California · Nonprofit
The Pacific Forest Trust Incorporated
The Pacific Forest Trust Incorporated (California) receives grants from 71 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,956,271 to it, the largest being United States Endowment for Forestry ($553,348). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $22M
- Funders on record
- 71
- Grants received
- $7.0M
- Net assets
- $8.7M
What The Pacific Forest Trust Incorporated does
Mission
Organization mission or significant activities pacific forest trust (pft) is dedicated to sustaining americas forests. We work with partners and stakeholders to develop innovative, incentive-based conservation solutions to safeguard our forests, which are essential to climate protection, safe water supplies, wildlife survival, and economic stability.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Constituency Building The goals of this program area are to build a wide and diverse constituency of people committed to the conservation and stewardship of private forests using a variety of communications and educational tools.
$356,297 spent2% of program spendingProgram Development and Planning This includes the Organizations activities in annual and strategic planning, staff conferences and presentations, and executive coordination and oversight of the overall program development and implementation.
$532,374 spent3% of program spendingForest Conservation The Organizations forest conservation program provides forest conservation services to private landowners, government agencies, and other conservation organizations in the region, with an emphasis on the design, acquisition and management of conservation easements on working forestlands.
$16,227,312 spent$2,254,122 earned by the program84% of program spendingStewardship Forestry This program area includes research, education, technical assistance and demonstration projects that seek to promote the practical implementation of stewardship forestry and related forest conservation efforts.
$1,771,042 spent9% of program spendingIncentives Through the incentives program, the Organization develops policy initiatives and analyses in support of incentives for long-term forest stewardship.
$377,733 spent2% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $19,264,758.
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 $9.8M to $12M (+23%).
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: 2021 28% · 2022 20% · 2023 64% · 2024 77%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of The Pacific Forest Trust Incorporated’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (25% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Ann Bartuska
Chair of Board
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 21 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $706k → $1.1M.
17 of 71 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 Pacific Forest Trust Incorporated’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
The Pacific Forest Trust Incorporated has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 8% of grant income, and it takes 9 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 9 funders to its left
40% 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 Pacific Forest Trust Incorporated.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 22% · 2018 32% · 2019 16% · 2020 18% · 2021 27% · 2022 21% · 2023 22% — broadly stable.
“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
53% of The Pacific Forest Trust Incorporated's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
52% of The Pacific Forest Trust Incorporated's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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 Pacific Forest Trust Incorporated has grown faster than three-quarters of the 149 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 149 unclassified nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding The Pacific Forest Trust Incorporated receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.1M on record — $2.0M federal, $1.1M state.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$2.0M
- OR$1.1M
- FL$50
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 Pacific Forest Trust Incorporated
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 1 related entity
- Fred M Van Eck Forest Foundation for Purdue University · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Pacific Forest Trust Incorporated: 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 Pacific Forest Trust Incorporated?
- The Pacific Forest Trust Incorporated (California) receives grants from 71 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,956,271 to it, the largest being United States Endowment for Forestry ($553,348). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Pacific Forest Trust Incorporated have?
- IRS filings report 71 organizations giving $6,956,271 in grants to The Pacific Forest Trust Incorporated, 46 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Pacific Forest Trust Incorporated?
- United States Endowment for Forestry is the largest funder on record, with $553,348 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Pacific Forest Trust Incorporated find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 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