· Public charity
Northern Forest Center Inc
The Northern Forest Center creates bold possibilities that give rise to vibrant Northern Forest communities and envisions a thriving and welcoming Northern Forest region sustained by innovation and environmental stewardship.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $89k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $497k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+2 grants · $3.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Sustainable Forest Futures Inc | $3,178,387 |
| TMBR Platform LLC | $326,825 |
| Community Concepts Finance Corp | $209,405 |
| Regional School Unit 10 | $171,437 |
| Rural Aspirations Project | $112,009 |
| University of Maine | $108,569 |
| Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund | $99,128 |
| Northeast Kingdom Development Corporation | $79,800 |
| Appalachian Mountain Club | $71,187 |
| Regional School Unit 56 | $65,777 |
| School Administrative District #44 | $60,438 |
| The Implementation Group | $60,000 |
| Sullivan Creative Services LTD | $59,666 |
| UNH Sponsored Programs Administration | $59,022 |
| University of Vermont and State Agricultural College | $40,765 |
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 (FY19–25, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of Northern Forest Center Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 91% of the giving stays in NH; read by stated purpose it is 87% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +14% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
49 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M 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
- SFSustainable Forest Futures Inc3× · 2020–2025 · $5.7M · revenue +878% · 85% of their budget
- CCCommunity Concepts Finance Corporation5× · 2019–2025 · $564k · revenue +39%
- NENORTH EAST STATE FORESTERS ASSOCIATION2× · 2021–2022 · $100k · revenue +90% · 59% of their budget
Funded once
- LVLakeshore Venturesone grant, 2022 · $50k
VERMONT LAND TRUST INCone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -25%- HPHIGH PEAKS ALLIANCEgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +455%
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 preserve and protect land surrounding the appalachian trail in maine for public benefit.
The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.
Mt. Ascutney Outdoors, Inc's mission is to promote vitality within the community by providing affordable and unique recreational, cultural and educational activities to local residents and visitors from the Upper Valley region of Vermont…
To ensure the sustainability of future mountain biking in vermont. attain permission from private and public landowners to build, promote responsible riding, conservation and youth participation
Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.
The Northern Forest Center creates bold possibilities that give rise to vibrant Northern Forest communities and envisions a thriving and welcoming Northern Forest region sustained by innovation and environmental stewardship.
The mission of the SRLT is to recognize and conserve the rich wild and workinglandscape of Central Maine's Sebasticook River watershed through conservation,stewardship and education. Our focal programs are land conservation for…
The Piscataquog Land Conservancy is a nonprofit land conservation organization founded in 1970. Its purpose is to conserve the natural and scenic environment of the Piscataquog, Souhegan and Nashua River watershed communities of southern…
Protect land along rivers, lakes and wetlands of vt; protect public access, wildlife habitat, scenic natural beauty, and ecological integrity.
The Organization works with local landowners to permanently protect natural land and waters that define its community and enrich the quality of life by purchasing, managing, negotiating and developing conservations easements in the Upper…
Our Mission is to educate and advocate for the sustainable use of the forest and the ecological, economic, and social health of Maines forest community
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vermont Land Trust Inc and the most unlike its peers is Forestille Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
48 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 48 of the 137 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 Sustainable Forest Futures Inc ↗
- Who funds Community Concepts Finance Corporation ↗
- Who funds Rural Aspirations Project ↗
- Who funds VERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH EAST STATE FORESTERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds KINGDOM TRAIL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Northeast Kingdom Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds INLAND WOODS TRAILS ↗
- Who funds Maine Development Foundation ↗
- Who funds Appalachian Mountain Club ↗
- Who funds Coos Cycling Club ↗
- Who funds VERMONT LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH PEAKS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Friends of Katahdin Woods & Waters ↗
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: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Onion Foundation · The Vermont Community Foundation · Davis Conservation Foundation · Lintilhac Foundation Inc · Quimby Family Foundation · Leonard C & Mildred F Ferguson Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Franklin Savings Bank Community Development Foundation · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · High Meadows Fund 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 Northern Forest Center Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Capstone Community Action Inc — 84% of income from government
- Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund Inc — 51% of income from government
- Vermont Land Trust Inc — 42% of income from government
- Northwoods Stewardship Center — 40% of income from government
- St Johnsbury Works Inc — 39% of income from government
- Cross Vermont Trail Assocation Inc — 33% of income from government
- Northeast Kingdom Development Corporation — 31% of income from government
- The Green Mountain Club Inc Debonis — 17% of income from government
- Kingdom Trail Association Inc — 14% of income from government
- Catamount Trail Association — 10% of income from government
- Northern Forest Canoe Trail Inc — 4% of income from government
- Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% of income from government
- Vermont Public Co — 0% 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.