North Carolina · Nonprofit
TREES FOR THE TRIANGLE
TREES FOR THE TRIANGLE (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $87,059 to it, the largest being NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION ($66,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $72k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $87k
- Net assets
- $86k
What Trees for the Triangle does
Mission
We plant native trees in the Research Triangle region of North Carolina.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
We planted approximately 300 native trees in the Triangle region. All were selected specifically for the sites they were planted in. These native trees will help make the air and water cleaner. They also help mitigate stormwater in the area, as well as providing habitat and food for native wildlife, particularly critical pollinators. All of this effects have a positive impact on residents of the Triangle, and will for decades to come.
$88,294 spent$63,000 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $88,294.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 $120k to $86k (−28%).
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.
97% of TREES FOR THE TRIANGLE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (92% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 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
Dave Klemp
Executive Director
Board chair
Ellie Kinsey
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $25 → $102.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 FOR THE TRIANGLE’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
TREES FOR THE TRIANGLE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% 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
100% 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 FOR THE TRIANGLE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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
TREES FOR THE TRIANGLE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k 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
TREES FOR THE TRIANGLE's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,195 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like TREES FOR THE TRIANGLE
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 TREES FOR THE TRIANGLE: 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 FOR THE TRIANGLE?
- TREES FOR THE TRIANGLE (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $87,059 to it, the largest being NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION ($66,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TREES FOR THE TRIANGLE have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $87,059 in grants to TREES FOR THE TRIANGLE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TREES FOR THE TRIANGLE?
- NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $66,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TREES FOR THE TRIANGLE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2024–2025), 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