The Treetops Foundation
New York, NY · EIN 13-4093466. Reported 110 grants totalling $5,497,840 to 75 recipients across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation told the IRS it does not accept unsolicited requests: it contributes only to organizations it selects itself.
Does this foundation accept applications?
No -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation to check a box if it "only makes contributions to preselected charitable organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests for funds". The Treetops Foundation checked it on its most recent filing, as 78% of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered did. An unsolicited request is unlikely to go anywhere.
Organizations it funds that make grants of their own
3 of the organizations The Treetops Foundation funded make grants themselves, and it reported 4 grants totalling $75,100 to them. That is 3% of the $2,662,637 of its giving we could match to a registered organization. Each is classified by the IRS as a philanthropy or grantmaking organization, reported grants to at least 25 organizations of its own, and has at least 10 funders behind it.
All of them file Form 990, which never asks whether an organization funds only groups it picks, so there is no answer on record either way.
What that does not mean. It does not mean an application to any of them reaches this foundation's money. A private foundation's grant to a community foundation or a federated campaign is often a donor-advised fund or a gift designated for a purpose the foundation chose, and has nothing to do with any open programme the receiving organization runs. Its return's purpose text sometimes names a family fund or a designated purpose, which is the plainest case of money no applicant can reach; where it names none, neither return says which. The list is who this foundation paid that also makes grants. Whether any of them would fund you is a question for its own page.
| Grantmaker | Kind | State | Received | Grants | Years | Last | Only funds organizations it picks? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Federation of Jewish Communities of the | community foundation | New York | $49,600 | 2 | 2 | 2024 | Its form does not ask |
| United Jewish Appeal-Federation of | federated giving programme | New York | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 | Its form does not ask |
| Robin Hood Foundation | federated giving programme | New York | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 | Its form does not ask |
A floor, not a full list. A grantmaker appears here only where this foundation's return named it clearly enough for us to match the name to an EIN, which we manage for about two thirds of 990-PF grant rows, and only where that grantmaker has a page on this site. There may be more. Dollars here are summed by EIN across every spelling on its returns, so a figure can differ from the matching row in the full list below, which groups names as written. And the IRS classification cannot tell a grantmaker from a funders' association or a donor-advised fund sponsor, so a payment to one of these may be dues or an account rather than support for a grants programme.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $10,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,800 and $35,000; the smallest was $155 and the largest $482,352.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Park Avenue Synagogue | New York, NY | $1,057,640 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Young Men's & Young Women's Hebrew Assoc | New York, NY | $600,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| American Jewish Committee | New York, NY | $572,950 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Williams College | Williamtown, MA | $500,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Hillels the Foundation for Jewish | Washington, DC | $460,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Limmud Fsu International Foundation | New York, NY | $455,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Hillel's the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life | Washington, DC | $300,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Friends of the Idf | New York, NY | $218,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Taft School Development | Watertown, CT | $208,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| American Friends of the Philharmonic Orchestra | New York, NY | $109,200 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| American Friends of the Israel Museum | New York, NY | $106,800 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Aish Hachaim- Moonlight Gala | New York, NY | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| USC Parents Fund | Los Angeles, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Eaglebrook School | Deerfield, MA | $90,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| 92NY | New York, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Federation of Jewish Communities of the Cis | New York, NY | $49,600 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| United Jewish Association Federation of Ny | New York, NY | $45,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| American Friends of the Canadian Centre for Architecture Inc | New York, NY | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Venetian Heritage Inc | New York, NY | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Zaka North Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $37,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| American Friends of Libi | Brookline, MA | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Friends of Duvdevan | Farmington, MA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| National Union of Israeli Students | Tel Avivjaffa | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Fsu Int'l Fnd | Tallahasse, FL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ohr Torah Stone | New York, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ots-Jewish Learning Center | New York, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Uja | New York, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Birthright Israel Foundation | New York, NY | $18,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| American Muesum of Natural History | New York, NY | $17,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Central Park Conservancy | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Challenged Athletes Foundation | San Diego, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Friends of B'shvil Hamachar | Cary, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Jgive - Friends of Asor | Jerusalem | $5,400 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| American Friends of Chabad of Thailand | Port Washington, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Child Mind Institute | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Georgetown University | Washington, DC | $5,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| La'aretz | Brooklyn, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Our Place in New York Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mount Sinai | New York, NY | $4,600 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Allen Stevenson School | New York, NY | $3,900 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Belev Echad | New York, NY | $3,600 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Caringkind | New York, NY | $3,600 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Met Council Ny | New York, NY | $3,600 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Nyu-Bronfman Center Endowment Fund | Hagerstown, MD | $3,600 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Sixpoint Inc | Saint Petersburg, FL | $3,600 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ahavat Raziel | Long Island City, NY | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hillel International | Washington, DC | $2,800 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| American Friends of Or National Missions | New York, NY | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ballroom Marfa | Marfa, TX | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The George Washington University | Ashburn, VA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| 92ND Street Y | New York, NY | $2,100 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Creative Playschool - Fifth Avenue Synagogue | New York, NY | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Covenant House | New York, NY | $1,872 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Beacon Hebrew Alliance | Beacon, NY | $1,800 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Chabad Sbh | Brooklyn, NY | $1,800 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Gauchos Gym | Bronx, NY | $1,800 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Palm Beach Synagogue | Palm Beach, FL | $1,800 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pef Israel Endowment Funds Inc | New York, NY | $1,800 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| American-Scandanavian Foundation | New York, NY | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Moma Giving | New York, NY | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Beast Philanthropy | Greenville, NC | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Hassenfeld Children's Center | New York, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Huntsman Cancer Foundation | Salt Lake City, UT | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Teaching Matters | New York, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Boys Club of New York | New York, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Living in Dignity | Rehovot | $911 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Leukemia & Lymphoma Society | New York, NY | $610 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Gods Love We Deliver | New York, NY | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Robin Hood | New York, NY | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Scs Foundation | New York, NY | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Heschel School | New York, NY | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Un Watch | Washington, DC | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| From Passthrough Entities | New York, NY | $442 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Moise Safra Center | New York, NY | $360 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| American Friends of the Open University of Israel | New York, NY | $155 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
21 of 75 (28%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 35%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one, and this foundation told the IRS it does not.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Park Avenue Synagogue
GENERAL CHARITABLE SUPPORT - NO DESIGNATION - Our Place in New York Inc
GENERAL CHARITABLE SUPPORT - NO DESIGNATIONGENERAL CHARITABLE SUPPORT - NO DESIGNATION
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 59 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 23 | $875,053 | $5,000 |
| 2022 | 31 | $1,891,599 | $12,500 |
| 2023 | 31 | $2,018,100 | $25,000 |
| 2024 | 25 | $713,088 | $3,600 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
67% of its giving went to organizations in New York.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more. Unlike this foundation, none of them is on record as funding only organizations it picks, and each page says what its filings show.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The Treetops Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: Baker Tilly 66 Hudson Blvd E 2200, New York, NY, 10001. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS.
EIN 13-4093466 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this
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