North Carolina · Nonprofit
NORTH CAROLINA URBAN FOREST COUNCIL
NORTH CAROLINA URBAN FOREST COUNCIL (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,180 to it, the largest being DUKE ENERGY FOUNDATION ($30,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $116k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $30k
- Net assets
- $46k
What North Carolina Urban Forest Council does
Mission
The mission of the council is to advocate the sustainability of north carolina's urban forests through the use of economic, human, and environmental resources. The council, in pursuit of its stated mission, aims to meet the following goals: a) inform and educate council members and the general public about the proper care of trees and their environment and economic value, b) promote high standards of professionalism and provide professional education to individuals and organizations involved in the care and preservation of trees, c) promote the compliance with professional standards of arboriculture and urban forestry management practices, d) engage in partnership building and advocacy while monitoring and pursing issues that concern urban forest sustainability, e) support, encourage, and communicate continued urban forestry and arboricultural research.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The North Carolina Urban Forest Council organizes, hosts, and conducts at least six carolina canopy workshops in various locations across the state to maximize convenience for our members. Topics vary depending on the area.
The North Carolina Urban Forest Council organizes an annual 3-day conference hosted in different locations across the state. We partner with industry trade associations and co-sponsor other tree-related events, activities, and workshops across the state.
$3,549 spent98% of program spendingThe North Carolina Urban Forest Council administers the legacy tree fund, which takes donations for tree planting. Funds are distributed to qualifying communities through a competitive grant process.
The North Carolina Urban Forest Council sponsored a workshop for the isa southern chapter.
$56 spent2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $3,605.
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 2023 to 2024, from $96k to $46k (−52%).
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: 2019 47% · 2022 63% · 2023 49%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
66% of NORTH CAROLINA URBAN FOREST COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
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.
Board chair
Max Alff
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $51 → $20k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 NORTH CAROLINA URBAN FOREST COUNCIL’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
NORTH CAROLINA URBAN FOREST COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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
100% of NORTH CAROLINA URBAN FOREST COUNCIL's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $180 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
NORTH CAROLINA URBAN FOREST COUNCIL's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding NORTH CAROLINA URBAN FOREST COUNCIL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $250 on record.
- Registration for Meetings&Conf$250
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 NORTH CAROLINA URBAN FOREST COUNCIL
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NORTH CAROLINA URBAN FOREST COUNCIL: 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 NORTH CAROLINA URBAN FOREST COUNCIL?
- NORTH CAROLINA URBAN FOREST COUNCIL (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,180 to it, the largest being DUKE ENERGY FOUNDATION ($30,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTH CAROLINA URBAN FOREST COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $30,180 in grants to NORTH CAROLINA URBAN FOREST COUNCIL, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTH CAROLINA URBAN FOREST COUNCIL?
- DUKE ENERGY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTH CAROLINA URBAN FOREST COUNCIL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2 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