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TREE FOUNDATION INC

TREE FOUNDATION INC (Florida) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $916,933 to it, the largest being THE SPURLINO FOUNDATION ($160,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$243k
Funders on record
26
Grants received
$917k
Net assets
$443k
12/26 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Tree Foundation Inc does

Mission

Sponsor education and conservation projects to save and protect trees and forest ecosystems.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Sponsor funded projects, tree canopy preservation research, walkway, & education myakka state park

    $57,169 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $57,169.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($93k) Expenses 100 ($134k) Net assets 100 ($138k)2018 Revenue 90 ($83k) Expenses 49 ($65k) Net assets 113 ($156k)2019 Revenue 117 ($108k) Expenses 47 ($63k) Net assets 146 ($201k)2020 Revenue 123 ($114k) Expenses 79 ($106k) Net assets 152 ($209k)2021 Revenue 253 ($235k) Expenses 84 ($113k) Net assets 240 ($331k)2022 Revenue 373 ($346k) Expenses 140 ($188k) Net assets 355 ($490k)2023 Revenue 413 ($383k) Expenses 374 ($501k) Net assets 269 ($371k)2024 Revenue 213 ($197k) Expenses 116 ($155k) Net assets 300 ($413k)2025 Revenue 262 ($243k) Expenses 159 ($213k) Net assets 322 ($443k)
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Revenue (262)Expenses (159)Net assets (322)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 2021 to 2022, from $347k to $490k (+41%).

$138k
$156k
$203k
$211k
$347k
$490k
$371k
$413k
$443k
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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.

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2018
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2021
2022
2023
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of TREE FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$41k
’17
$18k
’18
$46k
’19
$8k
’20
$122k
’21
$159k
’22
−$118k
’23
$42k
’24
$30k
’25
25
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

Margaret Lowman

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed1415111113141215
Joined·+2+4+0+6+2+0+6
No longer listed·1804123
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $114k → $102k.

9 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 TREE FOUNDATION INC’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

TREE FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

54% 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 TREE FOUNDATION INC.

17%
largest funder
44%
top three
~11
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 30% · 2019 24% · 2020 88% · 2021 51% · 2022 24% · 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.

How long its funders stay

31% of TREE FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

51% of TREE FOUNDATION INC'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 $449k that is directly attributable, 57% of it comes from Florida funders.

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

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Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $468k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

TREE FOUNDATION INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin12% · above the median
Months of reserve24.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding TREE FOUNDATION INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $88 on record.

State$88
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22
Top programs
  • REFUNDS - GENERAL $88

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

27% of spending goes to programs.

Program 27%Management 70%Fundraising 4%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

71%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

FL

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Questions and answers

Who funds TREE FOUNDATION INC?
TREE FOUNDATION INC (Florida) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $916,933 to it, the largest being THE SPURLINO FOUNDATION ($160,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does TREE FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $916,933 in grants to TREE FOUNDATION INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TREE FOUNDATION INC?
THE SPURLINO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $160,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TREE FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 26 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