Rhode Island · Nonprofit
The Newport Tree Conservancy
The Newport Tree Conservancy (Rhode Island) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,593,186 to it, the largest being VAN BEUREN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($579,840). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $776k
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $598k
What The Newport Tree Conservancy does
Mission
The Newport Tree Conservancy is Dedicated to Fostering a healthy growing urban forest in the City of Newport, Rhode Isalnd though a permanent tree management and planting program for the benefit of present and future citizens of Newport.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Newport Tree Conservancy is commited to supporting the health and resilience of trees in Newport, RI connecting our community with their city-wide arboretum, and planting the next generation of Newports urban forest.
$279,267 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $279,267.
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 2024 to 2025, from $491k to $617k (+26%).
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 1% · 2020 3% · 2022 13% · 2023 11% · 2024 7% · 2025 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of The Newport Tree Conservancy’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. 3 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
Natasha Harrison
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 17 funders, grant income fell $273k → $194k.
6 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 Newport Tree Conservancy’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 funders by total. 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 Newport Tree Conservancy has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 36% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 62% · 2019 38% · 2020 30% · 2021 27% · 2022 41% · 2023 26% — 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
42% of The Newport Tree Conservancy's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
The Newport Tree Conservancy draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside Rhode Island, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $350k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 Newport Tree Conservancy runs a healthier operating margin than half 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 The Newport Tree Conservancy
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 Rhode Island
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
43% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
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 The Newport Tree Conservancy: 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 Newport Tree Conservancy?
- The Newport Tree Conservancy (Rhode Island) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,593,186 to it, the largest being VAN BEUREN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($579,840). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Newport Tree Conservancy have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $1,593,186 in grants to The Newport Tree Conservancy, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Newport Tree Conservancy?
- VAN BEUREN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $579,840 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Newport Tree Conservancy find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Rhode Island. 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 39 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