The Little Tree Project

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
815444185
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Fairhope, AL, USA
Phone
2512108620
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Alliance/Advocacy Organizations

Reported finances

Revenue
$51,570
Expenses
$53,162
Assets
$1,519
Liabilities
$432

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

Leadership & pay

1 person listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Allana Chris (President)

People named in this filing

  • Allana Chris (President)

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

Little Tree Project is an anti-human trafficking nonprofit headquartered in South Alabama with the mission to end human trafficking and bring freedom to the exploited through prevention, outreach, rescue, and residential. We envision cultures and communities where sustainable freedom is possible and cycles of slavery are forever broken. For freedom we are planting seeds of change, reclaiming stories, and fighting to end human trafficking.

What it reported doing in 2025

Little Tree Project fights human trafficking through prevention, outreach, rescue, and residential. The organization accomplishes such efforts through collaborations and partnerships with local and international service providers, law enforcement, employment opportunities, and fellow anti-human trafficking organizations. This includes Rescue America, Selah Freedom, Wellhouse of Alabama, Alabama Anti-Human Trafficking Alliance, the US Probation Office, Fairhope Police Department and more. The organization is consulting under Selah Freedom and the Wellhouse - two experienced and successful organizations with the same cause in order to ensure the best care, holistic services, and trauma-informed programming possible. This includes protocols and procedures, program development, fundraising, and building a dynamic and impactful board, staff, and volunteer base. Little Tree Project is pioneering proper detection, response, and care for anti-human trafficking efforts in South Alabama on a multi-disciplinary level including service providers, NGOs, law enforcement, medical and mental health care, addiction recovery, the hospitality industry, and more

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
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

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: 82
  • Sustainability: 28
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -3.1%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.03; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.28; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: -1.1% per year; rating input score 0; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -30.1% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings

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 · 1 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 37/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 10/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.