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· Public charity

Seattle Garden Club Inc

To stimulate the knowledge and love of gardening by conducting open meetings, holding conferences, sending out correspondence and producing publications.

$73k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Environment$128kCommunity Improvement$50kFood & Nutrition$42kHousing & Shelter$27kRecreation & Sports$25kYouth Development$17kEducation$15kEmployment$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $62,262, the rows itemized in this filing. The $72,612 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $10,350 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$647k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Mini Mart City Park$20,000
The Bloedel Reserve$15,000
WA Park Arboretum Foundation$10,000
Seattle Childrens PlayGarden$10,000
Univ of WA Botanic Gardens$7,262
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%YOUTHCARE: $8k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

51%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$162k · 5 repeat orgs$156k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
8

Total granted

$162k
$121k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
0%

Still filing today

80%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterPublic BenefitYouth DevelopmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • ARBORETUM FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2025 · $40k · revenue +59%
  • SP
    SEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2024 · $25k · revenue +49%
  • TA
    TILTH ALLIANCE
    2× · 2022–2024 · $20k · revenue +0%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF SEATTLE WATERFRONT
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -48%
  • PH
    PLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES
    one grant, 2024 · $19k · revenue 0%
  • ISLANDWOODgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +121%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Stewardship Partners

Stewardship Partners helps private landowners restore and preserve the natural landscapes of WA State. We collaborate with diverse interest groups to build bridges and find solutions that achieve mutual goals of environmental protection,…

Environment
2
The Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust

The Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust leads and inspires action to conserve and enhance the landscape of the Mountains to Sound Greenway, ensuring a long-term balance between people and nature.

Environment
3
Seattle University

Seattle University is dedicated to educating the whole person, to professional formation, and to empowering leaders for a just and humane world.

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4
Fremont Arts Council

The Fremont Arts Council (FAC) is a Seattle-based community arts organization founded in 1979. The FAC cultivates creativity, celebration, and belonging by engaging people of all backgrounds as active participants in the arts. We produce…

Arts & Culture
5
Seattle Architectural Foundation

The Seattle Architecture Foundation connects people to the architecture, design, and history of Seattle. We believe the more you engage with design, the more you feel connected to your changing city. As a volunteer driven organization, we…

Arts & Culture
6
South Sound Estuary Association

Environmental education with a marine/estuary focus to inspire people of all ages to protect Puget Sound. In 2025. 10,031 K-12 students and 79,363 adults took part in an environmental education opportunity focused on marine and estuary…

Environment
7
Sonoma Botanical Garden
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8
Leach Garden Friends

Leach botanical garden offers immersive, restorative, and educational experiences in a unique landscape of native plants and horticultural collections for the purpose of building community, celebrating nature, and inspiring environmental…

Environment
9
Birds Connect Seattle

Birds connect seattle advocates and organizes for cities where people and birds thrive.

Environment
10
Portland Botanical Gardens

To acquire and build a botanical garden

Environment
11
E B Dunn Historic Garden Trust

We preserve and enhance Dunn Gardens as a public resource, celebrating the original 1915 Olmsted design and showcasing the evolution of garden design in the Pacific Northwest.

Philanthropy
12
Tacoma Tree Foundation

To grow community stewardship of the urban forest across greater tacoma through planting, education, and advocacy.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Parks Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Plantamnesty. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 15 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
7/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ARBORETUM FOUNDATION: $40,000 · EnvironmentARBORETUM FOUNDATIONMINI MART CITY PARK: $20,000 · EnvironmentMINI MART CITY PARKTILTH ALLIANCE: $20,000 · EnvironmentTILTH ALLIANCEISLANDWOOD: $15,000 · EnvironmentISLANDWOODUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $59,919 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONTHE BLOEDEL RESERVE: $15,000 · OtherTHE BLOEDEL RESERVESEATTLE CHINESE GARDEN SOCIETY: $10,000 · OtherSEATTLE CHINESE GARDEN SOCIETYPLANTAMNESTY: $6,000 · OtherPLANTAMNESTYFARESTART: $7,500 · OtherFARESTARTCORPS OF ENGINEERS NATURAL RESOURCES EDUCATION F: $5,500 · OtherFRIENDS OF SEATTLE WATERFRONT: $50,000 · Community ImprovementFRIENDS OF SEATTL…SEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsPLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES: $19,000 · Housing & ShelterSEATTLE CHILDRENS PLAYGARDEN: $17,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTHCARE: $7,500 · Human Services
Environment$95,000Other$103,919Community Improvement$50,000Recreation & Sports$25,000Housing & Shelter$19,000Youth Development$17,000Human Services$7,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRIENDS OF SEATTLE WATERFRONT: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARBORETUM FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMINI MART CITY PARK: $20,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTILTH ALLIANCE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES: $19,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE CHILDRENS PLAYGARDEN: $17,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetISLANDWOOD: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSEATTLE CHINESE GARDEN SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetYOUTHCARE: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFARESTART: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANTAMNESTY: $6,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetCORPS OF ENGINEERS NATURAL RESOURCES EDUCATION F: $5,500 over 1y, 3.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

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.

Seattle FoundationWyman Youth TrustBainbridge Community …Gs Donor Advised Phil…Mightycause Charitabl…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Seattle FoundationWA18.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Wyman Youth Trust · Bainbridge Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Seattle Garden Club Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Seattle Garden Club Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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