DOGWOOD ALLIANCE INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

C013

Classification

1000

Street

PO BOX 7645

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 · 2025

• Campaigns: Throughout the year, our campaigns and advocacy translated into increased political engagement, with more than 50 meetings held between Dogwood staff, community partners, and state and federal policymakers. At the federal level, Dogwood helped advance an updated biomass bill and continues to work closely with two vocal congressional champions. These efforts coincide with growing scrutiny of the industry overall: Drax is facing regulatory investigations, mounting lawsuits, and questions about its long-term economic viability, signaling that sustained public pressure and coordinated advocacy are creating a potential tipping point for the biomass industry in the US South. On World Health Day, Dogwood Alliance and its 20+ member coalition hosted an educational webinar on the public health impacts of the biomass industry, drawing 649 registrants and 236 attendees.

  Expenses $558,155

• Organizing: Dogwood Alliance helped drive meaningful momentum against the expansion of the wood pellet industry across the US South. We expanded and strengthened partnerships opposing Drax and Envivas proposed expansions in Mississippi and North Carolina, aligning community groups, regional allies, and national advocates around shared strategies. Our organizing supported tangible outcomes: Enviva withdrew its permit application for a facility expansion in North Carolina, and a proposed Drax expansion in Mississippi was initially denied before being reconsidered through appeal. State regulators also issued new fugitive-dust regulations for Envivas North Carolina port facility, while Enviva closed a Mississippi plant and Drax halted operations at two Arkansas facilities. Dogwood also activated new impacted communities in Georgia and initiated outreach in Alabama and Louisiana. Dogwood Alliance distributed $194,000 directly to frontline organizations through our community subgrants program, reinforcing our commitment to grassroots, community-led activism. These funds provided critical resources to leaders fighting forest destruction and advancing protection in their own communities. By investing directly in frontline power, we strengthened the regional movement and expanded community-driven solutions across the South. Dogwood hosted a three-day Roots & Reach Regional Gathering that brought together over 30 participants from six directly impacted communities across NC, GA, MS, and AL, with additional attendees joining virtually. The program was designed and led by frontline community leaders.

  Expenses $1,309,472 · Grants $163,100 · Revenue $50,000

• Conservation: Our work to proactively protect forests through establishing community-owned forests has been focused in the Pee Dee Watershed of South Carolina. Against the backdrop of a culture that has largely accepted the working forest conservation and economic model, Dogwood Alliance and our local partners are charting a new course that puts community-led forest protection at the center of our conservation and rural economic development agenda. This work gained significant momentum in 2024 with two new community forests in South Carolina secured and in process for Conservation easements and ongoing conservation plans. One additional community forest is ready to be acquired in South Carolina and funded through the Justice Conservation Fund. Potential community forest partners in North Carolina were contacted, and relationships were established. In 2025, Dogwood Alliance and New Alpha Community Development Corporation celebrated the opening of Freedom Land Community Forest, a 305-acre former slave plantation in Marion County, SC, now reclaimed as a community-owned space for healing, recreation, and ecological restoration. As Dogwoods second justice-centered community conservation project, Freedom Land reflects a powerful model for land return and nature-based climate solutions. The emotional ribbon cutting marked a significant milestone in advancing community-led forest protection and environmental justice across the South. In 2025 Dogwood Alliance developed the structure for a new conservation fund, Justice Conservation Fund, in partnership with New Alpha Development Corporation. The Funds purpose is to support additional community forest acquisitions in areas impacted by biomass and industrial logging. Dogwood signed an MOU with New Alpha outlining roles, funding criteria, and processes. While New Alpha CDC manages the financial accounting, the project is a partnership effort between Dogwood and New Alpha. The partnership resulted in $1 million of seed funding.

  Expenses $486,989 · Grants $40,000

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

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

• 2025

  Revenue

  $2,529,471

  Expenses

  $3,290,930

  Contributions

  $2,313,583

  Grants paid

  $203,100

• 2023

  Revenue

  $2,749,505

  Expenses

  $2,507,762

  Contributions

  $2,652,066

  Grants paid

  $211,000

• 2022

  Revenue

  $2,653,922

  Expenses

  $2,664,572

  Contributions

  $2,634,803

  Grants paid

  $191,200

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

  $2,991,809

  Expenses

  $2,143,313

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,669,914

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,523,565

  Expenses

  $1,846,251

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,045,094

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,163,920

  Expenses

  $1,814,708

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,113,093

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,015,881

  Expenses

  $1,748,382

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,795,369

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,999,479

  Expenses

  $1,552,587

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,508,525

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,593,770

  Expenses

  $1,503,525

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,063,252

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,749,437

  Expenses

  $1,326,548

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,965,662

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,397,820

  Expenses

  $851,387

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,531,955

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,397,820

  Expenses

  $851,387

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,531,955

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,051,497

  Expenses

  $683,269

  Assets (EOY)

  $957,844

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

• New Alpha Community Development

  $40,000

  2022 · Forests & Climate

• New Alpha Community Development

  $40,000

  2023 · Community Solutions

• New Alpha Community Development

  $40,000

  2025 · Community Solutions

• Georgia Interfaith Power and Light

  $35,000

  2023 · Bioenergy

• EEECHO

  $27,000

  2022 · Our Forests Aren't Fuel

• KMartin Group

  $21,000

  2025 · Bioenergy

• EEECHO

  $20,000

  2023 · Bioenergy

• KMartin Group

  $20,000

  2023 · Bioenergy

• EEECHO

  $20,000

  2025 · Bioenergy

• KMartin Group

  $17,200

  2022 · Our Forests Aren't Fuel

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS

  $1,555,000

  2024 · CHARITABLE GIFT

• FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS

  $1,550,000

  2023 · CHARITABLE GIFT

• FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS

  $1,345,000

  2022 · CHARITABLE GIFT

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $205,840

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• ADVOCACY ACTION FUND INC

  $150,000

  2024 · SUPPORT FOR ENERGY POLICY ADVOCACY

• CLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION

  $149,474

  2023 · PROJECT SUPPORT

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $137,090

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $124,320

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER

  $100,000

  2022 · MSC REGRANT-GRANT

• THE THRESHOLD FOUNDATION

  $52,000

  2022 · GENERAL SUPPORT

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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