New York · Nonprofit
THE UNDERSTORY PROJECT INC
THE UNDERSTORY PROJECT INC (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $105,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2021
- $280k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $105k
- Net assets
- $205k
What The Understory Project Inc does
Mission
The understory is a nonprofit organization with a mission to restore forest landscapes. Specifically, we are doing this by bridging the funding gap that forest managers face when scaling up forest restoration work.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.
Program
Bridging the funding gap that forest managers face when scaling up forest restoration work. Our vision is to build a marketplace where forest managers can present forest restoration projects and connect with institutional philanthropic investors such as fourtune 500 companies. Current areas of focus are: monongahela national forest, giant sequoia restoration, and biomass industry support.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 UNDERSTORY PROJECT 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 UNDERSTORY PROJECT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
48% 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 UNDERSTORY PROJECT INC.
“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 UNDERSTORY PROJECT INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k 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.
Organizations like THE UNDERSTORY PROJECT 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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
- Amal Academy Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE UNDERSTORY PROJECT 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 UNDERSTORY PROJECT INC?
- THE UNDERSTORY PROJECT INC (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $105,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE UNDERSTORY PROJECT INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $105,000 in grants to THE UNDERSTORY PROJECT INC.
- Who is the largest funder of THE UNDERSTORY PROJECT INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE UNDERSTORY PROJECT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2021 (financials across 2021–2021), and the filings of 3 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