Colorado · Nonprofit
SEAS OF TREES
SEAS OF TREES (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $132,000 to it, the largest being LIDS FOUNDATION INC ($91,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $18k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $132k
- Net assets
- $42k
What Seas of Trees does
Mission
To plant more trees as a way to help reduce our carbon footprint. We support the regrowth of forests globally to help combat climate change and protect biodiversity in threatened forests around the world. We offer tree planting locally in telluride, colorado and in colorado generally. We partner with tree planters in specific areas around the world as well.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
U.s. Operations: in 2025 Seas of Trees successfully completed reforestation projects in the u.s. In mountain village, colorado, a total of 550 trees were planted. This was a collaborative tree-planting event aimed at restoring green spaces. Through these types of collaborations, Seas of Trees combines ecological restoration with volunteer engagement, youth participation, and community pride. A second restoration project was completed in 2025 at wilson mesa, colorado, with 1,000 trees planted. This was restoration of native tree species in previously disturbed land to improve biodiversity.lastly, the organization worked to monitor and evaluate previous reforestation projects.
$17,069 spent54% of program spendingInternational programs: sacred valley, peru - the organization partnered with a local community to plant 1,000 native trees, helping restore degraded areas while honoring traditional ecological knowledge. Escola communitaria maramar, brazil - 125 trees and native plants were planted as part of an ecological landscaping and environmental education program. Engaging 82 students, 18 staff and community members, the project fostered hands-on learning, sustainability, and food production for the school's meals.sheela shrestha's memory plantation, nepal - Seas of Trees supported a memorial reforestation project together with students in tinpiple, tarkeswor municipality, nepal. 500 trees were planted to prevent future landslides and restore degraded slopes.sup asia mangrove planting, cambodia - in kampot province, the organization partnered with sup asia and the trapaeng sangkae community to plant 3,000 mangrove trees. Bugesera, rwanda - the organization along with local community groups provided combined climate education and reforestation projects. The initiative supported the planting of 1,000 agroforestry and fruit trees.
$14,697 spent46% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $31,766.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2024 to 2025, from $73k to $42k (−43%).
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.
100% of SEAS OF TREES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (92% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Joanna Kanow
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $1k → $16k.
From the IRS filings of SEAS OF TREES’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
SEAS OF TREES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
69% 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 SEAS OF TREES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.
“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
SEAS OF TREES draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
SEAS OF TREES's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,195 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like SEAS 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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
84%
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 SEAS 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 SEAS OF TREES?
- SEAS OF TREES (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $132,000 to it, the largest being LIDS FOUNDATION INC ($91,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SEAS OF TREES have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $132,000 in grants to SEAS OF TREES, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SEAS OF TREES?
- LIDS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $91,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SEAS OF TREES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 4 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