Ohio · Nonprofit
Botanical Garden Association Inc
Botanical Garden Association Inc (Ohio) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $351,360 to it, the largest being GREATER ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC ($175,344). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $633k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $351k
- Net assets
- $775k
What Botanical Garden Association Inc does
Mission
Our vision is to educate, inspire, and connect people with nature therefore improving ones physical and mental helath and overall quality of life. We are open year-round with our educational activities, exhibits, experience areas changing with the seasons.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Butterfly House and Garden - In mid June through mid September this facility provides the opprotunity to observe native Ohio butterflies in an open-air yet contained environment. Learning experiences include developement of habitats that attract butterflies and the life cycle of native Ohio butterflies. Surrounding the faciltiy are many native Ohio plantings in a garden-like setting as well as a playground of natural materials. All ages can enjoy this program and the facility is handicapped accessible. Revenue is derived from a modest admission fee over 35,000 visitors including groups or organizations visit the entire facility.
$4,933 spent$210,986 earned by the program1% of program spendingAll programs, events, and workshops to help attract vistors to the center for certain events throughout the year. Examples Natures A-Glow, Camp, Williamsburg Wreath workshop, Christmas, Cool Adventures, Summer Exhibits, Workshops, and various other nature educational programs.
$14,943 spent$55,864 earned by the program3% of program spendingAll other expenses are for the whole center. All of the programming encompasses the whole center so most expenses are not split out specifically for events. This is general expenses to run all programming which most are listed above.
$554,604 spent97% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $574,480.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $807k to $937k (+16%).
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2022 4% · 2023 8% · 2024 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
47% of Botanical Garden Association Inc’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. 5 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
Kaitlyn Cowley
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $45k → $59k.
4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% 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 Botanical Garden Association Inc’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
Botanical Garden Association Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
79% 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 Botanical Garden Association Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 100% · 2019 98% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 69% · 2023 78% — 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.
How long its funders stay
17% of Botanical Garden Association Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
63% of Botanical Garden Association Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $130k that is directly attributable, 84% of it comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $221k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Against its field
Botanical Garden Association Inc has grown faster than half of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Botanical Garden Association 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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% 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 Botanical Garden Association 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 Botanical Garden Association Inc?
- Botanical Garden Association Inc (Ohio) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $351,360 to it, the largest being GREATER ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC ($175,344). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Botanical Garden Association Inc have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $351,360 in grants to Botanical Garden Association Inc, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Botanical Garden Association Inc?
- GREATER ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $175,344 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Botanical Garden Association Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 11 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing