Delaware · Nonprofit
DELAWARE CENTER FOR HORTICULTURE INC
DELAWARE CENTER FOR HORTICULTURE INC (Delaware) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,312,803 to it, the largest being DELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($959,822). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 52
- Grants received
- $3.3M
- Net assets
- $6.1M
What Delaware Center for Horticulture Inc does
Mission
Dch provides leadership, expertise and assistance in public greening initiatives throughout the city of wilmington and beyond with an emphasis on environmental, economic and community health benefits. Our mission is to inspire and train individuals and communities to improve the environment through horticulture.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Greening fund - since 1977, the organization has been a leader in public greening initiatives to improve communities and beautify neighborhoods. Working with civic and neighborhood assoc., residents and organizations, we partner with state, local and grassroot organizations in establishing and maintaining community gardens, urban farms, public gardens, landscapes, public parks, and green infrastructure projects. Through our community forestry program, we coordinate with city, state and federal agencies to increase urban tree canopy, tree stewardship and care, and advise delaware's urban forestry plan.
$1,021,339 spent$156,149 earned by the program80% of program spendingEducation - the organization leads programs and workshops for individuals, schools, garden clubs and organizations to learn about the environment through horticulture and gardening. In our workforce development program, branches to chances (btc), we train people in green jobs, with hands-on education in horticulture, gardening, landscaping, ecology, urban agriculture, and forestry, and assist with job placement. Btc is accredited through the corps network. Our youth enrichment program (yep) connects children from pre-school through college in outdoor education programs that connect them to nature with an emphasis on stem, environmental conservation and stewardship.
$259,159 spent$61,442 earned by the program20% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,280,498.
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 $6.9M to $5.9M (−15%).
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 2% · 2018 10% · 2019 10% · 2020 6% · 2021 25% · 2022 29% · 2023 9% · 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
67% of DELAWARE CENTER FOR HORTICULTURE INC’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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $231k → $598k.
12 of 52 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 DELAWARE CENTER FOR HORTICULTURE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 52 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
DELAWARE CENTER FOR HORTICULTURE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders 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 DELAWARE CENTER FOR HORTICULTURE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 31% · 2019 27% · 2020 33% · 2021 55% · 2022 18% · 2023 22% — 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
47% of DELAWARE CENTER FOR HORTICULTURE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
DELAWARE CENTER FOR HORTICULTURE INC draws 54% of its grant income from funders outside Delaware, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
DELAWARE CENTER FOR HORTICULTURE INC's funding base is broadening — from 17 funders to 23 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding DELAWARE CENTER FOR HORTICULTURE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $918k on record — $500k federal, $418k state.
- Department of Agriculture$500k
- GRANTS IN AID$282k
- OTHER PROFESSIONAL SERVICE$68k
- OPERATING SUPPLIES$29k
- BUILDING/GROUNDS REPAIR$23k
- COST SHARE$9k
- FED GRANT SUB RECIPIENT$4k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like DELAWARE CENTER FOR HORTICULTURE INC
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 Delaware
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DELAWARE CENTER FOR HORTICULTURE INC?
- DELAWARE CENTER FOR HORTICULTURE INC (Delaware) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,312,803 to it, the largest being DELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($959,822). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DELAWARE CENTER FOR HORTICULTURE INC have?
- IRS filings report 52 organizations giving $3,312,803 in grants to DELAWARE CENTER FOR HORTICULTURE INC, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DELAWARE CENTER FOR HORTICULTURE INC?
- DELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $959,822 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DELAWARE CENTER FOR HORTICULTURE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Delaware. 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 52 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