Nebraska · Nonprofit
NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION
NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION (Nebraska) receives grants from 534 organizations whose IRS filings report $62,407,036 to it, the largest being Enterprise Holdings Foundation ($7,820,030). 256 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $112M
- Funders on record
- 534
- Grants received
- $62M
- Net assets
- $109M
What National Arbor Day Foundation does
Mission
The purpose of the corporation shall be to engage in educational and charitable activities including offically promoting the annual observance of arbor day, inspiring people to plant, nurture, and celebrate trees, stimulating a world-wide program of tree and horticultural planting and care, advancing nature education and environmental education, and maintaining arbor day farm, the estate of arbor day's founder, j. Sterling morton.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Trees for america - the foundation's signature program distributes millions of trees each year across america, helps replant forests, and teaches the importance of trees.
$50,388,974 spentof which $12,196,738 as grants$8,537,896 earned by the program70% of program spendingArbor day farm - this national historic landmark is home to lied lodge, innovative conservation demonstrations, and the arbor day farm tree adventure.
$15,807,579 spent$2,517,816 earned by the program22% of program spendingTree city usa - the tree city usa program, since 1976, has strengthened and encouraged communities to develop and maintain successful community forestry programs. The strong partnership between the usda forest service's urban and community forestry (usfs) program, the national association of state foresters (nasf), and the arbor day foundation allows the organizations to leverage resources and expertise for the betterment of community forests throughout the country.
$1,900,010 spent$57,794 earned by the program3% of program spendingArbor day/youth education - the foundation promotes arbor day, america's oldest environmental holiday, and offers nature education programs to reconnect children with nature to inspire the next generation of tree planters and environmental stewards.
$1,767,938 spent$161,095 earned by the program2% of program spendingConference programs
$1,564,557 spent$1,538,995 earned by the program2% of program spendingRain forest rescue - various activities that support local partners and communities in their efforts to protect, sustain, and restore tropical rain forests.
$85,571 spent$129,029 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $71,514,629.
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 2019 to 2020, from $50M to $73M (+46%).
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 2% · 2018 2% · 2019 2% · 2020 1% · 2021 1% · 2022 4% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
77% of NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Dan Lambe
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Pat Covey
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 72 funders to 185 funders, grant income rose $6.6M → $11M.
43 of 534 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 NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 534 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
NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
49% 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 NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 40% · 2019 73% · 2020 35% · 2021 17% · 2022 27% · 2023 31% — 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
35% of NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside Nebraska, across 48 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26M arriving through sponsors registered in 24 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
NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 15 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15 environment nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $88.4M on record — $88.2M federal, $259k state.
- Department of Agriculture$88.2M
- VT$244k
- NJ$14k
- MA$933
- OR$376
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 NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION
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 Nebraska
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 31 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Arbor Day Impact Fund · exempt
- Arbor Day Carbon LLC · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION?
- NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION (Nebraska) receives grants from 534 organizations whose IRS filings report $62,407,036 to it, the largest being Enterprise Holdings Foundation ($7,820,030). 256 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 534 organizations giving $62,407,036 in grants to NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION, 256 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION?
- Enterprise Holdings Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $7,820,030 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nebraska. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 534 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