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TreesLouisville

Louisville, Kentucky, United States · Nonprofit · Local · since 2015

Louisville nonprofit planting and giving away thousands of trees a year toward an equitable community canopy

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

About

TreesLouisville was founded in 2015 in response to Louisville, Kentucky's declining tree canopy and works to grow a robust, equitable community forest, focusing on neighborhoods with the least canopy. Its programs include K-12 Campus Reforestation plantings at Jefferson County Public Schools, the NeighborWoods residential planting program in west Louisville zip codes (part of a 10,000-tree Rubbertown corridor goal), free Tree Adoptions, the Canopy Corps trained-volunteer program, a Green Team that prunes and waters young trees, the Treesilience program removing and replacing hazardous trees for homeowners at no cost, and the annual TreeFest and Tree Week celebrations. It led Louisville's Urban Forest Master Plan (completed 2025) and is renovating The Canopy Center in Shelby Park as its headquarters; in the 2025-26 season it planted 1,936 trees and adopted out 1,575, and reports more than 25,000 trees planted and given away since 2015.

What they run

K-12 Campus Reforestation Urban forestry2015–present

Plantings at Jefferson County Public Schools and other campuses (45 JCPS plantings in 2025-26), including the 170-tree Churchill Park School hillside forest with Collins Aerospace.

NeighborWoods Residential Tree Program Urban forestry2020–present

Free trees planted, mulched and staked by volunteers on residential property in zip codes 40210, 40211, 40212 and 40216, toward a goal of 10,000 trees in the Rubbertown corridor; residents commit to watering for two growing seasons.

Tree Adoptions Tree adoption & giveaways

Free tree giveaways for Jefferson County and surrounding residents, including the Kroger-sponsored spring adoption and the Tree Week adoption; four adoptions in 2025-26.

Canopy Corps Tree care & maintenance2019–present

Trained volunteer corps (founded 2019) that plants, prunes, waters and mulches trees after training by an ISA Certified Arborist, with sessions three times a year.

Treesilience Tree care & maintenance2025–present

Dendrifund-seeded program that removes and replaces dead, declining or high-risk trees for homeowners in Louisville's lowest-canopy neighborhoods at no cost, launched in the 2025-26 season.

TreeFest and Tree Week Education & advocacy2022–present

Annual April Arbor Day festival with Louisville Metro Parks (3,000+ attendees, 100 trees planted and 350 given away in 2026) and an October Tree Week of 60 community events.

Trees by type of work

ActivityTreesYears
🎁 Tree adoption & giveaways1,5752026

Only figures attached to a named program count here. Organization-wide totals sit in the table below.

The numbers

Trees planted, by year
2K20251.9K2026
MetricYearValueProgramConfidenceSource
Trees planted20251,962Organization-wideSelf-reportedsource2024/2025 Annual Report impact page: '1,962 Trees Planted' (narrative: 'nearly 2,000 trees planted by volunteers, staff, and' partners), with 1,536 trees adopted and 650 planted through the Urban Forestry contract
Trees planted20261,936Organization-wideSelf-reportedsource2025/2026 Annual Report, 'Because of you, Louisville's canopy grew': 'Total: 1,936 Trees Planted' at 61 planting sites (planting season roughly Nov 2025 to spring 2026)
Trees plantedto date202525,000Organization-wideSelf-reportedsource2024/2025 Annual Report, 'Branching Out for Over a Decade' timeline: 'MORE THAN 25,000 TREES PLANTED & GIVEN AWAY SINCE 2015!' (figure combines planted and adopted trees)
Trees distributed20261,575Tree AdoptionsSelf-reportedsource2025/2026 Annual Report: '1,575 Trees Adopted through 4 Tree Adoptions'; confirmed on the care page: 'this year's new trees (1,936 planted and 1,575 adopted)'

How they report

Transparency
50 / 100 · Partly documented
What earned it
  • 10/20 Publishes annual tree figures: 2 years of annual figures on record (5 points each, up to 4 years)
  • 15/15 Figures are recent: Latest annual figure is for 2026
  • 10/10 Every figure has a public source: 4 of 4 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
  • 10/10 Breaks figures down by program: Figures attached to named programs
  • 5/5 Reports volunteers or events: Public events listed
Latest annual figure
1,936 trees in 2026 (-1% on the year before)
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