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Private foundations don’t post open calls, so nobody can search them. We read IRS filings instead — 9.6 million grants from 174,053 foundations and grantmaking charities, searchable by what the money was actually for.
12 funders with a record of paying for “forests”
Where the money went
National Forest FoundationMissoula, MTCharity · may take applications
349 matching grants · $28.4M · through 2023Largest: $57,810 to THE FOREST STEWARDS GUILD — support us national forests and grasslands
National Arbor Day FoundationLincoln, NECharity · may take applications
377 matching grants · $20.4M · through 2024Largest: $218,752 to TEXAS TREES FOUNDATION — encourage and facilitate the adoption of leading-edge practices in municipal forests including inventory, planting, maintenance and education.encourage and facilitate the adoption …
National Fish and Wildlife FoundationWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
154 matching grants · $30.4M · through 2023Largest: $1.1M to FOREST LANDOWNERS ASSOCIATION — restore longleaf forests across southeast states
The Chicago Community TrustChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
83 matching grants · $17.3M · through 2023Largest: $1.5M to Wake Forest University — general operating support, wake forest men's soccer program - restricted fund, stamps scholars - sp 0739, $500.00: support for the wake forest fund - college$500.00: support for th…
Largest: $249,550 to ECOHEALTH ALLIANCE INC — to document the public health benefits of indigenous and local community forest management in terms of reduced risk of forest fires and emerging zoonotic disease
American ForestsWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
58 matching grants · $5.0M · through 2024Largest: $792,465 to US Forest Service — eldorado king fire reforestation project; flathead resilence planting project; natural regeneration project at wayne national forest; hoosier national forest prescribed burn projec…
Largest: $8.0M to SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — to support launch of the global geo-trees initiative for tropical forests, which will create a high-resolution carbon biomass verification system based on a worldwide network of fo…
Largest: $460,900 to FOREST PEOPLES PROGRAMME — support for forest peoples land rights and landscape governance for ape conservation in lobeke national park, cameroon; messok-dja, republic of congo; kahuzi-biega national park, d…
Largest: $11,840 to FUNDACION SELVA SAGRADA — manejo sustentable de la biodiversidad de las cuencas sagradas del rio morona: reforestacion y restauracion de bosques con especies forestales promisorias para seguridad alimentari…
Illinois Clean Energy Community FoundationChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
42 matching grants · $10.8M · through 2023Largest: $21,000 to Friends of The Forest Preserves — stewardship of the spring creek forest preserve complex and grassy lake forest preserve
Largest: $1.0M to AMERICAN FORESTS — to support the launch of the forest innovation platform, a new national information and technical resource ecosystem for climate-adapted forest planning, conservation and stewardsh…
Largest: $2.5M to AMERICAN FOREST FOUNDATION — to incentivize landowners to adopt improved forest-management practices to sequester carbon that is verified and sold as credits in the carbon markets, thereby providing new fundin…
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Source: IRS Form 990-PF Part XV and Form 990 Schedule I, tax years 2019–2025. These are grants already paid, a record of what an organization funds rather than an open call. Private foundations rarely accept unsolicited applications and the route in is usually a program officer; grantmaking charities and associations more often run real application cycles, so check their website. How this data is built, and its limits →