West Virginia · Nonprofit
KANAWHA STATE FOREST FOUNDATION INC
KANAWHA STATE FOREST FOUNDATION INC (West Virginia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $184,749 to it, the largest being THE GREATER KANAWHA VALLEY FOUNDATION ($103,750). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $39k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $185k
- Net assets
- $139k
What Kanawha State Forest Foundation Inc does
Mission
The mission of the Kanawha State Forest Foundation is to protect promote and preserve Kanawha State Forest. The Foundation also works to preserve and promote the historic Civilian Conservation Camp located at Kanawha State Forest in the 1930s. The Foundation offers education opportunities through hikes and outdoor classrooms for inner city students and other local resident as well as visitors. The Foundation uses dues grants donations and hundreds of volunteer hours to accomplish this mission.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Supplies for day-long Outdoor Classroom Programs for 25 middle and elementary school classrooms from April 2024 through August 2024.
$1,398 spent18% of program spendingADA improvements and repairs including painting and rope replacement on ADA nature trail. All work completed by volunteers.
$482 spent6% of program spendingWV Day Celebration and concert
$199 spent3% of program spendingSupplies for Forest Arboretum and equipment rental to clean park after severe storms
$4,446 spent57% of program spendingContinued trail building for Middle Ridge Trail
$816 spentof which $30,000 as grants10% of program spendingKanawha State Forest Foundation webpage for public education and information
$482 spent6% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $7,823.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $109k to $139k (+27%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $9k → $30k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 KANAWHA STATE FOREST FOUNDATION INC’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
KANAWHA STATE FOREST FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
83% 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 KANAWHA STATE FOREST FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 46% · 2022 45% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
69% of KANAWHA STATE FOREST FOUNDATION INC'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. Of the $57k that is directly attributable, 65% of it comes from funders outside West Virginia, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $128k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Organizations like KANAWHA STATE FOREST FOUNDATION 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 West Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 KANAWHA STATE FOREST FOUNDATION 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 KANAWHA STATE FOREST FOUNDATION INC?
- KANAWHA STATE FOREST FOUNDATION INC (West Virginia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $184,749 to it, the largest being THE GREATER KANAWHA VALLEY FOUNDATION ($103,750). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does KANAWHA STATE FOREST FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $184,749 in grants to KANAWHA STATE FOREST FOUNDATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KANAWHA STATE FOREST FOUNDATION INC?
- THE GREATER KANAWHA VALLEY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $103,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KANAWHA STATE FOREST FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in West 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 6 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