93% of spending goes to programs.

Program 93%Management 4%Fundraising 3%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

94%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

SC

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Conservation Voters of Sc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds CONSERVATION VOTERS OF SC EDUC FUND?
CONSERVATION VOTERS OF SC EDUC FUND (South Carolina) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,613,036 to it, the largest being UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION ($2,041,500). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CONSERVATION VOTERS OF SC EDUC FUND have?
IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $4,613,036 in grants to CONSERVATION VOTERS OF SC EDUC FUND, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CONSERVATION VOTERS OF SC EDUC FUND?
UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,041,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CONSERVATION VOTERS OF SC EDUC FUND 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 23 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