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Forests Forever Inc

EIN 68-0201338 · Berkeley, CA

Public records show a registered, tax-exempt organization in good standing.

What it says it does

To protect and enhance the forests and wildlife habitat of California through educational, legislative, and electoral activities.

Source: Form 990 for the year ending May 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate

We do not score finances when yearly spending is very small or the return has too little detail. The ratios stop meaning much at that size.

Source: Form 990 for the year ending May 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate

This return does not answer enough of the governance questions to score.

Source: Form 990 for the year ending May 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate

Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.

Programs described in its return (1)

$248,151 spent. We generated emails and letters that helped to defeat a scheme to establish for the first time a forest-destructive industry in California that would have exploited the state's forests to manufacture and export wood pellets for overseas electricity generation. On multiple fronts we opposed weakening of federal mature and old-growth forest protections and called for them to be strengthened. This targeted primarily the two largest U.S. land-management agencies with forest holdings under their jurisdiction. We pushed the Forest Service to revise and simplify the system (CARA) through which the public submits input on agency decisions, as provided by the law. We generated grassroots messages to save and strengthen the successful and forest-protective Northwest Forest Plan.

Source: Form 990 for the year ending May 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate

Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 7, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Passed.
Not on the IRS automatic revocation list.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 30, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Passed.
On the IRS list of organizations eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions.
Source: Publication 78 data: organizations eligible for tax-deductible contributions, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 10, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending May 2025.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 7, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since June 1995.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 7, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated October 7, 2026.

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