Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
TRELLIS FOR TOMORROW
TRELLIS FOR TOMORROW (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,368,779 to it, the largest being POTTSTOWN REGIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FKA POTTSTOWN AREA HEALTH AND WELLNESS ($438,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 43
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $873k
What Trellis for Tomorrow does
Mission
We empower individuals and communities by providing experiential programs that teach life skills and promote food security and sustainability.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Trellis for Tomorrow (the organization") is a nonprofit organization located in phoenixville, pennsylvania. Trellis for Tomorrow works to build resilient communities from the ground up. Trellis offers three highly effective and impactful youth development programs that intersect in myriad ways.see description of programs on schedule o of return.food for all (ffa) is a collaborative gardening program that provides life-giving, high-impact community engagement opportunities for partnering organizations including corporations, universities, faith-based institutions, non-profits, and other community groups. Staff design and install attractive raised-bed gardens at each partner site and provide all necessary resources and education for participants to manage the garden. Growing partners commit to donating at least half of their harvest to local pantries and other food assistance agencies, which has an immediate and significant impact on access to nutrient-dense produce for community members adversely affected by limited access to fresh foods. Since its inception in 2013, ffa has engaged volunteers to grow hundreds of thousands of pounds of produce that generated over a million servings…
$973,999 spentof which $41,606 as grants$185,407 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $973,999.
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 2024 to 2025, from $869k to $1.3M (+44%).
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: 2021 16% · 2022 18% · 2023 42% · 2024 40% · 2025 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of TRELLIS FOR TOMORROW’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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
Jennifer Anderson
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $58k → $184k.
9 of 43 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 TRELLIS FOR TOMORROW’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 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
TRELLIS FOR TOMORROW has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% 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
45% 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 TRELLIS FOR TOMORROW.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 33% · 2019 48% · 2020 34% · 2021 35% · 2022 39% · 2023 26% — 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
43% of TRELLIS FOR TOMORROW's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
83% of TRELLIS FOR TOMORROW's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $610k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
TRELLIS FOR TOMORROW runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,645 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,645 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding TRELLIS FOR TOMORROW receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $277k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$277k
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 TRELLIS FOR TOMORROW
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 Pennsylvania
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
99%
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 TRELLIS FOR TOMORROW: 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 TRELLIS FOR TOMORROW?
- TRELLIS FOR TOMORROW (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,368,779 to it, the largest being POTTSTOWN REGIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FKA POTTSTOWN AREA HEALTH AND WELLNESS ($438,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TRELLIS FOR TOMORROW have?
- IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $1,368,779 in grants to TRELLIS FOR TOMORROW, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TRELLIS FOR TOMORROW?
- POTTSTOWN REGIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FKA POTTSTOWN AREA HEALTH AND WELLNESS is the largest funder on record, with $438,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TRELLIS FOR TOMORROW find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 43 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