{"slug":"national-forest-foundation","name":"National Forest Foundation","tagline":"Congressionally chartered U.S. Forest Service partner replanting millions of trees on National Forests each year","description":"The National Forest Foundation (NFF) is the Missoula-based nonprofit partner of the U.S. Forest Service, chartered by Congress in 1990 to restore and enhance America's 193-million-acre National Forest System. Its Reforestation Program plants native seedlings in post-fire and insect-damaged landscapes, largely funded by corporate partners, small businesses in the Sapling Program and individual donors; in 2025 it completed a seven-year campaign that planted 50.4 million trees on 81 National Forests. The NFF also funds wildfire-resilience thinning, watershed and trail restoration, and community grants, and reported planting more than 7 million trees in fiscal 2025.","website_url":"https://www.nationalforests.org","logo_url":null,"founded_year":1990,"org_type":"nonprofit","scope":"national","headquarters":{"city":"Missoula","region":"Montana","country":"US","lat":46.8721,"lng":-113.994},"volunteer_url":null,"donation_url":"https://support.nationalforests.org/campaign/612528/donate","events_url":"https://www.nationalforests.org/events/","featured":false,"trees_on_record":64000000,"primary_activity":"reforestation","activities":[{"slug":"reforestation","name":"Reforestation","primary":true},{"slug":"seed-collection","name":"Seed collection","primary":false},{"slug":"disaster-fire-recovery","name":"Disaster & fire recovery","primary":false}],"updated_at":"2026-11-08T00:02:16.194Z","url":"https://treerm.org/org/national-forest-foundation","markdown_url":"https://treerm.org/org/national-forest-foundation.md","api_url":"https://treerm.org/api/v1/organizations/national-forest-foundation","data_note":"The NFF's cumulative tree totals differ by page and start date: the Tree Planting page says 'since 2001, the NFF has planted nearly 70 million seedlings', the 50-million-tree campaign article says 'over 64 million trees in total' since 2008 (50.4 million of them between 2018 and 2025), and the FY2025 annual report cites 38 million trees since 2019. We list the 64 million figure. Annual figures (7M+ in FY2025, 5.4M in FY2024) are rounded as published; NFF fiscal years end September 30.","derived":{"annual_trees":[{"year":2024,"value":5400000},{"year":2025,"value":7000000}],"latest_annual":{"year":2025,"value":7000000},"yoy":0.2962962962962963,"cagr":null,"dollars_raised_per_tree":null,"cost_per_tree":null,"trees_per_volunteer":{"value":684.5965770171149,"year":2025,"trees":7000000,"volunteers":10225},"survival":null,"hectares":{"value":9088,"year":2025,"cumulative":false},"transparency":{"score":50,"label":"Partly documented","points":[{"key":"annual","label":"Publishes annual tree figures","earned":10,"max":20,"why":"2 years of annual figures on record (5 points each, up to 4 years)"},{"key":"recent","label":"Figures are recent","earned":15,"max":15,"why":"Latest annual figure is for 2025"},{"key":"sourced","label":"Every figure has a public source","earned":10,"max":10,"why":"6 of 6 figures link to a source"},{"key":"money","label":"Publishes financials or cost per tree","earned":0,"max":15,"why":"No financial figure on record"},{"key":"survival","label":"Reports survival or monitoring","earned":0,"max":15,"why":"No survival or monitoring figure on record"},{"key":"verified","label":"Independently verified figure","earned":0,"max":10,"why":"All figures are the organization's own"},{"key":"programs","label":"Breaks figures down by program","earned":10,"max":10,"why":"Figures attached to named programs"},{"key":"people","label":"Reports volunteers or events","earned":5,"max":5,"why":"Volunteer figures on record"}]},"methodology":"https://treerm.org/methodology"},"countries":["US"],"social_links":{"instagram":"https://www.instagram.com/nationalforests/","facebook":"https://www.facebook.com/NationalForestFoundation/","linkedin":"https://www.linkedin.com/company/national-forest-foundation","youtube":"https://www.youtube.com/natlforests"},"programs":[{"slug":"reforestation-program","name":"Reforestation Program","activity":"reforestation","description":"Plants native seedlings on National Forests damaged by wildfire, insects and disease, from cone collection and nursery contracts through site preparation and planting, in partnership with the U.S. Forest Service.","url":"https://www.nationalforests.org/tree-planting-programs","started_year":2008,"ended_year":null},{"slug":"sapling-program","name":"Sapling Program","activity":"reforestation","description":"Membership program for small businesses whose donations fund National Forest reforestation; members receive a badge and storytelling toolkit.","url":"https://www.nationalforests.org/sapling-program/","started_year":null,"ended_year":null},{"slug":"wildfire-resilience","name":"Wildfire Resilience","activity":"disaster-fire-recovery","description":"Fuels-reduction thinning, prescribed-fire support and post-fire recovery work on high-risk National Forest landscapes.","url":"https://www.nationalforests.org/tree-planting-programs","started_year":null,"ended_year":null}],"metrics":[{"metric_type":"hectares_restored","year":2025,"value":9088,"is_cumulative":false,"program":null,"source_url":"https://www.nationalforests.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/NFF-2025-Annual-Report.pdf","source_note":"Derived: FY2025 Annual Report reports '22,457 acres restored by reforestation'; converted at 0.4047 ha per acre. Excludes the separate '35,507 acres made more resilient from wildfire'.","confidence":"estimated"},{"metric_type":"trees_planted","year":2024,"value":5400000,"is_cumulative":false,"program":null,"source_url":"https://www.nationalforests.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/NFF-2024-Annual-Report.pdf","source_note":"2024 Annual Report (fiscal year 2024), p.3: '5.4 MILLION TREES PLANTED', '30,784 ACRES RESTORED BY REFORESTATION', '9,460 VOLUNTEERS'","confidence":"reported"},{"metric_type":"trees_planted","year":2025,"value":7000000,"is_cumulative":false,"program":null,"source_url":"https://www.nationalforests.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/NFF-2025-Annual-Report.pdf","source_note":"FY2025 Annual Report (fiscal year ended Sept 30, 2025), 'FY25 ACCOMPLISHMENTS' page: '7M+ trees planted'; same figure in the 2025 Activities Report","confidence":"reported"},{"metric_type":"trees_planted","year":2025,"value":64000000,"is_cumulative":true,"program":null,"source_url":"https://www.nationalforests.org/article/we-did-it-we-planted-over-50-million-trees/","source_note":"'We Did It' article: 'planted over 50.4 million trees across 177,300 acres' between 2018 and 2025 on 81 National Forests in 31 states, and 'over 64 million trees in total' since the NFF's first planting in 2008","confidence":"reported"},{"metric_type":"volunteers_engaged","year":2025,"value":10225,"is_cumulative":false,"program":null,"source_url":"https://www.nationalforests.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/NFF-2025-Annual-Report.pdf","source_note":"FY2025 Annual Report, 'FY25 ACCOMPLISHMENTS': '10,225 volunteers', '124,027 hours completed'","confidence":"reported"},{"metric_type":"trees_planted","year":2026,"value":1000000,"is_cumulative":true,"program":"sapling-program","source_url":"https://www.nationalforests.org/sapling-program/","source_note":"Sapling Program page: members 'have helped plant over 1,000,000 trees' (accessed Nov 2026)","confidence":"reported"}],"upcoming_events":[],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}