Totals
- Total revenue
- $4,622,234
- Total expenses
- $4,581,825
- Contributions and grants received
- $4,538,614
- Grants paid
- $3,173,495
- Program service revenue
- $0
- Investment income
- $83,620
- Other revenue
- $0
- Total assets, end of year
- $4,085,576
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $138,773
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $3,946,803
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $3,960,192
- Management and general expenses
- $264,468
- Fundraising expenses
- $357,165
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $3,960,192
Program services were 86.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
Line items
Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.
Revenue
Part VIII, the statement of revenue.
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1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$4,538,614
-
1g · Noncash contributions included above
$605
-
3 · Investment income
total $83,620 · excluded $83,620
-
4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds
total $0
-
5 · Royalties
total $0
-
6d · Net rental income or loss
total $0
-
7d · Net gain or loss
total $0
-
8c · Net income from fundraising events
total $0
-
9c · Net income from gaming
total $0
-
10c · Net income from sales of inventory
total $0
-
11e · Other revenue, total
$0
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
-
1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments
total $0
-
2 · Grants to domestic individuals
total $0
-
3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals
total $3,173,495 · program services $3,173,495
-
4 · Benefits paid to or for members
total $0
-
5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
total $256,000 · program services $120,000 · management and general $88,000 · fundraising $48,000
-
6 · Compensation of disqualified persons
total $0
-
7 · Other salaries and wages
total $553,123 · program services $244,144 · management and general $64,026 · fundraising $244,953
-
8 · Pension plan contributions
total $12,975 · program services $5,196 · management and general $3,911 · fundraising $3,868
-
9 · Other employee benefits
total $52,092 · program services $22,060 · management and general $13,435 · fundraising $16,597
-
10 · Payroll taxes
total $54,717 · program services $25,259 · management and general $9,775 · fundraising $19,683
-
11a · Fees: management
total $0
-
11b · Fees: legal
total $0
-
11c · Fees: accounting
total $29,029 · management and general $29,029
-
11d · Fees: lobbying
total $0
-
11e · Fees: professional fundraising services
total $0
-
11f · Fees: investment management
total $0
-
11g · Fees: other
total $282,039 · program services $270,225 · management and general $11,814
-
12 · Advertising and promotion
total $0
-
13 · Office expenses
total $9,540 · program services $1,101 · management and general $8,008 · fundraising $431
-
14 · Information technology
total $14,676 · program services $13,209 · fundraising $1,467
-
15 · Royalties
total $0
-
16 · Occupancy
total $0
-
17 · Travel
total $35,693 · program services $19,917 · management and general $88 · fundraising $15,688
-
18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials
total $0
-
19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings
total $13,492 · program services $11,737 · fundraising $1,755
-
20 · Interest
total $0
-
21 · Payments to affiliates
total $0
-
22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization
total $9,323 · program services $6,831 · management and general $1,417 · fundraising $1,075
-
23 · Insurance
total $4,284 · management and general $4,284
-
24a · Other expenses: dues and subscriptions
total $55,028 · program services $47,018 · management and general $4,362 · fundraising $3,648
-
24b · Other expenses: recruiting
total $22,083 · management and general $22,083
-
24c · Other expenses: registrations
total $4,236 · management and general $4,236
-
24e · All other expenses
total $0
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
-
1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $358,283 · end of year $220,655
-
2 · Savings and temporary cash investments
beginning of year $1,219,776 · end of year $1,122,207
-
3 · Pledges and grants receivable
beginning of year $2,361,120 · end of year $1,150,618
-
4 · Accounts receivable
beginning of year $165 · end of year $0
-
5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people
end of year $0
-
6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons
end of year $0
-
7 · Other notes and loans receivable
end of year $0
-
8 · Inventories for sale or use
end of year $0
-
9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges
beginning of year $12,589 · end of year $10,604
-
10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis
$10,258
-
10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation
$7,554
-
10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
beginning of year $5,083 · end of year $2,704
-
11 · Investments: publicly traded securities
end of year $1,566,085
-
12 · Investments: other securities
end of year $0
-
13 · Investments: program-related
end of year $0
-
14 · Intangible assets
end of year $12,703
-
15 · Other assets
end of year $0
-
17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses
beginning of year $37,962 · end of year $61,704
-
19 · Deferred revenue
beginning of year $27,505 · end of year $77,069
-
27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year $1,132,607 · end of year $1,417,585
-
28 · Net assets with donor restrictions
beginning of year $2,758,942 · end of year $2,529,218
Mission and programs · 2024
Mission
Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon, and sustaining local livelihoods.
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GFG's first major program, Accion Andina, is empowering its local conservation partners in Latin America to protect and restore high altitude forest ecosystems that span seven Andean nations. The initiative aims to protect and restore one million hectares of threatened high Andean, Polylepis forest ecosystems in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela by 2045.
Expenses $2,817,754 · Grants $2,817,754
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Accion Andina Administration: GFG provides significant capacity building services to Accion Andina's lead implementing partner, Peruvian conservation nonprofit ECOAN, to develop, administer, and grow the initiative. Services provided include high level annual and long-term conservation planning budgeting, metrics and project oversight identifying potential new partners global Accion Andina representation at major climate, forest conservation and biodiversity conferences contract and systems development and support partner leadership training and resources management solicitation for Accion Andina and significant initiative-wide communication services.
Expenses $824,473 · Grants $355,741
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Communications: illuminates GFG, its program and vision to the world, helps shape the global conversation on forest conservation by identifying obstacles and suggesting solutions, and shines a spotlight on how to protect and restore forest ecosystems the right way, in the right places, with the right species.
Expenses $294,580
-
New Program initiatives
Expenses $23,385
As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.
Listed in Part VII
-
Florent Kaiser
CEO
- Total calculated
- $152,500
- From this org
- $0
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $152,500
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- not reported
- Bonus
- not reported
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- not reported
- Nontaxable benefits
- $2,566
- Filer's total
- $2,566
-
Erin Lebbin
COO
- Total calculated
- $98,822
- From this org
- $96,062
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $2,760
- Hours/week
- 32
-
Leslie Danoff
Chairman
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
-
Jim Brumm
Vice President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
-
Kelly Grier
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Shaun Paul
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Alberto Paniagua Villagra
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.
Schedule J
Answered yes
- 3 · Written employment contract
- 3 · Compensation survey or study
- 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee
Answered no
- 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
- 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
- 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
- 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
- 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
- 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
- 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
- 7 · Other non-fixed payments
- 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception
The filer's explanations (Part III)
- Part III, Additional Information
- CEO Florent Kaiser is not a US citizen and resides and works outside the US. None of his compensation of $152,500 for the 2024 calendar year is reportable on US IRS Forms W-2 or 1099.
Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.
Grants on this return
No itemized grants to organizations on this return.
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2024
- Filed
- 11 October 2025
- IRS schema version
- 2024v5.2
- Source object
- 202512849349300206
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