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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.

$5.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
49
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$3.2M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Community Improvement$7.3MEnvironment$2.1MRecreation & Sports$862kHousing & Shelter$564kEducation$194kArts & Culture$192kSocial Science$39kFood & Nutrition$37kOther$0
02FY2025 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $89k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $497k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+2 grants · $3.5M
$24,152
Median grant
9
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Capstone Community Action: $15k → 9%Craftsbury Outdoor Center: $10k → 14%CRAFTSBURY PUBLIC HOUSE: $6k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
WA
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
CO
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of Northern Forest Center Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 91% of the giving stays in NH; by stated purpose, 87%.

Northern Forest Center Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 8.4% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.4M · 49 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
60

Total granted

$9.4M
$982k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+14%

Still filing today

37%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentEducationRecreation & SportsArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SF
    Sustainable Forest Futures Inc
    3× · 2020–2025 · $5.7M · revenue +878% · 85% of their budget
  • CC
    Community Concepts Finance Corporation
    5× · 2019–2025 · $564k · revenue +25%
  • NE
    NORTH EAST STATE FORESTERS ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $100k · revenue +90% · 59% of their budget

Funded once

  • LV
    Lakeshore Ventures
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • HP
    HIGH PEAKS ALLIANCEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +455%
  • VERMONT LAND TRUST INC
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -25%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Maine Appalachian Trail Land Trust

To preserve and protect land surrounding the appalachian trail in maine for public benefit.

Environment
2
Mt Ascutney Outdoors Inc

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…

Recreation & Sports
3
Massachusetts Outdoor Heritage Foundation Inc Attn Susan Sacco
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4
Midcoast Conservancy

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.

Environment
5
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.

Education
6
Ridgeline Outdoor Collective

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

Recreation & Sports
7
Sebasticook Regional Land Trust

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…

Environment
8
Kennebunk Land Trust

Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.

Environment
9
Piscataquog Land Conservancy

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…

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10
Maine Huts & Trails

MHT envisions a future where more individuals, schools, groups, and families can experience enriching, even life changing backcountry experiences. MHT seeks to increase access to the outdoors, inspire more people to explore and cherish the…

Education
11
Penobscot River Trails Inc
Environment
12
The Vermont River Conservancy Inc

Protect land along rivers, lakes and wetlands of vt; protect public access, wildlife habitat, scenic natural beauty, and ecological integrity.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vermont Land Trust Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

48 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/48
Grantees still filing
26/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Sustainable Forest Futures Inc: $5,684,866 · EnvironmentSustainable Forest Futures Inc+9 more: $303,029 · EnvironmentTMBR Platform LLC: $326,825 · OtherTMBR Platform LLCUNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM INC: $197,606 · OtherRegional School Unit 10: $197,120 · OtherNomad Communications: $172,343 · OtherFuture iQ: $157,000 · OtherSullivan Creative Services LTD: $156,673 · Other+100 more: $2,794,395 · Other+100 moreCommunity Concepts Finance Corporation: $563,970 · Housing & ShelterKINGDOM TRAIL ASSOCIATION INC: $87,418 · Recreation & SportsCoos Cycling Club: $54,213 · Recreation & SportsHIGH PEAKS ALLIANCE: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsNEW ENGLAND MOUNTAIN BIKE ASSOCIATION INC: $37,500 · Recreation & SportsVERMONT HUTS ASSOCIATION LTD: $29,000 · Recreation & SportsVERMONT MOUNTAIN BIKE ADVOCATES: $13,870 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $9,000 · Recreation & SportsRural Aspirations Project: $123,994 · EducationTAPROOT FARM & ENVIRONMENT EDU CTR: $25,550 · EducationJESUP MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $25,000 · EducationPAUL SMITHS COLLEGE: $20,500 · EducationST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $13,636 · EducationMILLINOCKET MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $10,000 · EducationNORTHWOODS STEWARDSHIP CENTER: $8,000 · EducationVERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND INC: $118,422 · EmploymentNortheast Kingdom Development Corporation: $79,800 · EmploymentMaine Development Foundation: $72,393 · Community ImprovementOur Katahdin: $35,000 · Community ImprovementNational Collaborative for the Digital Economy: $10,400 · Community ImprovementMOOSEHEAD LAKE REGION CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $6,000 · Community Improvement
Environment$5,987,895Other$4,001,962Housing & Shelter$563,970Recreation & Sports$281,001Education$226,680Employment$198,222Community Improvement$123,793

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSustainable Forest Futures Inc: $5,684,866 over 3y, 85% of budgetCommunity Concepts Finance Corporation: $563,970 over 5y, 9.9% of budgetRural Aspirations Project: $123,994 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetVERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND INC: $118,422 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNORTH EAST STATE FORESTERS ASSOCIATION: $100,000 over 2y, 59% of budgetKINGDOM TRAIL ASSOCIATION INC: $87,418 over 6y, 13% of budgetNortheast Kingdom Development Corporation: $79,800 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetINLAND WOODS TRAILS: $75,058 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetMaine Development Foundation: $72,393 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCoos Cycling Club: $54,213 over 4y, 13% of budgetHIGH PEAKS ALLIANCE: $50,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetVERMONT LAND TRUST INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFriends of Katahdin Woods & Waters: $45,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetOUTDOOR SPORT INSTITUTE INC: $39,083 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $38,748 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND MOUNTAIN BIKE ASSOCIATION INC: $37,500 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetNANSEN SKI CLUB INC: $36,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetMaineHealth: $35,747 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOur Katahdin: $35,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetRiver Valley Healthy Communities Coalition: $34,075 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetRANGELEY LAKES HERITAGE TRUST INC: $33,504 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTAPROOT FARM & ENVIRONMENT EDU CTR: $25,550 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetTHE GREEN MOUNTAIN CLUB INC DEBONIS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJESUP MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCATAMOUNT TRAIL ASSOCIATION: $25,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetWESTERN FOOTHILLS LAND TRUST: $21,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetPAUL SMITHS COLLEGE: $20,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHERN FOREST CANOE TRAIL INC: $19,575 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetAndroscoggin Valley Council of Governments: $16,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetForestille Foundation Inc: $16,100 over 2y, 20% of budgetMaine Public Broadcasting Corporation: $16,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKATAHDIN AREA TRAILS: $14,916 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $13,636 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROSS VERMONT TRAIL ASSOCATION INC: $11,822 over 1y, 12% of budgetMILLINOCKET MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $9,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWOODS STEWARDSHIP CENTER: $8,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMahoosuc Land Trust Inc: $6,990 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetVERMONT PUBLIC CO: $6,966 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOOSEHEAD LAKE REGION CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $6,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 HIGH PEAKS ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds VERMONT LAND TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds Friends of Katahdin Woods & Waters ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Maine Community Found…Elmina B Sewall Found…Onion FoundationThe Vermont Community…Davis Conservation Fo…Lintilhac Foundation …Quimby Family Foundat…Leonard C & Mildred F…Bangor Savings Bank F…Franklin Savings Bank…New Hampshire Charita…High Meadows Fund Inc
Maine Community Foundation IncME32.9× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Northern Forest Center Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Northern Forest Center Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 31%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 137 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home