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DURANGO BOTANIC GARDENS

DURANGO BOTANIC GARDENS (Colorado) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $174,913 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($127,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$238k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$175k
Net assets
$419k
2/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 12%
01What it does

What Durango Botanic Gardens does

Mission

Our mission is to create public gardens that demonstrate best practices, advance horticultural education, and celebrate the inspriations power of sustainable gardens.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The Durango Botanic Gardens, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, was founded in 2010 as the Durango Botanical Society with the goal of producing one of the Southwest's premier public gardens. All of our garden sections are funded by donations and memberships and maintained entirely by volunteers, guided by a volunteer board of directors.

    $43,720 spent$208,799 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $43,720.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($49k) Expenses 100 ($30k) Net assets 100 ($48k)2021 Revenue 369 ($182k) Expenses 347 ($106k) Net assets 259 ($124k)2022 Revenue 235 ($116k) Expenses 225 ($69k) Net assets 358 ($171k)2023 Revenue 222 ($109k) Expenses 204 ($62k) Net assets 457 ($218k)2024 Revenue 200 ($99k) Expenses 231 ($70k) Net assets 517 ($247k)2025 Revenue 482 ($238k) Expenses 215 ($65k) Net assets 878 ($419k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (482)Expenses (215)Net assets (878)Peer revenue range

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 $247k to $419k (+70%).

$48k
$124k
$171k
$218k
$247k
$419k
202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

88% of DURANGO BOTANIC GARDENS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,629 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$19k
’20
$76k
’21
$47k
’22
$47k
’23
$29k
’24
$172k
’25
34
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $127 → $10k.

5 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 84% 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 DURANGO BOTANIC 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

DURANGO BOTANIC GARDENS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

95% 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 DURANGO BOTANIC GARDENS.

73%
largest funder
85%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 94% · 2022 59% · 2023 53% — 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

25% of DURANGO BOTANIC GARDENS's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 22% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y

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

84% of DURANGO BOTANIC GARDENS'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 $27k that is directly attributable, 91% of it comes from Colorado funders.

IN
CO

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’21
’22
’23
Colorado out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $148k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

DURANGO BOTANIC GARDENS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin73% · top quartile
Months of reserve34.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)37% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like DURANGO BOTANIC 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 Colorado

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

67% of spending goes to programs.

Program 67%Management 23%Fundraising 10%

Governance

9
board members
78%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds DURANGO BOTANIC GARDENS?
DURANGO BOTANIC GARDENS (Colorado) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $174,913 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($127,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does DURANGO BOTANIC GARDENS have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $174,913 in grants to DURANGO BOTANIC GARDENS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DURANGO BOTANIC GARDENS?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $127,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DURANGO BOTANIC GARDENS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 9 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