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The Gainesville Garden Club 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.

$11k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Education$7kEnvironment$5kHuman Services$2kRecreation & Sports$2kHousing & Shelter$737Crime & Legal$500Youth Development$500Public Safety & Disaster$300Other$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
1
States reached
$666k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA$4,500
WEKIVA YOUTH CAMP$2,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,000
PALM BREEZE YOUTH SERVICES INC$500
GLEN SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$430
FLORIDA FEDERATION OF GARDEN CLUBS INC$408
FIRST BAPTIST OF CEDAR KEY$300
NATIONAL TREASURES FARM & NURSERY$125
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%WEKIVA YOUTH CAMP: $2k → 13%NATIONAL TREASURES FARM & NURSERY: $125 → 15%FIRST BAPTIST OF CEDAR KEY: $300 → 16%ALTRUSA HOUSE OF GAINESVILLE FLORIDA INC: $500 → 19%FLORIDA FEDERATION OF GARDEN CLUBS INC: $2k → 13%CREATED GAINESVILLE INC: $500 → 19%FLORIDA FEDERATION OF GARDEN CLUBS INC: $2k → 13%GLEN SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $430 → 19%FLORIDA FEDERATION OF GARDEN CLUBS INC: $408 → 13%NORTH CENTRAL FLORIDA PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $500 → 19%HOWARD T ODUM FLORIDA SPRINGS INSTITUTE INC: $275 → 19%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC: $2k → 19%GROW HUB: $1k → 19%ALACHUA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $712 → 19%ALACHUA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $100 → 19%THE GREEN HOUSE NURSERY: $25 → 19%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 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
Flagler Habitat for Humanity Inc

Flagler Habitat for Humanity, Inc is an ecumenical christian housing ministry whose mission is to eliminate substandard housing from Flagler County, and to make simple, decent, affordable shelter a matter of conscience and action.

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2
Caloosa Humane Society Inc

The mission of Caloosa Humane Society is to serve, shelter, and protect the homeless pets in our care. We are dedicated to finding permanent and loving adoptive homes for our companion animals in need. Our no-kill facility provides low…

Education
3
Alachua County Farm Bureau Inc

Dedicated to preserving the agricultural rights of those in our community that farm or have an ag-related business. Act as an advocate over local govn't to ensure private property rights.

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4
Florida Credit Union

Income from credit union membership and from investement of member funds provide the foundation from which the organization can function and provide service to its restricted membership.

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5
Central Florida Home for Good Inc

To assist low income community members with finding affordable housing and learning skills to get a job.

Housing & Shelter
6
St Augustine Humane Society Inc

Promoting healthy responsible lifelong pet ownership by serving the medical and rehabilitative needs of animals while encouraging the humane treatment of animals, preventing overpopulation, and ending animal cruelty.

Animals
7
Florida Keys Fishing Guides

Dedicated to the conservation and preservation of the waters in and around south florida through wise fishery & watermanagement practices, while recognizing the importance of sport fishing to the local economy and the cultural heritage of…

Animals
8
Humanitarians of Florida Inc

The organization owns and operates a low-cost dog and cat spay, neuter and vaccine clinic for low income residents in the state of Florida.

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9
Hogar Crea International of Florida
Health
10
Habitat for Humanity for Lee and Hendry Counties Inc

Seeking to put God's love into action, Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. Habitat for Humanity of Lee & Hendry…

Housing & Shelter
11
Clay County Habitat for Humanity Inc

To serve the citizens of Clay County, Florida by providing decent, affordable housing for those in need.

Housing & Shelter
12
Opportunities for All Floridians Inc

Opportunity For All Floridians advocates for hardworking Floridians by championing economic policies that put people over profits ensuring that everyday residents benefit more than large corporations and special interests. We are committed…

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alachua County Humane Society Inc; the most unlike its peers is Palm Breeze Youth Services Inc. 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

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 16 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
1/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA: $6,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDAWEKIVA YOUTH CAMP: $2,000 · OtherWEKIVA YOUTH CAMPRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC: $1,500 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INCIndividual grant recipient: $1,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGLEN SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $430 · Other+3 more: $450 · OtherFLORIDA FEDERATION OF GARDEN CLUBS INC: $3,594 · EnvironmentFLORIDA FEDERATION OF G…HOWARD T ODUM FLORIDA SPRINGS INSTITUTE: $275 · EnvironmentHOWARD T ODUM FLORIDA S…ALACHUA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $712 · Housing & ShelterCreated Gainesville Inc: $500 · Crime & LegalPalm Breeze Youth Services Inc: $500 · Youth DevelopmentALTRUSA HOUSE OF GAINESVILLE FLORID A INC: $500 · HealthNORTH CENTRAL FLORIDA PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $500 · EducationAlachua County Humane Society Inc: $100 · Animals
Other$11,880Environment$3,869Housing & Shelter$712Crime & Legal$500Youth Development$500Health$500Education$500Animals$100

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFLORIDA FEDERATION OF GARDEN CLUBS INC: $3,594 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetALACHUA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $712 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCreated Gainesville Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPalm Breeze Youth Services Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetALTRUSA HOUSE OF GAINESVILLE FLORID A INC: $500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNORTH CENTRAL FLORIDA PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOWARD T ODUM FLORIDA SPRINGS INSTITUTE: $275 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAlachua County Humane Society Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Community Foundation of North Central FloridaFL15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of North Central Florida · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 The Gainesville Garden Club Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gainesville Garden Club Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Created Gainesville Inc: 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
04Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Gainesville Garden Club Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Gainesville Garden Club 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 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-PF 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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