Iowa · Nonprofit
CEDAR VALLEY ARBORETUM & BOTANIC GARDENS
CEDAR VALLEY ARBORETUM & BOTANIC GARDENS (Iowa) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $292,781 to it, the largest being MAX AND HELEN GUERNSEY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($170,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CEDAR VALLEY ARBORETUM & BOTANIC GARDENS is better cushioned than half 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.
- Cedar Falls Community Foundationlocalportfolio match
- The Gallagher Family Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Cedar Valley United Wayshared funderslocal
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 42% · 2018 54% · 2019 44% · 2020 11% · 2021 40% · 2022 33% · 2023 46% · 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
73% of CEDAR VALLEY ARBORETUM & BOTANIC GARDENS’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. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $3k → $88k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 CEDAR VALLEY ARBORETUM & BOTANIC GARDENS’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
CEDAR VALLEY ARBORETUM & BOTANIC GARDENS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
33% 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 CEDAR VALLEY ARBORETUM & BOTANIC GARDENS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 50% · 2021 92% · 2022 98% · 2023 57% — 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
94% of CEDAR VALLEY ARBORETUM & BOTANIC GARDENS's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $71 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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. Your 7 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Cedar Falls Community Foundationlocalportfolio matchIA · funds 18 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Gallagher Family Foundationlocalportfolio matchIA · funds 29 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Cedar Valley United Wayshared funderslocalIA · backs 33 organizations that share your funders · funds 37 organizations near you
- Northeast Agricultural Education Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Public Gardens Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stonehouse Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Garden Conservancy Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Phyllis a and Daryl R Forsythe Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Valley Economic Development Partners Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Longwood Gardens Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- George and Ann Swift Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pauline R Barrett Charitable FoundationlocalIL · funds 15 organizations near you
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 CEDAR VALLEY ARBORETUM & BOTANIC GARDENS
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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
59% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CEDAR VALLEY ARBORETUM & BOTANIC GARDENS: 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 CEDAR VALLEY ARBORETUM & BOTANIC GARDENS?
- CEDAR VALLEY ARBORETUM & BOTANIC GARDENS (Iowa) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $292,781 to it, the largest being MAX AND HELEN GUERNSEY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($170,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CEDAR VALLEY ARBORETUM & BOTANIC GARDENS have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $292,781 in grants to CEDAR VALLEY ARBORETUM & BOTANIC GARDENS, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CEDAR VALLEY ARBORETUM & BOTANIC GARDENS?
- MAX AND HELEN GUERNSEY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $170,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CEDAR VALLEY ARBORETUM & BOTANIC GARDENS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 7funders 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