· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 52% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 65 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Trees Forever Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Trees Forever Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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