How much does American Public Gardens Association give?

American Public Gardens Association reported 6 itemized grants totaling $136,969, out of $242,926 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 27 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does American Public Gardens Association fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (96%), Environment (3%), Arts & Culture (1%).

Who are American Public Gardens Association's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Minnesota Landscape Arboretum Foundation ($105k), Queens Botanical Garden Society Inc ($105k), The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society ($105k).

Does American Public Gardens Association fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 48% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as American Public Gardens Association?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ibm International Foundation, Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust.

Where is American Public Gardens Association based?

American Public Gardens Association is based in DE.

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Delaware · Public charity

American Public Gardens Association

We champion and advance public gardens as leaders, advocates, andinnovators in the conservation and appreciation of plants.

$243k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 6
Itemized grants FY2024: 27
Organizations funded FY2023: 48%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $137k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $25,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $30,969
Organizations funded a year: 2 to 27; FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 5
Total assets, FY2024: $1.1M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 48% of the organizations American Public Gardens Association funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $267k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	6	$137k	50%
FY2023	27	$808k	48%
FY2022	21	$403k	43%
FY2021	27	$363k	100%
FY2020	2	$17k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$1.7MEnvironment$55kArts & Culture$12kEducation$6k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Minnesota Landscape Arboretum Foundation	$105,000	3	0%
Queens Botanical Garden Society Inc	$105,000	3	1%
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society	$105,000	3	0%
Regents of the University of Michigan	$104,045	3	n/a
The Atlanta Botanical Garden Inc	$90,750	4	0%
Desert Botanical Garden Inc	$89,800	2	0%
Garfield Park Conservatory Alliance	$68,800	1	2%
Phila Society for the Preservation of Landmarks	$55,000	3	1%
Delaware Center for Horticulture Inc	$55,000	3	2%
Knoxville Botanical Gardens and Arboretum	$50,100	3	3%

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All grantees of American Public Gardens Association by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Minnesota Landscape Arboretum Foundation	$105,000	3	0%
Queens Botanical Garden Society Inc	$105,000	3	1%
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society	$105,000	3	0%
Regents of the University of Michigan	$104,045	3	n/a
The Atlanta Botanical Garden Inc	$90,750	4	0%
Desert Botanical Garden Inc	$89,800	2	0%
Garfield Park Conservatory Alliance	$68,800	1	2%
Phila Society for the Preservation of Landmarks	$55,000	3	1%
Delaware Center for Horticulture Inc	$55,000	3	2%
Knoxville Botanical Gardens and Arboretum	$50,100	3	3%
Trees Atlanta Inc	$45,000	2	0%
Mary Mitchell Family and Youth Center Inc	$40,000	2	1%
EarthDance	$40,000	2	2%
Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens Inc	$38,700	3	0%
Denver Botanic Gardens Inc	$35,806	2	0%
Friends of the Gardens of Spring Creek	$35,000	2	5%
Friends of the National Arboretum	$34,750	2	1%
Missouri Botanical Garden Board of Trustees	$31,000	2	0%
National Tropical Botanical Garden	$30,969	1	0%
San Francisco Botanical Garden Society at Strybing Arboretum	$25,000	1	0%
Botanical Garden of the Piedmont	$25,000	1	2%
Georgeson Botanical Garden	$20,000	1	n/a
Alaska Botanical Garden Inc	$20,000	1	2%
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Olivewoods Gardens & Learning Center Inc	$20,000	1	1%
University of Washington Foundation	$20,000	1	0%
Friends of the Cheyenne Botanic Gardens	$20,000	1	3%
The Morton Arboretum	$20,000	1	0%
City Green Inc	$20,000	1	1%
The Birmingham Botanical Society Inc	$20,000	2	0%
Connecticut College	$19,800	1	0%
Downtown Greens Inc	$19,800	1	1%
Cleveland Botanical Garden	$19,500	1	0%
Ability Garden	$19,400	1	36%
Isaac W Bernheim Foundation	$18,600	1	0%
Guadalupe River Park Conservancy	$17,000	1	1%
Brooklyn Botanic Garden Corporation	$15,000	1	0%
Idaho Botanical Garden Inc	$15,000	1	1%
Worcester County Horticultural Society	$15,000	1	0%
Friends of the Conservatory	$15,000	1	1%
Brookgreen Gardens	$15,000	1	0%
Friends of the State Botanical Garden of Georgia Inc	$15,000	1	9%
Paul J Ciener Botanical Garden	$15,000	1	6%
North Carolina Botanical Garden Foundation	$14,893	1	1%
University of Maryland College Park	$14,886	1	n/a
Cape Fear Botanical Garden	$14,100	2	0%
The University of Tennessee	$13,878	1	n/a
Georgeson Botanical Garden Friends	$12,159	1	12%
Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery	$11,806	1	0%
Utah State University	$11,200	1	n/a
University of Washington	$9,970	1	n/a
Huntsville Madison County Botanical Garden Society Inc	$5,998	1	0%
University of California Davis	$5,597	1	n/a
Santa Fe Botanical Garden	$5,000	1	0%

American Public Gardens Association supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 47 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 47.

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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.

Ibm International FoundationNY17.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ibm International Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · The US Charitable Gift Trust · The Chicago Community Trust · Edward Jones Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment 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.

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About American Public Gardens Association

How much does American Public Gardens Association give?: American Public Gardens Association reported 6 itemized grants totaling $136,969, out of $242,926 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 27 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does American Public Gardens Association fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (96%), Environment (3%), Arts & Culture (1%).
Who are American Public Gardens Association's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Minnesota Landscape Arboretum Foundation ($105k), Queens Botanical Garden Society Inc ($105k), The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society ($105k).
Does American Public Gardens Association fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 48% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as American Public Gardens Association?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ibm International Foundation, Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust.
Where is American Public Gardens Association based?: American Public Gardens Association is based in DE.