How much does Urban Forestry Organization give?

Urban Forestry Organization reported 30 grants totaling $33,700 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 39 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Urban Forestry Organization fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (75%), Recreation & Sports (13%), Education (6%).

Who are Urban Forestry Organization's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Paul Smiths College ($17k), Van Cortlandt Park Alliance ($15k), The Student Conservation Association Inc ($11k).

Does Urban Forestry Organization fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Urban Forestry Organization accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Urban Forestry Organization?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Arbor Day Foundation, American Forests, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.

Where is Urban Forestry Organization based?

Urban Forestry Organization is based in NY.

Urban Forestry Organization

Urban Forestry Organization at a glance

· 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.

$34k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$2k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Environment$208kRecreation & Sports$36kEducation$18kCommunity Improvement$12kInternational$3kArts & Culture$600

02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$607k

Total assets

Largest grants
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
SOUL	$1,200
TREES NEW YORK	$1,200
FLORIDA URBAN FORESTRY COUNCIL	$1,200
THE AMERICAN CHESTNUT FOUNDATION	$1,200
FRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN	$1,000
TREES ATLANTA	$1,000
TEXAS TREES FOUNDATION	$1,000
BALTIMORE TREE TRUST	$1,000
FOREST RELEAF OF MISSOURI	$1,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 67% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$271k · 44 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

44 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$271k

$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%

+87%

Still filing today

73%

67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentCommunity ImprovementEducationRecreation & SportsInternationalArts & CultureOther

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

PS
PAUL SMITHS COLLEGE
6× · 2020–2025 · $17k · revenue +14%
VC
VAN CORTLANDT PARK ALLIANCE
6× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +50%
TS
THE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +30%

Funded once

GR
GROUNDWORK RHODE ISLANDgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +98%
SB
SODUS BAY LIGHTHOUSE MUSEUM
one grant, 2020 · $2k
EC
ESF COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +36%

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.

Green Cities Accord

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…

Environment

Tree Trust

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.

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North East Trees Inc

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,…

Environment

Speak for the Trees Inc

To improve the size and health of the urban tree canopy in boston

Environment

The Greenwich Tree Conservancy Inc

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…

Environment

Sustaining Our Urban Landscape Soul

Sustaining Our Urban Landscape's mission is to drive a resilient and environmentally equitable New Orleans through reforesting our city.

Environment

Trees for the Triangle

We plant native trees in the Research Triangle region of North Carolina.

Environment

Tacoma Tree Foundation

To grow community stewardship of the urban forest across greater tacoma through planting, education, and advocacy.

Environment

Trees for the Future Inc

Our mission is to improve the livelihoods of impoverished farmers by revitalizing degraded lands.

Environment

TreesCharlotte

Public/private collaborative to plant trees, raise awareness of the canopy, and educate about tree care.

Environment

Providence Neighborhood Planting Program

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.

Arts & Culture

Tree Foundation Inc

Sponsor education and conservation projects to save and protect trees and forest ecosystems.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trees Atlanta Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 50 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

36/36

Grantees still filing

31/36

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Environment$110,800Other$102,650Recreation & Sports$22,900Community Improvement$20,000Education$17,500International$2,500Arts & Culture$600

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.

National Arbor Day FoundationNE36.5× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

3rely on government for over half their income

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.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

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The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home