South Carolina · Nonprofit
Save Our Saluda
Save Our Saluda (South Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,130 to it, the largest being DUKE ENERGY FOUNDATION ($20,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $200k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $37k
- Net assets
- $33k
What Save Our Saluda does
Mission
To protect and restore the upper saluda watershed through education, community awareness, advocacy, and seeking solutions to threats to the saluda river and its tributaries
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Project Management & Consulting on the below conservation initiatives
$128,789 spent40% of program spendingLedford-Railroad Creek Cattle Crossing, Watering Facilities, Fencing, and Streambank, Road, and Drainage Stabilization Project: Streambank grading and installation of boulder toe rock (160 ft), Installation of 2 in-stream rock vane structures, Streambank seeding and coir matting, Live staking and plugs planted on lower streambank slopes, Watering facilities (well rehabilitation, water lines, 2 heavy use areas with watering troughs, Fencing (1,800 feet), Road and drainage stabilization (835 feet) and culverts (3), 5 Rock lined waterways (2,904 ft2)
$67,948 spentof which $67,527 as grants21% of program spendingWalker- North Saluda Streambank and Farm Road Stabilization Project: Streambank grading and installation of boulder toe rock (160 ft), Installation of three in-stream boulder j-hook structures, Streambank seeding and coir matting, Live staking, native bare roots, and plugs planted on streambank slopes, Containerized native trees and shrubs in planted riparian buffer, Two rock lined waterways constructed (2,625 ft2), Stabilized of farm access roads (~2,300 feet)
$62,476 spentof which $62,225 as grants19% of program spendingOTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 4: Contribution to Other conservation efforts OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 5: Direct Overhead & office expenses associated with below activities. Payment processing fees, office supplies, travel, Printing OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 6: Project Management & Consulting on the below conservation initiatives
$61,835 spentof which $57,917 as grants19% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $321,048.
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 2020 to 2021, from $94k to $48k (−49%).
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 34% · 2021 67% · 2022 45% · 2023 68% · 2024 87%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Save Our Saluda’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $8k → $25.
1 of 5 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 Save Our Saluda’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
Save Our Saluda leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% 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
38% 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 Save Our Saluda.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 100% · 2022 68% · 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
Save Our Saluda draws 92% 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. $80 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Save Our Saluda has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Save Our Saluda
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
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 Save Our Saluda: 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 Save Our Saluda?
- Save Our Saluda (South Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,130 to it, the largest being DUKE ENERGY FOUNDATION ($20,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Save Our Saluda have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $37,130 in grants to Save Our Saluda, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Save Our Saluda?
- DUKE ENERGY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Save Our Saluda 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 5 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