Delaware · Nonprofit
AMERICAN PUBLIC GARDENS ASSOCIATION
AMERICAN PUBLIC GARDENS ASSOCIATION (Delaware) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $662,009 to it, the largest being Schwab Charitable Fund ($315,300). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
AMERICAN PUBLIC GARDENS ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,184 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,184 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Chester County Food Banklocal
- Center for Plant Conservation Incportfolio match
- The Morton Arboretumportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 22% · 2018 27% · 2019 21% · 2020 32% · 2021 40% · 2022 31% · 2023 37% · 2024 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
30% of AMERICAN PUBLIC GARDENS ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $33k → $138k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of AMERICAN PUBLIC GARDENS ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AMERICAN PUBLIC GARDENS ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
48% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AMERICAN PUBLIC GARDENS ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 55% · 2019 67% · 2020 77% · 2021 89% · 2022 75% · 2023 73% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
AMERICAN PUBLIC GARDENS ASSOCIATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Delaware, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $315k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Chester County Food BanklocalPA · funds 108 organizations near you
- Center for Plant Conservation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Morton Arboretumportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hillsborough Garden Club Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Betty Lewis Environmental Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Garden Conservancy Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The George Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Gordon Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Monarch Joint Ventureportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Urban Forestry Organizationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Central Park Conservancy Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sam Shine Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding AMERICAN PUBLIC GARDENS ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.8M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$1.4M
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$343k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like AMERICAN PUBLIC GARDENS ASSOCIATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Delaware
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 8 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN PUBLIC GARDENS ASSOCIATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICAN PUBLIC GARDENS ASSOCIATION?
- AMERICAN PUBLIC GARDENS ASSOCIATION (Delaware) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $662,009 to it, the largest being Schwab Charitable Fund ($315,300). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN PUBLIC GARDENS ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $662,009 in grants to AMERICAN PUBLIC GARDENS ASSOCIATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN PUBLIC GARDENS ASSOCIATION?
- Schwab Charitable Fund is the largest funder on record, with $315,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN PUBLIC GARDENS ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Delaware. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 6funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing