· Public charity
American Forest Foundation
The mission of the AMERICAN FOREST FOUNDATION is to deliver meaningful conservation impact through the empowerment of family forest owners.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 46 grants below total $2,529,736 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,360,113 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $830,377 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $98k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $462k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $785k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $457,942 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $402,720 |
| CENTER FOR HEIRS PROPERTY PRESERVATION | $324,190 |
| UAPB SMALL FARM PROGRAM | $203,186 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS - PINE | $146,682 |
| WINSTON COUNTY SELF HELP | $110,003 |
| MCINTOSH SEED | $107,344 |
| ROANOKE ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE | $97,916 |
| FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN COOPERATIVES LAND ASSISTANCE FUND | $60,000 |
| MERIDIAN INSTITUTE | $59,911 |
| WALLOWA RESOURCES | $43,328 |
| VIBRANT PLANET PBC DBA VIBRANT PLANET INC | $40,306 |
| ALABAMA TREE FARM COMMITTEE | $37,427 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE | $34,209 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT | $34,140 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $175k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
79 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2024, 43 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $181k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- NFNATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2020 · $3.4M · revenue +62%
WALLOWA RESOURCES INC6× · 2019–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +128%- MSMcIntosh Sustainable Environment and Economic Development Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $910k · revenue +189%
Funded once
- CRCASCADE RESOURCE CONSULTANTSone grant, 2021 · $417k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $341k
- PVPRAIRIE VIEW A&M UNIVERSITYone grant, 2021 · $290k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To research, develop, and teach ecologically effective means to protect, manage, and restore forest lands.
Between federal government and forestry groups on forestry matters to develop and promote programs and activities, which will advance forest stewardship and use of forest resources.
To support, through advocacy, education, and information, forest landowners' responsible management of their private property.
Wfpa advocates and advnances sustainable forestry in washington to protect and enhance the economic investment of private working forest landowners.
Our mission is to enhance the health of over 867,000 acres of georgias national forest by protecting our forests and streams, advocating for natural processes, and identifying opportunities to improve forest management.
Advance the science, technology, education, and practice of forestry ensure the continued health and use of forest ecosystems and the present and futre availability of forest resources to benefit society
Educate the public on forest conservation issues in New Mexico
Promoting economic sustainability
Maine Woodland Owners supports woodland ownership and stewardship through education, advocacy, collaboration and conservation fo rthe benefit of landowners, wildlife, the environment, the pulic and the economy.
The mission of the american forest foundation is to deliver meaningful conservation impact through the empowerment of family forest owners. through strong partnerships and advocacy, we strive to equip america's rural landowners with the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New England Forestry Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is McIntosh Sustainable Environment and Economic Development Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
70 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 70 of the 165 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WALLOWA RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds McIntosh Sustainable Environment and Economic Development Inc ↗
- Who funds Center for Heirs' Property Preservation ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA FORESTRY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds BLACK FAMILY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds ROANOKE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH AMERICAN FOREST PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds WINSTON COUNTY SELF HELP COOPERATIVE ↗
- Who funds United States Endowment for Forestry ↗
- Who funds Georgia Forestry Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI FORESTRY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS FORESTRY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds OREGON TREE FARM SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT WOODLANDS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TEXAS FORESTRY ASSOCIATION EDUCATIONAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FORESTERS ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR THE POUDRE RIVER WATERSHED ↗
- Who funds LRLEAN INC ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION LEGACY ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA TREE FARM COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA FORESTRY ASSOCIATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Sustainable Forestry Initiative Inc · United States Endowment for Forestry · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · American Forests · National Forest Foundation · French Fdn Tr Udecl · Davis Conservation Foundation · National Wildlife Federation · American Bird Conservancy · The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation · Rsf Social Finance Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization American Forest Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Wallowa Resources Inc — 100% of income from government
- New England Forestry Foundation Inc — 88% of income from government
- Maryland Assoc for Environmental & Outdoor Educati — 35% of income from government
- Vermont Woodlands Association — 21% of income from government
- Connecticut Forest & Park Association — 16% of income from government
- Florida Forestry Association — 1% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.