Oregon · Nonprofit
The Giving Trees International
The Giving Trees International (Oregon) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $98,300 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($22,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2026
- $99k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $98k
- Net assets
- $34k
What The Giving Trees International does
Mission
The Giving Trees is an all-volunteer, tax-exempt 501c3 nonprofit that brightens the holiday season for individuals and families in need - independent of background - by personally delivering free Christmas trees, stands, lights, ornaments, and other decorations to them in their homes.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The Giving Trees International is an all-volunteer organization that delivers free Christmas trees - as well as lights, ornaments, tree stands - to individuals in families who need a boost during the holiday season. The trees and aforementioned accessories comprise the vast majority of our expenses. Other expenses include renting vehicles to transport the trees, equipment eg, chain saws and other hardware, and software to support the project's operations. During the 2022 holiday season, our organization delivered 2,327 Christmas trees + accessories to recipients across 32 US states + 11 countries around the world.
$78,937 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $78,937.
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 2023 to 2024, from $3k to $41k (+1106%).
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 The Giving Trees International’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Chad Barker
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $20k → $31k.
4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 The Giving Trees International’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
The Giving Trees International has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
79% 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 The Giving Trees International.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 49% · 2023 65% — 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.
Where its funders are
69% of The Giving Trees International'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 $31k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Oregon, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $68k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
The Giving Trees International runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 122 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 122 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2026
Organizations like The Giving Trees International
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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Giving Trees International: 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 The Giving Trees International?
- The Giving Trees International (Oregon) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $98,300 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($22,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does The Giving Trees International have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $98,300 in grants to The Giving Trees International, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Giving Trees International?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $22,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Giving Trees International find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2023–2026), and the filings of 8 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