California · Nonprofit
GANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND
GANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND (California) receives grants from 131 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,112,829 to it, the largest being MANITOU FUND ($4,900,000). 74 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 131
- Grants received
- $22M
- Net assets
- $58M
What Ganna Walska Lotusland does
Mission
To preserve and enhance the distinctive botanical gardens and estate of madame ganna walska. Lotusland educates and inspires visitors with its collections, sustainable horticulture practices, and plant conservation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Ganna Walska Lotusland's public tours showcase plant collections encompassing over 3,800 taxa, including species from mediterranean regions around the world. Many of these species are rare, endangered, and some are extinct in the wild. The collections feature cacti, succulents, cycads, palms, ferns, begonias, and conifers. Our sustainable horticulture methods are founded on organic methods and are designed to demonstrate enviornmental stewardship and teach best practices.
$3,584,543 spent$1,323,918 earned by the program97% of program spendingJunior botanist program offers 4th grade students from santa barbara county immersive experiences within lotusland's 37-acre garden classroom. In 2025, we continued nurturing the environmental stewards of tomorrow by educating them about botany, horticulture, and sustainable plants healthcare practices. In 2025, this program served: - 1,858 k-12 students from 37 elementary schools (some schools sent multiple classes)- 230 university students - 2 paid student interns
$85,762 spent$24,848 earned by the program2% of program spendingEnhancing access and inclusion: north america's botanic gardens serve over 132 million people annually, demonstrating their immense value. However, some visitors find it challenging to access or afford a visit to lotusland given the $60 admission for adults. To address this, lotusland operates the museums for all program, with subsidized admissions for individuals receiving food assistance (snap benefits) by presenting their ebt card and a photo id.grant funds support educational programs and interns, sustainability programs and partnerships, and admissions and access. The garden also hosts at a discount community access days, nonprofit group tours and events, and leadership or staff meetings. These initiatives reflect lotusland's commitment to inclusivity and community engagement, ensuring that financial barriers do not prevent anyone from experiencing the wonders of the gardens. Grants enable us to provide access and tours to local nonprofit organizations, allowing individuals who might not otherwise experience lotusland to do so; accredited local museum or garden staff are hosted at no cost, fostering professional development and collaboration within the community. With private…
$14,674 spent$12,500 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,684,979.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $41M to $50M (+24%).
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: 2020 12% · 2021 11% · 2022 0% · 2023 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Rebecca Anderson
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 22 funders to 53 funders, grant income rose $2.1M → $2.9M.
24 of 131 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 GANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 131 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
GANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
33% 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 GANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 27% · 2019 51% · 2020 68% · 2021 20% · 2022 38% · 2023 42% — 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 GANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
57% of GANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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.
Government funding GANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $84k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$84k
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 GANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
58% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
62%
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 GANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND: 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 GANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND?
- GANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND (California) receives grants from 131 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,112,829 to it, the largest being MANITOU FUND ($4,900,000). 74 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND have?
- IRS filings report 131 organizations giving $22,112,829 in grants to GANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND, 74 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND?
- MANITOU FUND is the largest funder on record, with $4,900,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GANNA WALSKA LOTUSLAND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 131 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