{"slug":"trees-water-people","name":"Trees, Water & People","tagline":"Fort Collins nonprofit planting trees and building clean cookstoves with Indigenous and Central American communities","description":"Trees, Water & People (TWP) is a Fort Collins, Colorado nonprofit founded in 1998 that helps communities protect, conserve and manage the natural resources they depend on. Its Mesoamerica Program works with local partner organizations in Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Mexico on community-based reforestation, agroecology and Justa clean cookstoves, while its Indigenous Lands Program (founded 2005) supports Tribal forestry, riparian restoration and seedling planting with Pueblos in New Mexico and the Ute Mountain Ute in Colorado. TWP reported 94,800 trees and seedlings planted and 1,500 cookstoves installed in 2025.","website_url":"https://treeswaterpeople.org","logo_url":null,"founded_year":1998,"org_type":"nonprofit","scope":"global","headquarters":{"city":"Fort Collins","region":"Colorado","country":"US","lat":40.5853,"lng":-105.0844},"volunteer_url":"https://treeswaterpeople.org/volunteer","donation_url":"https://treeswaterpeople.org/donate","events_url":null,"featured":false,"trees_on_record":189600,"primary_activity":"reforestation","activities":[{"slug":"reforestation","name":"Reforestation","primary":true},{"slug":"agroforestry","name":"Agroforestry","primary":false},{"slug":"nursery-seedling-production","name":"Nurseries & seedlings","primary":false},{"slug":"education-advocacy","name":"Education & advocacy","primary":false}],"updated_at":"2026-11-08T00:02:16.194Z","url":"https://treerm.org/org/trees-water-people","markdown_url":"https://treerm.org/org/trees-water-people.md","api_url":"https://treerm.org/api/v1/organizations/trees-water-people","data_note":"TWP's 2025 Impact Report PDF gives 94,800 trees and seedlings planted and 1,500 Justa cookstoves installed, while its web Impact page lists 95,400 trees and 1,642 cookstoves under a '2025-2026' heading; the two periods are not explained, so we use the PDF figures. The 85,800 Mesoamerica and 9,000 New Mexico figures sum to 94,800. TWP's fiscal year ends March 31 and it publishes no cumulative tree total.","derived":{"annual_trees":[{"year":2025,"value":94800}],"latest_annual":{"year":2025,"value":94800},"yoy":null,"cagr":null,"dollars_raised_per_tree":null,"cost_per_tree":null,"trees_per_volunteer":null,"survival":null,"hectares":null,"transparency":{"score":55,"label":"Partly documented","points":[{"key":"annual","label":"Publishes annual tree figures","earned":5,"max":20,"why":"1 year of annual figures on record (5 points each, up to 4 years)"},{"key":"recent","label":"Figures are recent","earned":15,"max":15,"why":"Latest annual figure is for 2025"},{"key":"sourced","label":"Every figure has a public source","earned":10,"max":10,"why":"4 of 4 figures link to a source"},{"key":"money","label":"Publishes financials or cost per tree","earned":15,"max":15,"why":"Revenue or cost-per-tree figure on record"},{"key":"survival","label":"Reports survival or monitoring","earned":0,"max":15,"why":"No survival or monitoring figure on record"},{"key":"verified","label":"Independently verified figure","earned":0,"max":10,"why":"All figures are the organization's own"},{"key":"programs","label":"Breaks figures down by program","earned":10,"max":10,"why":"Figures attached to named programs"},{"key":"people","label":"Reports volunteers or events","earned":0,"max":5,"why":"No volunteer figures or events on record"}]},"methodology":"https://treerm.org/methodology"},"countries":["GT","HN","MX","NI","SV","US"],"social_links":{"instagram":"https://www.instagram.com/treeswaterpeople/","facebook":"https://www.facebook.com/TreesWaterPeople/","linkedin":"https://www.linkedin.com/company/trees-water-&-people","youtube":"https://www.youtube.com/@TreesWaterandPeople"},"programs":[{"slug":"mesoamerica-program","name":"Mesoamerica Program","activity":"reforestation","description":"Community-based reforestation, agroecology, gender-equity and clean-cookstove work with partner organizations in Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Mexico; Central America work began in 1998.","url":"https://treeswaterpeople.org/international","started_year":1998,"ended_year":null},{"slug":"indigenous-lands-program","name":"Indigenous Lands Program","activity":"reforestation","description":"Builds the capacity of Native American Tribes in the western U.S. to manage natural resources, including seedling planting, riparian restoration and Tribal forestry summits with Cochiti, Santo Domingo and Jemez Pueblos and the Ute Mountain Ute.","url":"https://treeswaterpeople.org/indigenous-lands","started_year":2005,"ended_year":null}],"metrics":[{"metric_type":"funds_raised_usd","year":2026,"value":3058683,"is_cumulative":false,"program":null,"source_url":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/841462044","source_note":"ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer, Form 990 for fiscal year ending March 2026: total revenue $3,058,683 (expenses $3,057,604)","confidence":"reported"},{"metric_type":"trees_planted","year":2025,"value":94800,"is_cumulative":false,"program":null,"source_url":"https://treeswaterpeople.org/s/TreesWaterPeople_ImpactReport_2025.pdf","source_note":"2025 Impact Report, p.1: '94,800 Total Trees & Seedlings Planted'","confidence":"reported"},{"metric_type":"trees_planted","year":2025,"value":85800,"is_cumulative":false,"program":"mesoamerica-program","source_url":"https://treeswaterpeople.org/s/TreesWaterPeople_ImpactReport_2025.pdf","source_note":"2025 Impact Report, p.3 (Mesoamerica Program): '85,800 Trees Planted. 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