Trees for Houston branches out to Garden Oaks thanks to $3M grant Trees for Houston has planted across the city, including Memorial Park. Photo courtesy of Memorial Park Conservancy Houston’s unofficial benefactors have planted quite a seed for a local nonprofit. Nancy and Richard Kinder, through their Kinder Foundation, have gifted Trees for Houston $3 million for a new campus, onsite nursery, education center, and more, the organization announced. That means, in part, a lush new 1.5-acre facility in Garden Oaks — appropriately named The Kinder Campus — located at located at 2001 W. 34th St. — that will break ground this winter. Designed by Kirksey Architecture and Lauren Griffith Associates, the campus will boast several notable, green features, including a cistern to catch rainwater for irrigation and permeable surface area replacing concrete, per a press release.