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FRIENDS OF THE URBAN FOREST

EIN 94-2699528 SAN FRANCISCO, CA

Largest nonprofits in California

Revenue 2024
$5,142,060
Expenses 2024
$5,410,095

Program services were 73.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C500
Classification
1200
Street
1007 GENERAL KENNEDY AVE STE 1

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

FRIENDS OF THE URBAN FOREST CONNECTS PEOPLE WITH NATURE AND EACH OTHER BY PLANTING AND CARING FOR SAN FRANCISCO'S TREES AND GARDENS.

  • INVOLVE CITY RESIDENTS IN PROVIDING TECHNICAL AND PRACTICAL ASSISTANCE WITH TREE PLANTING. PERFORM UNDER A SERIES OF CONTRACTS THAT PROVIDE FOR TREE PLANTING AND ONGOING MAINTENANCE.

    Expenses $3,984,632 · Revenue $64,832

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.

  • Ray Schreiber

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.5
  • Alison Torbitt

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Sheila Thompson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Nora Chin

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Lara Hitchcock

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Lindy Patterson

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Stephanie Noble

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Areana Flores

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jim Emery

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Alexey Trepakov

    DIRECTOR FROM 9/24

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Lawrence Rogers

    FINANCE AND CONTRACTS DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $153,650
    From this org
    $152,301
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $1,349
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $152,301
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $1,000
    Nontaxable benefits
    $349
    Filer's total
    $153,650
  • Brian Wiedenmeier

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $220,985
    From this org
    $210,400
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,585
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $210,400
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $1,000
    Nontaxable benefits
    $9,585
    Filer's total
    $220,985
  • Rachel Yu

    DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF FINANCE & OPERATIONS(FROM01/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Roberta Catalinotto

    VICE PRESIDENT OF DEVELOPMENT

    Total calculated
    $171,136
    From this org
    $170,136
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $1,000
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $132,941
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $37,195
    Deferred
    $1,000
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $171,136
  • Rebecca Alon

    CORPORATE RELATIONS & DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM MANAGER

    Total calculated
    $113,329
    From this org
    $100,960
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $12,369
    Hours/week
    40
  • Kelsey Roeder

    DIRECTOR OF PEOPLE & OPERATIONS

    Total calculated
    $131,187
    From this org
    $114,009
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $17,178
    Hours/week
    40
  • Michael Yarak

    PROGRAM DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $118,042
    From this org
    $108,350
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $9,692
    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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $5,142,060
    Expenses
    $5,410,095
    Contributions
    $5,067,776
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $5,006,971
    Expenses
    $5,673,426
    Contributions
    $4,970,667
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $4,217,920
    Expenses
    $4,655,009
    Contributions
    $4,181,875
    Grants paid
    $0

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
    $3,821,029
    Expenses
    $3,932,523
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,974,896
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,062,947
    Expenses
    $3,338,127
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,152,117
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,807,282
    Expenses
    $3,428,677
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,416,509
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,703,626
    Expenses
    $3,552,453
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,203,842
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,737,352
    Expenses
    $2,902,529
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,864,131
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,680,773
    Expenses
    $2,523,744
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,047,621
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,973,647
    Expenses
    $2,350,319
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,824,088
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,407,096
    Expenses
    $1,918,031
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,245,345

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

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

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

California fundraising campaigns

Campaigns run by paid fundraisers, commercial coventurers and thrift stores naming this organization, as California published them. Both figures are as filed, and what the first one counts depends on the campaign type — a coventurer or a thrift store files its own sales rather than money collected for the charity. The 990 reports this only as a yearly total, never per campaign.

  • AUTOMOTIVE RECOVERY SERVICES INC

    $300 raised

    2021 CF Vehicle Donation Program

    $43 to charity

  • AUTOMOTIVE RECOVERY SERVICES INC

    $2,975 raised

    2020 CF Vehicle Donation Program

    $1,273 to charity

  • AUTOMOTIVE RECOVERY SERVICES INC

    $2,800 raised

    2019 CF Vehicle Donation Program

    $788 to charity

Amounts are as filed and do not add up: a commercial coventurer reports one promotion's whole gross once for each charity that shared in it. A campaign may also name more than one registered charity, in which case it appears on each.

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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.