Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
AMERICAN FOREST FOUNDATION
AMERICAN FOREST FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 72 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,442,357 to it, the largest being THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ($7,366,032). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $20M
- Funders on record
- 72
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $134M
What American Forest Foundation does
Mission
The mission of the American Forest Foundation is to deliver meaningful conservation impact through the empowerment of family forest owners. Through strong partnerships and advocacy, we strive to equip america's rural landowners with the tools they need to improve the health and productivity of their forests.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Woodlands: leveraging over 80 years of working with family forest owners to care for their land, the American Forest Foundation's (aff) woodlands portfolio spans various programmatic efforts to increase the amount of family forests under sustainable active management. Whether addressing wildfire threats, providing access and opportunity for underserved landowners, building community through the american tree farm system, or promoting biodiversity and conservation, aff's woodlands work all centers on delivering meaningful environmental and economic impact via america's family-owned forestlands which comprise 39% of all us forests.
$7,502,099 spentof which $1,608,594 as grants$113,483 earned by the program28% of program spendingCarbon: harnessing the power of family forests as a critical element in the fight against climate change, aff continues its work to unleash the potential for family forest owners to achieve their goals while making important environmental and economic contributions. Through expanding access and reducing barriers to the voluntary carbon market for family forest owners, aff is working with thousands of landowners to care for their land, improve forest health, and increase timber growth. Within the family forest carbon program, landowners can adopt long-term sustainable management that improves carbon sequestration and storage while balancing other essential forest benefits.
$18,906,079 spentof which $1,751,519 as grants$27,198 earned by the program72% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $26,408,178.
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 2017 to 2018, from $167M to $147M (−12%).
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: 2017 16% · 2018 16% · 2019 19% · 2020 24% · 2021 5% · 2022 34% · 2023 29% · 2024 46%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of AMERICAN FOREST FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Chief executive
Rita Hite
President and CEO
Board chair
Alex Alvarez
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $769k → $1.6M.
11 of 72 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.3M from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Chicago Community Trust). These are real filings, and they are not money AMERICAN FOREST FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of AMERICAN FOREST FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 72 funders by total. 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
AMERICAN FOREST FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
69% 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 AMERICAN FOREST FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 33% · 2019 50% · 2020 29% · 2021 61% · 2022 57% · 2023 84% — growing more concentrated.
“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
33% of AMERICAN FOREST FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
51% of AMERICAN FOREST FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $7.6M that is directly attributable, 82% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 27 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states 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
AMERICAN FOREST FOUNDATION's revenue grew 32% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 329 environment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding AMERICAN FOREST FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $76.5M on record — $76.2M federal, $274k state.
- Department of Agriculture$75.0M
- Department of the Interior$1.2M
- FL$191k
- NJ$47k
- VT$37k
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 AMERICAN FOREST 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 38 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Family Forest Impact Foundation · disregarded
- Woodscamp Technologies Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN FOREST FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICAN FOREST FOUNDATION?
- AMERICAN FOREST FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 72 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,442,357 to it, the largest being THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ($7,366,032). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AMERICAN FOREST FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 72 organizations giving $15,442,357 in grants to AMERICAN FOREST FOUNDATION, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN FOREST FOUNDATION?
- THE NATURE CONSERVANCY is the largest funder on record, with $7,366,032 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN FOREST FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 72 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