South Carolina · Nonprofit
The Kiawah Island Natural Habitat Conservancy Inc
The Kiawah Island Natural Habitat Conservancy Inc (South Carolina) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,481,391 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($445,410). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
The Kiawah Island Natural Habitat Conservancy Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 881 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 881 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Tisbest Philanthropyshared funders
- American Bird Conservancyportfolio match
- Butler Parklands Incportfolio match
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.
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: 2017 4% · 2018 6% · 2019 1% · 2020 7% · 2021 8% · 2022 3% · 2023 9% · 2024 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
103% of The Kiawah Island Natural Habitat Conservancy Inc’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. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 34 funders, grant income rose $32k → $317k.
19 of 61 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 Kiawah Island Natural Habitat Conservancy Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 61 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.
How concentrated its funding is
The Kiawah Island Natural Habitat Conservancy Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
72% 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 The Kiawah Island Natural Habitat Conservancy Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 38% · 2019 33% · 2020 41% · 2021 25% · 2022 22% · 2023 18% — 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.
How long its funders stay
44% of The Kiawah Island Natural Habitat Conservancy Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
68% of The Kiawah Island Natural Habitat Conservancy Inc'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. Of the $791k that is directly attributable, 93% of it comes from funders outside South Carolina, across 18 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 61 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Tisbest Philanthropyshared fundersWA · backs 89 organizations that share your funders
- American Bird Conservancyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Butler Parklands Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Felburn Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Conservation Trust for North Carolinaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- EJK Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Seaworld & Busch Gardens Conservation Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Longleaf Alliance Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wilson Conservation Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Climate Conservation Dba Center for Large Landscape Conservationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kisco Cares Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Audubon Society Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like The Kiawah Island Natural Habitat Conservancy Inc
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
79% 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 The Kiawah Island Natural Habitat Conservancy 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds The Kiawah Island Natural Habitat Conservancy Inc?
- The Kiawah Island Natural Habitat Conservancy Inc (South Carolina) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,481,391 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($445,410). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does The Kiawah Island Natural Habitat Conservancy Inc have?
- IRS filings report 61 organizations giving $2,481,391 in grants to The Kiawah Island Natural Habitat Conservancy Inc, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Kiawah Island Natural Habitat Conservancy Inc?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $445,410 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Kiawah Island Natural Habitat Conservancy 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 61funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing