Georgia · Nonprofit
TREES ATLANTA INC
TREES ATLANTA INC (Georgia) receives grants from 145 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,213,746 to it, the largest being Robert W Woodruff Foundation Inc ($3,000,000). 78 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 145
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $24M
What Trees Atlanta Inc does
Mission
Trees atlanta protects and improves atlanta's urban forest by planting, conserving, and educating the public about the benefits of trees and their importance for the health and well-being of our community. We empower community-based forestry and depend on volunteers and the engagement of residents and municipalities from across the region. Since our founding in 1985, trees atlanta has planted over 180,000 trees throughout metro atlanta. Our aim is to build a community where residents and the natural world coexist in a thriving urban ecosystem that addresses environmental threats, increases air quality, fosters better health outcomes, facilitates more job opportunities, invites more social engagement and creates safer and healthier neighborhoods.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Trees atlanta helps community members protect and care for trees and educates young people and adults about the value of our urban forest. In the 2024/2025 planting season, trees atlanta planted and distributed 9,355 trees in metro atlanta with the help of volunteers and contractors. During fy25, trees atlanta volunteers planted 6,184 trees (6-8 ft. Tall) as part of our community forestry program. Trees atlanta's urban trees program planted 447 15-foot tall trees in metro atlanta sidewalks, public spaces and on private commercial property. An additional 2,724 trees were planted by our forest restoration and beltline arboretum teams. These trees are maintained, cared for, and/or managed by trees atlanta staff, volunteers, or contractors. Finally, 1,033 trees were distributed through tree sales and giveaways. Trees atlanta's forest restoration program transforms overgrown greenspaces into healthy forests through invasive plant removal. In fy25, trees atlanta treated and managed 683 acres of invasive species throughout the metro atlanta area. Trees atlanta educates the public, both children and adults, about the extraordinary benefits of trees and the need to protect and expand the…
$9,586,371 spent$141,324 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $9,586,371.
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 2019 to 2020, from $12M to $22M (+75%).
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 53% · 2018 62% · 2019 51% · 2020 18% · 2021 31% · 2022 43% · 2023 48% · 2024 50% · 2025 56%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of TREES ATLANTA INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% 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
Greg Levine
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 27 funders to 50 funders, grant income rose $718k → $1.2M.
19 of 145 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 TREES ATLANTA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 145 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
TREES ATLANTA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
43% 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 TREES ATLANTA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 22% · 2019 80% · 2020 52% · 2021 35% · 2022 26% · 2023 16% — 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
36% of TREES ATLANTA INC'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
61% of TREES ATLANTA INC's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
TREES ATLANTA INC has grown faster than half of the 210 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 210 environment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding TREES ATLANTA INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10.1M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$10.0M
- Environmental Protection Agency$30k
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.
Organizations like TREES ATLANTA 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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Trees Atlanta Support Organization Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TREES ATLANTA INC: 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 TREES ATLANTA INC?
- TREES ATLANTA INC (Georgia) receives grants from 145 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,213,746 to it, the largest being Robert W Woodruff Foundation Inc ($3,000,000). 78 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TREES ATLANTA INC have?
- IRS filings report 145 organizations giving $16,213,746 in grants to TREES ATLANTA INC, 78 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TREES ATLANTA INC?
- Robert W Woodruff Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $3,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TREES ATLANTA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 145 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing