Exceptional Trees International
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 412516400
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2025
- Location
- Honolulu, HI, USA
- Phone
- 8082855442
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Botanical Gardens, Arboreta and Botanical Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $0
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Winston Welch (President)
- Myles Ritchie (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Winston Welch (President)
- Myles Ritchie (Vice President)
- Brian Bagnall (Secretary/Treasurer)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Exceptional Trees International's mission is to promote, protect, and support exceptional tree programs worldwide through public outreach, education, research, legal policies, fundraising, advocacy, and professional development courses. Whether these trees are called Exceptional, Heritage, Significant, Champion, Monumental, and those recognized by another name, our aim is to support these programs that share the common goals of recognizing and protecting trees of importance.
What it reported doing in 2025
Exceptional Trees International was newly formed as a charitable and educational organization dedicated to advancing the recognition, appreciation, conservation, and study of exceptional, historic, culturally significant, and scientifically important trees. During this initial organizational period, the organization focused on establishing its charitable programs, developing educational resources, creating partnerships, and building the foundation for future public education, tree recognition, research, and conservation initiatives.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 55
- Sustainability: NotEnoughData
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Series filing activity did not reconcile in the filed values.