Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Longwood Gardens Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $458k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 23
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.5B
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Longwood Gardens Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k 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 | 23 | $458k | 35% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $489k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $440k | 57% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $313k | 70% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $426k | 44% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $73k | 56% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $299k | 36% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $306k | 44% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Society for Horticultural Science | $752,500 | 3 | 14% |
| Seed Your Future Inc | $750,000 | 3 | 38% |
| Longwood Fire Company | $596,175 | 6 | 3% |
| Kennett Library | $276,751 | 2 | 6% |
| American Public Gardens Association | $273,880 | 9 | 2% |
| Kennett Collaborative Inc | $60,000 | 4 | 7% |
| Delaware Center for Horticulture Inc | $40,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Chester County Economic Development Council | $30,880 | 5 | 0% |
| Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Kendal-Crosslands Communities | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 45 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($143k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Longwood Gardens Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 40 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: Chester County Community Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · The Dansko Foundation Inc · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Cabot-Kjellerup Foundation · Delaware Community Foundation Inc · The Philadelphia Foundation · Square Roots Community Partnership Inc · Run2shine · United Way of Southern Chester County · Forney Family Foundation Inc · Ccres
How this is measured
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About Longwood Gardens Inc
- How much does Longwood Gardens Inc give?
- Longwood Gardens Inc reported 23 grants totaling $457,830 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Longwood Gardens Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (39%), Youth Development (19%), Public Safety & Disaster (18%).
- Who are Longwood Gardens Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: American Society for Horticultural Science ($753k), Seed Your Future Inc ($750k), Longwood Fire Company ($596k).
- Does Longwood Gardens Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Longwood Gardens Inc 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 Longwood Gardens Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Chester County Community Foundation, The William Penn Foundation, The Dansko Foundation Inc.
- Where is Longwood Gardens Inc based?
- Longwood Gardens Inc is based in PA.
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