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TREES WATER AND PEOPLE

EIN 84-1462044 FORT COLLINS, CO

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Revenue 2025
$3,058,683
Expenses 2025
$3,057,604

Program services were 76.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C30
Classification
1000
Street
633 REMINGTON ST

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 · 2025

Mission

TREES, WATER AND PEOPLE IS DEDICATED TO PROVIDE A COMMUNITY-BASED APPROACH TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT THROUGH REFORESTATION, WATERSHED PROTECTION, CLEANTECH AND CLEAN COOKSTOVES, AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS IN LATIN AMERICA AND INDIGENOUS LANDS IN THE UNITED STATES. OUR WORK IS GUIDED BY TWO CORE BELIEFS: NATURAL RESOURCES ARE BEST PROTECTED WHEN THE LOCAL COMMUNITY PLAYS AN ACTIVE ROLE IN THEIR CARE AND MANAGEMENT; AND THE PRESERVATION OF LOCAL ECOSYSTEMS IS ESSENTIAL FOR ONGOING SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH OF COMMUNITIES ELSEWHERE.

  • MESOAMERICA PROGRAM EDUCATION, TRAINING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT IN THE AREAS OF REFORESTATION, FUEL-EFFICIENT COOKSTOVES, FOOD SECURITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS IN CENTRAL AMERICAN COUNTRIES, AS WELL AS MEXICO.

    Expenses $1,252,418 · Grants $557,015

  • INDIGENOUS LANDS PROGRAM EDUCATION, TRAINING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ON NATIVE AMERICAN RESERVATIONS FOCUSING ON REFORESTATION, EMPLOYMENT AND FOOD SECURITY.

    Expenses $1,092,126 · Grants $158,664

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Jake Tornatzky

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Tim Kasten

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Raul Tuazon

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Paul Zilis

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Cynthia Brown

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jenny Bramhall

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Paul Thayer

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Marilyn Thayer

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Tony Cheng

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mary Merritt

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Leslie Taylor

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sebastian Africano

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $107,269
    From this org
    $107,269
    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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $3,058,683
    Expenses
    $3,057,604
    Contributions
    $3,009,649
    Grants paid
    $715,679
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,782,775
    Expenses
    $2,874,386
    Contributions
    $2,756,795
    Grants paid
    $717,870
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,525,907
    Expenses
    $2,427,483
    Contributions
    $2,423,114
    Grants paid
    $655,048
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,235,395
    Expenses
    $2,057,487
    Contributions
    $2,136,689
    Grants paid
    $684,173

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

  • 2025 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,144,674
    Expenses
    $1,975,487
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,567,766

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,570,462
    Expenses
    $1,555,450
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,435,985

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,526,574
    Expenses
    $1,350,314
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,326,116

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,361,206
    Expenses
    $1,260,653
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,158,836

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,118,306
    Expenses
    $1,085,900
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,163,182

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,000,167
    Expenses
    $956,817
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,059,733

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $941,527
    Expenses
    $993,445
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,105,897

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,345,253
    Expenses
    $1,287,296
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,064,839

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,499,104
    Expenses
    $1,490,504
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,079,125

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

  • Montezuma Land Conservancy

    $90,366

    2022 reforestation and training

  • CONSERVATION LEGACY

    $77,500

    2025 LABOR SUPPORT FOR PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION

  • JEMEZ PUEBLO DEPT OF NATURAL RESOURCES

    $39,325

    2024 PROGRAM SUPPORT

  • CONSERVATION LEGACY

    $36,300

    2024 PROGRAM SUPPORT

  • JEMEZ PUEBLO DEPARTMENT OF NATIONAL RESOURCES

    $31,134

    2025 LABOR SUPPORT FOR PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION

  • Red Cloud Renewable

    $22,602

    2022 reforestation

  • Conservation Legacy

    $20,250

    2022 youth placements

  • CSU Foundation

    $20,000

    2023 Youth Development

  • KWIYAGAT COMMUNITY ACADEMY

    $15,548

    2024 PROGRAM SUPPORT

  • Kwiyagat Community Academy

    $14,452

    2023 irrigation

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 11 November 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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.