· Private foundation
Urban Forestry Organization
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TREES FOR HOUSTON | $2,000 |
| PAUL SMITHS COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| NYS URBAN FORESTRY COUNCIL | $1,500 |
| VAN CORTLANDT PARK ALLIANCE | $1,500 |
| OPENLANDS | $1,500 |
| THE CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ARBORETUM | $1,500 |
| FLORIDA URBAN FORESTRY COUNCIL | $1,200 |
| THE AMERICAN CHESTNUT FOUNDATION | $1,200 |
| TREES NEW YORK | $1,200 |
| SOUL | $1,200 |
| GROUNDWORK PROVIDENCETREES 2020 | $1,000 |
| BALTIMORE TREE TRUST | $1,000 |
| FOREST RELEAF OF MISSOURI | $1,000 |
| GROUNDWORK USA | $1,000 |
| TEXAS TREES FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 67% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
44 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- PSPAUL SMITHS COLLEGE6× · 2020–2025 · $17k · revenue +14%
- VCVAN CORTLANDT PARK ALLIANCE6× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +50%
- TSTHE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- GRGROUNDWORK RHODE ISLANDgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +98%
- SBSODUS BAY LIGHTHOUSE MUSEUMone grant, 2020 · $2k
- ECESF COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +36%
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.
Green Cities Accord is a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering climate resilient communities through investments in tree canopy infrastructure to improve environmental health, climate resilience, and equity in communities. We focus…
Tree Trust's mission is to transform lives and landscapes by engaging people to build skills for meaningful careers, inspiring people to plant trees, and making our community a greener, healthier place to live.
In 2024, our work made a lasting impact on both people and the environment. Together with our community, we planted 2,739 new plants and trees, ensuring future shade, cleaner air, and greener neighborhoods. We also cared for 7,442 trees,…
To improve the size and health of the urban tree canopy in boston
The greenwich tree conservancy is open to all interested citizens, governed by a board and advised by an advisory board. it was created to preserve and enhance the tree and forest resources of greenwich, ct to benefit the community, its…
Sustaining Our Urban Landscape's mission is to drive a resilient and environmentally equitable New Orleans through reforesting our city.
We plant native trees in the Research Triangle region of North Carolina.
To grow community stewardship of the urban forest across greater tacoma through planting, education, and advocacy.
Our mission is to improve the livelihoods of impoverished farmers by revitalizing degraded lands.
Public/private collaborative to plant trees, raise awareness of the canopy, and educate about tree care.
The providence neighborhood planting program (pnpp) engages communities in planting and stewarding trees, in order to create a more robust and equitable urban forest in providence.
Sponsor education and conservation projects to save and protect trees and forest ecosystems.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trees Atlanta Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Friends of Pelham Bay Park Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
36 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. 36 of the 50 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.
- Who funds PAUL SMITHS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds VAN CORTLANDT PARK ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds TREES NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds OPENLANDS ↗
- Who funds Florida Urban Forestry Council Inc ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN CHESTNUT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Forests ↗
- Who funds TREES ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds The Alliance for Pioneer Square ↗
- Who funds Trees For Houston ↗
- Who funds THE GREENING OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds Canopy ↗
- Who funds OUR CITY FOREST ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF PELHAM BAY PARK INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds TreeFolks Inc ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE TREE TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds TREEPEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY TREE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TREES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TREES FOREVER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PITTSBURGH URBAN FOREST ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN CLEVELAND ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds GROUNDWORK USA INC ↗
- Who funds FOREST RELEAF OF MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ASHOKA ↗
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: National Arbor Day Foundation · American Forests · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · Patagoniaorg · Clif Family Foundation · Rei Cooperative Action Fund · Union Pacific Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Verizon Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 Urban Forestry Organization 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.
- Baltimore Tree Trust Inc — 100% of income from government
- Friends of Trees — 100% of income from government
- New Jersey Tree Foundation — 100% of income from government
- Friends of the Public Garden Inc — 1% of income from government
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.
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