Washington · Nonprofit
TACOMA TREE FOUNDATION
TACOMA TREE FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $694,975 to it, the largest being THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ($223,989). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $713k
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $695k
- Net assets
- $377k
What Tacoma Tree Foundation does
Mission
To grow community stewardship of the urban forest across greater tacoma through planting, education, and advocacy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education: education programming provides a way for people of all ages toexperience and understand their relationship with urban nature, and tolet that be a part of who they are and what they do. Through walks, presentations, workshops, blog posts, and social media, we share the importance of trees, how to care for them, and how to connect with them.
$225,501 spent$148,665 earned by the program48% of program spendingPlanting: Tacoma Tree Foundation aims to reduce barriers to urban tree planting,especially in neighborhoods where trees are needed the most. We dothis primarily by providing free trees and other plants to residents, alongwith information on the unique benefits of each plant and how andwhere to plant them.
$242,710 spent$314,025 earned by the program52% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $468,211.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2022 to 2023, from $117k to $234k (+100%).
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: 2022 33% · 2023 19% · 2024 36% · 2025 51%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of TACOMA TREE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 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
Lowell Wyse
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $50k → $160k.
8 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 TACOMA 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
TACOMA TREE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 61%; 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 TACOMA TREE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 59% · 2020 53% · 2021 70% · 2022 41% · 2023 46% — 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
50% of TACOMA TREE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
60% of TACOMA 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 $276k that is directly attributable, 63% of it comes from funders outside Washington, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $419k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
TACOMA TREE FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like TACOMA 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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% 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 TACOMA 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 TACOMA TREE FOUNDATION?
- TACOMA TREE FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $694,975 to it, the largest being THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ($223,989). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TACOMA TREE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $694,975 in grants to TACOMA TREE FOUNDATION, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TACOMA TREE FOUNDATION?
- THE NATURE CONSERVANCY is the largest funder on record, with $223,989 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TACOMA TREE FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 18 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