Kentucky · Nonprofit
GREEN FORESTS WORK INC
GREEN FORESTS WORK INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,619,082 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($1,200,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.7M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $5.6M
- Net assets
- $2.8M
What Green Forests Work Inc does
Mission
Green forests work exists to re-establish healthy and productive forests on formerly mined lands in appalachia.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
While fueling the energy needs of the nation, the practice of surface mining has severely impacted more than 1 million acres of the appalachian region's environment through the conversion of forestland into other land uses. Green forests work (gfw) has the ability and expertise to restore healthy, productive forests on previously mined lands to benefit the region, the nation, and the global environment. In 2025, gfw and our partners participated in 61 tree planting projects/events which resulted in the planting of approximately 820,000 seedlings across more than 1,500 acres in 5 states. In 2025, gfw and our partners were able to involve approximately 1,900 volunteers in these tree planting events, educating them about environmental problems and potential solutions.
$2,692,639 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,692,639.
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 2024 to 2025, from $1.5M to $3.2M (+112%).
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: 2017 65% · 2018 42% · 2019 29% · 2020 22% · 2021 10% · 2022 14% · 2023 19% · 2024 4% · 2025 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of GREEN FORESTS WORK INC’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. 4 of the last 9 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $170k → $1.1M.
12 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 GREEN FORESTS WORK INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 funders by total. 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
GREEN FORESTS WORK INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
66% 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 GREEN FORESTS WORK INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 32% · 2019 30% · 2020 38% · 2021 34% · 2022 32% · 2023 32% — 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
53% of GREEN FORESTS WORK INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
GREEN FORESTS WORK INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Kentucky, across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
GREEN FORESTS WORK INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding GREEN FORESTS WORK INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.6M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$3.3M
- Department of the Interior$1.3M
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 GREEN FORESTS WORK INC
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 Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 GREEN FORESTS WORK INC: 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 GREEN FORESTS WORK INC?
- GREEN FORESTS WORK INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,619,082 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($1,200,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREEN FORESTS WORK INC have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $5,619,082 in grants to GREEN FORESTS WORK INC, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREEN FORESTS WORK INC?
- FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS is the largest funder on record, with $1,200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREEN FORESTS WORK INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 39 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