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National Arbor Day Foundation
The purpose of the corporation shall be to engage in educational and charitable activities including offically promoting the annual observance of arbor day, inspiring people to plant, nurture, and celebrate trees, stimulating a world-wide program of tree and horticultural planting and care, advancing nature education and environmental…
- $12M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 181
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 119
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 47%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $12M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $37,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,709,668
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 119
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 45
- Total assets, FY2025
- $136M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 47% of the organizations National Arbor Day Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 170 | $11M | 45% |
| FY2024 | 119 | $6.1M | 47% |
| FY2023 | 74 | $4.3M | 35% |
| FY2022 | 49 | $2.6M | 47% |
| FY2021 | 36 | $1.6M | 47% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $1.1M | 63% |
| FY2019 | 42 | $1.6M | 81% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $570k | 85% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arbor Day Impact Fund | $1,709,668 | 1 | 100% |
| Trees Atlanta Inc | $944,439 | 8 | 4% |
| Texas Trees Foundation | $760,637 | 6 | 3% |
| Trees For Houston | $717,269 | 8 | 4% |
| City Parks Foundation Inc | $688,386 | 5 | 1% |
| The Greening of Detroit | $591,119 | 6 | 5% |
| Casey Trees | $573,300 | 4 | 1% |
| Forest Releaf of Missouri | $566,996 | 6 | 13% |
| Openlands | $549,500 | 5 | 2% |
| Miami Dade Community Action & Human Services | $477,260 | 6 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arbor Day Impact Fund | $1,709,668 | 1 | 100% |
| Trees Atlanta Inc | $944,439 | 8 | 4% |
| Texas Trees Foundation | $760,637 | 6 | 3% |
| Trees For Houston | $717,269 | 8 | 4% |
| City Parks Foundation Inc | $688,386 | 5 | 1% |
| The Greening of Detroit | $591,119 | 6 | 5% |
| Casey Trees | $573,300 | 4 | 1% |
| Forest Releaf of Missouri | $566,996 | 6 | 13% |
| Openlands | $549,500 | 5 | 2% |
| Miami Dade Community Action & Human Services | $477,260 | 6 | n/a |
| TreesCharlotte | $462,303 | 6 | 10% |
| Floresta USA Incorporated | $389,660 | 6 | 1% |
| The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society | $387,478 | 5 | 0% |
| Urban Bird & Nature Alliance | $383,954 | 7 | n/a |
| Friends of Trees | $378,250 | 6 | 3% |
| Baltimore Tree Trust Inc | $374,750 | 4 | 5% |
| New Jersey Tree Foundation | $368,084 | 9 | 8% |
| City of Cape Coral | $358,815 | 2 | n/a |
| Tree Trust | $353,566 | 6 | 1% |
| Trees Greenville | $351,291 | 5 | 16% |
| The Park People | $350,278 | 6 | 9% |
| Fruit Tree Planting Foundation | $330,737 | 5 | 12% |
| Bridging the Gap Inc | $321,250 | 4 | 6% |
| Western Reserve Land Conservancy | $306,625 | 5 | 0% |
| Tree San Diego | $294,240 | 4 | 17% |
| Community Greening Corp | $292,178 | 5 | 26% |
| Friends of the Urban Forest | $277,121 | 3 | 3% |
| Greenscape of Jacksonville Inc | $272,660 | 5 | 25% |
| Trees Matter | $270,000 | 6 | 16% |
| Keep Tampa Bay Beautiful | $268,013 | 5 | 11% |
| Arizona Sustainability Alliance | $264,535 | 5 | 5% |
| The Student Conservation Association Inc | $245,682 | 2 | 0% |
| Food 4 Farmers Inc | $245,358 | 4 | 15% |
| Cumberland River Compact Inc | $238,200 | 4 | 2% |
| EcoCulture Reforestation Network LLC | $236,750 | 3 | n/a |
| Treeslouisville Inc | $235,375 | 4 | 5% |
| North East Trees Inc | $234,375 | 2 | 4% |
| Nashville Tree Foundation | $233,513 | 5 | 52% |
| Treepeople Inc | $220,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Trout Unlimited Inc | $219,550 | 2 | 0% |
| NOLA Tree Project | $213,688 | 3 | 45% |
| Fairmount Park Conservancy | $203,695 | 3 | 0% |
| City of South Sioux City | $198,043 | 1 | n/a |
| Sustaining Our Urban Landscape SOUL | $197,878 | 1 | 19% |
| City of Olathe | $195,935 | 1 | n/a |
| Keep Indianapolis Beautiful Inc | $192,875 | 4 | 1% |
| Asheville GreenWorks | $190,075 | 2 | 12% |
| Friends of Grand Rapids Parks | $189,250 | 5 | 8% |
| The Bronx Is Blooming | $187,500 | 2 | 14% |
| Alliance for Cape Fear Trees | $184,866 | 4 | 48% |
| City of Greensboro | $175,244 | 1 | n/a |
| Keep Durham Beautiful Inc | $172,610 | 6 | 29% |
| The Americas for the Arts | $171,250 | 2 | 13% |
| TreeFolks Inc | $170,500 | 3 | 5% |
| Savannah Tree Foundation Inc | $164,688 | 4 | 14% |
| Operation Pride Inc | $162,538 | 4 | 4% |
| Tree Utah | $156,330 | 4 | 18% |
| The Outdoor Circle | $155,265 | 4 | 17% |
| OREGON URBAN RURAL AND COMMUNITY FORESTRY DBA OUR Community Forestry | $151,157 | 1 | n/a |
| The Morton Arboretum | $150,100 | 3 | 0% |
| City of Council Bluffs | $149,534 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of the Pittsburgh Urban Forest | $149,375 | 5 | 2% |
| Cedar Rapids Trees Forever | $143,125 | 3 | n/a |
| Friends of the Rappahannock | $137,044 | 2 | 2% |
| Shreveport Green | $134,538 | 4 | 4% |
| City of Haverhill - Haverhill Public Schools | $129,580 | 1 | n/a |
| Delaware River City Corporation | $128,826 | 3 | 8% |
| City of Satellite Beach Fl | $128,520 | 1 | n/a |
| Tucson Clean & Beautiful Inc | $124,500 | 3 | 6% |
| Ideas for US Inc | $121,600 | 1 | n/a |
| Roytens Enrichment Academy Community Hope | $117,010 | 1 | 38% |
| Sacramento Tree Foundation | $115,171 | 3 | 2% |
| Village of Newport Ky | $114,518 | 1 | n/a |
| Nueva Esperanza Housing and Economic Development Corporation | $112,500 | 2 | 6% |
| Speak for the Trees Inc | $109,197 | 4 | 4% |
| Delaware Center for Horticulture Inc | $108,150 | 3 | 1% |
| Green Columbus | $107,819 | 3 | 26% |
| Groundwork Rhode Island | $105,000 | 3 | 14% |
| Town of Stratford Ct | $103,867 | 1 | n/a |
| Releaf Michigan Inc | $102,925 | 2 | 40% |
| California Urban Forests Council | $99,500 | 2 | 5% |
| Bronx River Alliance Inc | $98,353 | 3 | 4% |
| Treasure Valley Canopy Network Inc | $93,750 | 3 | 18% |
| Central Florida Fair Inc | $93,500 | 2 | 2% |
| Parks Foundation of Miami-Dadeinc | $86,750 | 1 | 19% |
| NJ Dept of Environmental Protection | $85,905 | 2 | n/a |
| Trees Forever Inc | $84,750 | 1 | 2% |
| Citizens for a Better South Florida Inc | $83,100 | 3 | 26% |
| City of West Des Moines | $81,889 | 1 | n/a |
| Lynn Public Schools | $80,619 | 1 | n/a |
| Wolf River Conservancy Inc | $78,250 | 3 | 1% |
| Unity Gardens | $75,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Milwaukee Public Schools | $75,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Tree Eastie Inc | $73,500 | 2 | 30% |
| City of Rock Hill | $71,016 | 4 | n/a |
| Koreatown Youth and Community Center | $70,875 | 2 | 0% |
| City of Garland Texas | $70,224 | 1 | n/a |
| Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc | $69,436 | 3 | 0% |
| Up With Trees Inc | $68,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Trees for the Triangle | $66,500 | 2 | 64% |
| City of Moab | $65,397 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Easton | $65,350 | 1 | n/a |
| Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc | $63,981 | 3 | 0% |
| Village of Wellington | $63,750 | 1 | n/a |
| Para la Naturaleza Inc | $63,600 | 1 | 0% |
| American Reforestation Initiative | $62,800 | 2 | n/a |
| City of Winchester Va | $62,141 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Decorah Ia | $61,533 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Myrtle Beach | $60,750 | 3 | n/a |
| Great Plains Nursery LLC | $57,649 | 2 | n/a |
| City of Franklin | $57,625 | 2 | n/a |
| Providence Neighborhood Planting Program | $57,500 | 2 | 15% |
| Boulder Parks and Recreation Foundation | $57,500 | 2 | 5% |
| Friends of Berkeley Tuolumne Camp | $56,875 | 2 | 15% |
| James River Association | $56,250 | 2 | 1% |
| City of Rock Springs Wy | $54,367 | 1 | n/a |
| Urban & Community Forestry Society | $54,327 | 1 | 11% |
| Knox Inc | $53,600 | 2 | 2% |
| Alabama Urban Forest Association | $51,000 | 2 | 11% |
| Serve Ethiopians Washington | $50,863 | 1 | n/a |
| Alief Superneighborhood Council 25 | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Oklahoma City Beautiful Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Keep It Moving Inc | $50,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Recycle and Reinvest | $50,000 | 2 | 8% |
| City of Port St Lucie | $48,980 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Lincoln Nebraska | $47,600 | 2 | n/a |
| Ducktown Neighborhood Community Development Corporation | $46,000 | 2 | 15% |
| Town of Cary | $45,674 | 1 | n/a |
| Cuyahoga River Community Planning Organization | $45,027 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Winterset | $45,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Philadelphia Orchard Project Inc | $44,875 | 2 | 10% |
| Dixie Fire Canopy Project | $44,000 | 2 | 14% |
| Food Well Alliance | $43,500 | 1 | 1% |
| City of Las Vegas | $41,250 | 1 | n/a |
| The City-County of Butte-Silver Bow Mt | $40,662 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of Norfolks Environment Inc | $40,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Keep the Midlands Beautiful | $40,000 | 1 | 21% |
| City of Hermiston | $39,950 | 1 | n/a |
| Sonora Environmental Research Institute Inc | $39,875 | 1 | 8% |
| Upper Dublin Tree Tenders | $39,214 | 2 | n/a |
| Green Interchange Inc | $38,500 | 2 | 18% |
| Overton Park Conservancy | $38,342 | 3 | 2% |
| Quapaw Nation | $38,022 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Red Lodge | $38,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Montana Urban and Community Forestry Association | $37,500 | 1 | 35% |
| Cincinnati Parks Foundation | $37,500 | 2 | 1% |
| New Albany Plain-Local Joint Parks District | $37,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Willowsford Conservancy Inc | $37,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Cawaco Resource Conservation & Development Council Inc | $37,500 | 1 | 1% |
| City of South Bend | $37,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Trees Lexington | $37,500 | 1 | 24% |
| Columbia Green | $37,250 | 1 | 32% |
| Keep Lewisville Beautiful | $36,975 | 1 | 24% |
| Fairfax Releaf | $35,000 | 1 | 42% |
| Bloomfield Health Dept | $35,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Louisville Grows Incorporated | $35,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Keep Prince William Beautiful Inc | $35,000 | 1 | 11% |
| State of Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources | $34,875 | 1 | n/a |
| Tacoma Tree Foundation | $33,750 | 2 | 20% |
| Papio Valley Nursery Inc | $32,907 | 1 | n/a |
| New York Restoration Project | $32,000 | 2 | 0% |
| City of Arlington | $31,960 | 1 | n/a |
| The Properties of Wright Field LLC | $31,300 | 1 | n/a |
| Middle Fork Willamette Watershed Council | $31,092 | 1 | 10% |
| Sierra Rcd | $30,400 | 1 | n/a |
| Baton Rouge Green Association Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Community Partners | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Fountaingrove II | $29,975 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Lake Mary | $29,875 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Shaker Heights | $29,875 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Miami Beach | $29,450 | 1 | n/a |
| Future Forestry Corporation | $29,438 | 2 | 28% |
| City of Charlotte | $29,008 | 1 | n/a |
| Greenfield Municipal Utilities | $28,125 | 1 | n/a |
| Park District of the City of Fargo | $28,050 | 1 | n/a |
| Groundwork Rva Inc | $27,850 | 1 | 6% |
| City of Ada Ok | $27,615 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Logan | $27,104 | 1 | n/a |
| Groundwork Bridgeport Inc | $26,970 | 1 | 5% |
| Blue Oak Collective Inc | $25,800 | 1 | n/a |
| Town of Latta | $25,800 | 1 | n/a |
| Your Childrens Trees | $25,000 | 1 | 26% |
| Trees Knoxville | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Goshen Parks & Recreation Department | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Pflugerville Tx | $24,932 | 1 | n/a |
| Sisterswe | $24,875 | 1 | n/a |
| Our City Forest | $24,875 | 1 | 1% |
| Coffey Strong Inc | $24,800 | 1 | n/a |
| Plant Five for Life | $24,740 | 1 | n/a |
| Tennessee Environmental Council | $24,200 | 1 | n/a |
| Indianapolis Parks Foundation Inc | $24,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Native Forest Nursery LLC | $23,992 | 2 | n/a |
| Woody Warehouse Nursery Inc | $23,746 | 1 | n/a |
| Tampa General Hospital Foundation Inc | $23,650 | 2 | 0% |
| Council Bluffs Trees Forever | $23,180 | 1 | n/a |
| Tree Fresno | $22,500 | 1 | 4% |
| Green Compass LLC | $22,500 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Umatilla | $22,500 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Charleston South Carolina | $22,125 | 1 | n/a |
| Keep America Beautiful Inc | $21,874 | 1 | 0% |
| Forrest Keeling Nursery | $21,829 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Ames | $21,325 | 1 | n/a |
| Downtown Plainfield Alliance | $21,175 | 1 | n/a |
| Illinois River Watershed Partnership | $20,800 | 1 | 3% |
| Southside ReLeaf | $20,625 | 1 | 22% |
| Siteone Landscape Supply | $20,441 | 1 | n/a |
| Mayor & City Council of Baltimore | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| New Haven - Urban Resources Initiative Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 3% |
| City of Talent | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hackensack Health Dept | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Gothenburg | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Morristown Health Dept | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Hollywood | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Fund for Parks and Recreation - Boston | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Town of Bristol | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Create a Healthier Niagara Falls Collaborative Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 10% |
| Keep Omaha Beautiful Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 3% |
| City of Wilmington Nc | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Clifton | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Riverfront Recapture Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| City of Newburgh | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Garden Time Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Sustainable Life Media Inc | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Oakland Park Florida | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Clifton Health Dept | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Worcester Public Library | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Orlando Fl | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Trees New York Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 4% |
| The John Bartram Association | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| 15 Minute Field Trips | $19,950 | 1 | 15% |
| City of Issaquah | $18,750 | 1 | n/a |
| Field Institute LLC | $18,750 | 1 | n/a |
| Cadwalader Park Alliance a Njnonprofit Corporation | $18,750 | 1 | n/a |
| Glendale Parks & Open Space Foundation | $18,750 | 1 | 89% |
| Sun Valley Institute for Resilience | $18,750 | 1 | 3% |
| Somerville Borough | $18,750 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Lansing | $18,750 | 1 | n/a |
| Southbridge Public Schools | $18,656 | 1 | n/a |
| Bexar Branches Alliance Corp | $18,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Upper Darby Township | $18,270 | 1 | n/a |
| Boardman Park and Rec District | $18,000 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Toledo | $17,600 | 1 | n/a |
| The Newport Tree Conservancy | $17,288 | 1 | 2% |
| City of Green Bay | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Giving Grove | $15,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Chestnut Ridge Nursery Inc | $14,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of Keep Charleston Beautifu | $13,750 | 1 | 37% |
| Amigos de Los Rios | $13,258 | 1 | 0% |
| New Jersey Conservation Foundation | $13,000 | 1 | n/a |
| City of New Braunfels | $12,500 | 1 | n/a |
| We Plant It Forward Inc | $12,500 | 1 | 19% |
| Urban Rivers Inc | $12,320 | 1 | 1% |
| City of Decatur | $12,227 | 1 | n/a |
| Incorporated Village of Valley Stream | $12,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Portland Rotary Charitable Fund | $12,000 | 1 | 31% |
| City of Rockport | $12,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Perkiomen Watershed Conservancy | $12,000 | 1 | n/a |
| West Orange Health Dept | $11,900 | 1 | n/a |
| Tyonek Tribal Conservation District | $11,875 | 1 | 0% |
| Tree Authority LLC | $11,636 | 1 | n/a |
| Mountain Housing Opportunities Inc | $10,400 | 1 | n/a |
| City Of Columbia | $10,113 | 1 | n/a |
| Stuart Creek Farm Homeowner's Association | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Keep Bossier Beautiful | $10,000 | 1 | 11% |
| Central Park Conservancy Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Tenafly Nature Center Association | $9,598 | 1 | 1% |
| Doremus Wholesale Nursery | $9,575 | 1 | n/a |
| Minnesota Zoo | $8,675 | 1 | n/a |
| A Plus Tree Service | $8,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Winslow Ccum 3 Urban Renewal LLC | $8,110 | 1 | n/a |
| Hartford Preservation Alliance Inc | $8,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Cumberland Empowerment | $7,870 | 1 | n/a |
| Plant Me Green | $6,775 | 1 | n/a |
| Magnolia Gardens Nursery | $5,506 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Vineland | $5,240 | 1 | n/a |
| Beyond Housing Inc | $5,144 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($53k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
National Arbor Day Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 21 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 145 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: American Forests · Keep America Beautiful Inc · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Urban Forestry Organization · National Recreation and Park Association · The Nature Conservancy · National League of Cities Institute Inc · Patagoniaorg · US Green Building Council Inc · Clif Family Foundation · California ReLeaf · Palmettopride the Governor's Council on Beautification & Litter
How this is measured
About National Arbor Day Foundation
- How much does National Arbor Day Foundation give?
- National Arbor Day Foundation reported 181 itemized grants totaling $11,559,047, out of $12,196,738 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 119 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does National Arbor Day Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (98%), Food & Nutrition (1%), Recreation & Sports (1%).
- Who are National Arbor Day Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Arbor Day Impact Fund ($1.7M), Trees Atlanta Inc ($944k), Texas Trees Foundation ($761k).
- Does National Arbor Day Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as National Arbor Day Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Forests, Keep America Beautiful Inc, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.
- Where is National Arbor Day Foundation based?
- National Arbor Day Foundation is based in NE.
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