West Virginia · Nonprofit
MOUNTAIN STATE FOREST FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC
MOUNTAIN STATE FOREST FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC (West Virginia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $97,600 to it, the largest being DAVIS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ($70,100). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $465k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $98k
- Net assets
- $385k
What Mountain State Forest Festival Association Inc does
Mission
To promote the conservation of natural resources and to preserve the beauty and scenic charm of west virginias mountains and streams.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Organize and hold an annual festival designed to focus on the priceless heritage through the medium of folk music, song, pageantry, parades, exibits & displays of forest & other natural resources. Approximately 3,000 programs are printed and approximately 150,000 people attend the events held throughout the year.
$307,326 spent$383,332 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $307,326.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $340k to $287k (−16%).
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 9% · 2018 10% · 2019 10% · 2020 80% · 2021 41% · 2022 15% · 2023 11% · 2024 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Heidi Bray
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $13k → $14k.
From the IRS filings of MOUNTAIN STATE FOREST FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION 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
MOUNTAIN STATE FOREST FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
88% 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 MOUNTAIN STATE FOREST FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 81% · 2018 46% · 2019 72% · 2020 100% · 2022 82% · 2023 74% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of MOUNTAIN STATE FOREST FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC's grant income comes from West Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Organizations like MOUNTAIN STATE FOREST FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION 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.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MOUNTAIN STATE FOREST FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION 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 MOUNTAIN STATE FOREST FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC?
- MOUNTAIN STATE FOREST FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC (West Virginia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $97,600 to it, the largest being DAVIS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ($70,100). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MOUNTAIN STATE FOREST FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $97,600 in grants to MOUNTAIN STATE FOREST FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MOUNTAIN STATE FOREST FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC?
- DAVIS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL is the largest funder on record, with $70,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MOUNTAIN STATE FOREST FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION 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.
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 4 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