New York Forest Owners Association Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
161537976
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-T 2025
Location
Naples, NY, USA
Phone
6073652214
Rating
77
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Forest Conservation

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$95,452
Expenses
$86,259
Assets
$88,578

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

2 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Edward Neuhauser (President)

People named in this filing

  • Edward Neuhauser (President)
  • Nick Jensen (Treasurer)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Promote public understanding of the benefits derived through sound forest stewardship. Provide resources and information to the public to increase their understanding of the concepts and importance of sound principles of forest management. Support economically sound use of privately owned forest lands through studies and education. Foster communication and cooperation with other organizations and agencies with similar purposes and among and between all participants in the forest product cycle.

What it reported doing in 2025

Support for Restore New York's Woodlands initiative to inform and educate membership, the general public and the NYS legislature about inadequate forest regeneration in most of NY's woodlands, Its impact on long term health and productivity, the effect in local economies and strategies for woodland restoration. This included subsidizing the cost of constructing deer exclosure fences and informative signs across the state to demonstrate to the public the adverse impacts of deer browsing on forest regeneration and meeting with the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation, natural resource and forest industry stakeholders and the NYS government to help shape a revised forest tax law that is beneficial to landowners. the public and industry and educate NYS ligislators about the Empire State Forest Initiative.

Operating model

Revenue model
Membership-supported. 60% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and assets have declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 79
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 49
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 75.7%; rating input score 76
  • Program expense ratio: 83.2%; rating input score 83

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 9.6%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.03; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -1.6% per year; rating input score 0; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -0.6% per year; rating input score 0; 36th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 75.7% of revenue deployed · 83.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $72K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.