California · Nonprofit
Sacramento Tree Foundation
Sacramento Tree Foundation (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $384,474 to it, the largest being NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION ($115,171). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $384k
- Net assets
- $14M
What Sacramento Tree Foundation does
Mission
The Sacramento Tree Foundation is a community benefit organization working to grow thriving communities through stewardship of our urban forest.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Sacramento shade/neighborwoods: continuing a 30-year partnership with the sacramento municipal utility district, the Sacramento Tree Foundation in fiscal year 2020 engaged and educated over 4,000 sacramento county residents in the planting and care of over 10,000 shade trees. The trees were planted to maximize environmental and public health benefits, such as: energy savings, carbon sequestration,improving air quality, lowering urban heat, and stormwater reduction. To ensure that trees are planted and cared for in neighborhoods that need them most, we work directly with community members through our neighborwoods program. These initiatives focus on building local leadership and delivering programming that is customized to meet eachcommunitys specific need. This year, over 2,500 volunteers joined us to plant, care for, and steward trees in sacramento's urban communities.
$1,418,600 spent75% of program spendingUrban ecology: replenishes and sustains thenative flora and fauna of the region by planting and protecting native trees andwoodlands. In fiscal year 2025, more than 3,000 native trees and 2,000 native plantswere planted to mitigate for tree removal and over 7,500 trees planted in previousyears were maintained. Trees were planted and cared for with the help of hundreds ofvolunteers and the expert staff at the Sacramento Tree Foundation. Related programsinclude the harvesting of over 10,000 acorns from native oak trees throughout theregion by volunteers and the participation of 1,500 students in the seed to seedlingprogram. Thru an educational curriculum, students learn thru exploration, wonder, and excitement
$339,711 spent18% of program spendingUrban wood rescue:historically the urban trees in sacramento that were cut down were sent to the dump,chipped into mulch, or cut into firewood. Urban wood rescue actively diverts thesebeautiful trees from the landfill and converts them into usable lumber so they cancontinue providing beauty and benefits to the community. This program eduacates andhonors our fallen trees creating a green economy for our trees. All proceeds of woodsales support the work of the Sacramento Tree Foundation - every purchase helps usachieve our mission.otherwise become trash
$126,738 spent7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,885,049.
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 $4.1M to $16M (+294%).
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 16% · 2018 23% · 2019 21% · 2020 25% · 2021 17% · 2022 17% · 2023 18% · 2024 12% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
21% of Sacramento Tree Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 2 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
Jessica Sanders
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $14k → $38k.
7 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $203k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Sacramento Region Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Sacramento Tree Foundation raised.
From the IRS filings of Sacramento Tree Foundation’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
Sacramento Tree Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
91% 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 Sacramento Tree Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 100% · 2019 63% · 2020 50% · 2021 67% · 2022 78% · 2023 74% — growing more concentrated.
“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
22% of Sacramento Tree Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% 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
52% of Sacramento Tree Foundation's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $184k that is directly attributable, 75% of it comes from funders outside California, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $201k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
Sacramento Tree Foundation holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Sacramento Tree 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% 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 Sacramento Tree Foundation: 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 Sacramento Tree Foundation?
- Sacramento Tree Foundation (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $384,474 to it, the largest being NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION ($115,171). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Sacramento Tree Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $384,474 in grants to Sacramento Tree Foundation, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Sacramento Tree Foundation?
- NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $115,171 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Sacramento Tree Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 22 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