South Carolina · Nonprofit
United States Endowment for Forestry
United States Endowment for Forestry (South Carolina) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,686,567 to it, the largest being FREEDOM TOGETHER FOUNDATION ($6,000,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $10M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $283M
What United States Endowment for Forestry does
Mission
The endowment works collaboratively with partners in the public and private sectors to advance systemic, transformative, and sustainable change for the health and vitality of the nation's working forests and forest reliant communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Endowment advances its mission using a "theory of change" that focuses on three areas: retaining and restoring healthy working forests; promoting and capturing multiple value streams using market-based tools; and enhancing community capacity, collaboration, and leadership. The Endowment deploys its work through five primary initiatives, each of which supports several programs or projects. I. Ecosystem Markets: Monetizing non-traditional forest products. The Endowment continues a focus on water as an ecosystem market. The Endowment is partially funding coordinators across the country who work with local partners to seek State Revolving Fund loans for forested watershed protection and management, which will help keep drinking water supplies clean and affordable. The Endowment is also exploring opportunities for biodiversity credits for landowners as another source of revenue that will contribute to conservation goals. II. Forest Retention and Health: Retaining/expanding and ensuring health of forests. This is a wide-ranging initiative that includes serving as cross-border convener for more strategic collaboration between Canada and the U.S. Other work includes corporate…
$27,842,771 spentof which $20,677,663 as grants$-488,492 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $27,842,771.
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 2020 to 2021, from $282M to $317M (+13%).
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 30% · 2018 31% · 2019 53% · 2020 62% · 2021 57% · 2022 53% · 2023 62% · 2024 109%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
148% of United States Endowment for Forestry’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Chief executive
Peter Madden
CEO Secretary
Board chair
Chris McIver
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $298k → $2.8M.
7 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $465k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest United States Endowment for Forestry). These are real filings, and they are not money United States Endowment for Forestry raised.
From the IRS filings of United States Endowment for Forestry’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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
United States Endowment for Forestry leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 36% · 2019 31% · 2020 44% · 2021 35% · 2022 47% · 2023 62% — growing more concentrated.
“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
11% of United States Endowment for Forestry's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
United States Endowment for Forestry draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $998k 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
United States Endowment for Forestry is better cushioned than half of the 329 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 329 environment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding United States Endowment for Forestry receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $96.3M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$82.6M
- Department of Defense$8.9M
- Department of Commerce$3.0M
- Environmental Protection Agency$1.9M
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 United States Endowment for Forestry
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 South Carolina
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
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Restoration Fuels · disregarded
- Forestrust · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for United States Endowment for Forestry: 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 United States Endowment for Forestry?
- United States Endowment for Forestry (South Carolina) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,686,567 to it, the largest being FREEDOM TOGETHER FOUNDATION ($6,000,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does United States Endowment for Forestry have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $12,686,567 in grants to United States Endowment for Forestry, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of United States Endowment for Forestry?
- FREEDOM TOGETHER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like United States Endowment for Forestry find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 32 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