Vermont · Nonprofit
NORTHWOODS STEWARDSHIP CENTER
NORTHWOODS STEWARDSHIP CENTER (Vermont) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,288,637 to it, the largest being IMPACTASSETSINC ($475,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $3.6M
What Northwoods Stewardship Center does
Mission
Connecting people and place through science, education and action.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The northwoods conservation corps is a hands-on conservation-based education and employment program for youth (ages 14 and up) and emerging professionals (adults who comprise the professional crews). Crew members are hired from communities surrounding project areas and are provided with high-quality conservation training and environmental education. The experience provides an excellent opportunity for youth to explore career paths in various fields of conservation and science and natural resources and provides a meaningful work experience for emerging professionals. In 2025, we employed more than 60 conservation corps staff! The conservation corps project partners include federal agencies, local volunteer organizations, and a wide range of community, conservation and recreation organizations.
$695,182 spent$111,054 earned by the program47% of program spendingThe education program inspires stewardship of the environment in participants of all ages and backgrounds by providing diverse opportunities that bring awareness to environmental issues, connection to the natural world through education and recreation, and provide skills, confidence, teamwork and leadership that are essential to building the connection between people and place. In 2025, northwoods partnered with over 30 different organizations and 16 schools; led 79 day programs, 47 of those on campus; facilitated 4,093 individual impressions; 27 recurring after school programs; led 196 individual after school program activities; and hosted 13 summer camp weeks with 153 campers.
$197,933 spent$139,569 earned by the program13% of program spendingThe goal of the conservation science program is to implement projects, participate in work groups, and promote partnerships that support ecological health, habitat enhancement, and water quality. The riparian lands crew continued a longer season, remaining focused on seed collection and riparian restoration. The crews also implemented a wide range of water quality improvement projects - including open top culverts, infiltration steps, invasive species removal, riparian buffer native plantings etc. Key partnerships with area lake associations, state wide organizations, and municipal groups were essential to implementing these projects.
$410,500 spent$206,593 earned by the program28% of program spendingThe goal of the forest stewardship institute is to practice and promote ecologically sound land management and understanding of forest ecosystems. This is accomplished through management of the northwoods demonstration forest, by providing services to forest landowners, and through educational opportunities. The forestry internship graduated its eighth successful cohort.
$164,126 spent$78,967 earned by the program11% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,467,741.
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 2020 to 2021, from $2.2M to $2.9M (+29%).
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 55% · 2018 60% · 2019 58% · 2020 48% · 2021 51% · 2022 54% · 2023 45% · 2024 50% · 2025 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of NORTHWOODS STEWARDSHIP CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Maria Young
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $27k → $345k.
9 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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 NORTHWOODS STEWARDSHIP CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 23 of 24 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
NORTHWOODS STEWARDSHIP CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
90% 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 NORTHWOODS STEWARDSHIP CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 100% · 2019 59% · 2020 50% · 2021 62% · 2022 44% · 2023 43% — 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
63% of NORTHWOODS STEWARDSHIP CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
67% of NORTHWOODS STEWARDSHIP CENTER'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 $422k that is directly attributable, 74% of it comes from funders outside Vermont, across 9 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $866k 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
NORTHWOODS STEWARDSHIP CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding NORTHWOODS STEWARDSHIP CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $9.3M on record — $5.5M federal, $3.8M state.
- Department of the Interior$4.8M
- Department of Agriculture$686k
- Grants$3.3M
- Other Grants$115k
- Gr, Awards, Scholarships&Loans$107k
- Contr&3rd Pty-Other Prop Mgmt$105k
- Other Contr and 3rd Pty Serv$67k
- Other Property Mgmt Services$11k
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 NORTHWOODS STEWARDSHIP CENTER
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 Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NORTHWOODS STEWARDSHIP CENTER?
- NORTHWOODS STEWARDSHIP CENTER (Vermont) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,288,637 to it, the largest being IMPACTASSETSINC ($475,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NORTHWOODS STEWARDSHIP CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $1,288,637 in grants to NORTHWOODS STEWARDSHIP CENTER, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTHWOODS STEWARDSHIP CENTER?
- IMPACTASSETSINC is the largest funder on record, with $475,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTHWOODS STEWARDSHIP CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 24 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing