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THE LEMON TREE TRUST

THE LEMON TREE TRUST (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $724,573 to it, the largest being COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ($694,573). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$322k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$725k
Net assets
$13k
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 39%
01What it does

What The Lemon Tree Trust does

Mission

The Lemon Tree Trust's (ltt) purpose is to inspire, support and collaborate with people who have been forcibly displaced to create community and opportunity through gardening.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The organization's activities are focused on four main impact areas: 1) improving mental health and well-being, 2) community building and women's empowerment, 3) improving local environments, 4) independent access to fresh food. The Lemon Tree Trust does this by supporting people to build home gardens, supporting communities to build community gardens (both ornamental and productive) and supporting women-led agriculture and horticulture initiatives and small businesses.

    $146,994 spent
    48% of program spending
  2. The Lemon Tree Trust also funds education/training for people living in refugee camps. This training is delivered by lemon tree trust contractors and covers, but is not limited to, seed saving, seed sowing, sustainable water use and storage and other propagation techniques. The Lemon Tree Trust also provides educational materials for children and families, produced in partnership with the royal horticultural society in the united kingdom, which are used by our teams in camps and can be downloaded by anyone from The Lemon Tree Trust website. The organization produces education sheets in english, arabic and farsi.

    $161,340 spent
    52% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $308,334.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($230k) Expenses 100 ($222k) Net assets 100 ($8k)2022 Revenue 157 ($362k) Expenses 164 ($365k) Net assets 69 ($6k)2023 Revenue 180 ($414k) Expenses 173 ($383k) Net assets 446 ($37k)2024 Revenue 140 ($322k) Expenses 156 ($347k) Net assets 151 ($13k)
2021202220232024
Revenue (140)Expenses (156)Net assets (151)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 2022 to 2023, from $6k to $38k (+485%).

$8k
$6k
$38k
$13k
2021202220232024
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of THE LEMON TREE TRUST’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$8k
’21
−$3k
’22
$31k
’23
−$24k
’24
0.4
months of
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

Stephanie Hunt

President/CEO/director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

2021202220232024
Listed5555
Joined·+0+0+0
No longer listed·000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $160k.

Funder
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
2
2
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% 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 LEMON TREE TRUST’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 LEMON TREE TRUST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% 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

96% 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 LEMON TREE TRUST.

96%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 94% — 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.

Where its funders are

96% of THE LEMON TREE TRUST'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 $30k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 1 state.

CT

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’22
’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $695k 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

THE LEMON TREE TRUST has grown faster than half of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−8% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.4mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like THE LEMON TREE TRUST

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 Texas

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 11%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Hunt Consolidated Inc · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE LEMON TREE TRUST?
THE LEMON TREE TRUST (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $724,573 to it, the largest being COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ($694,573). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does THE LEMON TREE TRUST have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $724,573 in grants to THE LEMON TREE TRUST, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE LEMON TREE TRUST?
COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC is the largest funder on record, with $694,573 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE LEMON TREE TRUST find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 2 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