· Public charity
The Garden Club of Virginia Inc
The gcv restores & preserves historic gardens and landscapes in virginia, promotes conservation of natural resources, inspires knowledge & appreciation of horticulture & floral design, and provides educational opportunities for its members & the general public.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 2 grants below total $33,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $53,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $20,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE MARTINSVILLE GARDEN CLUB | $21,000 |
| HILLSIDE GARDEN CLUB | $12,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 75% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 44% of The Garden Club of Virginia Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in VA; read by stated purpose it is 57% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
11 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- VDVIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION4× · 2017–2020 · $128k
- FOFRIENDS OF SKY MEADOWS STATE PARK3× · 2017–2019 · $42k
- FOFriends of Pocahontas State Park4× · 2017–2020 · $42k · revenue -18%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF MASON NECK STATE PARK INCone grant, 2017 · $27k
- TGTUCKAHOE GARDEN CLUB OF WESTHAMPTONone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0% · 36% of their budget
- TBTHE BOXWOOD GARDEN CLUB INCone grant, 2020 · $16k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
to stimulate the knowledge and love of gardening and garden-related arts; to restore, improve, and protect the natural world through conservation and education in environmental stewardship; to promote civic planting and beautification; and…
Located in the East Bay Hills of the San Francisco Bay the Piedmont Garden Club is was founded in 1923 and has been a part of the Garden Club of America since 1926. Piedmont Garden Club members meet monthly to learn about garden-related…
The organization's mission is to promote a greater interest in gardening, preservation and restoration.
The purpose of the club is to promote an interest in gardens, their design & management; to cooperate in the protection of wildflowers, trees and all wildlife; to encourage public planting and beautification and to protect environmental…
The hampton roads garden club is an educational and charitable organization committed to the advancement of gardening, horticulture and the promotion of floral design as an art. we are committed to the encouragement of civic beauty and…
To protect and conserve natural resources, encourage civic beauty, study the fine art of gardening and cooperate with other horticultural agencies.
To stimulate the knowledge and love of gardening.
Promote citizen support for Virginia's parks.
To educate the public to value their environment, honor nature, and appreciate beauty through a garden setting.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Rivanna Garden Club and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the North Fork of the Shenandoah River Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
13 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. 13 of the 36 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Friends of Pocahontas State Park ↗
- Who funds TUCKAHOE GARDEN CLUB OF WESTHAMPTON ↗
- Who funds THE PETERSBURG GARDEN CLUB ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE NORTH FORK OF THE SHENANDOAH RIVER INC ↗
- Who funds THREE CHOPT GARDEN CLUB ↗
- Who funds ALBEMARLE GARDEN CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Fauquier and Loudoun Garden Club ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA BEACH GARDEN CLUB ↗
- Who funds MILL MOUNTAIN GARDEN CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CALEDON NATURAL AREA ↗
- Who funds COVE RIDGE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF THE STATE ARBORETUM OF VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds THE RIVANNA GARDEN CLUB ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 The Garden Club of Virginia 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.
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.
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