New York · Public charity
The Garden Club of America
The purpose of THE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA is to stimulate the knowledge and love of gardening, to share the advantages of association by means of educational meetings, conferences, correspondence, and publications, and to restore, improve, and protect the quality of the environment through educational programs and action in the fields of…
- $815k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 64%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $180k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 14
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $66M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 64% of the organizations The Garden Club of America funded were first-time grantees, receiving 53% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k 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 | 15 | $180k | 73% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $170k | 64% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $110k | 89% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $150k | 75% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $143k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $72k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $60k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 6 | $87k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Little Garden Club of Rye Inc | $90,000 | 3 | 71% |
| Texas Garden Clubs Inc | $50,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Twin City Garden Club | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Beacon Hill Garden Club | $30,000 | 1 | 16% |
| Garden Club of Orange & Dutchess Counties Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 30% |
| St Georges Garden Club Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 15% |
| Little Rock Garden Club | $30,000 | 3 | 9% |
| Seattle Garden Club Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 22% |
| Kenilworth Garden Club | $30,000 | 1 | 43% |
| Winchester-Clarke Garden Club | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
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Where it is load-bearing
The Garden Club of America supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 11 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 47 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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Garden Club of America
- How much does The Garden Club of America give?
- The Garden Club of America reported 15 itemized grants totaling $180,000, out of $815,281 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Garden Club of America fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (72%), Food & Nutrition (20%), Recreation & Sports (5%).
- Who are The Garden Club of America's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Little Garden Club of Rye Inc ($90k), Texas Garden Clubs Inc ($50k), Twin City Garden Club ($30k).
- Does The Garden Club of America fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 64% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Garden Club of America?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is The Garden Club of America based?
- The Garden Club of America is based in NY.
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