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Treetops Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Treetops Charitable 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.

$35k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$212kHealth$92kEducation$17kPhilanthropy$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$4kArts & Culture$1kAnimals$700Environment$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$95k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHEPPHARD AND ENOCH PRATT FOUNDATION$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF DELRAY$10,000
ST JOHN'S CHURCH$5,000
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 (FY21–22, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LEAGUE FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: $20k → 19%LEAGUE FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: $10k → 19%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$367k · 14 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
10

Total granted

$367k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+23%

Still filing today

43%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
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

  • TL
    THE LEAGUE FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
    2× · 2021–2022 · $30k · revenue +30%
  • KK
    KENNEDY KRIEGER FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $10k · revenue +98%
  • SB
    SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE
    2× · 2020–2021 · $6k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • UC
    UNIFIED COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS INC
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +23%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MD GREENEBAUM CANCER CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $1k
  • SMILE TRAIN INC
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue +22%
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
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
2
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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3
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
University of Maryland Surgical Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
5
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
7
University of Maryland Physicians Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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8
University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Education
9
Tampa Bay Partnership Inc

The tampa bay partnership is a privately funded, ceo-driven regional advocacy organization, committed to creating a unified, competitive and prosperous tampa bay.

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10
University of Maryland Neurology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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11
University of Maryland Eye Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
12
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is National Wildlife Federation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 24 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF DELRAY: $135,000 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF DELRAYIndividual grant recipient: $40,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientST JOHN'S CHURCH: $40,000 · OtherST JOHN'S CHURCHSHEPPARD AND ENOCH PRATT FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · OtherSHEPPARD AND ENOCH PRATT FOUNDATION INCFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $25,000 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHTHE LEAGUE SERVING PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: $20,000 · OtherTHE LEAGUE SERVING PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIESAMICIE FRATELLE LODGE ORDER SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF ITALY: $11,750 · Other+8 more: $13,430 · OtherTHE LEAGUE FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: $30,000 · Human ServicesTHE LEAGU…KENNEDY KRIEGER FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropySWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE: $6,000 · EducationMILLBROOK SCHOOL: $3,500 · EducationUNIFIED COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS INC: $5,000 · HealthTHE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION: $1,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC: $250 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $700 · AnimalsTHE FLORIDA COALITION FOR PRESERVATION INC: $500 · Environment
Other$320,180Human Services$30,000Philanthropy$10,000Education$9,500Health$5,000Arts & Culture$1,250Animals$700Environment$500

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSHEPPARD AND ENOCH PRATT FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetTHE LEAGUE FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKENNEDY KRIEGER FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIFIED COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILLBROOK SCHOOL: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC: $250 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.

  • Who funds SHEPPARD AND ENOCH PRATT FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE LEAGUE FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES ↗
  • Who funds KENNEDY KRIEGER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds UNIFIED COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds MILLBROOK SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
  • Who funds THE FLORIDA COALITION FOR PRESERVATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • South Florida Pbs Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Treetops Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Treetops Charitable 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.

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 24 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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