North Carolina · Nonprofit
OUTER BANKS CONSERVATIONISTS INC
OUTER BANKS CONSERVATIONISTS INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $70,408 to it, the largest being THE CANNON FOUNDATION INC ($30,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $70k
- Net assets
- $10M
What Outer Banks Conservationists Inc does
Mission
To maintain and preserve the natural and cultural resources of the nc outer banks.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Maintained the lighthouse, the lighthouse grounds and surrounding area, including keeper's houses and island farm. Provided for major repairs and renovations to historical preservation projects and kept these historical sites open to the public.
$749,033 spent$284,640 earned by the program100% of program spendingSupported the preservation of the historical record and other historical sites on roanoke island and in other coastal communities.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $749,033.
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 2023 to 2024, from $8.7M to $9.6M (+11%).
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: 2020 14% · 2021 7% · 2023 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
64% of OUTER BANKS CONSERVATIONISTS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
John F Wilson Iv
Chair & pres
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $69 → $77.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 OUTER BANKS CONSERVATIONISTS 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
OUTER BANKS CONSERVATIONISTS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
43% 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 OUTER BANKS CONSERVATIONISTS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 50% · 2022 70% · 2023 68% — 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
83% of OUTER BANKS CONSERVATIONISTS INC's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
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
OUTER BANKS CONSERVATIONISTS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like OUTER BANKS CONSERVATIONISTS 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 North 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
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OUTER BANKS CONSERVATIONISTS 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 OUTER BANKS CONSERVATIONISTS INC?
- OUTER BANKS CONSERVATIONISTS INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $70,408 to it, the largest being THE CANNON FOUNDATION INC ($30,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OUTER BANKS CONSERVATIONISTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $70,408 in grants to OUTER BANKS CONSERVATIONISTS INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OUTER BANKS CONSERVATIONISTS INC?
- THE CANNON FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OUTER BANKS CONSERVATIONISTS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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