California · Private foundation
Hillsborough Garden Club Trust
Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $55k
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2026
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $27,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 21
- FY2019 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 2
- Total assets, FY2026
- $404k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 15% of the organizations Hillsborough Garden Club Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 13 | $55k | 8% |
| FY2025 | 13 | $19k | 15% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $19k | 7% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $12k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $52k | 27% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $16k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $20k | 31% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $30k | 19% |
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 FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peninsula Open Space Trust | $71,600 | 8 | 0% |
| Hillsborough Garden Club | $51,990 | 6 | 24% |
| The Garden Club of America | $14,999 | 3 | 0% |
| Pollinator Partnership | $9,200 | 9 | 1% |
| Save The Bay | $5,900 | 5 | 0% |
| Curiodyssey | $5,150 | 8 | 0% |
| Random Acts of Flowers | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Call Primrose | $4,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Save the Redwoods League | $4,450 | 9 | 0% |
| Hillsborough Beautification Foundation | $4,350 | 6 | 1% |
Show all 30 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($67k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Hillsborough Garden Club Trust supplied at peak.
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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: Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Atkinson Foundation · Bothin Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The San Francisco Foundation · Tomkat Ranch Educational Foundation · Sand Hill Foundation · Clif Family Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
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About Hillsborough Garden Club Trust
- How much does Hillsborough Garden Club Trust give?
- Hillsborough Garden Club Trust reported 13 grants totaling $54,500 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 21 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
- What does Hillsborough Garden Club Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Environment (79%), Food & Nutrition (10%), Education (3%).
- Who are Hillsborough Garden Club Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: Peninsula Open Space Trust ($72k), Hillsborough Garden Club ($52k), The Garden Club of America ($15k).
- Does Hillsborough Garden Club Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Hillsborough Garden Club Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Hillsborough Garden Club Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Marin Community Foundation.
- Where is Hillsborough Garden Club Trust based?
- Hillsborough Garden Club Trust is based in CA.
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