Virginia · Nonprofit
Global Forest Generation
Global Forest Generation (Virginia) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,195,267 to it, the largest being WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE ($1,460,401). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.6M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $7.2M
- Net assets
- $3.9M
What Global Forest Generation does
Mission
Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon, and sustaining local livelihoods.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
GFG's first major program, Accion Andina, is empowering its local conservation partners in Latin America to protect and restore high altitude forest ecosystems that span seven Andean nations. The initiative aims to protect and restore one million hectares of threatened high Andean, Polylepis forest ecosystems in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela by 2045.
$2,817,754 spentof which $2,817,754 as grants71% of program spendingAccion Andina Administration: GFG provides significant capacity building services to Accion Andina's lead implementing partner, Peruvian conservation nonprofit ECOAN, to develop, administer, and grow the initiative. Services provided include high level annual and long-term conservation planning budgeting, metrics and project oversight identifying potential new partners global Accion Andina representation at major climate, forest conservation and biodiversity conferences contract and systems development and support partner leadership training and resources management solicitation for Accion Andina and significant initiative-wide communication services.
$824,473 spentof which $355,741 as grants21% of program spendingCommunications: illuminates GFG, its program and vision to the world, helps shape the global conversation on forest conservation by identifying obstacles and suggesting solutions, and shines a spotlight on how to protect and restore forest ecosystems the right way, in the right places, with the right species.
$294,580 spent7% of program spendingNew Program initiatives
$23,385 spent1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,960,192.
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. 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 2022 to 2023, from $2.1M to $5.1M (+139%).
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.
98% of Global Forest Generation’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. 1 of the last 7 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
Florent Kaiser
CEO
Board chair
Leslie Danoff
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $660k → $2.0M.
7 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 Global Forest Generation’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
Global Forest Generation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
69% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Global Forest Generation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 76% · 2021 60% · 2022 34% · 2023 38% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
75% of Global Forest Generation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
Global Forest Generation draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states 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
Global Forest Generation has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,209 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,209 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Global Forest Generation
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
61%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 37 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Global Forest Generation: 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 Global Forest Generation?
- Global Forest Generation (Virginia) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,195,267 to it, the largest being WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE ($1,460,401). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Global Forest Generation have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $7,195,267 in grants to Global Forest Generation, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Global Forest Generation?
- WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE is the largest funder on record, with $1,460,401 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Global Forest Generation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 20 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing