Southern Conservation Partners Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 472181285
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Raleigh, NC, USA
- Phone
- 9195006598
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Natural Resources Conservation and Protection
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $475,421
- Expenses
- $534,223
- Assets
- $910,780
- Liabilities
- $816,567
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Charles Roe (President & CEO)
People named in this filing
- Charles Roe (President & CEO)
- Milo Pyne (Board Chair)
- Julie Moore (Board Vice Chair)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Promotes partnerships and sponsors innovative projects that conserve, restore, build public awareness of natural heritage resources in the southern U.S. (see Schedule O for more explanation) [holds no land properties or easements]
What it reported doing in 2025
Fiscal sponsorships of adopted special projects led by other entities - via formal contracts/ cooperative agreements that establish pre-approved grant relationship with project leader(s). Ten such projects fiscally sponsored in 2025. SCP (sponsoring partner organization) received grants and donations made in support of the projects and holds/obligates those funds in restricted fund accounts for sponsored projects purposes; regrant funds released to the projects leaders upon receipt and approval of activity reports/invoices. I.E., Donors dollars received by SCP/sponsor; SCP conveys regrant $s to project ; SCP retains 5-10% of each grant or donation received to fund its own administrative/project oversight and management costs. At the beginning of 2025 SCP held a total of $814,459 contractually obligated for conveyance as regrants to fiscally sponsored projects. At the end of 2025 SCP held a total of $821,567 contractually obligated for conveyance as regrants to fiscally sponsored projects.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 97% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 66
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: 91.6%; rating input score 92; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -12.4%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.7; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.9; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.4% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 24.6% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $534K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 23 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes foreign activity and grants
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 8 filed related-organization links
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.