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How is FSC Funded?

In 1993, FSC was launched with the strong support of private charitable foundations, which were seeking solutions to the mounting global problems of illegal logging and deforestation, and to the environmental and social problems linked to them. FSC was created to be a market-based approach to promoting responsible forest management around the world, for the benefit of nature and people, communities and businesses.

Consistent with these origins, FSC-US has received the overwhelming majority of its support from private charitable foundations since it was founded as a national initiative in 1995. See below for a list of FSC-US's major contributors (over $20,000) for the past five years.

FSC-US is financially independent from FSC International, headquartered in Bonn, Germany. In 2007, 34% of FSC International's funds came from the support of charitable foundations, government donors and business contributions. The other 66% was generated largely from accreditation fees charged to certifying bodies. As of 2009, the average accreditation fee per certificate is approximately $800; the maximum fee is $3,500.

FSC-US Major Funders 2004-2008 (Contributions of $20,000 or more)

2008 (unaudited)
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Town Creek Foundation
The Home Depot Foundation
Hayward Family Foundation
Fox Foundation
FSC Global Fund
Total Corporate Contributions*

 
$ 100,000
$   50,000
$ 250,000
$ 150,000
$   42,500
$ 100,000
$   41,128

2007
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Overbrook Foundation
Oak Hill Fund
Merck Family Fund
Richard & Rhonda Goldman Fund
Town Creek Foundation
Westwind Foundation
William E. Hayward
Fox Foundation
Total Corporate Contributions*

 
$ 100,000
$   60,000
$ 100,000
$   29,822
$   50,000
$   50,000
$   20,000
$   37,500
$   35,000
$   62,500

2006
The Home Depot Foundation
Overbrook Foundation
Oak Hill Fund
Roy A. Hunt Foundation
The Heinz Endowments
Town Creek Foundation
FSC Global Fund
Westwind Foundation
Wallace Global Fund
NY Community Trust
Total Corporate Contributions*

 
$ 180,000
$   60,000
$ 100,000
$   25,000
$   50,000
$   40,000
$   30,000
$   60,000
$   65,000
$   37,500
$   66,700

2005
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
The Home Depot Foundation
Surdna Foundation
Wallace Global Fund
Turner Foundation
Town Creek Foundation
The Heinz Endowments
Merck Family Fund
NY Community Trust
Roy A. Hunt Foundation
Overbrook Foundation
Oak Hill Fund
Westwind Foundation
Total Corporate Contributions*

 
$ 175,000
$ 200,000
$ 150,000
$   75,000
$   35,000
$   30,000
$   50,000
$   40,000
$   75,000
$   30,000
$   50,000
$ 100,000
$   60,000
$   72,500

2004
Ford Foundation
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Surdna Foundation
Wallace Global Fund
Westwind Foundation
Oak Hill Fund
Overbrook Foundation
FSC Global Fund
Merck Family Fund
Total Corporate Contributions*

 
$ 125,000
$ 100,000
$ 150,000
$   70,000
$   55,000
$   75,000
$   50,000
$ 150,000
$   35,000
$   23,182

* Corporate contributions include event sponsorships, small-scale project support
(< $20,000), and general contributions.