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THE WALTHOUR - MOSS FOUNDATION
THE WALTHOUR - MOSS FOUNDATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $836,224 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($215,900). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $836k
- Net assets
- $28M
What The Walthour - Moss Foundation does
Mission
The walthour-moss foundation owns, preserves, and maintains land in its natural state for conservation, equestrian use, and for the enjoyment of the general public.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The walthour-moss foundation owns 4,198 acres set aside to be preserved in its natural state. It is part of the effort to save the longleaf pine ecosystem. A land management program is in place to accomplish this. The land is open to the general public without charge from dawn to dusk daily. 3,946 acres of the 4,198 acres are in a conservation easement held by the united states forest service.
$301,404 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $301,404.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $26M to $27M (+3%).
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 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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.
Chief executive
Landon Russell
Executive director
Board chair
Stephen Later
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $39k → $169k.
4 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 WALTHOUR - MOSS FOUNDATION’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
THE WALTHOUR - MOSS FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders 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 THE WALTHOUR - MOSS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 37% · 2019 56% · 2020 29% · 2021 25% · 2022 27% · 2023 51% — growing more concentrated.
“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
47% of THE WALTHOUR - MOSS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
THE WALTHOUR - MOSS FOUNDATION draws 55% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $303k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Organizations like THE WALTHOUR - MOSS FOUNDATION
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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE WALTHOUR - MOSS FOUNDATION?
- THE WALTHOUR - MOSS FOUNDATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $836,224 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($215,900). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE WALTHOUR - MOSS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $836,224 in grants to THE WALTHOUR - MOSS FOUNDATION, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE WALTHOUR - MOSS FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $215,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE WALTHOUR - MOSS FOUNDATION 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 23 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing