Alabama · Nonprofit
FOREST WORKFORCE TRAINING INSTITUTE
FOREST WORKFORCE TRAINING INSTITUTE (Alabama) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being ALABAMA ASSOCIATION OF RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT COUNCILS ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $50k
- Net assets
- $4.8M
What Forest Workforce Training Institute does
Mission
To provide the next generation with the resources, skills and guidance needed to join the forest and wood products manufacturing workforce. By partnering with education and private business within the southeast's forest industry, we cultivate careers, build communities and stimulate local economies.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
As our first custom training program, our four-week logging equipment operator school provides training opportunities to develop the skills and knowledge of interested individuals aged 18+ to prepare them for a career in logging. This program especially geared towards recent high school graduates who have a desire to begin a career in logging.
$56,173 spent5% of program spendingFwti's forest workforce scholarship program is specifically targeted at students and other potential employees who want to work in the forest industry but require additional education or training to begin that career path.
$9,476 spentof which $9,476 as grants1% of program spendingThe landscape scale restoration program is a forest service state and private forestry competitive grant program that promotes collaborative, science-based restoration of priority forest landscapes and furthers priorities identified in state forest action plans or equivalent restoration strategy.
$10,810 spent1% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$1,141,469 spent$1,359,179 earned by the program94% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,217,928.
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. 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 2021 to 2022, from $492k to $2.7M (+456%).
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 24% · 2021 27% · 2022 73% · 2023 10% · 2024 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
44% of FOREST WORKFORCE TRAINING INSTITUTE’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. 0 of the last 5 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
Chris Isaacson
President and CEO
Board chair
Tim Thornhill
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of FOREST WORKFORCE TRAINING INSTITUTE’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
100% of FOREST WORKFORCE TRAINING INSTITUTE's grant income comes from Alabama funders.
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.
Against its field
FOREST WORKFORCE TRAINING INSTITUTE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,186 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding FOREST WORKFORCE TRAINING INSTITUTE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $25k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$25k
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 FOREST WORKFORCE TRAINING INSTITUTE
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FOREST WORKFORCE TRAINING INSTITUTE: 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 WORKFORCE TRAINING INSTITUTE?
- FOREST WORKFORCE TRAINING INSTITUTE (Alabama) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being ALABAMA ASSOCIATION OF RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT COUNCILS ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOREST WORKFORCE TRAINING INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $50,000 in grants to FOREST WORKFORCE TRAINING INSTITUTE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOREST WORKFORCE TRAINING INSTITUTE?
- ALABAMA ASSOCIATION OF RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT COUNCILS is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOREST WORKFORCE TRAINING INSTITUTE 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 2020–2024), 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