Minnesota · Nonprofit
TREE TOP KIDS
TREE TOP KIDS (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $147,359 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($126,202). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $184k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $147k
- Net assets
- $377k
What Tree Top Kids does
Mission
Tree Top Kids reaches at risk kids and youth and helps them grow in four key areas. Physical, Social, Mental and Spiritual. We couple large group activities and small group lessons with mentors to accomplish the mission. We meet within our target Neighborhoods, but most of our activities take place on a working farm with fields, forests, animals and host of other areas to bring to life the valuable lessons. Hands on learning and growing. "You can't repeat what you've never seen."
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Farm Ministry: We bus students from our target neighborhoods to our farm where they are able to learn and grow with a consistent group of mentors. They not only learn about animals and how to care for them, they are also learning the skills of camping, cooking and many other activities. These activities are a foundation to teach about Life, Faith and Family. We want each of our students to have the knowledge to begin a relationship with Jesus Christ, and also to live a healthy life that gives back to their community.
$98,698 spent86% of program spendingKingdom Kids: Students from a group of low income housing units meet on a weekly basis with a team of mentors. They learn about the bible, a personal relationship with Jesus, and about a host of other life skills.
$16,211 spent14% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $114,909.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $502k to $520k (+4%).
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 TOP KIDS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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
Anthony Geselle
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $25k → $31k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 86% 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 TOP KIDS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 3 of 4 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
TREE TOP KIDS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% 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
86% 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 TOP KIDS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 88% · 2021 98% · 2022 100% · 2023 84% — 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
86% of TREE TOP KIDS'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 $21k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $126k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
TREE TOP KIDS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like TREE TOP KIDS
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
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 TREE TOP KIDS: 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 TREE TOP KIDS?
- TREE TOP KIDS (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $147,359 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($126,202). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TREE TOP KIDS have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $147,359 in grants to TREE TOP KIDS, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TREE TOP KIDS?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $126,202 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TREE TOP KIDS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2020–2025), 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