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United States Endowment for Forestry
The endowment works collaboratively with partners in the public and private sectors to advance systemic, transformative, and sustainable change for the health and vitality of the nation's working forests and forest reliant communities.
- $21M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 66
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 58
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $9.1M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $101,614
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $569,144
- Organizations funded a year
- 54 to 94
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 32
- Total assets, FY2024
- $293M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 36% of the organizations United States Endowment for Forestry funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EnvironmentEducationCommunity ImprovementScience & TechPublic BenefitInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 63 | $8.7M | 29% |
| FY2023 | 58 | $6.8M | 36% |
| FY2022 | 54 | $5.4M | 39% |
| FY2021 | 94 | $12M | 16% |
| FY2020 | 90 | $8.6M | 19% |
| FY2019 | 91 | $8.1M | 27% |
| FY2018 | 92 | $9.9M | 40% |
| FY2017 | 66 | $5.9M | n/a |
100% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Environment$45MScience & Tech$13MCommunity Improvement$6.0MEducation$2.3MEmployment$903kRecreation & Sports$729kArts & Culture$448kHealth$237kOther$0
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
AK
ME
VT
NH
WA
ID
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
NE
KY
WV
VA
MD
AZ
NM
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quantified Ventures | $2,643,593 | 4 | n/a |
| Oregon State University | $2,103,905 | 6 | n/a |
| American Wood Council | $1,526,904 | 5 | 12% |
| Working Forest Initiative Inc | $1,500,000 | 3 | 7% |
| Blue Forest Finance Inc | $1,496,963 | 5 | 23% |
| University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc | $1,386,396 | 7 | 0% |
| University of Maine System Inc | $1,317,750 | 8 | n/a |
| Clemson University | $1,285,688 | 7 | n/a |
| American Forest Foundation | $1,248,217 | 4 | 2% |
| University of Wisconsin Madison | $1,235,083 | 8 | n/a |
Show all 216 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quantified Ventures | $2,643,593 | 4 | n/a |
| Oregon State University | $2,103,905 | 6 | n/a |
| American Wood Council | $1,526,904 | 5 | 12% |
| Working Forest Initiative Inc | $1,500,000 | 3 | 7% |
| Blue Forest Finance Inc | $1,496,963 | 5 | 23% |
| University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc | $1,386,396 | 7 | 0% |
| University of Maine System Inc | $1,317,750 | 8 | n/a |
| Clemson University | $1,285,688 | 7 | n/a |
| American Forest Foundation | $1,248,217 | 4 | 2% |
| University of Wisconsin Madison | $1,235,083 | 8 | n/a |
| McIntosh Sustainable Environment and Economic Development Inc | $1,042,556 | 8 | 36% |
| Blue Forest Conservation | $1,041,719 | 5 | n/a |
| Georgia Tech Research Corporation | $1,011,905 | 8 | 0% |
| Center for Heirs' Property Preservation | $846,751 | 7 | 22% |
| The Longleaf Alliance Inc | $822,611 | 3 | 8% |
| World Resources Institute | $815,196 | 6 | 0% |
| Lrlean Inc | $799,366 | 7 | 69% |
| Roanoke Economic Development Inc | $778,933 | 7 | 43% |
| Electric Power Research Institute Inc | $772,760 | 1 | 0% |
| The Trust for Public Land | $755,702 | 5 | 0% |
| Black Family Land Trust Inc | $742,996 | 7 | 31% |
| Wood Products Council | $727,984 | 3 | 6% |
| Auburn University | $711,385 | 3 | n/a |
| University of Minnesota | $680,818 | 6 | n/a |
| Trustees of Purdue University | $670,772 | 7 | n/a |
| Florida State University | $646,624 | 6 | n/a |
| Colorado State University | $624,549 | 5 | n/a |
| Bosland Growth LLC | $616,608 | 2 | n/a |
| Nc State University | $591,480 | 5 | n/a |
| National Academy of Sciences | $590,945 | 3 | 0% |
| American Forest Foundation | $579,110 | 2 | n/a |
| Rath Industries | $569,144 | 1 | n/a |
| The Pacific Forest Trust Incorporated | $553,348 | 5 | 4% |
| Northern Forest Center Inc | $523,109 | 5 | 8% |
| Avapco LLC | $514,577 | 2 | n/a |
| New Leaf Climate Partners | $500,000 | 3 | n/a |
| United States Biochar Initiative | $474,235 | 3 | 63% |
| Oregon State University | $467,511 | 2 | n/a |
| United States Endowment for Forestry | $464,811 | 2 | 2% |
| Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska | $462,457 | 3 | n/a |
| Michigan State University | $449,141 | 6 | n/a |
| Sappi North America Inc | $445,580 | 2 | n/a |
| Council of Great Lakes Governors Inc | $436,606 | 4 | 4% |
| Winston County Self Help | $387,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Louisiana State University | $360,762 | 5 | n/a |
| Town of Ashland | $360,452 | 2 | n/a |
| Western Rivers Conservancy | $355,916 | 3 | 1% |
| Northwest Timber Logistics LLC | $355,068 | 2 | n/a |
| Highstead Foundation Inc | $349,999 | 4 | 6% |
| American Forests | $346,751 | 2 | 1% |
| Colorado School of Mines | $345,717 | 4 | n/a |
| The Freshwater Trust | $344,077 | 4 | 1% |
| Franklin Logging | $341,691 | 1 | n/a |
| Parma Post and Pole | $334,000 | 1 | n/a |
| American University | $333,684 | 4 | 0% |
| Consortium for Research on Renewable Industrial Materials | $332,951 | 4 | 66% |
| The Water Institute of the Gulf | $332,389 | 3 | 2% |
| The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation | $328,946 | 3 | 0% |
| Mount St Helens Institute | $314,968 | 5 | 9% |
| Athena Institute International | $309,674 | 5 | 93% |
| Somerset Economic Development Corporation | $304,530 | 2 | 2% |
| Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper Inc | $299,073 | 3 | 3% |
| Coastal Prairie Conservancy | $297,941 | 4 | 2% |
| Summit County | $293,530 | 3 | n/a |
| North American Biochar Council | $290,000 | 1 | 100% |
| Mississippi State University | $276,779 | 3 | n/a |
| Mountain Studies Institue | $275,688 | 3 | 10% |
| Chesapeake Conservancy Inc | $271,393 | 5 | 2% |
| University of Louisville Research Foundation | $257,008 | 3 | 0% |
| Alachua Conservation Trust Inc | $256,746 | 3 | 3% |
| Environmental Policy Innovation Center | $256,599 | 1 | 2% |
| Softwood Lumber Board | $256,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Beaver Watershed Alliance | $253,938 | 4 | 11% |
| Savannah River Clean Water Fund Inc | $252,800 | 1 | n/a |
| Commonwealth of Va | $245,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Tall Timbers Research Inc | $243,873 | 3 | 1% |
| The Research Foundation for The State University of New York | $242,566 | 5 | 0% |
| Marine Environmental Sciences Consortium | $241,266 | 2 | 1% |
| North Carolina Coastal Land Trust | $240,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Huron River Watershed Council | $235,348 | 4 | 6% |
| Wisewood Energy | $235,083 | 2 | n/a |
| MLTPA Foundation | $233,251 | 5 | 20% |
| Ducks Unlimited Inc | $227,930 | 4 | 0% |
| National Woodland Owners Associnc | $227,558 | 3 | 21% |
| Mano y Ola | $226,273 | 2 | n/a |
| Puget Sound Regional Council | $225,978 | 3 | n/a |
| The Trust to Conserve Northeast Forestlands | $221,006 | 2 | 32% |
| Softwood Lumber Board | $220,000 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Arkansas Fayetteville | $219,306 | 3 | n/a |
| Maine Mountain Collaborative | $218,512 | 4 | 59% |
| 2030 Inc | $217,648 | 2 | 6% |
| Feather River Land Trust | $214,461 | 4 | 4% |
| Arizona Land and Water Trust Inc | $213,152 | 3 | 11% |
| Blue Mountain Land Trust | $208,209 | 2 | 16% |
| Kodama Systems Inc | $206,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Schoodic Institute at Acadia National Park | $205,852 | 5 | 2% |
| Lower Shore Land Trust Inc | $204,000 | 4 | 12% |
| Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University | $201,251 | 3 | n/a |
| Sustainable Northwest | $200,200 | 3 | 3% |
| Winston County Self Help Cooperative | $197,857 | 2 | 7% |
| Central Arkansas Water | $197,368 | 1 | n/a |
| Montana Conservation Corps Inc | $197,340 | 2 | 1% |
| Institute of Forest Bioscience | $191,838 | 3 | n/a |
| Forterra Nw | $191,185 | 2 | 2% |
| Mississippi State University | $189,166 | 5 | n/a |
| State Of Alaska | $187,542 | 2 | n/a |
| Baldrige Performance Excellence Pro | $180,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hill Country Conservancy | $180,000 | 3 | 6% |
| Sonoma Land Trust | $180,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Central Fl Regional Planning | $175,917 | 4 | n/a |
| PA Dept Conservation & Natural Resources | $174,665 | 4 | n/a |
| Georgia Forestry Foundation Inc | $171,500 | 2 | 16% |
| University of Vermont and State Agricultural College | $169,706 | 3 | n/a |
| American Rivers Inc | $167,553 | 3 | 0% |
| North Florida Land Trust Inc | $165,515 | 3 | 3% |
| Trout Unlimited Inc | $163,718 | 4 | 0% |
| Water Research Foundation | $160,000 | 2 | n/a |
| State of Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources | $160,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Climate Conservation Dba Center for Large Landscape Conservation | $159,849 | 4 | 2% |
| The Working Lands Trust Inc | $150,000 | 3 | 2% |
| William Marsh Rice University | $150,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Wild Rivers Conservancy of the St Croix & Namekagon | $150,000 | 4 | 7% |
| The Bullitt Foundation | $150,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Downeast Salmon Federation | $149,999 | 5 | 3% |
| Western Colorado University | $149,632 | 1 | n/a |
| Coalitions & Collaboratives Inc | $149,551 | 2 | 4% |
| Encourage Capital LLC | $148,999 | 3 | n/a |
| Pennsylvania State University | $148,540 | 2 | n/a |
| Chagrin River Watershed Partners Inc | $145,439 | 4 | 7% |
| University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff | $143,308 | 1 | n/a |
| Somerset Economic Development Corp | $143,216 | 1 | n/a |
| Morgantown Utility | $137,311 | 4 | n/a |
| Land Trust for the Mississippi Coastal Plain | $137,148 | 4 | 4% |
| Mississippi Forestry Association | $135,517 | 3 | 9% |
| Help for Landowners | $132,674 | 1 | 62% |
| Eugene Water & Electric Board | $132,537 | 2 | n/a |
| Iowa State University | $130,555 | 2 | n/a |
| Foothills Conservancy of North Carolina Inc | $129,919 | 3 | 1% |
| Resources for the Future Inc | $129,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Membrane Specialists | $127,673 | 2 | n/a |
| Big Waters Land Trust Inc | $127,548 | 3 | 3% |
| Beltrami County | $127,344 | 2 | n/a |
| Town of East Millinocket | $123,856 | 1 | n/a |
| Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District | $122,286 | 1 | n/a |
| Washington State Department of Commerce | $120,506 | 3 | n/a |
| Virginia Department of Conservation | $120,028 | 1 | n/a |
| Hill Country Alliance | $120,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Roanoke Economic Development Inc | $115,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lincoln Institute of Land Policy | $114,999 | 1 | 0% |
| Prairie View a and M University | $111,412 | 2 | n/a |
| Michigan Tech University | $109,735 | 3 | n/a |
| Companies for Causes | $107,999 | 1 | 7% |
| Attack One | $105,254 | 1 | n/a |
| Stephen F Austin State University | $101,614 | 1 | n/a |
| Save the Redwoods League | $101,600 | 2 | 0% |
| Dovetail Partners Inc | $100,289 | 2 | 7% |
| Regents of the University of Idaho | $100,000 | 2 | n/a |
| North American Forest Partnership Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 8% |
| The Ohio State University | $99,999 | 1 | n/a |
| National Forest Foundation | $99,990 | 2 | 0% |
| Multiplier | $98,503 | 2 | 0% |
| City of Burlington | $97,840 | 2 | n/a |
| Bowdoin College | $96,931 | 3 | 0% |
| South Carolina Rural Water Association | $96,092 | 3 | 3% |
| San Jacinto Community College District | $95,932 | 1 | n/a |
| Agricultural Research Service (Usda) | $90,028 | 1 | n/a |
| World Wildlife Fund Inc | $90,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Longleaf Alliance | $86,686 | 2 | n/a |
| Khuba International | $86,526 | 1 | 14% |
| Parks and Wildlife Foundation of Texas | $85,715 | 2 | 0% |
| County of Humboldt | $84,981 | 2 | n/a |
| University System of New Hampshire | $83,531 | 1 | n/a |
| Cacapon and Lost Rivers Land Tr Inc | $80,425 | 3 | n/a |
| West Virginia University Research Corporation | $79,565 | 3 | 0% |
| Houston-Galveston Area Council | $73,581 | 1 | n/a |
| Morrison Soil and Water Conservation District | $72,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Federation of Southern Cooperatives | $70,416 | 2 | 2% |
| Trout Unlimited Or | $70,154 | 2 | n/a |
| Sustain South Carolina Intersection of Commerce and Conservation | $70,000 | 3 | 12% |
| Econorthwest | $69,350 | 2 | n/a |
| Winston County Self Help | $69,177 | 1 | n/a |
| Nc Wildlife Resource Commission | $67,304 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Utah | $65,362 | 2 | n/a |
| University of Washington | $63,388 | 1 | n/a |
| Transformative Health Education | $60,450 | 2 | n/a |
| The Sand County Foundation Inc | $58,804 | 2 | 1% |
| Wildland Restoration International Inc | $58,735 | 1 | 4% |
| Earth Economics | $56,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Our Katahdin | $52,450 | 2 | 1% |
| The Aspen Institute Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education | $49,979 | 2 | 0% |
| University of Miami | $49,795 | 1 | 0% |
| Alabama A&M University | $47,949 | 1 | n/a |
| Akrf | $47,888 | 2 | n/a |
| Univ of Texas at Arlington | $47,849 | 1 | n/a |
| Alabama Dept Conservation & Natural Res | $38,870 | 1 | n/a |
| Forest2market | $38,250 | 1 | n/a |
| Ecostrat Inc | $37,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Bat Conservation International | $37,134 | 1 | 0% |
| New York University | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Ruffed Grouse Society | $29,910 | 2 | 0% |
| Conservation Legacy | $27,897 | 1 | 0% |
| Virginia Outdoors Foundation | $27,819 | 1 | n/a |
| Clemson University Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Blue Mtn Land Trust | $23,615 | 1 | n/a |
| Beltrami Soil & Water Conservation District | $22,047 | 1 | n/a |
| Three Rivers Land Trust Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Eastern Research Group Inc | $18,333 | 1 | n/a |
| Arkansas Forestry Commission | $12,675 | 1 | n/a |
| South Carolina Farm Bureau Land Trust Inc | $12,239 | 1 | 1% |
| South Willamette Solutions | $11,553 | 1 | 1% |
| Legacy Land Management LLC | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Rural Action Inc | $7,754 | 1 | 0% |
| Evergreen Engineering | $7,530 | 1 | n/a |
| South Carolina Forestry Commission | $5,739 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($684k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
United States Endowment for Forestry supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 11 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 115 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 115.
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.
National Fish and Wildlife FoundationDC59.6× affinity49 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · American Forest Foundation · National Forest Foundation · Walton Family Foundation Inc · Land Trust Alliance Inc · Resources Legacy Fund · Sustainable Forestry Initiative Inc · American Chemical Society · National Collegiate Athletic Association · The Pew Charitable Trusts · Patagoniaorg
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.
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About United States Endowment for Forestry
- How much does United States Endowment for Forestry give?
- United States Endowment for Forestry reported 66 itemized grants totaling $9,097,776, out of $20,677,663 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 54 and 94 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does United States Endowment for Forestry fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (65%), Science & Tech (19%), Community Improvement (9%).
- Who are United States Endowment for Forestry's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Quantified Ventures ($2.6M), Oregon State University ($2.1M), American Wood Council ($1.5M).
- Does United States Endowment for Forestry fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as United States Endowment for Forestry?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, The Nature Conservancy, American Forest Foundation.
- Where is United States Endowment for Forestry based?
- United States Endowment for Forestry is based in SC.
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