Ohio · Nonprofit
CIVIC GARDEN CENTER OF GREATER CINCINNATI
CIVIC GARDEN CENTER OF GREATER CINCINNATI (Ohio) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,671,526 to it, the largest being THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ($915,118). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $810k
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Civic Garden Center of Greater Cincinnati does
Mission
We are a regionally recognized nonprofit model that has been teaching people how to grow food and care for the environment since 1942. Founded during the victory gardens movement and situated on the former estate of philanthropist cornelius j. Hauck, we are cincinnatis go-to resource for all things gardening and conservation.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Urban agriculture program: offer support, training and mentorship to gardeners in community gardens across greater cincinnati; offer a community garden development training that covers all aspects of organizing,planning, designing and sustaining a community garden; organize and staff, upon request by a garden, volunteer workdays in any community garden in the network; and provide free vegetable plant distribution events open to all of the gardeners in the community garden network.
$149,463 spent$39,412 earned by the program37% of program spendingConservation program: we support our community in restoring, preserving and maintaining urban greenspaces throughout the greater cincinnati region, from private backyards to school campuses to public parks. Healthy greenspaces provide a home for wildlife and a place for people to relax and enjoy themselves. They support community building and inspire a connection with the natural world. As we work to tackle todays environmental crises, its up to each of us to play a part in conserving habitats and public green spaces for the benefit of people and the planet.
$254,491 spent$125,674 earned by the program63% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $403,954.
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 2019 to 2020, from $2.1M to $1.7M (−19%).
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
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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
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) — 61% 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 66%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
62% 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; 57% 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
61% 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 $652k that is directly attributable, 80% 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.
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· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like CIVIC GARDEN CENTER OF GREATER CINCINNATI
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
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.
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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 $1,671,526 to it, the largest being THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ($915,118). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% 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 $1,671,526 in grants to CIVIC GARDEN CENTER OF GREATER CINCINNATI, 17 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.
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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 30 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