Florida · Nonprofit
Friends of Fossil Forests
Friends of Fossil Forests (Florida) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $150,000 to it, the largest being NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY ($150,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $150k
- Net assets
- $57k
What Friends of Fossil Forests does
Mission
1 To support petrified wood research education and conservation. 2 To educate individuals and groups on petrified wood identification fossilization and conservation. 3 To inspire students to become paleobotanists. 4 To bring together researchers and citizen scientists.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Two-year National Geographic Society Grant June 2023. Three areas of focus: 1 Research - study fossil wood specimens from the collections at University of Florida Smithsonian Natural History Museum and Harvard University. 70% completed. 2 Education - Community engagement: create curriculum and conduct a 10-day summer program for Wyoming Indian High School teachers and students. 100% completed. 3 Paleobotanical kits: contract with Colorado State University CSU STEM department to create 15 classroom kits for student grades 4-12. FFF provided independent contractors to design build and train teachers in the region. The kits became part of CSUs STEM lending library. Also create a set of kits adapted for Indonesian students. 100% complete. 4 Storytelling: two videographers accompany the team during the project to film the work and to interview prominent paleobotanist. 100% complete.
$26,574 spent100% of program spendingA National Geographic Society Grant to explore the lost flora and fauna from the stone age in Mount Popa geopark Myanmar. The project has been postponed due to instability in the region causing unsafe conditions for the field team.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $26,574.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $82k to $57k (−30%).
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 Friends of Fossil Forests’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (89% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Dr Nareerat Boonchai
Executive Director and Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
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 Friends of Fossil Forests’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
Friends of Fossil Forests draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 1 state in all.
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
Friends of Fossil Forests's revenue fell 98% between 2023 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 479 science & tech nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Friends of Fossil Forests
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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Friends of Fossil Forests: 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 Friends of Fossil Forests?
- Friends of Fossil Forests (Florida) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $150,000 to it, the largest being NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY ($150,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Friends of Fossil Forests have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $150,000 in grants to Friends of Fossil Forests.
- Who is the largest funder of Friends of Fossil Forests?
- NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Friends of Fossil Forests find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), 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