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The Giving Tree Foundation at a glance

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The Giving Tree Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$68k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$317kEnvironment$70kHousing & Shelter$34kInternational$33kFood & Nutrition$23kRecreation & Sports$22kHealth$20kPhilanthropy$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $59k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$449k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GIFFT HILL SCHOOL$20,300
GIFFT HILL SCHOOL$19,000
GIFFT HILL SCHOOL$10,000
VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC$10,000
ISLAND GREEN BUILDING ASSOCIATION$5,000
FAIRFIELD COUNTYS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC$4,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–22, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 51% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CARE & PROTECTION OF CHILD: $5k → 6%STREET SOCCER USA INC: $20k → 17%FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CARE & PROTECTION OF CHILD: $2k → 6%FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CARE & PROTECTION OF CHILD: $2k → 6%LASATA: $10k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
VA
DE
NC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 13% of The Giving Tree Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Giving Tree Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 5.5% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$401k · 6 repeat orgs$88k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
14

Total granted

$401k
$88k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+16%

Still filing today

83%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentHealthReligionFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • GH
    GIFFT HILL SCHOOL INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $270k · revenue +32%
  • IG
    ISLAND GREEN BUILDING ASSOCIATION INC
    3× · 2021–2025 · $35k · revenue +10%
  • WC
    Willistown Conservation Trust Inc
    6× · 2017–2023 · $35k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • OL
    OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL CATHOLIC CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • SS
    STREET SOCCER USA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +121%
  • L
    LASATA
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -100%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Food Trust

The food trust (tft), a nonprofit founded in philadelphia in 1992, strives to make healthy food available to all.continued on schedule otft is a regional and national leader in developing new strategies to prevent childhood obesity and…

Food & Nutrition
2
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
3
Alvernia University

Alvernia university is a catholic comprehensive university with a liberal arts foundation founded by the bernardine franciscan sisters in 1958. see continuation on schedule o.

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4
John Jay Institute for Faith Society and Law Inc

To prepare principled leaders for faith-informed public service.

Religion
5
Hunter Classical Christian School

Provide an education to children in lower and middle school using classical christian methodology.

Education
6
Starfysh

Starfysh has determined to focus on one of the world's most desperate geographic locales and people groups: that of the island of la gonave, haiti. it is both our purpose and our expectation that we will be able to reverse the cycle of…

International
7
Springside Chestnut Hill Academy

See schedule owe are an inclusive community on a mission to inspire unbounded curiosity and independent thought in every one of our students. in a unique educational environment that extends well beyond campus, we nurture students'…

Education
8
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
9
Elizabethtown College

Provide a transformative educational experience that cultivates strengths of its students.

Education
10
Desales University

Desales is a catholic, salesian university that inspires transformative learning through the liberal arts and professional studies by energizing students to be who they are and be that well.

Education
11
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc

We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…

Environment
12
Walnut Grove Christian School

We are a k-12 christian school founded under the following (4) pillars: academics: we provide an amazing accredited academic program utilizing 100% certified teachers. schedule: we provide our students and their families an opportunity on…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Lasata. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 22 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/20
Grantees still filing
11/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GIFFT HILL SCHOOL INC: $269,977 · EducationGIFFT HILL SCHOOL INCVIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · EducationVIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC+2 more: $2,000 · EducationISLAND GREEN BUILDING ASSOCIATION INC: $35,000 · EnvironmentISLAND GREEN BU…Willistown Conservation Trust Inc: $35,000 · EnvironmentWillistown Cons…FRIENDS OF KZN INC: $29,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF KZN …OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL CATHOLIC CHURCH: $25,000 · OtherOUR LADY OF MOU…SAINT DAVID'S NURSERY SCHOOL: $10,000 · OtherSAINT DAVID'S N…+4 more: $6,000 · Other+4 moreSTREET SOCCER USA INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesLASATA: $10,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR THE CARE AND PRO: $9,440 · Human ServicesCHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK: $23,000 · Food & NutritionST JOHN RESCUE INC: $5,000 · HealthLANKENAU MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthTHE DYNAMIC CATHOLIC INSTITUTE: $2,500 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $2,500 · ReligionFAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 · Philanthropy
Education$306,977Environment$70,000Other$70,000Human Services$39,440Food & Nutrition$23,000Health$10,000Religion$5,000Philanthropy$4,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGIFFT HILL SCHOOL INC: $269,977 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetISLAND GREEN BUILDING ASSOCIATION INC: $35,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetWillistown Conservation Trust Inc: $35,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetVIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF KZN INC: $29,000 over 2y, 38% of budgetCHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK: $23,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSTREET SOCCER USA INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR THE CARE AND PRO: $9,440 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetST JOHN RESCUE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetLANKENAU MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DYNAMIC CATHOLIC INSTITUTE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDYWINE WARRIORS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR LEARNING IN TREDYFFRIN EASTTOWN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYOUNG SCHOLARS CHARTER SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Chester County Commun…Vanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Chester County Community FoundationPA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Chester County Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Giving Tree Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Giving Tree Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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