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Richmond Tree Stewards

Richmond Tree Stewards (Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,000 to it, the largest being OVERTON & KATHARINE DENNIS FD-CUST ($40,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$24k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$52k
Net assets
$94k
1/3 repeat funders
01What it does

What Richmond Tree Stewards does

Mission

maintain and enhance the city of Richmond's urban tree canopy

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. During 2nd year of a three year grant, purchased and planted 50 street trees and paid for the watering of 100 recently planted trees

    $26,527 spent
    79% of program spending
  2. Gave away approx 500 small trees to Richmond homeowners, as part of Tree Week

    $4,923 spent
    15% of program spending
  3. Developed and taught 10 two hour classes to educated 55 new volunteers on all aspects of tree care / maintenance

    $2,069 spent
    6% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $33,519.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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.

100 = 20242024 Revenue 100 ($108k) Expenses 100 ($33k) Net assets 100 ($113k)2025 Revenue 22 ($24k) Expenses 131 ($44k) Net assets 83 ($94k)
20242025
Revenue (22)Expenses (131)Net assets (83)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $113k to $94k (−17%).

$113k
$94k
20242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

46% of Richmond Tree Stewards’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (92% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,989 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$74k
’24
−$20k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 Richmond Tree Stewards’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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

Richmond Tree Stewards leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

77%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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.

Where its funders are

Richmond Tree Stewards draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 2 states in all.

VA
FL

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Richmond Tree Stewards's revenue fell 78% between 2024 and 2025.

Operating margin−81% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−78% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,195 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

VA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Richmond Tree Stewards: 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 Richmond Tree Stewards?
Richmond Tree Stewards (Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,000 to it, the largest being OVERTON & KATHARINE DENNIS FD-CUST ($40,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Richmond Tree Stewards have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $52,000 in grants to Richmond Tree Stewards, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Richmond Tree Stewards?
OVERTON & KATHARINE DENNIS FD-CUST is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Richmond Tree Stewards 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 3 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