Ohio · Nonprofit
CIVIC GARDEN CENTER OF GREATER CINCINNATI
CIVIC GARDEN CENTER OF GREATER CINCINNATI (Ohio) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,651,526 to it, the largest being THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ($915,118). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
CIVIC GARDEN CENTER OF GREATER CINCINNATI's revenue grew 22% between 2017 and 2024.
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 Thomas J Emery Memorialshared funderslocal
- American Public Gardens Associationportfolio match
- The Garden Conservancy Incportfolio match
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: 2020 13% · 2021 14% · 2023 6% · 2024 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
57% of CIVIC GARDEN CENTER OF GREATER CINCINNATI’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. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $146k → $231k.
6 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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 CIVIC GARDEN CENTER OF GREATER CINCINNATI’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 29 of 30 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
CIVIC GARDEN CENTER OF GREATER CINCINNATI leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
63% 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 CIVIC GARDEN CENTER OF GREATER CINCINNATI.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 47% · 2019 71% · 2020 43% · 2021 47% · 2022 73% · 2023 59% — 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.
How long its funders stay
58% of CIVIC GARDEN CENTER OF GREATER CINCINNATI's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
62% of CIVIC GARDEN CENTER OF GREATER CINCINNATI'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 $632k that is directly attributable, 69% of it comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
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 30 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Thomas J Emery Memorialshared funderslocalOH · backs 134 organizations that share your funders · funds 139 organizations near you
- American Public Gardens Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Garden Conservancy Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Sears Swetland Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Giving Groveportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ohio & Erie Canal Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Meshewa Farm Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Whole Cities Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Blooming Prairie Fdn Inc Investment Agyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Morton Arboretumportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- L & L Nippert Charitable Foundation Inc Attn Carter F Randolph Phdshared fundersOH · backs 100 organizations that share your funders
- Charles H Dater Foundation Incshared fundersOH · backs 136 organizations that share your funders
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 CIVIC GARDEN CENTER OF GREATER CINCINNATI
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
46% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
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 CIVIC GARDEN CENTER OF GREATER CINCINNATI: 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 CIVIC GARDEN CENTER OF GREATER CINCINNATI?
- CIVIC GARDEN CENTER OF GREATER CINCINNATI (Ohio) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,651,526 to it, the largest being THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ($915,118). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CIVIC GARDEN CENTER OF GREATER CINCINNATI have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $1,651,526 in grants to CIVIC GARDEN CENTER OF GREATER CINCINNATI, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CIVIC GARDEN CENTER OF GREATER CINCINNATI?
- THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $915,118 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CIVIC GARDEN CENTER OF GREATER CINCINNATI 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.
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 30funders 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