Oregon · Nonprofit
Friends of Trees
Friends of Trees (Oregon) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,895,117 to it, the largest being MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST ($801,360). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 69
- Grants received
- $3.9M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Friends of Trees does
Mission
To bring people together to plant, care for, and learn about trees and green spaces in pacific northwest communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Neighborhood trees program (nt) - empowering community members and volunteers to plant and care for street, yard, and park trees in neighborhoods, with a focus on underserved and low-canopy areas in clackamas, marion, multnomah, and washington counties in oregon, as well as clark county, washington. During the 2024-25 season, the program successfully planted 2,020 street, yard, and park trees, successfully pruned hundreds of trees, and supported the care and establishment of thousands of young trees. The neighborhood trees program collaborates extensively with municipal and community partners to achieve its goals.
$1,475,778 spentof which $855,197 as grants$69,216 earned by the program44% of program spendingAdult urban forestry training program (auf) - workforce development program serving the portland-metro region. Provides 5-10 weeks of paid training in which participants from historically underrepresented communities learn about urban forestry and restoration, followed by a paid internship with a local organization or agency. Fot and our partners accomplish this through classroom education, professional networking, and increasing access to a career path in the environmental field. Friends of Trees recognizes that not everyone has equal access to the benefit of trees and healthy green spaces. As a community driven organization fot fosters an atmosphere of inclusion and support, and strives to build places that are safer and healthier for all. This is accomplished through authentic community conversation; unique partnerships; relevant programming; and attracting and retaining diverse staff and supporters.
$971,740 spent29% of program spendingGreenspace program (gs) - focusing on natural area restoration and green space planting through community volunteers, this program planted over 32,000 native trees and shrubs during the 2024-25 planting season across clackamas, marion, multnomah, and washington counties in oregon. They also distributed many hundreds of native trees, shrubs, and plants. This program also serves as the hub for k-12 environmental education, high school internships, and adult workforce training opportunities.the greenspace program collaborates extensively with municipalities, schools, and nonprofit/community organizations to achieve its mission.
$450,991 spent13% of program spendingEugene-springfield program - working in lane county, this program focuses on: 1) empowering community volunteers to plant street, yard, and park trees, with an emphasis on underserved and low-canopy areas. During the 2024-25 season, the program successfully planted 330 street, yard, and park trees, pruned 215 street trees, and supported the care and establishment of hundreds of young trees. 2) green space planting through community volunteers. During the 2024-2025 planting season, this program planted over 245 native trees, shrubs and plants. 3) this program partners with local municipalities, schools, and community organizations to maintain the health of previously planted young trees.
$325,454 spent10% of program spendingVolunteer & outreach program (vop) - community outreach and education are central to fots mission and programming. Through a network of individuals, businesses, schools, organizations, and foundations, Friends of Trees engages in outreach to recruit volunteers and tree recipients, foster community partnerships to better support underserved communities, and raise awareness about the critical role of trees and natural areas in building a healthy community. This work also highlights trees as one of the most effective tools in combating climate change.
$167,706 spent5% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,391,669.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 $3.0M to $2.0M (−33%).
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: 2017 69% · 2018 69% · 2019 63% · 2020 62% · 2021 64% · 2022 47% · 2023 58% · 2024 53%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of Friends of Trees’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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 9 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $69k → $385k.
11 of 69 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 Friends of Trees’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 69 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
Friends of Trees has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% 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 Friends of Trees.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 47% · 2019 37% · 2020 35% · 2021 24% · 2022 19% · 2023 23% — 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
49% of Friends of Trees's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
Friends of Trees draws 51% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
Friends of Trees's funding base is broadening — from 9 funders to 27 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,187 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding Friends of Trees receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $12.3M on record — $12.2M federal, $34k state.
- Department of Agriculture$12.1M
- Department of the Interior$187k
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT$34k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Friends of 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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 Friends of 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 Friends of Trees?
- Friends of Trees (Oregon) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,895,117 to it, the largest being MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST ($801,360). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Friends of Trees have?
- IRS filings report 69 organizations giving $3,895,117 in grants to Friends of Trees, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Friends of Trees?
- MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $801,360 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Friends of Trees find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 69 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing