Three Trees Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 922712765
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Houston, TX, USA
- Phone
- 0000000000
- Rating
- 44
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $42,889
- Expenses
- $20,142
- Assets
- $30,411
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jack R Parsons (President)
People named in this filing
- Jack R Parsons (President)
- T Wilson Griffith (Director)
- Steffanie Dean (Secretary)
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
Three Trees Foundation is a Texas nonprofit corporation organized and operated exclusively for charitable purposes within the meaning of Section 501c3 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 In accomplishment of such purposes the Foundation plans organizes and stages an amateur tennis tournament in Houston Texas The donations to and proceeds of this tournament are granted to one or more organizations described in Section 501c3 of the Code with a focus on Houston-area nonprofits supporting youth development outdoor education and enrichment opportunities for underserved students
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025 Three Trees Foundation made a 20000 charitable grant to The Woods Project Inc EIN 26-2959996 a Houston-based Section 501c3 public charity The Woods Project provides wilderness education and outdoor exploration programs for low-income high school students in the Houston area including after-school programming weekend camping and service trips and two-week summer immersion experiences in national parks across the United States The grant supports The Woods Projects mission of helping disadvantaged students develop leadership skills perseverance social competence and environmental awareness through outdoor education The Foundation generated the funds for this grant through proceeds from its annual amateur tennis tournament and contributions from individual donors and sponsors
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 74
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 53%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.51; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.