Nonprofit · EIN 20-5583324
UNITED STATES ENDOWMENT FORFORESTRY AND COMMUNITIES INC
Also known as PETER C MADDEN
Tax-exempt · GREENVILLE, SC 29601
Financials
| Year ended | Form | Revenue | Expenses | Net income | Total assets | Liabilities | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 31, 2024 | 990 | $10,178,279 | $29,581,731 | -$19,403,452 | $292,534,043 | $9,286,166 | $283,247,877 |
| December 31, 2023 | 990 | $19,543,568 | $27,141,818 | -$7,598,250 | $300,985,916 | $10,639,473 | $290,346,443 |
Financial details: 990 for the year ended December 31, 2024
Revenue
- Contributions, gifts and grants
- $15,068,661
- of which government grants
- $11,067,846
- Program service revenue
- $0
- Investment income
- -$5,392,891
- Net gain from sales of assets
- -$5,625,928
- Other revenue
- $502,509
Expenses
- Grants and similar amounts paid
- $20,677,663
- Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
- $1,806,305
- Other salaries and wages
- $2,310,648
- Salaries, compensation and benefits (total)
- $4,941,067
- Professional fundraising fees
- $0
- Legal fees
- $112,262
- Accounting fees
- $37,696
- Occupancy
- $467,502
- Travel
- $200,910
- Depreciation
- $1,317,833
- Program services (functional)
- $27,842,771
- Management and general (functional)
- $1,738,960
Balance sheet and other
- Total assets, start of year
- $300,985,916
- Total assets, end of year
- $292,534,043
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $9,286,166
- Net assets, end of year
- $283,247,877
- Land, buildings and equipment
- $7,634
- Publicly traded securities
- $172,645,760
- Net assets without donor restrictions
- $6,853,779
- Net assets with donor restrictions
- $276,394,098
- Gross receipts
- $28,569,845
- Employees
- 15
- Volunteers
- 15
- Year formed
- 2006
- State of legal domicile
- DE
From the e-filed returns the IRS publishes as XML (latest three processing years; amended returns replace the original). PDF copies at the IRS.
Officers, directors and key employees
As listed on the 990 for the year ended December 31, 2024, highest compensation first.
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation | Other / benefits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peter Madden | CEO Secretary Trustee or director, Officer | 40 | $456,094 | $65,463 |
| Peter Stangel | Chief Development Officer Officer | 40 | $348,263 | $51,948 |
| Alicia Cramer | Chief Operating Officer Key employee | 40 | $296,300 | $48,225 |
| Joie Mor | Chief Financial Officer Officer | 40 | $230,946 | $52,330 |
| Matthew Krumenauer | Vice President Key employee | 40 | $244,129 | $26,854 |
| Michael Goergen | Vice President Key employee | 40 | $230,573 | $18,686 |
| Jaime Daniel | Finance Director Highest-paid employee | 40 | $139,038 | $40,358 |
| Laura Garner | Development Director Highest-paid employee | 40 | $144,441 | $11,640 |
| Teal Edelen | Director, Forests Highest-paid employee | 40 | $130,654 | $14,372 |
| Aleta Rogers | Director, Grants & Contracts Compliance Highest-paid employee | 40 | $127,669 | $14,044 |
| Chris McIver | Chairman Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Mark Reed | Vice-Chair Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Rehad Paul Hossain | Vice-Chair Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Adrian Blocker | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Anna Torma | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
9 more people on this return
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beatriz Da Cunha | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Cris Stainbrook | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Deborah Spalding | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Fritz Mason | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Jo-Ellen Darcy | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Joshua Raglin | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Maro Imirizan | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| Solie Kilpi | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| William Crawford | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
990 for the year ended December 31, 2023: 25 people
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation | Other / benefits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peter Madden | CEO Secretary Trustee or director, Officer | 40 | $435,910 | $70,435 |
| Peter Stangel | Chief Operating Officer Officer | 40 | $331,496 | $58,042 |
| Alicia Cramer | Senior Vice President Key employee | 40 | $284,167 | $50,158 |
| Michael Goergen | Vice President Key employee | 40 | $257,185 | $28,290 |
| Matthew Krumenauer | Vice President Key employee | 40 | $235,151 | $25,867 |
| Joie Mor | Chief Financial Officer Officer | 40 | $205,258 | $54,700 |
| Jaime Daniel | Finance Director Highest-paid employee | 40 | $133,560 | $40,099 |
| Teal Edelen | Program Officer Highest-paid employee | 40 | $124,034 | $13,644 |
| Aleta Rogers | Director, Grants & Contracts Compliance Highest-paid employee | 40 | $121,226 | $13,335 |
| Laura Garner | Development Director Highest-paid employee | 40 | $105,834 | $11,642 |
| Chris McIver | Vice Chair Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Kevin Schuyler | Treasurer Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Mark Emmerson | Chairman Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Adrian Blocker | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Anna Torma | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Beatriz Da Cunha | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Caroline Dauzat | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Cris Stanbrook | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Fritz Mason | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Jo-Ellen Darcy | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Joshua Raglin | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Mark Reed | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Maro Imirzian | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Rehad (Paul) Hossain | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Soile Kilpi | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
Address and contacts
- Address (IRS master file)
- 10 S ACADEMY ST STE 101, GREENVILLE, SC 29601-2632
- In care of
- % PETER C MADDEN
- Principal officer (990 for 2024)
- Peter C Madden, 10 S Academy St STE 101, Greenville, SC 29601
- Signed the 990
- Peter C Madden, President/CEO
- Phone
- (864) 233-7646
- Website
- WWW.USENDOWMENT.ORG
- Return prepared by
- Forvis Mazars LLP
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.
Program 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 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 partnerships to protect bottomland hardwood 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. A corporate partnership provides funding for conservation of high-value bottomland hardwood forests in North Carolina and Virginia; this program is a model for public-private partnerships. The Endowment works with local conservation partners to take advantage of USDA funds through the Natural Resources Conservation Service. Their Regional Conservation Partnership Program awards finance conservation easements that protect forests that are important for the environment and that sustain local jobs and economies. 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 also 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 Endowment is investigating potential benefits and concerns associated with forest carbon. In response to an increase in public and private investment in carbon management and climate smart forestry on private forest lands, the Endowment is funding programs and workshops to better understand and quantify landowner capacity and willingness to adopt carbon management practices and the implications for other forest land uses (e.g., wood products). Through the US Biochar Initiative project, we work with partners to increase applications, market, and production of biochar with the ultimate goal of carbon being buried in the ground, allowing carbon credits to be realized. The Forest & Wood Carbon Data Platform launch in 2023 created a single U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)-sponsored platform with multiple user-friendly tools providing transparent, high-integrity forest and wood product carbon data throughout the value chain. The platform will include six measurement, monitoring, reporting, and verification (MMRV) tools that align with a U.S. Forest Service (USFS) objective to serve as the primary source of information on carbon and carbon flows across U.S. Forest lands, harvested wood products, and end-use life cycle assessment. V. Asset Creation: We continue to support forest landowners in partnership with the USDA Forest Service and other partners, across nine states, to move their lands into the forest management pipeline. We continue to work 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.Expenses $27,842,771 · grants $20,677,663 · revenue -$488,492
What it must file and when
IRS records say it files Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N. Its accounting year ends in December, so each return is due on the 15th day of the 5th month after that.
| Tax year | Year ended | Due | IRS public records |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | December 31, 2025 | May 15, 2026 | Not on file |
| 2024 | December 31, 2024 | May 15, 2025 | 990 on file |
| 2023 | December 31, 2023 | May 15, 2024 | 990 on file |
IRS record
- EIN
- 20-5583324
- Tax-exempt status
- 501(c)(3): Charitable, religious, educational or scientific organization
- Foundation status
- Publicly supported organization (170(b)(1)(A)(vi))
- Donations deductible (Pub 78)
- Public charity, 50% deduction limit
- Exempt since
- 2007
- Accounting year ends
- December
- Files
- Form 990 or 990-EZ
- Category (NTEE)
- Environment (C34)
- Assets (IRS master file)
- $292,534,043
- Income (IRS master file)
- $28,569,845
Filing history
| Form | Year ended | Revenue | Expenses | Assets | Return |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 990 | December 2024 | $10,178,279 | $29,581,731 | $292,534,043 | IRS |
| 990-T | December 2024 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | December 2023 | $19,543,568 | $27,141,818 | $300,985,916 | XML |
| 990-T | December 2023 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | December 2022 | $14,930,721 | $22,485,796 | $283,124,174 | IRS |
| 990-T | December 2022 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | December 2021 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990-T | December 2021 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | December 2020 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990-T | December 2020 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | December 2018 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | December 2017 | – | – | – | IRS |
990-N: the IRS bulk file holds only the latest e-Postcard per organization; earlier years come from archived copies of that file since 2020 and can have gaps (the IRS e-Postcard search lists every one). 990, 990-EZ, 990-PF, 990-T: every e-filed return in the IRS e-file index since 2019; XML for the latest three processing years, amounts from the IRS Statistics of Income extracts before that. PDF copies and determination letters at the IRS (search EIN 20-5583324).
Questions about UNITED STATES ENDOWMENT FORFORESTRY AND COMMUNITIES INC
- What is the EIN of UNITED STATES ENDOWMENT FORFORESTRY AND COMMUNITIES INC?
- The employer identification number (EIN) of UNITED STATES ENDOWMENT FORFORESTRY AND COMMUNITIES INC is 20-5583324.
- Is UNITED STATES ENDOWMENT FORFORESTRY AND COMMUNITIES INC tax-exempt?
- Yes. The IRS lists it as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) since 2007.
- Are donations to UNITED STATES ENDOWMENT FORFORESTRY AND COMMUNITIES INC tax-deductible?
- Yes. It is listed in IRS Publication 78 (Public charity, 50% deduction limit).
- Which annual return does UNITED STATES ENDOWMENT FORFORESTRY AND COMMUNITIES INC file?
- Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N.
- When is the next return of UNITED STATES ENDOWMENT FORFORESTRY AND COMMUNITIES INC due?
- The return for tax year 2025 (the year ending December 31, 2025) is due May 15, 2026. Form 8868 extends it by six months; the 990-N cannot be extended.
- When did UNITED STATES ENDOWMENT FORFORESTRY AND COMMUNITIES INC last file with the IRS?
- The latest return in the IRS public files is the 990 for the year ended December 2024.
- Who is the principal officer of UNITED STATES ENDOWMENT FORFORESTRY AND COMMUNITIES INC?
- The 990 for the year ended December 31, 2024 names Peter C Madden.
- Who are the officers and directors of UNITED STATES ENDOWMENT FORFORESTRY AND COMMUNITIES INC?
- The 990 for the year ended December 31, 2024 lists 24 people; 10 received compensation from the organization, the highest $456,094 (Peter Madden, CEO Secretary).
- How much revenue does UNITED STATES ENDOWMENT FORFORESTRY AND COMMUNITIES INC have?
- On its 990 for the year ended December 31, 2024 it reported revenue of $10,178,279, expenses of $29,581,731 and total assets of $292,534,043 at year end.
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