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
Who funds United States Endowment for Forestry and Communities
Grants from foundations and other nonprofits
Grantmaker | Grantmaker tax period | Description | Amount |
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Walton Family Foundation | 2022-12 | To Support Quantified Ventures Natural Infrastructure Investments Through State Revolving Funds in the Mississippi and Colorado River Basins. | $535,000 |
The JPB Foundation | 2022-12 | Sustainable Forestry African American Land Retention Network Expansion & Stand Alone Needs Assessment | $500,000 |
The JPB Foundation | 2022-12 | Sustainable 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
Name | Title | Compensation | Date of data |
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Peter C Madden | President and Chief Executive Officer | $415,965 | 2023-11-10 |
Peter Stangel | Chief Operating Officer / Senior Vice - President / Senior Vice President | $316,593 | 2022-12-31 |
Joie More | Chief Financial Officer / Finance Director | $152,804 | 2022-12-31 |
Signe Cann | Chief Financial Officer | $75,154 | 2022-12-31 |
Matthew Krumenauer | Vice President / RF Chief Executive Officer | $218,653 | 2022-12-31 |
...and 8 more key personnel |
Financials for United States Endowment for Forestry and Communities
Revenues | FYE 12/2022 | FYE 12/2021 | % Change |
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Total grants, contributions, etc. | $10,859,388 | $12,743,082 | -14.8% |
Program services | $0 | $0 | - |
Investment income and dividends | $-326,197 | $-83,448 | -290.9% |
Tax-exempt bond proceeds | $0 | $0 | - |
Royalty revenue | $0 | $0 | - |
Net rental income | $0 | $0 | - |
Net gain from sale of non-inventory assets | $3,849,947 | $4,922,735 | -21.8% |
Net income from fundraising events | $0 | $0 | - |
Net income from gaming activities | $0 | $0 | - |
Net income from sales of inventory | $0 | $0 | - |
Miscellaneous revenues | $547,583 | $541,193 | 1.2% |
Total revenues | $14,930,721 | $18,123,562 | -17.6% |
Organizations like United States Endowment for Forestry and Communities
Organization | Type | Location | Revenue |
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Open Space Institute Land Trust (OSI) | 501(c)(3) | New York, NY | $53,815,893 |
Lancaster County Conservancy | 501(c)(3) | Lancaster, PA | $7,581,604 |
Vermont Land Trust (VLT) | 501(c)(3) | Montpelier, VT | $17,447,191 |
Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy | 501(c)(3) | Rolling Hills Estates, CA | $7,148,748 |
Natural Lands | 501(c)(3) | Media, PA | $25,509,870 |
Friends of Acadia | 501(c)(3) | Bar Harbor, ME | $15,284,443 |
Southeast Land Trust of New Hampshire (SELT) | 501(c)(3) | Epping, NH | $7,767,147 |
Peninsula Open Space Trust | 501(c)(3) | Palo Alto, CA | $24,754,163 |
Sycamore Land Trust Incorporated | 501(c)(3) | Bloomington, IN | $3,919,686 |
Conservation Lands Foundation | 501(c)(3) | Durango, CO | $6,946,945 |
Data update history
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
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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