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HILTON HEAD ISLAND AUDUBON SOCIETY DBA HILTON HEAD AUDUBON
HILTON HEAD ISLAND AUDUBON SOCIETY DBA HILTON HEAD AUDUBON (South Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,081 to it, the largest being NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ($12,784). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $72k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $23k
- Net assets
- $118k
What Hilton Head Island Audubon Society Dba Hilton Head Audubon does
Mission
Our mission is to be a leading voice for birds and conservation in the Lowcountry, where people and nature thrive together. Our goals include preservation and protection of our coastal marshes, beaches, maritime forests and other habitats, ensuring they will be available for the continued enjoyment of residents and visitors, and for their use by migrating and resident birds. We actively partner with state and local leaders and the community-at large to promote a positive, forward-looking agenda for people and wildlife.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Conservation: Advocacy, Education Programs and Community Science to promote protection and respect of critical habitat for resident and migrating birds. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Produced two conservation-related videos shown before every movie at Park Plaza Cinema from July 2024 to June 2025 where it was seen 20 times daily in all 5 theaters and also shown at two other local venues. Expanded our Certification of Bird and Wildlife Friendly Habitat Program, certifying thre schools, two businesses and in process with others. Developed three conservations brochures. Participated in two festivals including a Birds and Nature Day for Juneteenth at Historic Mitchelville Freedom Park. Hosted 19 education events throughout the year, led 24 field trips including for both members and other community groups, spoke at 5 community groups, co-ordinated the Christmas bird count for the Hilton Head Island circle with 302 participants, and active on social media with conservation messages.
$51,297 spent69% of program spendingMaintain and operate Audubon Newhall Preserve, a 50-acre nature preserve open to the public at no charge. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------This year we continued our improvement program at the Audubon Newhall Preserve through replacement of aerators to improve the health of the pond. We also engaged Folk Land Management, a highly respected forestry and ecological restoration firm, to help develop a science-based vision and management plan for the property's future. We estimate the Preserve gets approximately 21,000 visitors per year.
$23,161 spent31% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $74,458.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $101k to $118k (+16%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Charlotte Rios
Director-Youth Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $12 → $13k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 HILTON HEAD ISLAND AUDUBON SOCIETY DBA HILTON HEAD AUDUBON’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
HILTON HEAD ISLAND AUDUBON SOCIETY DBA HILTON HEAD AUDUBON leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 HILTON HEAD ISLAND AUDUBON SOCIETY DBA HILTON HEAD AUDUBON.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
HILTON HEAD ISLAND AUDUBON SOCIETY DBA HILTON HEAD AUDUBON draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 1 state in all.
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.
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In South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HILTON HEAD ISLAND AUDUBON SOCIETY DBA HILTON HEAD AUDUBON?
- HILTON HEAD ISLAND AUDUBON SOCIETY DBA HILTON HEAD AUDUBON (South Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,081 to it, the largest being NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ($12,784). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HILTON HEAD ISLAND AUDUBON SOCIETY DBA HILTON HEAD AUDUBON have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $23,081 in grants to HILTON HEAD ISLAND AUDUBON SOCIETY DBA HILTON HEAD AUDUBON, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HILTON HEAD ISLAND AUDUBON SOCIETY DBA HILTON HEAD AUDUBON?
- NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC is the largest funder on record, with $12,784 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HILTON HEAD ISLAND AUDUBON SOCIETY DBA HILTON HEAD AUDUBON 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 FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), and the filings of 3 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