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EVERGREEN FOUNDATION

EVERGREEN FOUNDATION (Montana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,500 to it, the largest being FRERES FOUNDATION ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$125k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$11k
Net assets
$56k
0/2 repeat funders
01What it does

What Evergreen Foundation does

Mission

The primary exempt purpose of the organization is to advance public understanding and support for science-based forestry and forest policy. This is accomplished through the use of their website and the publication of the evergreen magazine, a periodic journal designed to keep their members, students, elected officials, grass roots groups and the news media abreast of issues and events that are impacting forestry, forest communities, and the forest products industry.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Production and distribution of information and educational printed material, and website development designed to help restore public confidence in forestry, and to further public understanding and support for scientifically-based forest policies and practices.

    $0 spent

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($78k) Expenses 100 ($66k) Net assets 100 ($122k)2020 Revenue 42 ($32k) Expenses 163 ($108k) Net assets 38 ($46k)2021 Revenue 124 ($96k) Expenses 162 ($107k) Net assets 29 ($35k)2022 Revenue 31 ($24k) Expenses 38 ($25k) Net assets 27 ($33k)2023 Revenue 74 ($58k) Expenses 83 ($55k) Net assets 30 ($36k)2024 Revenue 161 ($125k) Expenses 159 ($105k) Net assets 46 ($56k)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (161)Expenses (159)Net assets (46)

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 $114k to $134k (+18%).

$122k
$124k
$112k
$111k
$114k
$134k
201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$11k
’19
−$76k
’20
−$11k
’21
−$2k
’22
$3k
’23
$20k
’24
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'24*
total
funders
2

From the IRS filings of EVERGREEN 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

EVERGREEN FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

95%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

“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.

Where its funders are

EVERGREEN FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 2 states in all.

OR
NJ

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like EVERGREEN FOUNDATION

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In Montana

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OR

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EVERGREEN 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 EVERGREEN FOUNDATION?
EVERGREEN FOUNDATION (Montana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,500 to it, the largest being FRERES FOUNDATION ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does EVERGREEN FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $10,500 in grants to EVERGREEN FOUNDATION.
Who is the largest funder of EVERGREEN FOUNDATION?
FRERES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like EVERGREEN FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Montana. 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 2 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