Center for Heirs' Property Preservation
The Center for Heirs’ Property Preservation (CHPP) is a public charity based in North Charleston, South Carolina. Founded in 2005, it works with families and small-acreage landowners to protect family land and build generational wealth through legal services, education, and sustainable forestry support.
Center for Heirs' Property Preservation at a glance
In short: Center for Heirs' Property Preservation gave $940K across 10 grants in 2024 (avg $94K), top state Kentucky. Source: 2024 IRS Form 990.
- Annual giving (2024)
- $940,451
- +184.6% vs 2023
- Grants made (2024)
- 10
- +100.0% vs 2023
- Average grant
- $94,045
- +42.3% vs 2023
- Median grant
- $70,573
- Total assets
- $8,909,611
- +26.0% vs 2023
- Primary geography
- Kentucky (32% of itemized 2024 grant dollars)
- Latest 990 filing
- Form 990, 2024 View filing
Data from IRS Form 990, 2024; updated September 2026.
How to apply to Center for Heirs' Property Preservation
- Contact
Mailing address: 8570 Rivers Ave Suite 170, North Charleston, SC 29406
Phone: (843) 745-7055
Website: https://heirsproperty.org
Application details from Grantable's research on the foundation's public materials; confirm on its website before applying.
Who Center for Heirs' Property Preservation funds
How this funder distributes its grants
Top Recipients
Top 10 recipients in 2024
The largest 2024 recipient was Livelihoods Knowledge Exchange Network Inc ($305K). Together the top 10 received $940K.
Grant Size Distribution
22 grants across all recorded years
The most common grant size was under $50K: 12 grants of 22 (55%).
Geographic Focus
Where this funder awards grants
CHPP’s website describes its work as rooted in South Carolina, with a growing presence across the Southeast and an East Texas Heirs’ Property Initiative. Its 2024 filing also describes partnerships in Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, West Virginia, and Texas.
The 2024 grants went to recipients in Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Arkansas. By grant dollars, the distribution was Kentucky 32%, Alabama 30%, Mississippi 20%, South Carolina 9%, and Arkansas 9%.
Grant Distribution by State
Share of 2024 grant dollars across all 10 itemized grants.
Cities
How Center for Heirs' Property Preservation gives
Estimate from itemized grant lists in IRS Form 990 filings (2024). Recipient names are matched across years, so a renamed or misspelled grantee can look new; grants to individuals are left out. Methodology.
Giving History
Giving Over Time
Total grant dollars and number of grants per year
From 2020 to 2024, annual grant giving ranged from $25K (2020) to $940K (2024). In 2024 it made 10 grants totaling $940K.
Grants by year
Grant recipients and amounts by year
| Recipient | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Livelihoods Knowledge Exchange Network Inc Winchester, KY | Provide heirs' property landowners in West Virginia with education and technical assistance to address their heirs' property issues and to provide landowners with forestry technical assistance, and support to access USDA and other programs, and technical assistance. Through this program, LiKEN will offer direct legal and forestry services to help heirs' property owners clear title and create sustainable livelihoods from the land. | $304,864 |
| Legal Services Alabama Inc Montgomery, AL | Educate Alabama landowners about what heirs' property is, how to prevent heirs' property, and how to clear title once heirs' property is a problem. Provides technical assistance to cooperative members and existing/newly engaged historically underserved landowners (HULOs) looking to learn about and operate forestry enterprises. | $256,248 |
| Mississippi Center for Justice Gulfport, MS | Provide heirs' property landowners in Mississippi with education and technical assistance to address their heirs' property issues and provide landowners with forestry technical assistance, support to access USDA and other programs, and technical assistance to implement programs. | $98,387 |
| University of Arkansas Pine Bluff Pine Bluff, AR | UAPB will utilizing its Keeping It In the Family Program to provide education and technical assistance to help heirs' property owners address their heirs' property issues. UAPB will also provide landowners with forestry technical assistance, as well as support to access and implement USDA and other programs. | $84,075 |
| Mississippi Association of Cooperatives Jackson, MS | Provides technical assistance to cooperative members and existing/newly engaged historically underserved landowners (HULOs) looking to learn about and operate forestry enterprises. | $76,146 |
| The Economic Opportunity Center Inc North Charleston, SC | Operating support. | $65,000 |
| LR Lean Inc Fayette, AL | Conduct outreach to and educate Alabama landowners about heirs' property and different options, including carbon markets, for creating sustainable livelihoods from the land. | $22,480 |
| Winston County Self Help Cooperative Louisville, MS | Provides technical assistance to cooperative members and existing/newly engaged historically underserved landowners (HULOs) looking to learn about and operate forestry enterprises. | $14,070 |
| Coastal Carolina University Conway, SC | Create a regional resiliency implementation workplan that will engage diverse stakeholders and build their capacity to plan and execute future resilience strategies, projects and other activities for the Lower Pee Dee Watershed. Project will identify and prioritize nature-based solutions to mitigate flooding, storm surge, sea-level rise risks, and other threats to local infrastructure, facilities and communities. | $13,000 |
| Winyah Rivers Alliance Conway, SC | Create a regional resiliency implementation workplan that will engage diverse stakeholders and build their capacity to plan and execute future resilience strategies, projects and other activities for the Lower Pee Dee Watershed. Project will identify and prioritize nature-based solutions to mitigate flooding, storm surge, sea-level rise risks, and other threats to local infrastructure, facilities and communities. | $6,181 |
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Financial History
Multi-year comparison from IRS filings
| Filing year | Total Assets | Revenue | Expenses | Grants paid | Grants | Net Investment Income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $8,909,611 | $7,855,048 | $6,082,268 | $940,451 | 10 | $97,521 |
| 2023 | $7,068,441 | $6,162,148 | $4,145,507 | $330,452 | 5 | $26,463 |
| 2022 | $4,843,067 | $3,848,967 | $3,053,712 | $168,665 | 5 | $1,412 |
| 2021 | $2,372,888 | $3,863,724 | $2,596,007 | $65,000 | 1 | $2,224 |
| 2020 | $1,310,814 | $2,349,098 | $2,255,906 | $25,000 | 1 | $2,163 |
| 2019 | $935,679 | $2,196,246 | $1,754,237 | — | — | $1,132 |
Research compiled by Grantable AI from public sources. Last updated September 2026.
Mission & Focus Areas
CHPP’s stated mission is to protect heirs’ property and promote sustainable land use to increase economic benefit for historically underserved and low-wealth families through legal and forestry education and services.
Its work includes legal education and services to resolve title issues, complete estate plans, and reduce the risk of land loss; forestry education and technical assistance; support accessing federal cost-share programs; and community outreach. In 2024, its filing reported 28 titles resolved and 75.9 acres secured through title resolution, as well as forestry technical assistance for 265 landowners.
In its 2024 grantmaking, CHPP supported legal assistance and heirs’ property education, forestry technical assistance, and outreach to landowners. It also made grants for a regional resiliency workplan in the Lower Pee Dee Watershed and operating support for The Economic Opportunity Center. Among its grantees, Legal Services Alabama describes its mission as providing access to justice and civil legal assistance for Alabama’s low-income community; Mississippi Center for Justice describes its mission as advancing racial and economic justice; Mississippi Association of Cooperatives says it coordinates technical assistance, education, and financial programs for small farmers; and Winston County Self Help Cooperative says it helps small farmers buy and sell in bulk and supports sustainability in rural communities.
Grantmaking
In filing year 2024, CHPP reported 10 grants totaling $940,451. Grants ranged from $6,181 to $304,864, with a median grant of $70,573.
The largest awards were $304,864 to Livelihoods Knowledge Exchange Network Inc. for heirs’ property education and legal and forestry assistance in West Virginia, and $256,248 to Legal Services Alabama for landowner education, title assistance, and forestry enterprise support. Other notable grants included $98,387 to Mississippi Center for Justice, $84,075 to University of Arkansas Pine Bluff, and $76,146 to Mississippi Association of Cooperatives.
Leadership & Key People
Leadership team and compensation from IRS filings
The 2024 filing lists Kristopher Pickler as Chairperson; James D Myrick as Vice Chair; Leonard A McIntyre, PhD, as Immediate Past Chair; Darlene L Broughton as Secretary; and Alexander C Rhue as Treasurer. It also lists Louis Manigault as Governance Committee Chair and Ashley H Amundson, Sabrina A Brown, Angela Richmond Gaddist, and Brenda Hughes as directors.
Center for Heirs' Property Preservation is led by Jennie L Stephens PhD, Chief Executive Officer since 2024 (on filings since 2019); 5 of 21 officers listed in 2024 are compensated.
Officers on the 2024 filing
Jennie L Stephens PhD
Chief Executive Officer
Executive Di → Executive Director, 2022
Executive Director → Chief Executive Officer, 2024
On filings since 2019
40 hrs/week
$103K (2019) → $156K (2024)
Louis Manigault
Governance Committee Chair
Director → Governance Committee Chair, 2022
On filings since 2020
0.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Kristopher Pickler
Chairperson
Director → Vice Chair, 2022
Vice Chair → Chairperson, 2024
On filings since 2021
0.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Brenda Hughes
Director
On filings since 2020
0.3 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Sabrina A Brown
Director
On filings since 2021
0.3 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Ashley H Amundson
Director
On filings since 2022
0.3 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Ellen N Zisholtz
Director
On filings since 2022
0.3 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Faith Rivers James JD
Director
On filings since 2022
0.3 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Angela Richmond Gaddist
Director
New on the 2024 filing
0.3 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Christopher Richardson
Director
New on the 2024 filing
0.3 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Cynthia ODell
Director
New on the 2024 filing
0.3 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Margie Pizarro
Director
New on the 2024 filing
0.3 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Tory J Liferidge
Director
New on the 2024 filing
0.3 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Chiaralista D Walker-Reid
Chief Financial Officer
On filings since 2023
40 hrs/week
$99K (2023) → $107K (2024)
Danyelle M O'Hara
Chief Projects Officer
On filings since 2023
40 hrs/week
$106K (2023) → $119K (2024)
Joshua F Walden
Chief of Operations
On filings since 2023
40 hrs/week
$97K (2023) → $104K (2024)
Brett M Wadford
Chief Partnerships Officer
New on the 2024 filing
40 hrs/week
$101K (2024)
Leonard A McIntyre PhD
Immediate Past Chair
Vice Chair → Chair, 2022
Chair → Immediate Past Chair, 2024
On filings since 2019
0.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Alexander C Rhue
Treasurer
Director → Treasurer, 2024
On filings since 2021
0.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Darlene L Broughton
Secretary
Director → Secretary, 2022
On filings since 2021
0.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
James D Myrick
Vice Chair
Director → Vice Chair, 2024
On filings since 2022
0.5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Former officers (18)
- Former: James B. Porter III (2022–2023) — Director
- Former: Johnathan P. Kreskenjd (2022–2023) — Treasurer
- Former: Troy J. Liferidge (2022–2023) — Director
- Former: Bernett Bernie Mazyck (2019–2021) — Director
- Former: Jonathan P. Kresken JD (2019–2021) — Treasurer
- Former: Lucy Sanders Esq. (2019–2021) — Director
- Former: Marvin Eugene Hundley (2019–2021) — Director
- Former: Molly Edwards Esq. (2019–2021) — Director
- Former: Ronald Summers (2019–2021) — Director
- Former: Sabrina L. W. Johnson Esq. (2019–2021) — Director
- Former: W. Kenneth Swing Jr. (2019–2021) — Director
- Former: Yvonne Knight-Carter (2019–2021) — Chair
- Former: Charlie Blake (2021) — Director
- Former: W. McLeod Rhodes (2019–2020) — Past Chair
- Former: Alex Singleton (2019) — Director
- Former: Mary M. Wrighten (2019) — Director
- Former: Quietta Jordan Esq. (2019) — Director
- Former: Toya Hampton Esq. (2019) — Director
Data from IRS Form 990 filings, 2019–2024. "On filings since" is the earliest filing we hold that lists the person; hours are average hours per week as reported.
Compensation Overview
From 2024 IRS filing
The highest reported compensation on the 2024 filing was $156K, to Jennie L Stephens PhD (Chief Executive Officer). 5 officers or directors reported compensation on that filing.
Frequently asked questions about Center for Heirs' Property Preservation
How much does Center for Heirs' Property Preservation give each year?
Center for Heirs' Property Preservation gave $940K across 10 grants in 2024, according to its 2024 IRS Form 990. In 2023 it gave $330K across 5 grants.
What is Center for Heirs' Property Preservation's typical grant size?
Center for Heirs' Property Preservation's median grant in 2024 was $70,573, and its average grant was $94,045, across 10 grants on its 2024 IRS Form 990.
Where does Center for Heirs' Property Preservation give grants?
Center for Heirs' Property Preservation's top state is Kentucky, with 32% of the grant dollars itemized on its 2024 IRS Form 990. The next largest states were Alabama (30%) and Mississippi (20%). The most frequent recipient cities were Conway, SC (2 grants).
Does Center for Heirs' Property Preservation give general operating support?
Yes: 10% of Center for Heirs' Property Preservation's 2024 grants with a stated purpose (1 of 10) were for general or operating support, per its 2024 IRS Form 990.
Who are Center for Heirs' Property Preservation's largest grantees?
Center for Heirs' Property Preservation's largest 2024 grantees include Livelihoods Knowledge Exchange Network Inc ($304,864), Legal Services Alabama Inc ($256,248) and Mississippi Center for Justice ($98,387), according to its 2024 IRS Form 990. Together they received 70% of its itemized 2024 grant dollars.
How large is Center for Heirs' Property Preservation?
Center for Heirs' Property Preservation reported $8.9M in total assets on its 2024 IRS Form 990. Its revenue that year was $7.9M.
What does Center for Heirs' Property Preservation fund?
CHPP’s stated mission is to protect heirs’ property and promote sustainable land use to increase economic benefit for historically underserved and low-wealth families through legal and forestry education and services. See mission & focus areas ↑
How do I apply for a grant from Center for Heirs' Property Preservation?
Center for Heirs' Property Preservation has no public application process in the sources Grantable reviewed. Check heirsproperty.org for current guidelines, or contact the foundation directly before submitting a request.
What is Center for Heirs' Property Preservation's EIN?
Center for Heirs' Property Preservation's EIN (Employer Identification Number) is 52-2452879. IRS Form 990 filing data is available on this page for 2019–2024.
Data last updated September 2026. Sourced from IRS Form 990 filings. Research dossier generated September 2026.
Data update history
(5)
When this profile's IRS filing data changed on Grantable
- Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2019 (received by the IRS September 1, 2020)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2020 (received by the IRS November 3, 2021)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2021 (received by the IRS November 11, 2022)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2024 (received by the IRS November 17, 2025)
- IRS filings on file for fiscal years 2020–2024
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