Florida · Nonprofit
ANN NORTON SCULPTURE GARDENS INC
ANN NORTON SCULPTURE GARDENS INC (Florida) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,534,792 to it, the largest being SOTER KAY FOUNDATION F/K/A SARAH ROSS SOTER FOUNDATION ($508,800). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 63
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $6.4M
What Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens Inc does
Mission
The ann norton sculpture gardens mission is to enrich lives with nature, art and history.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The ann norton sculpture gardens, inc. Is an irs-recognized 501(c)(3) non-profit organization established in 1977 by the resident sculptor ann weaver norton (1905-1982). The organization is devoted to community engagement by exhibiting works of other artists; educational programming and events for visitors of all ages including school age children and adults; preserving the historic norton house and artist studio and displaying ann norton's monumental sculptures in a secluded urban preserve where a notable collection of rare palms is continually being developed. Ann norton sculpture gardens has 25,000 visitors per year from all over the world.
$1,068,861 spent$494,343 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,068,861.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $3.7M to $4.9M (+33%).
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 1% · 2019 4% · 2020 2% · 2021 5% · 2022 3% · 2023 4% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Margaret Horan
Executive director
Board chair
Caroline Cummings Rafferty
Chairwoman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $42k → $520k.
4 of 63 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $62k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Cultural Council of Palm Beach County Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money ANN NORTON SCULPTURE GARDENS INC raised.
From the IRS filings of ANN NORTON SCULPTURE GARDENS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 63 funders by total. 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
ANN NORTON SCULPTURE GARDENS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
36% 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 ANN NORTON SCULPTURE GARDENS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 70% · 2019 26% · 2020 59% · 2021 21% · 2022 57% · 2023 48% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
32% of ANN NORTON SCULPTURE GARDENS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
89% of ANN NORTON SCULPTURE GARDENS INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $730k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is 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.
Organizations like ANN NORTON SCULPTURE GARDENS INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ANN NORTON SCULPTURE GARDENS INC: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ANN NORTON SCULPTURE GARDENS INC?
- ANN NORTON SCULPTURE GARDENS INC (Florida) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,534,792 to it, the largest being SOTER KAY FOUNDATION F/K/A SARAH ROSS SOTER FOUNDATION ($508,800). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ANN NORTON SCULPTURE GARDENS INC have?
- IRS filings report 63 organizations giving $2,534,792 in grants to ANN NORTON SCULPTURE GARDENS INC, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ANN NORTON SCULPTURE GARDENS INC?
- SOTER KAY FOUNDATION F/K/A SARAH ROSS SOTER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $508,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ANN NORTON SCULPTURE GARDENS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 63 funders 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 October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing