Ohio · Nonprofit
COUNCIL GARDENS
COUNCIL GARDENS (Ohio) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,261 to it, the largest being MARBEACH FOUNDATION ($5,766). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $11k
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What Council Gardens does
Mission
To provide quality, affordable housing for low-to-moderate- income seniors, aged 62 and older, and for adults of all ages who are mobility impaired, allowing them to age in place in an active community of their peers with comfort, dignity and a strong sense of personal worth.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
Council Gardens owns and operates a 122-unit apartment complex under section 202 of the national housing act. The project is regulated by hud as to rent charges and operating methods.
$1,502,835 spent$2,155,725 earned by the program96% of program spendingLife enrichment program/service coordinator - additional programming and services which support the tenants' quality of life and social services linking the tenants of the complex to supportive or medical services in the general community.
$67,574 spent$2,341 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2026 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,570,409.
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 2025 to 2026, from $2.3M to $2.6M (+14%).
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: 2022 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of COUNCIL GARDENS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 of the last 10 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
Barbara Mervine
Executive director
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $416 → $517.
2 of 4 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $76k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest National Council of Jewish Women - Cleveland). These are real filings, and they are not money COUNCIL GARDENS raised.
From the IRS filings of COUNCIL 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
COUNCIL GARDENS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
46% 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 COUNCIL GARDENS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 90% · 2020 86% · 2021 97% · 2022 82% · 2023 97% — 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
100% of COUNCIL GARDENS's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
COUNCIL GARDENS's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 47 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2026
Organizations like COUNCIL GARDENS
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 COUNCIL 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COUNCIL GARDENS?
- COUNCIL GARDENS (Ohio) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,261 to it, the largest being MARBEACH FOUNDATION ($5,766). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COUNCIL GARDENS have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $11,261 in grants to COUNCIL GARDENS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COUNCIL GARDENS?
- MARBEACH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,766 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COUNCIL GARDENS 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 4 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing