EIN 20-5583324

United States Endowment for Forestry and Communities

IRS 501(c) type
501(c)(3)
Num. employees
14
Year formed
2006
Most recent tax filings
2022-12-01
Description
United States Endowment for Forestry and Communities collaborates 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. It is run by Peter C Madden and headquartered in Greenville, SC. Its mission is to advance positive change for the nation's working forests and forest-reliant communities.
Also known as...
Peter C Madden
Total revenues
$14,930,721
2022
Total expenses
$22,485,796
2022
Total assets
$283,124,174
2022
Num. employees
14
2022

Program areas at United States Endowment for Forestry and Communities

See schedule o for statement of program service accomplishments: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 healthy watershed through healthy forests program connects downstream water consumers with upstream forest owners with the intent to advance overall watershed health and quality by ensuring working forest retention. Much of this work is jointly funded in partnership with the usda natural resources conservation service (nrcs) and the environmental protection agency (epa). We continue nationwide collaboration with the american water works association, which represents water utilities and the water community.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. to date we hosted five canada/us forest health and innovation summits roughly on a biennial basis. Other work includes keeping forests, the department of defense's base buffering program, and innovative financing approaches for forest management and retention. Each is designed to aid in retention and restoration of healthy working forests. Iii. Traditional markets: after successful work that led to the creation of two commodity check-offs softwood lumber board and paper & paper-based packaging board -- more recent work has included supporting initiatives to advance public understanding of the benefits of working forests and the role they play in climate solutions. We are continuing to develop blockchain solutions through a program called forestrust, which seeks to track the supply chain of timber and forest products from forests to end-product, which helps alleviate issues involving illegal logging. Iv. Future markets: the Endowment is partnering with the usda forest service and emerging producers to advance commercialization of cellulosic nanomaterials. This multi-year initiative engages partners to fill knowledge gaps facilitating new products and applications while placing a primary interest on ensuring human and environmental health and safety. Work continues to advance mass timber applications to support tall wooden buildings, including advancing the carbon story of forest products. The greatest success to date was achieved in concert with the softwood lumber board and american wood council as efforts to modernize building codes were achieved that will allow construction of mass timber buildings up to 18 stories from the previous 6-story limit. Additionally, we are working to develop markets for small diameter, dying and dead trees to enhance forest health while advancing family-supporting jobs in rural Communities. Through partnership with the usda forest service, we are concentrating our work on commercializing torrefaction to provide a robust new market for fuels that could yield green energy. Building on tests of torrefied pellets completed in a coal-fired facility, the torrefaction facility is nearly set to begin round-the-clock production of commercial-scale torrefied material and other high carbon content products like biochar.v. Asset creation: we continue to support the sustainable Forestry and land retention (sflr) network and their goal to use forests and forest-based assets to create economic opportunity for african american landowners. American forest foundation is now the sflr fiscal agent. Sflr is a multi-year program in partnership with the usda forest service and nrcs across eight southern States and has successfully seen 1,500 black families move their lands into the forest management pipeline. We are applying the applied learnings for our work with the sflr network to explore hispanic/latino landowners and their ability to generate wealth for their families and Communities. We continue to work with the economic development administration in new england in partnership with the northern forest center to assist in finding local economic solutions to help offset the impact of the closure of much of the region's pulp and paper production.

Grants made by United States Endowment for Forestry and Communities

GranteeGrant descriptionAmount
The Nature ConservancyConservation$500,000
Working Forest InitiativeTraditional Markets$500,000
Blue Forest FinanceInnovative Finance, Ecosystem Markets$440,365
...and 30 more grants made totalling $3,248,453

Who funds United States Endowment for Forestry and Communities

Grants from foundations and other nonprofits
GrantmakerDescriptionAmount
Walton Family FoundationTo Support Quantified Ventures Natural Infrastructure Investments Through State Revolving Funds in the Mississippi and Colorado River Basins.$535,000
The JPB FoundationSustainable Forestry African American Land Retention Network Expansion & Stand Alone Needs Assessment$500,000
The JPB FoundationSustainable Forestry African American Land Retention Network Expansion & Stand Alone Needs Assessment$500,000
...and 3 more grants received

Personnel at United States Endowment for Forestry and Communities

NameTitleCompensation
Peter C MaddenPresident and Chief Executive Officer$415,965
Peter StangelChief Operating Officer / Senior Vice - President / Senior Vice President$316,593
Joie MoreChief Financial Officer / Finance Director$152,804
Signe CannChief Financial Officer$75,154
Matthew KrumenauerVice President / RF Chief Executive Officer$218,653
...and 8 more key personnel

Financials for United States Endowment for Forestry and Communities

RevenuesFYE 12/2022
Total grants, contributions, etc.$10,859,388
Program services$0
Investment income and dividends$-326,197
Tax-exempt bond proceeds$0
Royalty revenue$0
Net rental income$0
Net gain from sale of non-inventory assets$3,849,947
Net income from fundraising events$0
Net income from gaming activities$0
Net income from sales of inventory$0
Miscellaneous revenues$547,583
Total revenues$14,930,721

Form 990s for United States Endowment for Forestry and Communities

Fiscal year endingDate received by IRSFormPDF link
2022-122023-11-10990View PDF
2021-122022-11-02990View PDF
2020-122021-11-11990View PDF
2019-122021-03-31990View PDF
2018-122020-02-07990View PDF
...and 8 more Form 990s

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Natural LandsMedia, PA$25,509,870
Friends of AcadiaBar Harbor, ME$15,284,443
Southeast Land Trust of New Hampshire (SELT)Epping, NH$7,767,147
Peninsula Open Space TrustPalo Alto, CA$24,754,163
Sycamore Land Trust IncorporatedBloomington, IN$3,919,686
Conservation Lands FoundationDurango, CO$6,946,945
Data update history
August 10, 2024
Received grants
Identified 4 new grant, including a grant for $535,000 from Walton Family Foundation
January 21, 2024
Updated personnel
Identified 5 new personnel
January 14, 2024
Posted financials
Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2022
December 31, 2023
Used new vendors
Identified 3 new vendors, including , , and
December 25, 2023
Received grants
Identified 6 new grant, including a grant for $525,000 from Walton Family Foundation
Nonprofit Types
Grantmaking organizationsSocial advocacy organizationsEnvironmental organizationsCharities
Issues
EducationLand and water conservationEnvironment
Characteristics
Provides grantsReceives government fundingEndowed supportTax deductible donations
General information
Address
10 S Academy St Ste 101
Greenville, SC 29601
Metro area
Greenville-Anderson, SC
County
Greenville County, SC
Phone
(864) 233-7646
IRS details
EIN
20-5583324
Fiscal year end
December
Taxreturn type
Form 990
Year formed
2006
Eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions (Pub 78)
Yes
Categorization
NTEE code, primary
C34: Land Resources Conservation
NAICS code, primary
813312: Environment, Conservation, and Wildlife Organizations
Parent/child status
Independent
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