New Hampshire · Nonprofit
SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FORESTS
SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FORESTS (New Hampshire) receives grants from 71 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,813,449 to it, the largest being New Hampshire Charitable Foundation ($3,100,931). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 71
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $113M
What Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests does
Mission
The Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests was founded in 1901 to protect the state's most important landscapes and promote the wise use of its natural resources. In 2019, the national land trust accreditation commission renewed the forest society's status as an accredited land trust. Accreditation includes the forest society in a network of more than 400 accredited land trusts across the nation, and demonstrates its commitment to professional excellence and to maintaining the public's trust in its conservation work.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Land and easement stewardship: the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests owns and manages more than 200 reservations covering more than 67,000 acres.in fy2025, we ran 14 timber harvests covering more than 700 acres. We harvested 2.9 million board feet of sawlogs and 27,000 tons of low grade wood. This brought in $691,000 in stumpage revenue. We trained 19 new volunteer land stewards, bringing our total number of land stewards to 186, who provided more than 1,700 hours of monitoring and maintenance of our forest society reservations across the state. Our volunteer easement monitoring program (vemp) saw 6 volunteers monitor 18 conservation easment properties. In addition, our staff monitored more than 775 easements on more than 136,000 acres using a combination of remote imagery and on-the-ground site visits. At forest society north at the rocks, we harvested more than 3,829 christmas trees and donated 12 trees to trees for troops, a program that provides free, farm-grown christmas trees to united states armed forces members. The rocks continues to be busy. 120 students visited on site through the new hampshire agriculture in the classroom day. The forevergreen program…
$2,772,700 spent$797,288 earned by the program57% of program spendingLand protection: the forest society conserved 2,307 acres through 9 land protection projects across the state. Among the projects were five fee acquisitions totaling 1,814 acres added to our land ownership and four conservation easements totaling 493 acres on land owned by others. We continue to administer regional land protection partnerships for the quabbin to cardigan regional partnership and merrimack river conservation partnership, which involve organizations in new hampshire and massachusetts working together to protect the vital natural resources of each region.
$1,163,840 spent$20,005 earned by the program24% of program spendingEducation and outreach: selected outreach education, communications, recreation stewardship eventsfy'25 outreach education highlights and events listmay 4 nh farm and forest expo at deerfield fair grounds 100+ visitorsmay 15th - creek farm poetry reading with benjamin doyle -20 participantsmay 18th creek farm: woods, whales & water festival at creek farm with blue ocean society. 30 participants june 7 rocks adult field camp birding / birdhouses - 9 participantsjune 8th birding with jack swatt at ashuelot river headwaters -7 participantsjune 8th- celebration and hike with landowner, ken stern at the deepwood forest conservation easement in canterbury -24 participantsportsmouth forest society at piscataqua riverfest in portsmouth - tabletop display, tent, statewide mapjuly 19 creek farm walking tour on little harbor trail with matt scaccia -12 participantsjuly 21 tom rush forest event with namesake, tom rush present for stories and more- 44 participantsat the rocks, the nh fish and game nh summer teacher institute: the watershed education institute july 25 15 teachers attending outdoor and indoor programs and field work in local rivers or wetlands. Forest society staff nigel and…
$490,598 spentof which $108,977 as grants$3,270 earned by the program10% of program spendingMembershipthe forest society currently has 7,867 members (households and businesses). Members are kept informed of the organization's activities via blogs, social media, e-newsletters and quarterly publication of forest notes magazine. Policythe forest society lobbies state elected officials in concord, nh and our federal delegation in washington, d.c. During the fiscal year, there was one staff member who allocated time to lobbying these activities include: testifying at legislative committee hearings, meeting directly with state legislators on behalf of the forest society's position on specific pieces of legislation, providing legislators with information on issues under consideration in congress and the nh legislature and meeting with state agency officials about issues relative to the forest society's mission.the state legislature meets from january to june each year. The majority of the organization's policy staff state-level lobbying efforts occur within these six-month sessions although we do engage with legislators at other times during the year. The forest society lobbies specifically on bills relating to spnhf's mission including those addressing forestry, water quality,…
$442,057 spent$6,812 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,869,195.
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 2024 to 2025, from $107M to $115M (+8%).
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 2% · 2018 13% · 2019 19% · 2020 10% · 2021 22% · 2022 21% · 2023 17% · 2024 12% · 2025 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FORESTS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Board chair
Drew Kellner
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $523k → $1.3M.
15 of 71 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 87% 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 SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FORESTS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 71 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
SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FORESTS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 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 SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FORESTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 78% · 2019 86% · 2020 56% · 2021 32% · 2022 56% · 2023 33% — 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
38% of SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FORESTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
87% of SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FORESTS'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 $1.8M that is directly attributable, 84% of it comes from funders outside New Hampshire, across 17 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FORESTS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 210 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 210 environment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FORESTS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $600k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$600k
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 SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FORESTS
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
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 SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FORESTS: 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 SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FORESTS?
- SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FORESTS (New Hampshire) receives grants from 71 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,813,449 to it, the largest being New Hampshire Charitable Foundation ($3,100,931). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FORESTS have?
- IRS filings report 71 organizations giving $13,813,449 in grants to SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FORESTS, 41 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FORESTS?
- New Hampshire Charitable Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $3,100,931 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FORESTS 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 71 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