South Carolina · Nonprofit
The Charleston Center for Paleontology
The Charleston Center for Paleontology (South Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $405,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($405,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $221k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $405k
- Net assets
- $87k
What The Charleston Center for Paleontology does
Mission
The Charleston Center for Paleontology is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit who works to advance the unique paleontology of the Charleston Tri-County Area through research and conservation.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
(1) Conserve the Charleston Tri-County Area's important fossil resourcesThe Charleston embayment is one of the most important fossil exposures in the US. Its fossil record spans 40 million years and can show us how animals adapted to the environmental pressures of changing ecosystems throughout that time, from cold, deep prehistoric oceans to our warm, modern marshes.The Tri-County Area is the center of rapid residential and commercial development, and there is a significant risk that the paleontological resources underneath will be lost forever. In 2024, CCP was able to open the largest paleontology-dedicated laboratory and collections space in the Charleston tri-county area (1800 sq ft). CCP also began accessioning items into its collection and ended the year with over 150 new items in collections, including a partial denary from the impressive oligocene-aged bird Pelagornis sandersii, a Xenorophus slonaii specimen recovered from a Summerville creek that made the front page of the Post and Courier, and the skull of an eomysticetid yet to be identified, measuring at over 6 feet long. These items, among many others, are currently in preparation to be fully restored and…
$126,260 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $126,260.
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
Elizabeth Kane Ph D
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 The Charleston Center for Paleontology’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.
Where its funders are
100% of The Charleston Center for Paleontology's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $405k 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
The Charleston Center for Paleontology runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 793 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 science & tech nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like The Charleston Center for Paleontology
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Charleston Center for Paleontology: 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 The Charleston Center for Paleontology?
- The Charleston Center for Paleontology (South Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $405,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($405,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does The Charleston Center for Paleontology have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $405,000 in grants to The Charleston Center for Paleontology.
- Who is the largest funder of The Charleston Center for Paleontology?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $405,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Charleston Center for Paleontology 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 2024–2024), and the filings of 1 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