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WASHINGTON PULP & PAPER FOUNDATION INC COLLEGE OF FOREST RESOURCES
WASHINGTON PULP & PAPER FOUNDATION INC COLLEGE OF FOREST RESOURCES (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,965 to it, the largest being TECHNICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE PULP & PAPER INDUSTRY INC ($26,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $230k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $38k
- Net assets
- $6.5M
What Washington Pulp & Paper Foundation Inc College of Forest Resources does
Mission
To provide the pulp, paper and allied industries with outstanding, dedicated graduates in Bioresource Science and Engineering from the University of Washington who have breadth and depth of knowledge, make immediate contributions, are future leaders and are grounded in the principles of sustainability, stewardship, and economic vitality.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Student support costs included scholarships to the University of Washington Bioresource Science and Engineering (BSE) program, recruiting students to the program, introductions to potential employers and mentoring to enhance job preparedness. More than 30 students received support. The Foundation provides compensation support for the manager of the BSE lab that provides opportunities for students in the program to gain experience with paper and pulp processes.
$62,265 spent50% of program spendingInstructional support paid to individuals to teach courses offered through the School of Environmental and Forest Resources, technical support of foundation equipment. The School of Environmental and Forest Resources donates space to the foundation at an estimated cost of $7,025.
$8,754 spent7% of program spendingFoundation meeting for prospective donors to meet current program student scholars receiving foundation support and faculty to discuss developments in the profession. Annual meeting attendees include industry representatives, students, faculty of the school and program alumni. Past executive directors and Past President's attend the meeting.
$53,678 spent43% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $124,697.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $5.4M to $6.0M (+11%).
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.
39% of WASHINGTON PULP & PAPER FOUNDATION INC COLLEGE OF FOREST RESOURCES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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
Ed Draper
Executive Director
Board chair
Richard R Gustafson
Faculty Chair and Professor, SEFS
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $7k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 WASHINGTON PULP & PAPER FOUNDATION INC COLLEGE OF FOREST RESOURCES’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
WASHINGTON PULP & PAPER FOUNDATION INC COLLEGE OF FOREST RESOURCES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 WASHINGTON PULP & PAPER FOUNDATION INC COLLEGE OF FOREST RESOURCES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
WASHINGTON PULP & PAPER FOUNDATION INC COLLEGE OF FOREST RESOURCES draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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
WASHINGTON PULP & PAPER FOUNDATION INC COLLEGE OF FOREST RESOURCES holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like WASHINGTON PULP & PAPER FOUNDATION INC COLLEGE OF FOREST RESOURCES
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In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
58% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
56%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- University of Washington · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WASHINGTON PULP & PAPER FOUNDATION INC COLLEGE OF FOREST RESOURCES?
- WASHINGTON PULP & PAPER FOUNDATION INC COLLEGE OF FOREST RESOURCES (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,965 to it, the largest being TECHNICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE PULP & PAPER INDUSTRY INC ($26,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WASHINGTON PULP & PAPER FOUNDATION INC COLLEGE OF FOREST RESOURCES have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $37,965 in grants to WASHINGTON PULP & PAPER FOUNDATION INC COLLEGE OF FOREST RESOURCES, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WASHINGTON PULP & PAPER FOUNDATION INC COLLEGE OF FOREST RESOURCES?
- TECHNICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE PULP & PAPER INDUSTRY INC is the largest funder on record, with $26,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WASHINGTON PULP & PAPER FOUNDATION INC COLLEGE OF FOREST RESOURCES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), 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