Texas · Nonprofit
BEXAR COUNTY MASTER GARDENERS
BEXAR COUNTY MASTER GARDENERS (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $41,155 to it, the largest being SAN ANTONIO LIVESTOCK EXPOSITION EDUCATIONAL FUND INC ($33,300). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BEXAR COUNTY MASTER GARDENERS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,260 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,260 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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.
- The Robert A Welch Foundationshared funders
- The Garden Club of Americaportfolio match
- Apache Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.
59% of BEXAR COUNTY MASTER GARDENERS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $33k → $181.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 BEXAR COUNTY MASTER GARDENERS’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
BEXAR COUNTY MASTER GARDENERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 BEXAR COUNTY MASTER GARDENERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
82% of BEXAR COUNTY MASTER GARDENERS's grant income comes from Texas funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $505 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
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.
- The Robert A Welch Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 22 organizations that share your funders
- The Garden Club of Americaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Apache Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Edaren Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arts Council of Brazos Valleyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mamie McFaddin Ward Heritage Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- E P Woodruff Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Public Gardens Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gvec Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Elliott Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- He and Kate Dishman Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Better Business Bureauportfolio 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.
Organizations like BEXAR COUNTY MASTER GARDENERS
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
64%
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 BEXAR COUNTY MASTER GARDENERS: 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 BEXAR COUNTY MASTER GARDENERS?
- BEXAR COUNTY MASTER GARDENERS (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $41,155 to it, the largest being SAN ANTONIO LIVESTOCK EXPOSITION EDUCATIONAL FUND INC ($33,300). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BEXAR COUNTY MASTER GARDENERS have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $41,155 in grants to BEXAR COUNTY MASTER GARDENERS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BEXAR COUNTY MASTER GARDENERS?
- SAN ANTONIO LIVESTOCK EXPOSITION EDUCATIONAL FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $33,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BEXAR COUNTY MASTER GARDENERS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 3funders 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