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Trees Foundation

Trees Foundation mission is to restore the ecological integrity of california's north coast by empowering & assisting regional community based efforts that promote healthy land stewardship.

$57k
Granted FY2022
1
Itemized grants FY2022
1
Organizations funded FY2022
100%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Itemized, FY2022
$6k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2022
$5,645
Largest grant, FY2022
$5,645
Organizations funded a year
1 to 28
FY2021 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
1
Total assets, FY2022
$973k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 100% of the organizations Trees Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20221$6k100%
FY202128$27kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2022.

Environment$30kAnimals$2kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 28 grantees

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($250), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Trees Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 27 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUnite the Parks: $5,645 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetMattole Restoration Council: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWomens Forest Sanctuary: $3,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetEcology Center: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTurtle Island Restoration Network: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSanctuary Forest Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEel River Recovery Project Inc: $1,750 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNorthcoast Environmental Center: $1,750 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFriends of the Lost Coast: $1,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMid Klamath Watershed Council: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSalmonid Restoration Federation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCenter for Biological Diversity Inc: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKlamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPesticide Action Network North America: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEnvironmental Protection Information Center Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNorthcoast Marine Mammal Center: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNorthwest Center for Alternatives to Pesticides: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Surfrider Foundation: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Mime Troupe Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCornell University: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetXerces Society Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Dunes: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSalmon River Restoration Council: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBird Ally X: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCalifornia Native Plant Society: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMontana Wilderness Association: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Rivers Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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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.

PatagoniaorgCA26.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Patagoniaorg · The Rose Foundation for Communities the Environment · Humboldt Area Foundation · Resources Legacy Fund · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Vintage Bmw House · Conservation Lands Foundation · Firedoll Foundation · Tarbell Family Foundation · Clif Family Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Network for Good

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.

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How do I get to Trees Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Trees Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Trees Foundation

How much does Trees Foundation give?
Trees Foundation reported 1 itemized grants totaling $5,645, out of $56,783 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 28 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2022.
What does Trees Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2022, its largest causes are Environment (92%), Animals (7%).
Who are Trees Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2022: Unite the Parks ($6k), Mattole Restoration Council ($3k), Womens Forest Sanctuary ($3k).
Does Trees Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Trees Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Patagoniaorg, The Rose Foundation for Communities the Environment, Humboldt Area Foundation.
Where is Trees Foundation based?
Trees Foundation is based in CA.

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 29 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $141k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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