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FRED M VAN ECK FOREST FOUNDATION FOR PURDUE UNIVERSITY

EIN 73-1628231 SAN FRANCISCO, CA

Revenue 2024
$4,106,280
Expenses 2024
$4,329,416

Program services were 88.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C36
Classification
2100
Street
1001 A OREILLY AVE

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

To hold and protect the California and Oregon van Eck forests to the benefit of future generations, and that their management as commercial forests for the benefit of Purdue University's hardwood tree improvement research, should reflect due regard to environmental and wildlife considerations.

  • Provided support to Purdue University to conduct scientific research on genetic improvements of North American hardwood tree species, while protecting environmental and wildlife habitat through conservation easements held and managed by Pacific Forest Trust.

    Expenses $3,820,430 · Grants $141,682 · Revenue $3,867,103

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Laurie A Wayburn

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $274,637
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $240,083
    Other
    $34,554
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    not reported + $240,083 related
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported + $34,554 related
    Filer's total
    not reported + $274,637 related

  • Zhao Ma

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $231,583
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $231,583
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    not reported + $231,583 related
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    not reported + $231,583 related

  • Cynthia van Eck

    Trustee/Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $4,106,280
    Expenses
    $4,329,416
    Contributions
    $80,176
    Grants paid
    $141,682
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $5,150,439
    Expenses
    $4,912,777
    Contributions
    $107,958
    Grants paid
    $726,734
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,175,569
    Expenses
    $1,680,661
    Contributions
    $19,792
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,950,389
    Expenses
    $3,203,026
    Assets (EOY)
    $21,951,741

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,778,202
    Expenses
    $2,089,636
    Assets (EOY)
    $22,176,583

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,618,825
    Expenses
    $2,719,672
    Assets (EOY)
    $22,351,855

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,941,376
    Expenses
    $3,437,540
    Assets (EOY)
    $21,956,628

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,080,725
    Expenses
    $2,148,720
    Assets (EOY)
    $22,876,898

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,867,391
    Expenses
    $1,911,170
    Assets (EOY)
    $20,606,812

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,836,355
    Expenses
    $1,490,132
    Assets (EOY)
    $20,540,275

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,538,789
    Expenses
    $2,158,265
    Assets (EOY)
    $20,304,161

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Disregarded entities on its 2024 return

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility SOUNK.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.