Assistance program
National Forest Foundation
$26.3 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Forest Service, Agriculture, Department of
- Assistance
- Direct Payments for Specified Use
- CFDA number
- 10.682
- What it does
- The purposes of the National Forest Foundation are to encourage, accept, and administer private gifts of money, and of real and personal property for the benefit of, or in connection with, the activities and services of the Forest Service of the Department of Agriculture; undertake and conduct activities that further the purposes for which units of the National Forest System are established and are administered and that are consistent with approved forest plans; and undertake, conduct and encourage educational, technical and other assistance, and other activities that support the multiple use, research, cooperative forestry and other programs administered by the Forest Service.
- Who benefits
- Potential beneficiaries include non-governmental, nonprofit 501(c)(3) and for profit organizations, state and local governments and Native American tribes working on or adjacent to National Forests and Grasslands throughout the United States.
- Who applies
- Program is authorized for the National Forest Foundation under National Forest Foundation Act.
- Authorized by
- National Forest Foundation Act, Public Law 101-593-Title IV-Nov. 16, 1990, as amended by Public Law 103-106 Oct. 12, 1993. Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, Public Law 105-277, Title II, Oct. 21, 1998.
- Program site
- http://www.fs.usda.gov ↗
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
How the money flows
Committed dollars by how this program's money is paid out.
Grants
$26.3M
100%
Other
$56.5K
<1%
Top recipients
By dollars committed.
How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
Money committed under this assistance listing (its CFDA program), counted in the year each action happened.
- How it's paid
Most programs pay out one way — a grant, or a direct payment to individuals; the flow bar only appears when a program genuinely mixes types.
- Some recipients aren't itemized
For entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, the government reports one aggregate instead of naming tens of millions of people, so the recipient roster isn't part of the public record.
- Awards, counted once
An award count is the number of distinct awards with at least one action that year — each counted once, however many times it was amended.
- The colored bars
Every bar on this page splits by how the money moves:
Direct payments