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FOREST FOUNDATION

FOREST FOUNDATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being THE LITTLE ONE FOUNDATION ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$288k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$20k
Net assets
$2.0M
1/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Forest Foundation does

Programs

  1. Recruiting for Internships -- Yearly recruits and supports up to 65 summer internships at non-profits in the Boston Area

    $237,584 spent
  2. Grant Proposals -- Invites Grant Proposals from current undergraduate students and recent graduates

    $67,881 spent
  3. Makes Grants -- Makes grants to new and emerging non-profits. Supports small social service agencies delivering critical need with a focus on youth and families.

    $33,942 spent

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($182k) Expenses 100 ($222k) Net assets 100 ($2.2M)2021 Revenue 91 ($165k) Expenses 100 ($221k) Net assets 97 ($2.2M)2022 Revenue 101 ($184k) Expenses 109 ($241k) Net assets 95 ($2.1M)2023 Revenue 125 ($228k) Expenses 122 ($271k) Net assets 93 ($2.1M)2024 Revenue 135 ($246k) Expenses 137 ($305k) Net assets 90 ($2.0M)2025 Revenue 158 ($288k) Expenses 153 ($339k) Net assets 88 ($2.0M)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (158)Expenses (153)Net assets (88)

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 $2.1M to $2.0M (−3%).

$2.2M
$2.2M
$2.1M
$2.1M
$2.0M
$2.0M
202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

202020212022202320242025
Listed966666
Joined·+0+0+0+1+0
No longer listed·30010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $15k → $5k.

Funder
'18
'19
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of FOREST 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.

Where its funders are

FOREST FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 1 state in all.

NY

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’18
’19
Massachusetts out of state home

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 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 Massachusetts

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for 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 FOREST FOUNDATION?
FOREST FOUNDATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being THE LITTLE ONE FOUNDATION ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FOREST FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $20,000 in grants to FOREST FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FOREST FOUNDATION?
THE LITTLE ONE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FOREST FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 1 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