Virginia · Nonprofit
CAPITAL TREES
CAPITAL TREES (Virginia) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,578,879 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($416,200). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $583k
- Funders on record
- 46
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $386k
What Capital Trees does
Mission
Capital Trees' mission is to create a greener, more beautiful richmond, virginia through the thoughtful planning and planting of trees and public gardens, mindful of the city's extraordinary heritage and location on the banks of the james river. We promote for a powerful connection between people and nature. We identify public funds, leverage those with private support, both human and capital, to create and maintatin better places for all. Identifying public property of outstanding interest and profound neglect (historical, environmental, aesthetic) and fund the design and implementation of exemplary projects, transforming richmond into a healthier, more livable city, mindful of its past and hopeful for its future.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Capital Trees efforts have been focused on continuing its planting and maintenance of the linear park along a critically important but neglected stretch of the kanawha canal and virginia capital trail. The "low line" connects a recently enhanced great shiplock park (gsp) with richmond's much-loved canal walk.
$882,986 spent$56,250 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $882,986.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $373k to $892k (+139%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 1% · 2024 12% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of CAPITAL TREES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $74k → $258k.
7 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of CAPITAL TREES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
CAPITAL TREES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
45% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CAPITAL TREES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 65% · 2019 42% · 2020 37% · 2021 30% · 2022 24% · 2023 45% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
46% of CAPITAL TREES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
72% of CAPITAL TREES's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $660k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
CAPITAL TREES's funding base is broadening — from 11 funders to 15 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CAPITAL TREES
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CAPITAL TREES: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CAPITAL TREES?
- CAPITAL TREES (Virginia) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,578,879 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($416,200). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CAPITAL TREES have?
- IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $1,578,879 in grants to CAPITAL TREES, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CAPITAL TREES?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $416,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CAPITAL TREES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 46 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing