Massachusetts · Nonprofit
FOUNDATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
FOUNDATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $660,000 to it, the largest being THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ($660,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $151k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $660k
- Net assets
- $238k
What Foundation for Environmental Research does
Mission
Part iii line 1: the Foundation for Environmental Research (fer) is a public non-profit organization dedicated to understanding and improving the earths environment. Fers research agenda includes applied and basic research in all aspects of environmental science. Part iii line 4a: the organization conducts basic and applied ecological research. The organization maintains a state-of-the-art greenhouse facility in western new york state and research arboretums in western new york and central florida. The greenhouse facility has in the past and continues to house various multi-year experiments with tree seedlings. These studies have led to multiple publications in peer-reviewed scientific literature. The outdoor research arboreta are focused on examining the survival of oak species drawn from a range of climates, as well as providing a common garden of several species for growth studies.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Not described on the e-filed return.
$88,832 spent$150,000 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $88,832.
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 2021 to 2022, from $390k to $188k (−52%).
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.
100% of FOUNDATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $100k.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 FOUNDATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH’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 FOUNDATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $660k 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
FOUNDATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like FOUNDATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
46%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FOUNDATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH: 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 FOUNDATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH?
- FOUNDATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $660,000 to it, the largest being THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ($660,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FOUNDATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $660,000 in grants to FOUNDATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOUNDATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH?
- THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $660,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOUNDATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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