North Carolina · Nonprofit
WALNUT CREEK PRESERVE INC
WALNUT CREEK PRESERVE INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $89,000 to it, the largest being POLK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($89,000). 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
- $4.6M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $89k
- Net assets
- $6.2M
What Walnut Creek Preserve Inc does
Mission
The mission of walnut creek preserve is to serve as a regional location in polk county, and adjacent to rutherford county, nc, using the anne elizabeth suratt nature center and adjacent private forest lands to provide programs to the public focusing on nature education, the health and intellectual benefits of spending time in nature, the culture of this region and other topics relating to the human, plant and animal environment of the southern appalachians.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Walnut Creek Preserve (WCP) , as a Supporting Organization to Conserving Carolina, a North Carolina land trust (CC), maintains an indoor Nature Center classroom and a series of groomed hiking trails for programs co-sponsored by WCP and CC. This is the only nature center available to CC in Polk County. WCP pays for monthly speakers on topics selected by the WCP and CC staff focused on nature related education. In 2024 there were 11 monthly programs, all well attended with a total of 420 attendees. WCP also hosts a group of AmeriCorps workers in its native plant garden, with 340 hours of volunteer service in the garden.
$23,956 spentof which $2,000 as grants100% of program spendingThroughout the school year, Walnut Creek Preserve serves as a destination outdoor classroom, hosting multiple classes of 5th graders from regional public schools, coming to spend a school day at the Preserve under the Muddy Sneakers, Inc. program. Muddy Sneakers is a nonprofit that teaches the North Carolina 5th grade curriculum outdoors at designated forests and has test results showing the efficacy of this program. In 2023 WCP hosted 253 students from five schools.
Walnut Creek Preserve also hosted a hike for the Rutherford Outdoor Coalition, with 12 attendees, and a separate hike of the Lake Lure Classical Academy Summer Camp attendees and counselor in June 2023. Walnut Creek Preserve does not charge for use of its facilities and welcomes groups seeking hiking opportunities. The following is list of 2023 speakers and dates: 1/21/23 Steve Pettis: WNC Non-native and invasive plants 2/18/23 Steve ONeil: Electric vehicles 101 3/18/23 Nicholas Mullins/Katherine Etchison: The Fight for Bats in NC 4/15/23 Lisa Wagner: Creating a native woodland garden 5/20/23 Clint Calhoun: Hickory Nut Gorge 6/24/23 Kim Bailey: Pollinator gardens 7/15/23 Colleen Olfenbuttel: Armadillos 8/19/23 April Ryan: Surfing the Milky Way 9/16/23 Carolina Raptor Center: Raptors Inspire 10/21/23 Watson Harlan: History & ecological practices of Cherokee 11/18/23 Ron Lance: Plant families of Appalachian royalty - No speakers in December, but 4 volunteer workdays for the native garden expansion.
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $23,956.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $1.5M to $6.2M (+302%).
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.
99% of WALNUT CREEK PRESERVE 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 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
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 WALNUT CREEK PRESERVE 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.
Where its funders are
100% of WALNUT CREEK PRESERVE 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $89k 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
WALNUT CREEK PRESERVE INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,186 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like WALNUT CREEK PRESERVE 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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WALNUT CREEK PRESERVE INC?
- WALNUT CREEK PRESERVE INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $89,000 to it, the largest being POLK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($89,000). 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 WALNUT CREEK PRESERVE INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $89,000 in grants to WALNUT CREEK PRESERVE INC.
- Who is the largest funder of WALNUT CREEK PRESERVE INC?
- POLK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $89,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WALNUT CREEK PRESERVE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), 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