Tennessee · Nonprofit
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS COMMUNITY GARDEN
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS COMMUNITY GARDEN (Tennessee) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $223,000 to it, the largest being THE DAN AND MARGARET MADDOX FUND INC ($90,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $272k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $223k
- Net assets
- $81k
What Brooklyn Heights Community Garden does
Mission
Brooklyn Heights Community Garden cultivates healthy community through growing food, intergenerational learning and creative play.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Brooklyn Heights Community Garden (BHCG) is a nonprofit urban farm and community hub located on 0.56 acres of formerly vacant lots in the Brooklyn Heights neighborhood of Nashville, Tennessee. BHCG serves a historically Black and low-income neighborhood that experiences food apartheid by cultivating healthy community through growing food, intergenerational learning, creative play, and neighborhood-based food access. BHCG provides fresh, naturally grown fruits, vegetables, and herbs to residents in the surrounding community, including neighbors who are elderly, on fixed incomes, or face barriers to transportation and grocery access. Through its urban farm, fresh foodshare program, youth and family programming, healing and wellness workshops, community ambassador work, volunteer opportunities, and garden education, BHCG works to honor the land, nurture people, inspire love, and strengthen community connection across generations.
$208,569 spent$10,210 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $208,569.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $41k to $105k (+158%).
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: 2024 34% · 2025 29%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of BROOKLYN HEIGHTS COMMUNITY GARDEN’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $10k → $75k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 BROOKLYN HEIGHTS COMMUNITY GARDEN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 8 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
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS COMMUNITY GARDEN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 80% · 2022 80% · 2023 33% — 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
83% of BROOKLYN HEIGHTS COMMUNITY GARDEN's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $45k 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
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS COMMUNITY GARDEN has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding BROOKLYN HEIGHTS COMMUNITY GARDEN receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $99k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$99k
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 BROOKLYN HEIGHTS COMMUNITY GARDEN
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 BROOKLYN HEIGHTS COMMUNITY GARDEN: 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 BROOKLYN HEIGHTS COMMUNITY GARDEN?
- BROOKLYN HEIGHTS COMMUNITY GARDEN (Tennessee) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $223,000 to it, the largest being THE DAN AND MARGARET MADDOX FUND INC ($90,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BROOKLYN HEIGHTS COMMUNITY GARDEN have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $223,000 in grants to BROOKLYN HEIGHTS COMMUNITY GARDEN, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BROOKLYN HEIGHTS COMMUNITY GARDEN?
- THE DAN AND MARGARET MADDOX FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $90,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BROOKLYN HEIGHTS COMMUNITY GARDEN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 8 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