Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
The Foundation for Sustainable Forests Inc
The Foundation for Sustainable Forests Inc (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,147,746 to it, the largest being RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION ($733,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.7M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $8.4M
What The Foundation for Sustainable Forests Inc does
Programs
Acquisition and holding of wooded land for cultivating forest producing lumber and establishing wildlife reserves and sanctuaries.
$572,117 spentEducational programming-Sustainable Forest Conference focusing on ecosystem management.
$15,214 spent
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
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 $5.7M to $8.8M (+55%).
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 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $17k → $682k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 Foundation for Sustainable Forests Inc’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
The Foundation for Sustainable Forests Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
36% 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 Foundation for Sustainable Forests Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 84% · 2020 83% · 2021 100% · 2022 75% · 2023 94% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of The Foundation for Sustainable Forests Inc's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $335k 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
The Foundation for Sustainable Forests Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding The Foundation for Sustainable Forests Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $273k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$273k
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 Foundation for Sustainable Forests 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Foundation for Sustainable Forests 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 The Foundation for Sustainable Forests Inc?
- The Foundation for Sustainable Forests Inc (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,147,746 to it, the largest being RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION ($733,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Foundation for Sustainable Forests Inc have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $1,147,746 in grants to The Foundation for Sustainable Forests Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Foundation for Sustainable Forests Inc?
- RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $733,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Foundation for Sustainable Forests Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 7 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