Alabama · Nonprofit
ALABAMA FORESTRY FOUNDATION
ALABAMA FORESTRY FOUNDATION (Alabama) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,553,914 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($3,534,902). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $4.6M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Alabama Forestry Foundation does
Mission
The alabama forestry association works to promote good stewardship of our renewable forest resources for the benefit of society, our members, and the forest products industry.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The black belt initiative was implemented to expose rural high school students in alabama's black belt region to the array of employment opportunities in alabama's forest industry. Meetings with guidance counselors throughout the region provide information and materials on careers in forestry and engineering as well as other professional and technical fields that are employed in forestry. In service training and forestry workshops are also provided for teachers that work with and advise students and week-long summer workshops in forestry and engineering are provided for students interested in a career in forestry.
$518,294 spent23% of program spendingThe foundation carries out various special projects which range from helping private landowners by providing cost-share incentives for site preparation and planting of shortleaf pine, to forming community-based burning networks and working with landowners to provide training and education, as well as provide access to technical cost share assistance.
$1,436,002 spent$1,466,532 earned by the program63% of program spendingThe american tree farm system (atfs) is sponsored nationally by the american forest foundation and administered in alabama by the foundation. Tree farm seeks to increase public understanding of the value of the nation's private forest resources and to promote sustainable management of those forests resources by providing education and assistance to private forest owners. In alabama, 3.6 million acres (more than 16 % of the state's forests) comprising 3,758 distinct properties are certified under tree farm's strict environmental standards and guidelines.
$50,349 spent$78,394 earned by the program2% of program spendingThe foundation provides programs that focus on k-12 students, teachers, landowners, and loggers with the goal of sustainably managing alabama's abundant and diverse forest resources.
$278,776 spentof which $1,500 as grants$322,715 earned by the program12% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,283,421.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $1.5M to $2.4M (+60%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
24% of ALABAMA FORESTRY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Tedrick Ratcliff
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $231k → $772k.
1 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ALABAMA FORESTRY FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ALABAMA FORESTRY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ALABAMA FORESTRY FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 50% · 2019 64% · 2020 89% · 2021 88% · 2022 92% · 2023 90% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
50% of ALABAMA FORESTRY FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
ALABAMA FORESTRY FOUNDATION draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Alabama, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $102k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ALABAMA FORESTRY FOUNDATION's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding ALABAMA FORESTRY FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.4M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$5.4M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ALABAMA FORESTRY FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Alabama Forestry Association Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ALABAMA FORESTRY FOUNDATION?
- ALABAMA FORESTRY FOUNDATION (Alabama) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,553,914 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($3,534,902). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ALABAMA FORESTRY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $4,553,914 in grants to ALABAMA FORESTRY FOUNDATION, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALABAMA FORESTRY FOUNDATION?
- NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,534,902 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALABAMA FORESTRY FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 10 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing