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JOCASSEE WILD OUTDOOR EDUCATION INC

JOCASSEE WILD OUTDOOR EDUCATION INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $500 to it, the largest being ROBERT E DODS FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$152k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$500
Net assets
$67k
0/2 repeat funders
01What it does

What Jocassee Wild Outdoor Education Inc does

Mission

Jocassee wild outdoor education seeks to educate youth and adults in order to make personal, ecological and social connections with the importance of the wild, pristine, and natural spaces of lake jocassee and the jocassee gorges ecoregion. Jocassee wild outdoor education will inspire youth and adults to make deep, lasting connections to wilderness areas, and to preserve, protect, and share beautiful wild areas like the jocassee gorges for generations to come.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Program service accomplishments:jocassee wild outdoor education has three main programs to carry out the mission of the organization, jocassee wild naturalist certification, jocassee winter loon research and jocassee wild child outdoor education. The goal is to provide a place to learn about the jocassee gorge as a unique and critically important ecoregion.

    $140,769 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $140,769.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 0 ($0) Expenses 0 ($0) Net assets 0 ($0)2019 Revenue 100 ($23k) Expenses 100 ($5k) Net assets 100 ($17k)2020 Revenue 61 ($14k) Expenses 327 ($18k) Net assets 78 ($14k)2021 Revenue 276 ($63k) Expenses 730 ($40k) Net assets 212 ($37k)2022 Revenue 313 ($72k) Expenses 1262 ($69k) Net assets 228 ($40k)2023 Revenue 512 ($117k) Expenses 1672 ($91k) Net assets 376 ($66k)2024 Revenue 665 ($152k) Expenses 2756 ($150k) Net assets 386 ($67k)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (665)Expenses (2756)Net assets (386)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 $40k to $66k (+66%).

$0
$17k
$14k
$37k
$40k
$66k
$68k
2018201920202021202220232024
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

37% of JOCASSEE WILD OUTDOOR EDUCATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,629 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

’18
’19
’20
$23k
’21
$3k
’22
$26k
’23
$2k
’24
9.3
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.

201820192020
Listed333
Joined·+0+0
No longer listed·00
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'25*
'26*
total
funders
1
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 JOCASSEE WILD OUTDOOR EDUCATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 1 of 2 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.

Where its funders are

JOCASSEE WILD OUTDOOR EDUCATION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 1 state in all.

FL

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

JOCASSEE WILD OUTDOOR EDUCATION INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)46% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

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

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds JOCASSEE WILD OUTDOOR EDUCATION INC?
JOCASSEE WILD OUTDOOR EDUCATION INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $500 to it, the largest being ROBERT E DODS FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does JOCASSEE WILD OUTDOOR EDUCATION INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $500 in grants to JOCASSEE WILD OUTDOOR EDUCATION INC.
Who is the largest funder of JOCASSEE WILD OUTDOOR EDUCATION INC?
ROBERT E DODS FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like JOCASSEE WILD OUTDOOR EDUCATION 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 2 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