Ohio · Nonprofit
CLEVELAND BOTANICAL GARDEN
CLEVELAND BOTANICAL GARDEN (Ohio) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,776,009 to it, the largest being THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ($471,196). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.2M
- Funders on record
- 69
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $17M
What Cleveland Botanical Garden does
Mission
The Cleveland Botanical Garden connects people with the wonder, beauty, and value of trees and plants, to inspire action for healthy communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
See schedule othe Cleveland Botanical Garden is located on 10 acres in the university circle neighborhood of cleveland. The garden comprises two indoor glasshouse biomes and outdoor gardens including the hershey children's garden, which was designed to engage children in the natural world around them. The Cleveland Botanical Garden is integrated with the holden arboretum as holden forests & gardens ("hf&g"). The holden arboretum is located 25 miles from the garden, in kirtland, oh. Together, the institutions are accredited by the american alliance of museums and represent one of the largest public gardens in the country. The mission of the two organizations is to connect people with the wonder, beauty, and value of trees and plants, to inspire action for healthy communities. The Cleveland Botanical Garden fulfils this mission through core programming that focuses on horticulture and curation, education, exhibitions and events, and community outreach.in fiscal year 2025 ending september 30, 2025 (fy25), hf&g began to operationalize its 2025-2029 strategic plan, which is based on the strategic pillars of landscapes, inspiration, knowledge, community, and excellence. Additionally,…
$4,563,044 spent$3,130,381 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,563,044.
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 2021 to 2022, from $36M to $30M (−17%).
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 13% · 2018 6% · 2019 5% · 2020 6% · 2021 15% · 2022 13% · 2023 14% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
59% of CLEVELAND BOTANICAL GARDEN’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. 8 of the last 9 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
Edward Moydell
President&CEO
Board chair
Thomas D Anderson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 28 funders to 15 funders, grant income fell $309k → $92k.
10 of 69 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 CLEVELAND BOTANICAL GARDEN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 69 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
CLEVELAND BOTANICAL GARDEN has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
49% 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 CLEVELAND BOTANICAL GARDEN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 17% · 2018 48% · 2019 37% · 2020 29% · 2021 44% · 2022 48% · 2023 22% — growing more concentrated.
“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
24% of CLEVELAND BOTANICAL GARDEN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
72% of CLEVELAND BOTANICAL GARDEN's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $811k 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
CLEVELAND BOTANICAL GARDEN's revenue grew 125% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CLEVELAND BOTANICAL 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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
52% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Holden Arboretum · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CLEVELAND BOTANICAL GARDEN?
- CLEVELAND BOTANICAL GARDEN (Ohio) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,776,009 to it, the largest being THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ($471,196). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CLEVELAND BOTANICAL GARDEN have?
- IRS filings report 69 organizations giving $1,776,009 in grants to CLEVELAND BOTANICAL GARDEN, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CLEVELAND BOTANICAL GARDEN?
- THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $471,196 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CLEVELAND BOTANICAL GARDEN 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 69 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