The Furniture Trust

What The Furniture Trust does

The Furniture Trust is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 2008 in Arlington, Massachusetts, that operates a furniture repurposing service connecting corporations with excess office furniture to nonprofits, schools, and community organizations. The organization was founded by Christine Mosholder and John Riley after observing that usable office furniture was routinely sent to landfills during corporate relocations and renovations while schools, shelters, churches, and clinics lacked budget for functional furniture. Since inception, the Trust has reportedly donated $51.2 million in fair market value of furniture and diverted 17.1 million pounds from the waste stream, supporting 3.9 million individuals since 2023.

The Trust's core offering is The Sustainable Network®, a matching platform that connects businesses disposing of unwanted office furnishings with nonprofits and schools that need them. For corporate clients, the organization provides end-to-end furniture decommissioning services covering inventory assessment, transportation logistics, and fair market value documentation for tax purposes. For nonprofit recipients, furniture is provided at no cost through an application-based process. Complementary programs include Mass Teacher Resources (free classroom supplies for K-8 Title 1 schools, which the Trust will take over operating in the 2026-2027 school year) and the Backpack Attack school supply drive with The Wish Project.

The organization's revenue model combines paid decommissioning services from corporate clients with grants and donations. Business clients hire the Trust on a quote-based, project-by-project basis for furniture removal; pricing is not publicly disclosed. Nonprofit recipients pay nothing. The Trust has secured notable enterprise engagements including a multi-building Biogen Cambridge reoptimization (280 tons of furniture valued at $1.9 million redistributed to 21 nonprofits, impacting over 106,000 individuals) and an FM Global Los Angeles decommission ($117,760 in furniture value). Geographic footprint spans the Boston metropolitan area and Los Angeles, with leadership under Executive Director Dana DeVeau and a small team of approximately seven staff.

Name

The Furniture Trust

Legal name

The Furniture Trust

Website

https://thefurnituretrust.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2008

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

The Furniture Trust is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that provides corporate office furniture decommissioning services and redistributes unwanted furnishings to nonprofits, schools, and community organizations via its Sustainable Network® matching platform across the Boston and Los Angeles regions.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Furniture Decommissioning Services

NAICS

Reupholstery and Furniture Repair (81142), Reupholstery and Furniture Repair (811420)

SIC

Retail-Furniture Stores (5712)

akta.pro primary industry

Office Furniture Moving, Installation & Reconfiguration (Systems Furniture) (HSAKAKAE)

Keywords

• Office furniture decommissioning
• Furniture donation services
• Corporate sustainability services
• Nonprofit furniture reuse
• Community reinvestment services

Headquarters

HQ city

Arlington

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Furniture Decommissioning Services: Businesses hire The Furniture Trust to manage the removal and disposition of their unwanted office furniture. The Trust coordinates inventory, transportation, and donation logistics while providing fair market value documentation for tax purposes.
2. Donations and Grants: The organization accepts donations from individuals and has received grants such as the 2023 Cummings Foundation Grant. Also participates in 1% for the Planet network.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

The Furniture Trust is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that provides end-to-end office furniture decommissioning services for businesses undergoing renovations, relocations, or office reoptimization. Rather than sending furniture to landfills, the organization inventories, removes, and transports unwanted office furniture and redistributes it to qualifying nonprofits, schools, and community organizations through The Sustainable Network® matching platform. Nonprofits and schools receive furniture free of charge; businesses pay for the decommissioning project management services.

Product overview

The Furniture Trust is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that operates as a furniture repurposing service rather than a traditional product company. Its core offerings center on The Sustainable Network® — a platform connecting businesses decommissioning office furniture with nonprofits, schools, and community organizations that need it. The organization provides end-to-end furniture decommissioning services (inventory, removal, transportation, delivery) and runs complementary programs including Mass Teacher Resources (classroom supplies) and the Backpack Attack school supply drive. All services are free to nonprofits; businesses hire the Trust for project management.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Mass Teacher Resources: A program powered by The Furniture Trust that supports public schools by providing teachers at Title 1 schools (grades K-8) with classroom supplies to promote educational equity and reduce environmental waste. The Furniture Trust will be taking over operations of the free store for teachers beginning with the 2026-2027 school year.

Products and services

• Furniture Decommissioning Services End-to-end office furniture decommissioning service for businesses. Covers inventory assessment, budget planning, scheduling, transportation, delivery to nonprofits, and final walkthrough with project metrics. Corporate clients hire the Trust to dispose of unwanted office furniture without sending it to landfill.
• Furniture Donation Program Free furniture distribution program for nonprofits, schools, and community organizations. Recipients apply through The Sustainable Network and receive furniture matched to their wishlists at no cost.
• The Sustainable Network® Proprietary matching network that connects used office furnishings from businesses with local schools, nonprofits, and community organizations. The Giving Team uses this network to match incoming donations against nonprofit wishlists.
• Mass Teacher Resources Program providing free classroom supplies to teachers at K-8 Title 1 public schools in Massachusetts to promote educational equity and reduce environmental waste. Operated by The Furniture Trust beginning 2026-2027 school year.

Quantifiable outcome

• Diverted 17.1M pounds from the waste stream since 2008
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• 1% for the PlanetcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 10 March 2025The Furniture Trust joined 1% for the Planet as an environmental partner. This partnership advances their environmental impact and involves more businesses in the environmental movement. 1% for the Planet is an accountability network for businesses committed to giving back to environmental causes, started in 2002 by Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard and Craig Mathews.
• FM GlobalcoreGTM or Marketing PartnerFM Global, a global property insurance firm, partnered with The Furniture Trust for furniture decommissioning at their Los Angeles Operations facility. Donated $117,760 worth of furniture, diverted 55,920 pounds from landfill, impacted 3,030 lives including support for schools damaged by the Palisades fire.
• BiogencoreGTM or Marketing PartnerLong-standing partnership with Biogen for Cambridge Re-Optimization project. Removed 9 floors of furniture across 2 buildings (280 tons valued at $1.9M) from September 2022 to February 2023, donating to 21 nonprofits and impacting over 106,783 individuals in the Boston area.
• The Wish ProjectminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Furniture Trust supports The Wish Project's Backpack Attack program, a school supply drive benefiting children in homeless shelters and low-income families in the Merrimack Valley. Goal of 2,000 school supply packs for the June 24-August 9 drive.
• Cumming GroupminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerPartnered with Biogen and Cumming Group to organize removal and donation of 9 floors of furniture across 2 buildings in Kendall Square Cambridge project.
• Mass Teacher ResourcescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Furniture Trust is taking over operations of the free store for teachers (Mass Teacher Resources program) beginning with the 2026-2027 school year. This program supports K-8 Title 1 public school teachers with classroom supplies.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• Material Return: Service that helps businesses redistribute surplus office furniture and equipment to nonprofits and schools. Directly comparable mission to The Furniture Trust, operating as a smaller emerging player in the same corporate-to-nonprofit furniture donation space.
• DonationTown: Online platform that helps individuals and businesses schedule free donation pickups from local charities. Adjacent in connecting donors with recipient nonprofits, but focused on household goods pickup scheduling rather than enterprise-scale office decommissioning.

Broad incumbents

• Iron Mountain: Large information and asset management company with sustainability-focused asset disposition services. While broader in scope (records management, IT asset disposition), it overlaps with The Furniture Trust in helping enterprises responsibly dispose of physical assets at scale.
• Habitat for Humanity ReStores: Large nonprofit retail operation that sells donated furniture and home goods to fund homebuilding. Comparable in that both organizations redistribute donated furniture to community benefit, but ReStores operate at national scale via retail rather than direct corporate-to-nonprofit matching.
• Goodwill Industries International: Major nonprofit that accepts donated goods (including furniture) and channels them to employment programs and community support. Comparable mission of converting donated items into community value, though at much larger scale and broader product mix.
• Hilco Global: Asset advisory and disposition firm serving corporate clients with surplus/retired asset liquidation including office furniture. Overlaps with The Furniture Trust in providing enterprise clients a structured exit path for unwanted office assets.

Direct peers

• Office Furniture USA: Retailer specializing in used, refurbished, and remanufactured office furniture to businesses. Comparable in the used office furniture value chain, though it sells rather than donates the furniture.
• Green Standards: For-profit sustainability-focused office furniture disposition firm that helps corporations redeploy, donate, or recycle unwanted office furniture. Direct competitor in the same corporate-furniture-decommissioning value proposition The Furniture Trust offers, but operating for-profit at larger national scale.
• Workplace Furniture Liquidators: For-profit office furniture liquidator that buys and resells decommissioned office furniture. Comparable in the used office furniture ecosystem, but commercially focused rather than mission-driven donation.
• Crandall Office Furniture: Used and refurbished office furniture dealer that buys, refurbishes, and resells pre-owned office furniture to corporate buyers. Comparable in the used office furniture ecosystem, though operating as a for-profit dealer rather than a donation-matching nonprofit.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses3 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance4 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

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