Texas · Public charity
Garden Club of Houston
The Club's mission is to stimulate the knowledge and love of gardening and to protect the quality of the environment through programs and action in the fields of education, conservation, and civic improvement.
- $412k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $339k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 16
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Garden Club of Houston funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 12 | $339k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $260k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $311k | 47% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $174k | 30% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $199k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $300k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $245k | 38% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $546k | 57% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Museum of Fine Arts Houston | $383,521 | 9 | 0% |
| Hermann Park Conservancy | $348,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Houston Botanic Garden | $310,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Houston Museum of Natural Science | $236,500 | 9 | 0% |
| The Hospice at the Texas Medical Center | $226,889 | 8 | n/a |
| Houston Parks Board | $203,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Memorial Park Conservancy Inc | $172,400 | 9 | 0% |
| Urban Harvest Inc | $170,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Coastal Prairie Conservancy | $55,100 | 6 | 0% |
| The Brookwood Community Inc | $31,998 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 45 grantees
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($21k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Garden Club of Houston supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 37 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Brown Foundation Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The Susan Vaughan Foundation Inc · Houston Endowment Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · River Oaks Garden Club · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Vivian L Smith Foundation · John P McGovern Foundation · Marek Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Garden Club of Houston
- How much does Garden Club of Houston give?
- Garden Club of Houston reported 12 itemized grants totaling $339,100, out of $412,246 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Garden Club of Houston fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (36%), Arts & Culture (18%), Health (9%).
- Who are Garden Club of Houston's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Museum of Fine Arts Houston ($384k), Hermann Park Conservancy ($348k), Houston Botanic Garden ($310k).
- Does Garden Club of Houston fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Garden Club of Houston?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Brown Foundation Inc, Greater Houston Community Foundation, The Elkins Foundation.
- Where is Garden Club of Houston based?
- Garden Club of Houston is based in TX.
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