· Public charity
Trees Forever Inc
Trees forever mission is to plant and care for trees and the environment by empowering people, building community and promoting stewardship.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $159,187 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $502,139 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $342,952 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $144k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF PEORIA | $25,000 |
| THE VILLAGE OF FOREST PARK | $22,482 |
| CITY OF GALESBURG | $15,000 |
| CITY OF WAUKEGAN ATTN TREASURY DEP | $15,000 |
| VILLAGE OF PARK FOREST | $14,999 |
| CITY OF COLLINSVILLE | $14,940 |
| CITY OF KEWANEE | $14,921 |
| MUSCATINE BRANCHING OUT | $11,050 |
| VILLAGE OF ORLAND PARK | $10,325 |
| WAVERLY TREES FOREVER | $8,500 |
| CITY OF STORM LAKE | $6,970 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 52% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
11 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $133k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- MBMUSCATINE BRANCHING OUT9× · 2017–2025 · $99k
- COCity of Waverly Public Library9× · 2017–2025 · $72k
- COCITY OF MARION FIRE DEPARTMEN4× · 2017–2022 · $45k
Funded once
- COCITY OF MAPLETONone grant, 2017 · $22k
- COCITY OF PARKERSBURGone grant, 2017 · $20k
- TFTREES FOREVER FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +45% · 65% of their budget
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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Clark college foundation inspires the joy of philanthropy in support of student success and program excellence at clark college.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Moline Community Development Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Claude W & Dolly Ahrens Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 65 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Roy J Carver Charitable Trust · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · The Morton Arboretum · Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque · Quad Cities Community Foundation · American Kennel Club Companion Animal Recovery Corporation · AARP · The National Association for the Exchange of Industrial Resources Inc · Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Trees Forever Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.