The Giving Trees International

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
881128144
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Portland, OR, USA
Phone
4159990741
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Interfaith Coalitions
Affiliation
Interfaith

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$98,832
Expenses
$95,482
Assets
$34,685
Liabilities
$709

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

1 person listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Chad Barker (President & CEO)

People named in this filing

  • Chad Barker (President & CEO)

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

The Giving Trees is an all-volunteer, tax-exempt 501c3 nonprofit that brightens the holiday season for individuals and families in need - independent of background - by personally delivering free Christmas trees, stands, lights, ornaments, and other decorations to them in their homes.

What it reported doing in 2025

The Giving Trees International is an all-volunteer organization that delivers free Christmas trees - as well as lights, ornaments, tree stands - to individuals in families who need a boost during the holiday season. The trees and aforementioned accessories comprise the vast majority of our expenses. Other expenses include renting vehicles to transport the trees, equipment eg, chain saws and other hardware, and software to support the project's operations. During the 2022 holiday season, our organization delivered 2,327 Christmas trees + accessories to recipients across 32 US states + 11 countries around the world.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 81
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 35
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 79.9%; rating input score 80
  • Program expense ratio: 82.7%; rating input score 83

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 3.4%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.36; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 36.7%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -3.8% per year; rating input score 0; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -4.3% per year; rating input score 0; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 30.1% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 79.9% of revenue deployed · 82.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $79K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.