New Hampshire · Nonprofit
Northern Forest Center Inc
Northern Forest Center Inc (New Hampshire) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,128,540 to it, the largest being New Hampshire Charitable Foundation ($1,987,050). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.9M
- Funders on record
- 62
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $9.3M
What Northern Forest Center Inc does
Mission
The Northern Forest Center creates bold possibilities that give rise to vibrant Northern Forest communities and envisions a thriving and welcoming Northern Forest region sustained by innovation and environmental stewardship.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Developing vibrant rural communities: the Center strengthens the vitality of rural communities and their ability to attract new residents and entrepreneurs. The Center served 56 communities through programs, investment, fundraising assistance, and project implementation; continued property redevelopment (through our subsidiary Sustainable Forest Futures); and delivered complementary programming in 10 focal communities including Bethel, Greenville, and Millinocket, ME; Tupper Lake, Chester, and Elizabethtown, NY; and Newport and St. Johnsbury, VT. Highlights of FY25 include: Completed redevelopment of historic buildings in St. Johnsbury, VT, and Bethel ME, into 9 apartments each for area residents and workers. Continued to manage Maine West, a collaborative of diverse non-profits in Bethel, Rumford, South Paris, and Norway, ME, to implement projects to secure economic, education, health and conservation benefits. Secured a $1.2-million grant from the US Department of Labor to create and support a workforce development program serving 4 school districts and the Katahdin Higher Education Center in the Moosehead-Katahdin region and managed a similar program serving 4 school districts…
$5,498,200 spentof which $4,406,392 as grants$16,289 earned by the program77% of program spendingCatalyzing innovation in the forest economy: The Center helps create and improve jobs and build local wealth through opportunities that advance a regional land ethic and sustainable use of the forest. Highlights: Wood Heat: Since inception, the "Feel Good Heat" program has reduced greenhouse gas impact by 13,648 tons by substituting wood pellets for more than 2 million gallons of fossil fuels, generating $13.4 million in positive economic impact for the region. Wood Products Business Assistance: The Center supported 1,650 jobs by: providing custom business and marketing assistance to 49 wood products businesses; providing 9 wood products CEOs from ME and VT with business assistance throughout the year through the Northern Forest Board Forum; and coaching 34 wood product businesses to use their wood-origin stories in their marketing through the online workshop "Telling Your Forest Story." Forest Stewardship: The Center advocated for a holistic approach to forest management that includes the forest, the economy, societal benefits, and the communities that rely on the forest; supported the communities of Otisfield and Gilead, ME to create new Community Forests; worked with 8…
$1,317,075 spentof which $753,105 as grants$15,450 earned by the program18% of program spendingIn FY25, the Center led collaborators to develop an initiative that is now a finalist for National Science Foundation funding that could bring more than $160 million of investment to propel innovation in the regional forest economy. Across all programs, the Center served and collaborated with 109 communities, more than 200 businesses and organizations, and 265 partners toward our vision of thriving and welcoming Northern Forest region sustained by innovation and environmental stewardship. Highlights: Community Investment: Invested more than $10 million to create new housing priced attainably for middle-income residents in focal communities. Regional Collaboration and Capacity Building: Secured or leveraged $5.9 million of investment to support broadband expansion, workforce training, community infrastructure, trail building and outdoor recreation projects.Advocacy: Represented Northern Forest issues on regional and national advisory groups to elevate awareness of opportunities and challenges; engaged federal agencies to deliver innovative programs and enhance delivery of funding to rural communities. Knowledge Sharing: To increase connectivity, knowledge, and collaboration among…
$326,650 spentof which $165,596 as grants$82,510 earned by the program5% of program spendingFees paid for board meetings
$0 spent$28,453 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,141,925.
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 2023 to 2024, from $12M to $20M (+60%).
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 13% · 2020 14% · 2021 26% · 2022 19% · 2023 26% · 2024 24% · 2025 42%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of Northern Forest Center Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 34 funders, grant income rose $316k → $2.1M.
10 of 62 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 Northern Forest Center Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 62 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
Northern Forest Center Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
53% 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 Northern Forest Center Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 66% · 2019 36% · 2020 32% · 2021 28% · 2022 18% · 2023 19% — 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
65% of Northern Forest Center Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 76% 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
Northern Forest Center Inc draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside New Hampshire, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
Northern Forest Center Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Northern Forest Center Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8.2M on record — $7.8M federal, $360k state.
- Department of Agriculture$3.7M
- Department of Labor$2.5M
- National Science Foundation$998k
- Department of Commerce$526k
- Department of the Interior$100k
- Other Grants$187k
- Other Contr and 3rd Pty Serv$100k
- Grants$71k
- Other Direct Grant Expense$2k
- Educational Supplies$148
- Postage$120
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 Northern Forest Center 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 New Hampshire
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Sustainable Forest Futures Inc · exempt
- 101 Main Street Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Northern Forest Center 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 Northern Forest Center Inc?
- Northern Forest Center Inc (New Hampshire) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,128,540 to it, the largest being New Hampshire Charitable Foundation ($1,987,050). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Northern Forest Center Inc have?
- IRS filings report 62 organizations giving $12,128,540 in grants to Northern Forest Center Inc, 47 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Northern Forest Center Inc?
- New Hampshire Charitable Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,987,050 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Northern Forest Center Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Hampshire. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 62 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