Florida · Private foundation
The Gardener Foundation 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.
- $4.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 38
- Grants FY2025
- 40
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 30 to 40
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $14M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations The Gardener Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $311k 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 | 37 | $4.7M | 19% |
| FY2024 | 40 | $5.2M | 35% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $1.6M | 26% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $3.0M | 19% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $2.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 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, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stony Brook Foundation Inc | $3,310,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Visible Men Academy Inc | $1,250,000 | 4 | 22% |
| Rocky Mountain Institute | $700,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc | $501,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Big Waters Land Trust Inc | $450,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Literacy Council of Sarasota Inc | $361,843 | 5 | 22% |
| Sarasota Opera Association Inc | $355,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Sarasota Architectural Foundation Inc | $300,000 | 4 | n/a |
| The Boys and Girls Club of the Bellport Area Inc | $251,000 | 4 | 10% |
| Long Island Cares Inc | $220,393 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 37 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($8.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Gardener Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 31 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: The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · Lawton W Fitt & James I McLaren Foundation · David Schwartz Foundation Inc · Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Gardener Foundation Inc
- How much does The Gardener Foundation Inc give?
- The Gardener Foundation Inc reported 38 grants totaling $4,808,471 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 40 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does The Gardener Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (21%), Education (16%), Arts & Culture (15%).
- Who are The Gardener Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Stony Brook Foundation Inc ($3.3M), Visible Men Academy Inc ($1.3M), Rocky Mountain Institute ($700k).
- Does The Gardener Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Gardener Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Gardener Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc, Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc, Lawton W Fitt & James I McLaren Foundation.
- Where is The Gardener Foundation Inc based?
- The Gardener Foundation Inc is based in FL.
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