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American Orchid Society Inc

The mission of the american orchid society is to promote and support the passion for orchids through education, conservation and research.

$37k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Health$50kScience & Tech$46kEnvironment$46kEducation$22kRecreation & Sports$21kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $29,069, the rows itemized in this filing. The $37,069 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $8,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$17,720
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GRANTS UNDER 5K$17,720
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$11,349
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY: $9k → 22%FLORA & FAUNA INTERNATIONAL: $6k → 14%MARIE SELBY BOTANICAL GARDENS: $6k → 9%POWELL GARDENS INC: $6k → 14%MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN: $12k → 21%UNIVERSITY OF OREGON: $9k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FNDN: $10k → 27%ILLINOIS COLLEGE: $50k → 12%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $11k → 14%SMITHSONIAN ENVIRON RESEARCH CTR: $10k → 6%MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN: $9k → 21%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FNDN: $9k → 27%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $10k → 14%SMITHSONIAN ENVIRON RESEARCH CTR: $9k → 6%MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN: $7k → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
OR
MO
WV
MD
DC
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$117k · 5 repeat orgs$98k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
8

Total granted

$117k
$98k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
0%

Still filing today

80%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • MB
    MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES
    3× · 2018–2021 · $28k · revenue +20%
  • Northwestern University
    2× · 2023–2025 · $21k · revenue +26%
  • SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
    2× · 2019–2020 · $19k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • IC
    ILLINOIS COLLEGE
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +6%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
    one grant, 2018 · $9k
  • TA
    TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $9k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
3
National Tropical Botanical Garden

To enrich life by perpetuating tropical plants, ecosystems and cultural heritage through discovery, scientific research, conservation, and education.

Environment
4
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
5
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
6
Houston Botanic Garden

To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.

Environment
7
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
8
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
9
Claremont Graduate University

Claremont Graduate University prepares individuals to be leaders for positive change in the world. Unique in its transdisciplinary approach, the University is dedicated to the creation, dissemination, and application of new knowledge and…

Education
10
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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11
University Corporate Research Park I Inc

To hold title and perform related functions in connection with a research park and innovation center in support of michigan state university research foundation.

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12
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Missouri Botanical Garden Board of Trustees; the most unlike its peers is Smithsonian Institution. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 13 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ILLINOIS COLLEGE: $50,000 · EducationILLINOIS COLLEGEUniversity of Georgia Research Foundation Inc: $18,436 · EducationUniversity of Georgia Research Foundati…WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $7,361 · EducationWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCGRANTS UNDER 5K: $30,157 · OtherGRANTS UNDER 5KUNIVERSITY OF OREGON: $9,158 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF OREGONTEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY: $8,700 · OtherTEXAS A&M UNIVERSITYPOWELL GARDENS INC: $5,720 · OtherPOWELL GARDENS INCUniversity of Wisconsin Madison: $5,250 · OtherUniversity of Wisconsin MadisonMISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES: $28,189 · EnvironmentMISSOURI BOTANICAL…The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc: $6,252 · EnvironmentThe Marie Selby Bo…Northwestern University: $21,349 · Recreation & SportsNorthwester…SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $19,216 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIA…FAUNA & FLORA INTERNATIONAL USA INC: $5,560 · Philanthropy
Education$75,797Other$58,985Environment$34,441Recreation & Sports$21,349Arts & Culture$19,216Philanthropy$5,560

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetILLINOIS COLLEGE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES: $28,189 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $21,349 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $19,216 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Georgia Research Foundation Inc: $18,436 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $7,361 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc: $6,252 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOWELL GARDENS INC: $5,720 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAUNA & FLORA INTERNATIONAL USA INC: $5,560 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA10.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization American Orchid Society Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Orchid Society Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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