California · Nonprofit
TREE FOUNDATION OF KERN INC
TREE FOUNDATION OF KERN INC (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $327,881 to it, the largest being THE VIRGINIA AND ALFRED HARRELL FOUNDATION ($308,731). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $49k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $328k
- Net assets
- $42k
What Tree Foundation of Kern Inc does
Mission
Planting and preservation of trees
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Encourage strong public support for planting and preservation of trees & to promote public educationleading towards greater enhancement of the urban & rural forest
$40,852 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $40,852.
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 2017 to 2018, from $5k to $65k (+1197%).
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 TREE FOUNDATION OF KERN INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (92% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $100k → $60k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 OF KERN 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 OF KERN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 85% · 2022 50% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of TREE FOUNDATION OF KERN INC's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1k 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.
Against its field
TREE FOUNDATION OF KERN INC has grown faster than half of the 2,195 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,195 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like TREE FOUNDATION OF KERN INC
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TREE FOUNDATION OF KERN INC?
- TREE FOUNDATION OF KERN INC (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $327,881 to it, the largest being THE VIRGINIA AND ALFRED HARRELL FOUNDATION ($308,731). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TREE FOUNDATION OF KERN INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $327,881 in grants to TREE FOUNDATION OF KERN INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TREE FOUNDATION OF KERN INC?
- THE VIRGINIA AND ALFRED HARRELL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $308,731 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TREE FOUNDATION OF KERN INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 4 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