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The purpose of the act on the financing of sustainable forestry (Kemera-law) is to advance economically, ecologically and socially sustainable silviculture and use of the forests. A private forest owner may receive financial support from the State for forest management, forest improvement work and for nature management. The purpose of this thesis was to find out the factors affecting the private forest owners’ participation in the Kemera cost sharing program and are there differences between forest owners’ objectives in forest ownership and opinions about Kemera-subsidies depending on the participation in the cost sharing program. The data used in this thesis is from a survey that was implemented in the spring of 2016 as a part of a project in Tapio Oy. Also additional information from The Finnish Forest Centre was used in the regression analysis. The factors affecting the use of Kemera-subsidy was analyzed with logistic regression. The differences in the forest ownership objectives and in the opinions about the Kemera-subsidy depending on the participation to the Kemera cost sharing program were determined by descriptive analysis. With the used factors, the regression analysis did not succeed in making a model that would successfully predict the participation to the cost sharing program. However, the results implied that the factors positively affecting the participation to the cost sharing program were forested area owned, forest owners’ self-determined activity and use of external services in forest. The differences between the forest owners’ objectives depending on the participation in the cost sharing program imply that the participants did not value the non-monetary values less than those who had not participated in the cost sharing program, but they did value monetary values more. The average opinions about Kemera-subsidy did not vary much depending on the participation to the cost sharing program. Those who had participated in the cost sharing program in the last 10 years were a little more satisfied about the Kemera-subsidies. The majority thought that the best incentive in the Kemera-subsidy is the gained benefit in the future. The most common reason not to participate in the cost sharing program was the challenging applying.