Skip to content
Plinth
Foundation DossiersMostly funded, not a grantmaker — see who funds it →
Plinth

· Public charity

The Garden Conservancy Inc

To preserve, share, and celebrate america's gardens and diverse gardening traditions for the education and inspiration of the public.

$161k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Environment$263kArts & Culture$170kEducation$103kFood & Nutrition$58kRecreation & Sports$38kPublic Safety & Disaster$20kYouth Development$20kCrime & Legal$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 6 grants below total $52,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $161,350 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $108,850 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.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$45M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CANTE WAUNSILPI WI TA OMINICIYE KIND HEARTED WOMEN'S SOCIETY$10,000
LEGACY HERITAGE$10,000
WETHERSFIELD FOUNDATION INC$10,000
HOMEGROWN NATIONAL PARK INC$7,500
THEODORE PAYNE FOUNDATION FOR WILD FLOWERS & NATIVE PLANTS INC$7,500
COLONIAL PENNSYLVANIA FARMSTEAD$7,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BOISE VERTICAL FARM INC: $10k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
ID
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
SD
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
AZ
NC
SC
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

47%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$336k · 7 repeat orgs$375k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
29

Total granted

$336k
$332k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
0%

Still filing today

100%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentArts & CultureEducationFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesOther

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

  • BARD COLLEGE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $93k · revenue +206%
  • GW
    GANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND
    2× · 2018–2023 · $40k · revenue +224%
  • WF
    WETHERSFIELD FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2022–2025 · $40k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • MB
    MCKEE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC
    one grant, 2024 · $45k · revenue +11%
  • CP
    CHICAGO PARKS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +139%
  • DE
    DE ETTE HOLDEN CUMMER MUSEUM FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +67%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Sonoma Botanical Garden
—
2
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
3
Arlington Garden in Pasadena

Arlington Garden is a climate-appropriate, habitat garden offering learning, inspiration, and enjoyment for all.

Environment
4
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc

We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…

Environment
5
Pittsburgh Botanic Garden

Pittsburgh Botanic Garden inspires people to value plants, garden design and the natural world by cultivating plant collections of the Allegheny Plateau and temperate regions, creating display gardens, conducting educational programs and…

Youth Development
6
Na 'Aina Kai Botanical Gardens
Philanthropy
7
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy Inc

See attached schedule othe conservancy has sole responsibility for managing all aspects of the rose kennedy greenway, including horticulture, programming, public art, maintenance, and capital improvements. we envision a vibrant, inclusive,…

Recreation & Sports
8
The Gardens At Palmdale
Recreation & Sports
9
Portland Botanical Gardens

To acquire and build a botanical garden

Environment
10
Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens Inc

Phipps' mission is to inspire and educate all with the beauty and importance of plants, to advance sustainability and promote human and environmental well-being through action and research, and to celebrate its historic glasshouse.

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
Queens Botanical Garden Society Inc

Queens botanical garden is an urban oasis where people, plants and cultures are celebrated through inspiring gardens, innovative educational programs and demonstrations of environmental stewardship.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy and the most unlike its peers is Boscobel Restoration Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Urban Agriculture & Food Ac…Food Pantries & AssistanceEnvironmental Advocacy Orga…Community Arts OrganizationsLand Conservation Organizat…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%19%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr16%27%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr16%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%14%5–10yr19%25%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr13%11%35–55yr16%24%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/41
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,524

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.

04the grantee network

34 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. 34 of the 41 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
14/34
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MCKEE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC — $45,000 · EnvironmentMCKEE BOTANICAL GARDEN INCWETHERSFIELD FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 · EnvironmentWETHERSFIELD FOUNDATION INCGOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY — $23,000 · EnvironmentGOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVA…The Ruth Bancroft Garden Inc — $20,000 · EnvironmentThe Ruth Bancroft Garden IncGREENSPACESLA INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentNEIGHBORHOOD GARDENS TRUST — $10,000 · EnvironmentPRACTICE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EnvironmentTHE NORTH SHORE LAND ALLIANCE INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentURBAN WOODLANDS COMMUNITY GARDENS INC DBA THE LOTUS GARDEN — $10,000 · EnvironmentPeckerwood Gardens Conservation Foundation Inc — $10,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE ROGERSON CLEMATIS COLLECTION — $7,500 · EnvironmentTHEODORE PAYNE FOUNDATION FOR WILD FLOWERS AND NATIVE PLANTS INC — $7,500 · EnvironmentECOLOGICAL CITIZEN'S PROJECT INC — $7,500 · EnvironmentThe Charleston Parks Conservancy — $7,500 · Environment+1 more — $5,000 · EnvironmentOAKLAND MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA — $100,000 · Arts & CultureOAKLAND MUSEUM OF CALIF…DE ETTE HOLDEN CUMMER MUSEUM FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Arts & CultureDE ETTE HOLDEN CUMMER M…ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCI…PORT GAMBLE S'KLALLAM FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Arts & CulturePORT GAMBLE S'KLALLAM F…THE WYCK ASSOCIATION — $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WYCK ASSOCIATIONGANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND — $40,000 · OtherGANNA WALSKA LOTUSLANDTHE ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE OF NEW YORK — $20,000 · OtherTHE ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE OF…PECKERWOOD GARDENS CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC (DBA THE JOHN FAIREY GARDE — $12,000 · OtherPECKERWOOD GARDENS CONSERVA…GAINING GROUND INC — $10,000 · OtherGAINING GROUND INCFEDERATED GARDEN CLUBS OF CONNECTICUT INC — $10,000 · OtherFEDERATED GARDEN CLUBS OF C…CANTE WAUNSILPI WI TA OMINICIYE — $10,000 · OtherCANTE WAUNSILPI WI TA OMINI…LEGACY HERITAGE — $10,000 · OtherLEGACY HERITAGEBOSCOBEL RESTORATION INC — $10,000 · OtherBOSCOBEL RESTORATION INCHOMEGROWN NATIONAL PARK INC — $7,500 · OtherCOLONIAL PENNSYLVANIA FARMSTEAD — $7,500 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY — $7,500 · OtherGROUNDWORK BRIDGEPORT INC — $10,000 · OtherGROUNDWORK BRIDGEPORT INCTerra BIRDS — $10,000 · OtherTerra BIRDSGarden Time Inc — $10,000 · OtherGarden Time IncBARD COLLEGE — $93,308 · EducationBARD COLLEGEBrooklyn Queens Land Trust — $10,000 · EducationBrooklyn Queens …CHICAGO PARKS FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDS OF GRANDMOTHERS GARDEN INC — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE HUNGER AND HEALTH COALITION INC — $10,000 · Food & NutritionLAND TO LEARN — $10,000 · Food & NutritionBOISE VERTICAL FARM INC — $10,000 · Human Services
Environment$223,000Arts & Culture$150,000Other$174,500Education$103,308Recreation & Sports$30,000Food & Nutrition$20,000Human Services$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetOAKLAND MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA — $100,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBARD COLLEGE — $93,308 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMCKEE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC — $45,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetGANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND — $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWETHERSFIELD FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetGOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY — $23,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE OF NEW YORK — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Ruth Bancroft Garden Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCHICAGO PARKS FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDE ETTE HOLDEN CUMMER MUSEUM FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGROUNDWORK BRIDGEPORT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHE HUNGER AND HEALTH COALITION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTerra BIRDS — $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGarden Time Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD GARDENS TRUST — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGAINING GROUND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBrooklyn Queens Land Trust — $10,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetTHE NORTH SHORE LAND ALLIANCE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPORT GAMBLE S'KLALLAM FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetURBAN WOODLANDS COMMUNITY GARDENS INC DBA THE LOTUS GARDEN — $10,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetFRIENDS OF GRANDMOTHERS GARDEN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetLAND TO LEARN — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPeckerwood Gardens Conservation Foundation Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE WYCK ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetBOSCOBEL RESTORATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ROGERSON CLEMATIS COLLECTION — $7,500 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetECOLOGICAL CITIZEN'S PROJECT INC — $7,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThe Charleston Parks Conservancy — $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGREENWOOD GARDENS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Bessemer Giving F…Ibm International Fou…PatagoniaorgThe Ayco Charitable F…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Raymond James Charita…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…Morgan Stanley Global…Paypal Charitable Giv…
The Bessemer Giving FundNJ13.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bessemer Giving Fund · Ibm International Foundation · Patagoniaorg · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund

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 Conservancy 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 100%
  • Groundwork Bridgeport Inc — 100% of income from government
  • Gaining Ground Inc — 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 41 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

Source object · view filing

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home