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TREE FUND-TREE RESEARCH & EDUCATION ENDOWMENT FUND

EIN 37-1018692 NAPERVILLE, IL

Revenue 2024
$686,919
Expenses 2024
$875,218

Program services were 63.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C034
Classification
2800
Street
1755 PARK ST STE 200

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

SUPPORT SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY AND DISSEMINATION OF NEW KNOWLEDGE IN THE FIELDS OF ARBORICULTURE AND URBAN FORESTRY

  • TREE FUND PROVIDES DIRECTED AND COMPETITIVE GRANTS TO SCHOLARS AND RESEARCHERS TO CONDUCT PRIMARY AND APPLIED RESEARCH TO INCREASE PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE AND PROMOTE THE BEST TECHNIQUES IN ARBORICULTURE, URBAN FORESTRY, AND RELATED PROFESSIONAL FIELDS. IN FY 2024, TREE FUND ISSUED $335,969 IN NEW RESEARCH GRANT FUNDING TO EIGHT RECIPIENTS.

    Expenses $517,532 · Grants $335,969 · Revenue $14,254

  • TREE FUND PROVIDES GRANTS TO CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS AND IMPLEMENTS PROGRAMS DESIGNED TO INCREASE AWARENESS OF ARBORICULTURE AND URBAN FORESTRY AMONG THE PUBLIC, THEREBY ENCOURAGING PROPERTY OWNERS, BUSINESSES, AND MUNICIPALITIES TO MANAGE URBAN AND COMMUNITY FORESTS IN WAYS THAT PROMOTE INDIVIDUAL, CIVIC, AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH. TREE FUND ISSUED ONE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT GRANT VALUED AT $5,000.

    Expenses $5,000 · Grants $5,000

  • TREE FUND PROVIDES SCHOLARSHIPS TO ENCOURAGE COLLEGE STUDENTS TO PURSUE CAREERS IN ARBORICULTURE AND URBAN FORESTRY. IN FY 2024, TREE FUND ISSUED FIVE SCHOLARSHIPS.

    Expenses $30,000 · Grants $30,000

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • PATRICK FRANKLIN

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RACHEL BARKER

    CHAIR-ELECT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DAVID GORDEN

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JACQUES BRUNSWICK

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LORI BROCKELBANK

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BEAU BRODBECK

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DAN HERMS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PETE SMITH

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SAM VANMAANEN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ASIA DOWTIN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DE'ETRA YOUNG

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JON HICKS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PAUL PUTMAN

    PRESIDENT/CEO

    Total calculated
    $115,500
    From this org
    $115,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $686,919
    Expenses
    $875,218
    Contributions
    $841,937
    Grants paid
    $370,969
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $708,013
    Expenses
    $632,992
    Contributions
    $912,370
    Grants paid
    $166,570
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $668,187
    Expenses
    $902,680
    Contributions
    $654,016
    Grants paid
    $431,705

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $725,659
    Expenses
    $642,800
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,282,789

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $677,998
    Expenses
    $781,326
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,582,083

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $708,913
    Expenses
    $948,385
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,185,332

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,054,363
    Expenses
    $863,253
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,642,336

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,089,927
    Expenses
    $820,007
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,813,171

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,434,181
    Expenses
    $1,190,501
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,020,853

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,024,377
    Expenses
    $863,889
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,423,629

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,001,912
    Expenses
    $866,858
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,425,095

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $938,085
    Expenses
    $665,952
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,990,637

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.