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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.

$53k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$21k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$426kRecreation & Sports$161kFood & Nutrition$16kEducation$8k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $33,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $53,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $20,000 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.
$21,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE MARTINSVILLE GARDEN CLUB$21,000
HILLSIDE GARDEN CLUB$12,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 75% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%FRIENDS OF MASON NECK STATE PARK: $27k → 6%FRIENDS OF SKY MEADOWS STATE PARK: $15k → 6%FRIENDS OF CALEDON NATURAL AREA: $6k → 7%FRIENDS OF YORK RIVER STATE PARK: $6k → 7%FRIENDS OF POCAHONTAS: $15k → 7%WINCHESTER-CLARKE GARDEN CLUB: $7k → 7%MILL MOUNTAIN GARDEN CLUB: $8k → 8%THE AUGUSTA GARDEN CLUB: $6k → 8%FRIENDS OF SMITH MOUNTAIN LAKE STATE PARK: $11k → 8%FRIENDS OF SHENANDOAH RIVER STATE PARK: $8k → 10%THE VIRGINIA BEACH GARDEN CLUB: $9k → 10%FRIENDS OF LAKE ANNA STATE PARK: $5k → 11%THE ELIZABETH RIVER GARDEN CLUB: $10k → 12%FRIENDS OF NATURAL BRIDGE STATE PARK: $12k → 12%FRIENDS OF CHIPPOKES PLANTATION STATE PARK: $6k → 12%FRIENDS OF SEVEN BENDS STATE PARK: $12k → 12%FRIENDS OF BELLE ISLE STATE PARK: $12k → 14%Gabriella Garden Club: $10k → 14%THE GARDEN CLUB OF EASTERN SHORE: $9k → 16%FRIENDS OF WESTMORELAND: $10k → 16%THE LITTLE GARDEN CLUB OF WINCHESTER: $7k → 16%THE MARTINSVILLE GARDEN CLUB: $21k → 17%FRIENDS OF KIPTOPEKE STATE PARK: $13k → 19%THE COVE RIDGE FOUNDATION: $5k → 20%FRIENDS OF HUNGRY MOTHER STATE PARK: $10k → 20%VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND RECREATION: $53k → 22%FRIENDS OF SKY MEADOWS STATE PARK: $15k → 6%FRIENDS OF YORK RIVER: $6k → 7%FRIENDS OF POCAHONTAS: $14k → 7%FRIENDS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIAS BLANDY EXPERIMENTAL FARM: $5k → 7%HILLSIDE GARDEN CLUB: $12k → 8%FRIENDS OF SHENANDOAH RIVER STATE PARK: $5k → 10%FRIENDS OF NATURAL BRIDGE STATE PARK: $11k → 12%FRIENDS OF BELLE ISLE STATE PARK: $10k → 14%THE MARTINSVILLE GARDEN CLUB: $6k → 17%FRIENDS OF HUNGRY MOTHER SP: $5k → 20%VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND RECREATION: $27k → 22%FRIENDS OF SKY MEADOWS STATE PARK: $12k → 6%FRIENDS OF POCAHONTAS STATE PARK: $7k → 7%HILLSIDE GARDEN CLUB: $8k → 8%FRIENDS OF NATURAL BRIDGE STATE PARK: $9k → 12%FRIENDS OF BELLE ISLE STATE PARK: $8k → 14%VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND RECREATION: $26k → 22%FRIENDS OF POCAHONTAS STATE PARK: $6k → 7%VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND RECREATION: $22k → 22%THE BOXWOOD GARDEN CLUB: $16k → 22%The Tuckahoe Garden Club of Virginia: $20k → 22%THREE CHOPT GARDEN CLUB: $10k → 22%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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 44% of The Garden Club of Virginia Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in VA; by stated purpose, 57%.

The Garden Club of Virginia Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.6% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$372k · 11 repeat orgs$238k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
25

Total granted

$372k
$238k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-7%
0%

Still filing today

9%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24’25
EnvironmentRecreation & SportsEducationOther
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

  • VD
    VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $128k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF SKY MEADOWS STATE PARK
    3× · 2017–2019 · $42k
  • FO
    Friends of Pocahontas State Park
    4× · 2017–2020 · $42k · revenue -18%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF MASON NECK STATE PARK INC
    one grant, 2017 · $27k
  • TG
    TUCKAHOE GARDEN CLUB OF WESTHAMPTON
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0% · 36% of their budget
  • TB
    THE BOXWOOD GARDEN CLUB INC
    one grant, 2020 · $16k
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
Garden Club of Alexandria

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…

Environment
2
Piedmont Garden Club

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…

Environment
3
Thomasville Garden Club Inc
Environment
4
Columbia Garden Club Foundation
Environment
5
The Garden Club of Danville

The organization's mission is to promote a greater interest in gardening, preservation and restoration.

—
6
Garden Club of the Halifax Country

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…

Environment
7
Hampton Roads Garden Club

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…

Environment
8
Hillsborough Garden Club Trust
Environment
9
Little Rock Garden Club

To protect and conserve natural resources, encourage civic beauty, study the fine art of gardening and cooperate with other horticultural agencies.

—
10
Rumson Garden Club

To stimulate the knowledge and love of gardening.

—
11
Virginia Association for Parks

Promote citizen support for Virginia's parks.

Recreation & Sports
12
Friends of the Kinney Faella Gardens

To educate the public to value their environment, honor nature, and appreciate beauty through a garden setting.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Rivanna Garden Club; 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.
05the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 36 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
5/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION: $127,710 · OtherVIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATIONFRIENDS OF SKY MEADOWS STATE PARK: $42,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF SKY MEADOWS STATE PARKFRIENDS OF THE NATURAL BRIDGE STATE PARK: $32,100 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE NATURAL BRIDGE STATE PARKFRIENDS OF BELLE ISLE STATE PARK: $30,065 · OtherFRIENDS OF BELLE ISLE STATE PARKTHE MARTINSVILLE GARDEN CLUB MARTINSVILLE VA: $27,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF MASON NECK STATE PARK INC: $27,000 · OtherTUCKAHOE GARDEN CLUB OF WESTHAMPTON: $20,000 · OtherHILLSIDE GARDEN CLUB INC: $20,000 · Other+20 more: $182,134 · Other+20 moreTHE PETERSBURG GARDEN CLUB: $12,000 · EnvironmentTHE PETER…FRIENDS OF THE NORTH FORK OF THE SHENANDOAH RIVER INC: $12,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS O…Fauquier and Loudoun Garden Club: $10,000 · EnvironmentFauquier …VIRGINIA BEACH GARDEN CLUB: $8,500 · EnvironmentVIRGINIA …FRIENDS OF CALEDON NATURAL AREA: $6,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS O…FOUNDATION OF THE STATE ARBORETUM OF VIRGINIA: $5,000 · EnvironmentFOUNDATIO…Friends of Pocahontas State Park: $41,500 · Recreation & SportsMILL MOUNTAIN GARDEN CLUB INC: $7,500 · Education
Other$508,009Environment$53,500Recreation & Sports$41,500Education$7,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100kgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFriends of Pocahontas State Park: $41,500 over 4y, 15% of budgetTUCKAHOE GARDEN CLUB OF WESTHAMPTON: $20,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetTHE PETERSBURG GARDEN CLUB: $12,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE NORTH FORK OF THE SHENANDOAH RIVER INC: $12,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetTHREE CHOPT GARDEN CLUB: $10,100 over 1y, 20% of budgetALBEMARLE GARDEN CLUB INC: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetVIRGINIA BEACH GARDEN CLUB: $8,500 over 1y, 20% of budgetCOVE RIDGE CENTER FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 51% of budgetFOUNDATION OF THE STATE ARBORETUM OF VIRGINIA: $5,000 over 1y, 2.7% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Garden Club of Virginia Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Garden Club of Virginia 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 36 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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