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TreesCharlotte

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States · Nonprofit · Local · since 2012

Public-private nonprofit planting, giving away and caring for trees across Charlotte and Mecklenburg County since 2012

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Urban forestry (primary) Tree adoption & giveaways Tree care & maintenance Education & advocacy

About

TreesCharlotte is a Charlotte, North Carolina 501(c)(3) that partners with the City of Charlotte and the community to grow and steward the city's tree canopy, with a vision of 50% canopy coverage. Its TreeAdoptions hand out free yard trees (two per household) to Mecklenburg County residents at roughly nine events each planting season, while CommunityWoods TreeDays bring volunteers and trained TreeMasters to plant 25 or more trees at neighborhoods, schools, churches and apartment communities. The organization also runs TreeCare workdays, seedling distributions and the Treesilience Initiative, a multi-year tree-equity program in the under-canopied Greenville and Historic Hoskins neighborhoods. It reports 66,482 trees planted and distributed and 651 events since 2012.

What they run

TreeAdoptions Tree adoption & giveaways

Free tree pick-up events for Mecklenburg County residents (limit two trees per registration), most targeted at specific zip codes, with a required planting demonstration; about nine events per season from September to March.

CommunityWoods TreeDays Urban forestry

Volunteer planting events of at least 25 trees at neighborhoods, schools and organizations in Mecklenburg County; TreesCharlotte supplies trees, mulch, equipment and TreeMaster leaders, and TreeKeepers revisit sites at 2, 4 and 6 years.

TreeCare events Tree care & maintenance

Volunteer workdays to mulch, prune and water previously planted trees.

Treesilience Initiative Urban forestry

Multi-year, grant-funded tree-equity investment in under-canopied Charlotte neighborhoods (currently Greenville and Historic Hoskins), free to residents.

The numbers

MetricYearValueProgramConfidenceSource
Cost per tree (USD)2026450Organization-wideSelf-reportedsourceDonate page giving levels: '$450 is the average cost of buying, planting, and watering one tree for a year' ($60 covers one TreeAdoption tree)
Trees distributed20252,500Organization-wideSelf-reportedsource2024-2025 season recap: '2,500 Seedlings Distributed' (separate from the 5,926 planted & adopted trees)
Trees planted20255,926Organization-wideSelf-reportedsource2024-2025 season recap: '5,926 Trees Planted & Adopted' (figure combines planted and adopted trees); also '105 Events' and '3,478 Trees Cared For'
Trees plantedto date202566,482Organization-wideSelf-reportedsource2024-2025 season recap, since 2012: '66,482 Trees Planted & Distributed' and '651 TreeDay, TreeAdoption, & TreeCare Events Held'
Volunteers engaged20253,797Organization-wideSelf-reportedsource2024-2025 season recap: '3,797 Volunteers & Residents Engaged'
Volunteers engagedto date202536,335Organization-wideSelf-reportedsource2024-2025 season recap, since 2012: '36,335 Residents & Volunteers Engaged'

How they report

Transparency
54 / 100 · Partly documented
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: 6 of 6 figures link to a source
  • 15/15 Publishes financials or cost per tree: Revenue or cost-per-tree figure on record
  • 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
8,426 trees in 2025
Trees per volunteer
2.2 in 2025
Cost per tree
$450.00 stated for 2026
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