· Public charity
Sustainable Forestry Initiative Inc
The sustainable forestry initiative (sfi) inc.
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 28 grants below total $459,894 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $731,060 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $271,166 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 $10k10 grants · $72k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $231k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $156k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NCASI FOUNDATION | $106,398 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY EXTENSION BUSINESS OFFICE | $50,000 |
| NCASI | $25,000 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY | $19,158 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA | $18,825 |
| AUBURN UNIVERSITY | $18,209 |
| MAEOE VENDOR | $17,260 |
| KENTUCKY ASSOCIATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION | $13,730 |
| NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY | $12,000 |
| WASILLA SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT | $11,800 |
| COLORADO ALLIANCE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDU | $11,296 |
| WYOMING PROJECT LEARNING TREE | $11,288 |
| PACIFIC EDUCATION INSTITUTE | $11,265 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN STEVENS POINT | $10,840 |
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 (FY18–24, $77k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 38% of Sustainable Forestry Initiative 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.
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 +54% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 5 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k 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
NatureServe6× · 2017–2023 · $342k · revenue +6%- NFNCASI FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $280k · revenue ×13
- ABAmerican Bird Conservancy5× · 2017–2021 · $263k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- CCCOALITIONS & COLLABORATIVES INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $29k · revenue +113%
- USUnited States Endowment for Forestryone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -26%
American Forestsgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +253%
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.
Promoting economic sustainability
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
To support, through advocacy, education, and information, forest landowners' responsible management of their private property.
Forestry education
Promote forest industry & forest products
The promotion of healthy forests through broad programs of public information, education programs, and promotion of resource management.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Society of American Foresters and the most unlike its peers is University of Miami. 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 36 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
59 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. 59 of the 83 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 NatureServe ↗
- Who funds NCASI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Bird Conservancy ↗
- Who funds University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC EDUCATION INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA FORESTRY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY ASSOCIATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds MAINE TREE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Maryland Assoc for Environmental & Outdoor Educati ↗
- Who funds TEXAS FORESTRY ASSOCIATION EDUCATIONAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Wyoming Project Learning Tree ↗
- Who funds COLORADO ALLIANCE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds MANOMET INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR AIR AND STREAM IMPROVEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS FORESTRY ASSOCIATION EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ASSN OF ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds PROJECT LEARNING TREE OHIO ↗
- Who funds Kansas Association for Conservation ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA FORESTRY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA PROJECT LEARNING TREE INC ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI FORESTRY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Georgia Forestry Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds GREEN BLUE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE FORESTRY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UTAH SOCIETY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH AMERICAN FOREST PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds COALITIONS & COLLABORATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds United States Endowment for Forestry ↗
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: American Forest Foundation · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · United States Endowment for Forestry · American Forests · Rei Cooperative Action Fund · The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation · International Paper Company Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Sustainable Forestry Initiative 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Maryland Assoc for Environmental & Outdoor Educati — 35% of income from government
- Connecticut Forest & Park Association — 16% of income from government
- Manomet Inc — 12% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% 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.