Tree Trust
St. Paul, Minnesota, United States · Nonprofit · Local · since 1976
Twin Cities nonprofit pairing youth job training with community tree plantings and municipal tree sales since 1976
About
Tree Trust was incorporated in St. Paul, Minnesota on March 16, 1976 as Twin Cities Tree Trust, founded in response to Dutch elm disease and youth unemployment. Its Career Pathways programs (Summer Youth Employment Program, Branches and YouthBuild) give young people aged 14 to 28 paid work experience, while its Community Forestry division runs volunteer community tree plantings, Learning With Trees school plantings, Minneapolis Green Zones and Commercial Canopy planting initiatives and discounted municipal tree sales and giveaways in some 20 Twin Cities suburbs. A Landscape Services social enterprise funds the mission. In 2025 it reported 7,491 trees planted at 39 community plantings with 602 volunteers and 302 young people trained.
What they run
Public volunteer plantings in parks, boulevards and neighborhoods across the Twin Cities, including the Minneapolis Green Zones and Minneapolis Commercial Canopy initiatives and emerald ash borer replacement work with the City of Saint Paul; registration runs through Eventbrite.
Spring and fall discounted tree sales and giveaways for private property owners run with about 20 Twin Cities municipalities (Minneapolis, Saint Paul, Edina, Woodbury, Vadnais Heights and others); the Minneapolis sale began in 2006.
School-based tree planting and environmental education program, begun at Central High School in St. Paul in 1992; 8 schools hosted it in 2025.
Paid training and workforce development for young people aged 14 to 28 (Summer Youth Employment Program since 1977, Branches, Tree Trust YouthBuild since 2006) in landscaping, arboriculture and the skilled trades; more than 55,000 individuals mentored to date.
The numbers
| Metric | Year | Value | Program | Confidence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trees planted | 2025 | 7,491 | Organization-wide | Self-reported | source2025 Annual Report flipbook (linked from the Annual Reports page), p.3 impact panel: '7,491 Trees Planted', '39 Community Tree Plantings', '21 Municipal Tree Distributions', '8 Schools Hosted Learning With Trees' |
| Volunteers engaged | 2025 | 602 | Organization-wide | Self-reported | source2025 Annual Report flipbook, p.3: '602 Volunteers', '2,768 Hours Volunteered'; the IRS Form 990 for 2025 (Part I line 6) reports the same 602 volunteers |
How they report
What earned it
- 5/20 Publishes annual tree figures: 1 year of annual figures on record (5 points each, up to 4 years)
- 15/15 Figures are recent: Latest annual figure is for 2025
- 10/10 Every figure has a public source: 2 of 2 figures link to a source
- 0/15 Publishes financials or cost per tree: No financial figure recorded
- 0/15 Reports survival or monitoring: No survival or monitoring figure
- 0/10 Independently verified figure: All figures are the organization's own
- 4/10 Breaks figures down by program: Programs named, figures not broken out
- 5/5 Reports volunteers or events: Volunteer figures on record
- Latest annual figure
- 7,491 trees in 2025
- Trees per volunteer
- 12.4 in 2025
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