Your Support Creates Change
Why we need donations
Outreach materials
- $25 is enough to pay for 250 brochures or door hangers
- $40 is enough to send a yard sign to event leaders to put up during tree rescues to let passersby know what the volunteers are doing.
Tools
- $400 could pay for one tool kit consisting of a collection of saws and loppers
- $8800 would allow us to stage one in each of 22 locations around Fairfax county and Falls Church.
Administrative Capacity
- $200 is enough to pay for our website for a year
- $200 per year would allow us to use a MeetUp account to recruit younger and more diverse volunteers.
Seed Money for Mini-Grants
- $3300 is enough to pay for an incentive grant for a community association or faith community to jumpstart their invasives management program. Our first round of funding for 13 communities resulted in 1,241 trees rescued on 12.64 acres).
Advertising
- $8,825 would pay for a 15-second ad in approximately 61 movie theaters
to run for one month. - $5,400 would pay for 12 ads on the back of a bus for one month
- $775.00 would pay for a 1⁄2 page ad in the Golden Gazette
Other ways to support our trees
- You can directly support work in our parks, rights-of-way, or County land by adopting those spaces to pay for professional invasive control services. Email us for details.
Esta dirección de correo electrónico está siendo protegida contra los robots de spam. Necesita tener JavaScript habilitado para poder verlo. - We also invite you to give your time. Visit our Take Action section for volunteer opportunities.
All donations are tax-deductible!
To donate by check (which saves the 2.5% credit card fee), please make it out to Fairfax Tree Rescuers PRISM and mail to 11018 Devenish Drive, Oakton, VA 22124. It would be very helpful if you could email
To donate by card - which is also very welcome! - please click here. Our online contributions are handled by Sustainability Matters, our fiscal sponsor.
Are you 70½ years or older? An IRA Qualified Charitable Distribution (QCD) might be an option.
If you are 70½ years or older, you can give directly from your individual retirement account (IRA). You may give up to a certain amount per person each year without incurring income tax on your withdrawal. These QCDs may also satisfy your required minimum distribution depending on your age. Please have the company mail the check to 11018 Devenish Drive, Oakton, VA 22124 and let us know to expect it.
Fairfax Tree Rescuers PRISM, Inc was incorporated in Virginia on May 20, 2026 and is a 501(c)3 organization. EIN 42-2684296.
We are grateful for our donors!
Thanks to everyone for making our programs possible.
2026
Camelot Garden Club
Steve and Jeannie Tamburo
Deana Crumbling
Elizabeth Martin
Heidi Allen
Joan Kasprowicz
Jo Doumbia
Jody Douglas
Kenneth Gubin
Klara Labady
Lee R. Martin Environmental Fund
Peggi and Brad Brooks
Sandy Hickman
Susan Laume
Jean Lockhart
Wendy Cohen
Marie Woodard
Carol Hunt
Virginia Department of Forestry
2025
Cindy Speas
David Lincoln / Friends of Accotink Creek
Donna Stauffer
Elizabeth Train
Falls Church Garden Club
Janis Fenton / Virginia Run Community Association
John Wilson
Jonathan Rosenthal/Margaret Fisher
Karen Prante
Kristy Lierke
Lori Scheibe
Lynn Petrazzuolo
Marilyn Parks
Peg Boyne
Peter Thiringer
Sandra Hickman
Steve Hryckiewicz
Tucker Newberry
Vivian Mendez