Texas · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY GARDEN INITIATIVE OF CENTRAL TEXAS
COMMUNITY GARDEN INITIATIVE OF CENTRAL TEXAS (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $77k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $175k
What Community Garden Initiative of Central Texas does
Mission
Educational and charitable non-profit community garden
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Provided approximately 360 members of the community with 250 garden spaces with access to roads, water, and soil amendments. Gardeners worked 3,564 community service hours for this purpose. Educational tours of the garden are given to demonstrate techniques in organic gardening and a test garden is maintained to develop recommendations for varieties suitable for the local area. Also provided garden space for 14 junior gardeners
$50,328 spent97% of program spendingDonated 2,180 pounds of fresh produce and 905 pounds of dry and purchased goods to Micah 6, a non-denominational food pantry serving the Central Austin community. Also donated $797 in supplies and plants to Micah 6. Donated $8,000 cash to All Blind Children of Texas. Donated $3,000 to Spread the Harvest, a Univ. of Texas School Gardens Project and 633 plants directly to schools
$797 spentof which $11,400 as grants2% of program spendingProvided 10 raised beds for disabled gardeners - Provided garden area for students of Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired and donated supplies.
$575 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $51,700.
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 2024 to 2025, from $163k to $176k (+8%).
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.
44% of COMMUNITY GARDEN INITIATIVE OF CENTRAL TEXAS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (92% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
David Forrest
Director and Plant Sale Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 COMMUNITY GARDEN INITIATIVE OF CENTRAL TEXAS’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.
Where its funders are
100% of COMMUNITY GARDEN INITIATIVE OF CENTRAL TEXAS'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
COMMUNITY GARDEN INITIATIVE OF CENTRAL TEXAS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,195 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,195 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COMMUNITY GARDEN INITIATIVE OF CENTRAL TEXAS?
- COMMUNITY GARDEN INITIATIVE OF CENTRAL TEXAS (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY GARDEN INITIATIVE OF CENTRAL TEXAS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to COMMUNITY GARDEN INITIATIVE OF CENTRAL TEXAS.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY GARDEN INITIATIVE OF CENTRAL TEXAS?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY GARDEN INITIATIVE OF CENTRAL TEXAS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 1 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