Trees

Name

Trees

Legal name

Trees For Houston

Website

https://treesforhouston.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1983

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Environmental Conservation Services

NAICS

Support Activities for Forestry (11531), Support Activities for Forestry (1153)

SIC

Agricultural Services (700)

akta.pro primary industry

Urban & Community Reforestation / Street Tree Planting (AFAMACAL)

akta.pro secondary industry

Tree Planting & Establishment Services (Manual/Mechanized) (AFAMACAE)

Keywords

• Urban forestry services
• Tree planting programs
• Environmental education
• Tree nursery operations
• Community conservation

Headquarters

HQ city

Houston

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Individual Donations: Tax-deductible donations from individuals supporting tree planting mission. Accepts one-time and recurring donations via website, stock gifts, donor-advised funds, and holiday tribute program.
2. Corporate Partnerships: Long-term corporate sponsorships supporting tree planting projects and nursery operations. Includes 25+ year Chevron partnership and inaugural Trees For Texas sponsor Phillips 66.
3. Tribute Tree Program: Commemorative tree plantings sold at $350 (15 gallon) and $470 (30 gallon) price points. Trees planted in tribute grove at Willow Waterhole Conservatory.
4. Merchandise Sales: Branded merchandise including t-shirts sold through Bonfire platform. Portion of transaction proceeds supports tree planting mission.
5. Special Events: Root Ball Gala annual fundraising event bringing together supporters and corporate partners for evening celebration.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Trees For Houston is a non-profit organization that plants, protects, and promotes trees throughout Greater Houston. The organization operates tree nursery and distribution programs, runs environmental education initiatives for schools and youth, executes large-scale planting projects across public spaces and thoroughfares, and sustains the work through individual donations, corporate sponsorships, tribute/memorial tree sales, and merchandise.

Product overview

Trees For Houston operates as a non-profit offering a portfolio of tree planting and environmental education programs rather than a unified technology product. The core offerings include the Tree Adoption Program, Trees for Schools, Tree Donation Program, Trees For Texas statewide initiative, and Tribute Trees memorial planting program. Education programs provide urban forest education through youth programs, field trips, and workshops at the Kinder Campus facility (housing the Chevron Tree Nursery, Kyle and John Kirksey Center, and Bauer Education Center). Additional programs include merchandise sales via Bonfire, the annual Root Ball Gala fundraiser, and volunteer initiatives including Roots & Shoots and the RedBuds young professionals group.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Trees For Texas: The statewide initiative by Trees For Houston that brings their proven model of tree planting and landscape enhancement projects to communities across Texas.

Products and services

• Tree Adoption Program

Quantifiable outcome

• Planted 1,000,000 trees benefiting Houston community
• +3 more outcomes

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered flagship and core.

• Phillips 66flagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025Founding sponsor of Trees For Texas statewide initiative for 2025-2026 program year. Partnership enables expansion beyond Greater Houston into new Texas communities including East Texas, Hill Country, Sweeney, and Permian Basin regions.
• ChevroncoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 1983More than 25-year partnership supporting tree nursery operations at Kinder Campus. Chevron has been instrumental in strengthening Houston's urban canopy and public spaces through ongoing collaboration. Supported milestone celebration of millionth tree in February 2026.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves2 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Arbor Day Foundation: The largest US tree-planting non-profit, running national reforestation and education programs. Highly comparable mission (plant/protect/promote trees) and donor-funded model, though operating nationally rather than city-focused.
• American Forests: National urban and forest-canopy advocacy and planting non-profit. Directly comparable urban forestry and tree-planting mission with similar corporate and individual donor revenue model.
• Keep America Beautiful: National non-profit focused on litter prevention, recycling, and community greening including tree planting. Overlapping tree/canopy programs with comparable corporate sponsorship and event-based fundraising.
• The Nature Conservancy (Texas): Global conservation non-profit with Texas chapter active in reforestation and land stewardship. Comparable donor-funded conservation work, though much broader than urban tree planting.

Direct peers

• TreePeople: Los Angeles-based urban forestry non-profit focused on planting trees, school greening, and community volunteer programs. Closest peer in structure, mission, and program mix to Trees For Houston.
• Casey Trees: Washington DC urban forestry non-profit planting and caring for trees in a single metro area. Highly comparable scale, program portfolio (planting, education, advocacy), and donor-supported model.
• Friends of Trees: Portland/Oregon-based non-profit that plants trees and native plants in urban and rural areas through community plantings. Same volunteer-driven, donation-funded urban-tree-planting model.

Regional players

• City Parks Foundation: New York City-based non-profit running urban greening, tree planting, and environmental education programs. Direct operational overlap in city-scale tree planting and youth/school education.

Others

• Sustainable Urban Forests Coalition: US coalition of urban-forestry non-profits and advocates. Not a direct operator, but a peer network and potential partnership/coalition counterpart for Trees For Houston's statewide policy and funding work.
• Davey Tree Expert Co. Large commercial tree care, nursery, and urban forestry services company. Not a non-profit peer, but a key industry counterpart for nursery operations, utility vegetation management, and large-scale planting logistics that Trees For Houston relies on for execution.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/TreesForHouston
• Facebookfacebook.com/TreesForHouston
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/trees-for-houston

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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