Grantees
2025-2026
| Beaverhead Community Wood Bank Ministry Inc. | Chama Peak Land Alliance | Nativity Woodbank | Shoshone-Paiute Wood Program | Warm Hearths | Williams Community Firewood Bank | Wood4Good, LTD | Yeshua's Hearth |
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Check out our past grantees: 2022-2023, 2023-2024, & 2024-2025
Explore our map of grantees below, containing all firewood banks funded to date.
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Beaverhead Community Wood Bank Ministry Inc.
Dillon, MT
Cords Per Year: 150
Homes Served Per Year: 50
Funding: $20,100
Beaverhead Community Wood Bank Ministry was previously funded in FY2 and FY3 of the Firewood Bank Assistance Program. They are supported by 77 organizations and individuals in their community. The wood bank started as a personal ministry of the late Episcopal priest Harry Neely, to help keep people warm. Harry cut firewood, to give it away to people who needed it, and he got others to join his efforts. He served households "in the shadow of the American dream." (Read our blog on Harry to learn more about his impact in Montana.) Saint James Episcopal Church in Dillon became the primary sponsor and Harry continued to manage the Wood Bank for many years. In 2011 the Beaverhead Community Wood Bank Ministry incorporated as an independent nonprofit charity to continue this ministry. The wood bank sees about 110 volunteers a year on its wood lot. In the summer of 2024, AGH staff visited Beaverhead Community Wood Bank in a string of Montana firewood bank visits- read more here.
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Most of the firewood comes to the wood bank in truckloads of logs salvaged from federal timber sale areas in southwest Montana, on the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest.. With this grant, Beaverhead will purchase 8 log-truck loads of unmerchantable wood from the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest. These logs are generally beetle-killed and deformed, making them unsuitable for sawmills. They'll also be purchasing smoke and CO combo detectors for all 50 of their recipients, a portion of their liability insurance, and fuel for their delivery truck, log splitters, and chainsaws.
Chama Peak Land Alliance's Firewood For Seniors Program
Tierra Amarilla, NM
Cords Per Year: 115
Homes Served Per Year: 110
Funding: $49,958
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The Chama Peak Land Alliance (CPLA) was previously funded in FY3 of the Firewood Bank Assistance Program. Their main organizational partners are the National Forest Foundation's Wood For Life program (wood sourcing), the Upper Chama Soil and Water Conservation District (wood lot space), and the Forest Stewards Guild (staff time and mileage expenses support from 2024 to 2026). One of the primary goals of CPLA is forest health and they are frequently working with different private landowners and forest health grants to complete thinning projects. Wood from these thinning projects help supply their Firewood For Seniors program with wood. They have approximately four volunteers that work at the firewood bank and one paid staff member.
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With the grant, CPLA will be partnering with Dolecek Enterprises to source the bulk of their wood from federal lands. This will result in around 230 cords moved from four different forests: Carson National Forest, Santa Fe National Forest, San Juan National Forest, and the Rio Grande National Forest. The reason these trees have been marked for removal ranges from regular timber/lumber operations to landscape/habitat restoration, fire suppression, and disease/pest control. Besides log loads, the grant will also help cover labor for firewood processing and administration.
Nativity Woodbank
Bend, OR
Cords Per Year: 350
Homes Served Per Year: 450
Funding: $49,434
The Nativity Woodbank was previously funded in FY1, FY2, and FY3 of the Firewood Bank Assistance Program. The Nativity Lutheran Church is the wood bank's sponsoring organization. Partners in the community include: Deschutes County Juvenile Justice (volunteers & community service), multiple tree service companies in the community (wood source), the Oregon State Park Service (wood source), Bend Parks and Recreation (wood source), their local high school (volunteers), and the Shepard House Ministries (volunteers). Nativity Woodbank has been distributing wood for 18 years and has a core team of 8-12 volunteers that work every Saturday year-around processing donated and USFS wood. During distribution season (October-April), this team rises to around 30 volunteers. Their wood comes from multiple sources including national forests, state managed land, local government land, and private land.
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With this grant, Nativity Woodbank will transport at least 40 cords of wood from the Deschutes National Forest. These logs are lower-value, non-merchantable timber made available through fuel-break work completed during past fires. They'll also be purchasing a flat bed trailer, conveyor belt, steel sheds for firewood storage, and equipment maintenance.
Shoshone-Paiute Wood Program
Owyhee, NV
Cords Per Year: 600
Homes Served Per Year: 550
Funding: $50,000
The Shoshone-Paiute Wood Program's mission is to ensure that every household, especially elders and vulnerable families, have access to firewood during the harsh winters on the Duck Valley Indian Reservation. They have been providing firewood to their community since 2021 with three paid staff involved in the processing and distributing of wood.
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With this grant, the Shoshone-Paiute Wood Program has plans to obtain 1,000 cords of wood from the Boise, Payette, and Sawtooth National Forests. Most of these logs are made available due to needed fire suppression management. The grant will also help the wood program with equipment repairs and maintenance, as well the purchase of chainsaws, wood splitters, and PPE.
Warm Hearths
Monticello, UT
Cords Per Year: 160
Homes Served Per Year: 160
Funding: $30,000
Warm Hearths was previously funded in FY2 and FY3 of the Firewood Bank Assistance Program under the name "Brandt Services." They've been distributing firewood for 38 years. Their mission is to "... warm the hearths of every elderly, disabled and less fortunate person in the Four Corner Area. We feel like no individual should be cold, and will do everything possible to make sure that they all have a warm hearth." They are a wife and husband duo that most of the processing and distribution for the program.
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Warm Hearths will be purchasing five truckloads of logs from the San Juan National Forest with the grant. The grant also allowed the program to purchase fuel, 40ft cube containers for storage, saw chain, and a loader arm tractor attachment.
Williams Community Firewood Bank
Williams, OR
Cords Per Year: 40
Homes Served Per Year: 20
Funding: $20,932
The Williams​ Community Firewood Bank is a start-up operation created in partnership by the Williams Firefighter Association and the Williams Rural Fire Protection District (WRFPD). Their firewood bank mission is to combine community service with wildfire prevention by directly addressing fuel poverty, improving heat equity, and enhancing local climate resilience. The town they serve is a small rural community in southern Josephine County, Oregon, where most residents rely on wood stoves as a primary heat source. They report that rising costs, accessibility challenges, and minimal local services leave many households at risk of unsafe heating practices. The WRFPD will provide volunteer firefighter labor for processing and distribution events.
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The Williams Community Firewood Bank will be receiving four truckloads of logs from Bureau of Land Management land in the Grants Pass Resource Area. One of these loads will be purchased with grant funds and the other three donated by loggers. These logs are the result of landscape/habitat restoration and fire suppression efforts in the resource area. The grant also allowed the start-up operation to purchase PPE, chainsaws, a log splitter, a carport for firewood storage, materials for community outreach, while also covering important operational costs like fuel, equipment maintenance, and federal wood permits.
Wood4Good, LTD
Jericho, VT
Cords Per Year: 250
Homes Served Per Year: 150
Funding: $50,000
Wood4Good was previously funded in FY1, FY2, and FY3 of the Firewood Bank Assistance Program. Wood4Good's main partners include the State of Vermont (wood sourcing), Barrett's/SavATree Tree Service (wood sourcing), East Rise Credit Union (volunteering), Vermont Federal Credit Union (volunteering), Darn Tough Socks (volunteering), Ivy Computer (volunteering), and Rotaries of Chittenden County (volunteering). Each year, Wood4Good sees 250 volunteers involved in their operation. Having begun in 2019 as a small operation, delivering firewood as a family to neighbors, has grown into an effort that warms households across northwest Vermont. Their mission reads: "At Wood4Good, we believe no one should have to choose between food, medicine, or heat. Our mission is to increase security by providing free firewood to Vermonters in need while building community through a shared purpose of helping others and growing a sense of belonging."
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With this grant, Wood4Good will purchase 30 cords worth of log length wood sourced from the Green Mountain National Forest. They'll also be purchasing a Blockbuster B18 Firewood Processor, with the help of additional community fundraising. The processor will allow them to establish new remote processing sites across Vermont, where wood from national forests and other public lands can be received, cut, split, and distributed safely and efficiently. They also hope to bring the processor to smaller community wood banks to help strengthen their wood bank operations, build capacity, and expand local reach.
​Yeshua's Hearth
Caldwell, WV
Cords Per Year: 20
Homes Served Per Year: 20
Funding: $15,000
Yeshua's Hearth's mission is to assist low-income households throughout Greenbrier County, West Virginia. They are a relatively new firewood bank, having begun distributing wood in February 2025. The founder of the firewood bank was inspired after participating in a local non-profit's "Share the Warmth" program while in an AmeriCorps position. To ensure that Yeshua's Hearth would be successful, the founder completed a graduate-level course on Nonprofits in Appalachia through Marshall University and received acceptance into the Appalachian Regional Commission's READY Nonprofit training program. The county that the firewood bank serves is listed as a "distressed" area economically and has a deep cultural connection to heating with firewood. The firewood bank comes as a great relief to the area where a cord of wood sells for $300, land access to harvest wood is difficult, and equipment for processing wood is expensive. They have about four volunteers and one paid staff.
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Yeshua's Hearth currently holds firewood permits for both the Monongahela National Forest and the George Washington and Jefferson National Forest. Each forest is about a 30-minute drive from the wood bank's physical location. Between 8 and 15 cords they distribute this year will be sourced from those forests. The grant allowed the firewood bank to purchase a dump trailer, log splitter, chainsaw, carport for firewood storage, and PPE.
