New Mexico · Nonprofit
THE FOREST STEWARDS GUILD
THE FOREST STEWARDS GUILD (New Mexico) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,508,448 to it, the largest being THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ($1,913,330). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.5M
- Funders on record
- 45
- Grants received
- $5.5M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What The Forest Stewards Guild does
Mission
The guild practices and promotes stewardship to forge a healthy future for people and forests. Our national network of members, staff, and partners advance a culture of forest stewardship based on ethical principles, science, and diverse experience. We explore and demonstrate what works in the woods and showcase those effective forest management practices through outreach, training, and policy development.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Public lands stewardship: for 30 years, the guild has partnered with public lands managers and neighboring communities. We develop and implement plans for restoration, timber production, and wildfire resilience. Then we share the lessons we've learned nationwide. In the 2-3-2 partnership landscape, the guild is facilitating collaborative restoration across two watersheds, three rivers, and two states (nm and co). We drafted a comprehensive monitoring plan and secured over two million dollars of new funding for the region. Guild staff assist with prescribed burns and provide landowners with management plans.
$1,004,188 spent23% of program spendingSupporting the next generation of forest stewards: our forest stewards youth corps (fsyc) program has employed over 700 youth, achieved 300,000 hours of conservation service and education, awarded over 200 hours of college credit, and invested over 7 million in rural new mexico communities. Fsyc members have gone on to build successful careers in natural resource management and become strong leaders in their communities. The guild is building on this success with a similar forest steward apprentice program in virginia, maine and training opportunities across the country.
$667,424 spent15% of program spendingStewardship: ecologically based stewardship is at the core of the guild's work. Practicing the kind of forestry that we promote is critical to understanding the challenges to good management. Stewardship projects across the country engage our staff and members in restoration, habitat improvement, timber production, and other forest management. For example, the guild's guide to forestry for minnesota birds uses the best available science to provide strategies for creating bird habitat. By collaborating with land managers, landowners, and forest stewards, we are improving habitat and supporting bird populations through sustainable forest management.
$1,189,691 spent$12,649 earned by the program27% of program spendingVarious other projects
$1,570,715 spent$305,732 earned by the program35% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,432,018.
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 $1.4M to $1.8M (+33%).
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 58% · 2018 57% · 2019 51% · 2020 66% · 2021 58% · 2022 74% · 2023 80% · 2024 85%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of THE FOREST STEWARDS GUILD’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% 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
Amber Ellering
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $205k → $1.1M.
7 of 45 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 THE FOREST STEWARDS GUILD’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 45 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
THE FOREST STEWARDS GUILD has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 35% 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
93% 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 THE FOREST STEWARDS GUILD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 20% · 2019 33% · 2020 48% · 2021 60% · 2022 43% · 2023 22% — 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
54% of THE FOREST STEWARDS GUILD's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
THE FOREST STEWARDS GUILD draws 88% of its grant income from funders outside New Mexico, across 19 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
THE FOREST STEWARDS GUILD runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,928 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,928 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding THE FOREST STEWARDS GUILD receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $21.3M on record — $21.3M federal, $25k state.
- Department of Agriculture$11.2M
- Department of the Interior$9.4M
- Department of Defense$763k
- NJ$12k
- OR$12k
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 THE FOREST STEWARDS GUILD
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 Mexico
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE FOREST STEWARDS GUILD: 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 THE FOREST STEWARDS GUILD?
- THE FOREST STEWARDS GUILD (New Mexico) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,508,448 to it, the largest being THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ($1,913,330). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE FOREST STEWARDS GUILD have?
- IRS filings report 45 organizations giving $5,508,448 in grants to THE FOREST STEWARDS GUILD, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE FOREST STEWARDS GUILD?
- THE NATURE CONSERVANCY is the largest funder on record, with $1,913,330 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE FOREST STEWARDS GUILD find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Mexico. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 45 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