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Longwood Gardens Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$489k
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Environment$1.1MYouth Development$512kPublic Safety & Disaster$497kEducation$340kCommunity Improvement$70kArts & Culture$69kHuman Services$42kFood & Nutrition$31kOther$0
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k18 grants · $59k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $80k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$3,180
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.5B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SEED YOUR FUTURE$250,000
LONGWOOD FIRE COMPANY$100,000
AMERICAN PUBLIC GARDENS ASSOCIATION$35,000
KENDAL-CROSSLANDS COMMUNITIES$25,000
KENNETT COLLABORATIVE$20,000
GREATER PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL ALLIANCE$9,500
CENTER FOR ARCHITECTURE$7,500
YMCA OF GREATER BRANDYWINE$5,500
CHESTER COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL$5,250
THE ALUMNI ASSN OF LINCOLN UNIV$5,000
PRESERVATION ALLIANCE FOR GREATER PHILADELPHIA$5,000
LYNNEWOOD HALL PRESERVATION FUND INC$3,180
LCH HEALTH AND COMMUNITY SERVICES$2,500
ELMWOOD PARK ZOO$2,500
MUSHROOM FESTIVAL$2,500
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%YMCA OF GREATER BRANDYWINE: $6k → 6%YMCA OF GREATER BRANDYWINE: $1k → 6%KENDAL-CROSSLANDS COMMUNITIES: $25k → 6%LCH HEALTH AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: $3k → 6%YMCA OF GREATER BRANDYWINE: $3k → 6%LCH HEALTH AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: $3k → 6%FAMILY PROMISE OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY: $1k → 6%FAMILY PROMISE OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY: $1k → 6%FAMILY PROMISE OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY: $1k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.5M · 28 repeat orgs$213k to everyone else

28 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
40

Total granted

$2.5M
$167k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+37%

Still filing today

86%
28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesAnimalsPublic Safety & DisasterOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • AS
    American Society for Horticultural Science
    3× · 2017–2019 · $753k · revenue +0%
  • LF
    LONGWOOD FIRE COMPANY
    5× · 2017–2024 · $496k · revenue +143%
  • KENNETT LIBRARY
    2× · 2021–2022 · $277k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • DC
    DELAWARE CENTER FOR HORTICULTURE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue +47%
  • BC
    Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Artgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +527%
  • AU
    AUBURN UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $22k

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Glen Foerd Conservation Corporation

Glen foerd stewards an eclectic riverfront estate for the enjoyment and educational benefit of the community. drawing from the estate's architecture, art, material culture, and history-as well as its gardens and waterways-glen foerd…

Environment
2
Chestnut Hill Conservancy

The Chestnut Hill Conservancy conserves, preserves, and celebrates history, architecture, and landscapes in Chestnut Hill and the lower Wissahickon watershed through inclusive and proactive community engagement, advocacy, and stewardship.

Arts & Culture
3
Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…

Environment
4
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
5
Jenkins Arboretum & Gardens

The mission of the jenkins arboretum & gardens is to preserve natural, tranquil woodlands for community enjoyment, to showcase native plants and a world class collection of rhododendrons and azaleas, and to promote environmental…

Environment
6
Association for Public Art

The association for public art (apa, formerly the fairmount park art association) commissions, preserves, interprets and promotes public art in philadelphia. dedicated to creating a museum without walls that informs, engages and inspires…

Arts & Culture
7
Cleveland Botanical Garden

The cleveland botanical garden connects people with the wonder, beauty, and value of trees and plants, to inspire action for healthy communities.

Environment
8
Berks Nature

Our vision is to be a cornerstone of excellence in the stewardship of the environment. clearly identified with our specific mission, we strive to meet the ever-changing needs of the county and to conserve its heritage and essential…

Environment
9
Heritage Conservancy Inc

We are a community based organization dedicated to the preservation and protection of significant open spaces, natural resources, and our historic heritage.

Arts & Culture
10
Awbury Arboretum Association

Awbury Arboretum is a free public garden and farm serving Northwest Philadelphia. Building on the social justice values of our Quaker founders, we make a positive environmental impact, educate children and adults, and nurture an inclusive…

Environment
11
Delaware Museum of Nature and Science Inc

The museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.

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12
Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art

Cheekwood's mission is to celebrate and preserve cheekwood as a historical landmark where beauty and excellence in art and horticulture nurture the spirit and serve as inspiration for a diverse and broad audience.cheekwood will be a…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Voices Underground. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyProfessional & Industry Ass…Chester County Community De…Early Childhood Care and Ed…Affordable Housing Developm…Philadelphia Charter SchoolsElementary School Parent Or…Faith-Based Social Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%5%<5yr16%3%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr10%33%35–55yr13%33%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%20%<5yr16%0%5–10yr20%0%10–20yr16%2%20–35yr10%35%35–55yr13%43%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 20% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/42
the rest of the field
13%
2,528/19,553

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 41 of the 73 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/41
Grantees still filing
32/41
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

American Society for Horticultural Science — $752,500 · EnvironmentAmerican Society for Horticultural ScienceAMERICAN PUBLIC GARDENS ASSOCIATION — $238,880 · EnvironmentAMERICAN PUBLIC GARDENS ASSOCIATIONDELAWARE CENTER FOR HORTICULTURE INC — $40,000 · Environment+4 more — $12,529 · EnvironmentSEED YOUR FUTURE INC — $500,000 · Youth DevelopmentSEED YOUR FUTURE INCLONGWOOD FIRE COMPANY — $496,175 · Public Safety & DisasterLONGWOOD FIRE COMPAN…KENNETT LIBRARY — $276,751 · OtherKENNETT LIBRARYIndividual grant recipient — $51,000 · OtherIndividual grant recip…AUBURN UNIVERSITY — $21,650 · OtherCHESTER COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL — $19,250 · Other+47 more — $164,952 · Other+47 moreBrandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art — $25,000 · Arts & CultureGREATER PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL ALLIANCE — $9,500 · Arts & CulturePRESERVATION ALLIANCE FOR GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $5,500 · Arts & CultureVOICES UNDERGROUND — $5,000 · Arts & CultureCASA GUANAJUATO INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureLYNNEWOOD HALL PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC — $3,180 · Arts & CultureTHE WYCK ASSOCIATION — $2,400 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $1,500 · Arts & CultureKENDAL-CROSSLANDS COMMUNITIES — $25,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF GREATER BRANDYWINE — $9,250 · Human ServicesLCH Health and Community Services — $5,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY — $3,000 · Human ServicesKENNETT COLLABORATIVE INC — $40,000 · Community Improvement
Environment$1,043,909Youth Development$500,000Public Safety & Disaster$496,175Other$533,603Arts & Culture$57,080Human Services$42,250Community Improvement$40,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAmerican Society for Horticultural Science — $752,500 over 3y, 14% of budgetSEED YOUR FUTURE INC — $500,000 over 2y, 38% of budgetLONGWOOD FIRE COMPANY — $496,175 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetKENNETT LIBRARY — $276,751 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetAMERICAN PUBLIC GARDENS ASSOCIATION — $238,880 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetKENNETT COLLABORATIVE INC — $40,000 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetDELAWARE CENTER FOR HORTICULTURE INC — $40,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetKENDAL-CROSSLANDS COMMUNITIES — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBrandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHESTER COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL — $19,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDELAWARE FUTURES INC — $17,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE JOHN BARTRAM ASSOCIATION — $14,800 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCHESTER COUNTY CHAMBER OF BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY — $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetGENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF LINCOLN UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetTHE PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL ALLIANCE — $9,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYMCA OF GREATER BRANDYWINE — $9,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKENNETT EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $8,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetNORRISTOWN ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPRESERVATION ALLIANCE FOR GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $5,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLCH Health and Community Services — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MUSHROOM FESTIVAL INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetVOICES UNDERGROUND — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHADDS FORD HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $5,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCASA GUANAJUATO INC — $5,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetKENNETT AFTER-SCHOOL ASSOCIATION — $4,100 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLYNNEWOOD HALL PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC — $3,180 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY — $3,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBARCLAY FRIENDS — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WYCK ASSOCIATION — $2,400 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE LAND CONSERVANCY FOR SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMIGHTY WRITERS — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChester County Historical Society — $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOTANIC GARDENS CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL US INC — $1,279 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK COMMON PANTRY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ORCHID SOCIETY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAVONDALE FIRE COMPANY — $400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNatural Lands Trust Inc — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Chester County Commun…The William Penn Foun…The Dansko Foundation…Wsfs Cares FoundationCabot-Kjellerup Found…Delaware Community Fo…The Philadelphia Foun…Square Roots Communit…Run2shineUnited Way of Souther…Forney Family Foundat…Ccres
Chester County Community FoundationPA25.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Longwood Gardens Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Delaware Futures Inc — 78% of income from government
  • University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
  • American Public Gardens Association — 10% of income from government
  • Delaware Center for Horticulture Inc — 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Longwood Gardens Inc?

Find your warmest path to Longwood Gardens Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 73 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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