Illinois · Nonprofit
GARDEN CENTER SERVICES
GARDEN CENTER SERVICES (Illinois) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $435,537 to it, the largest being The Coleman Foundation Inc ($192,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The a Montgomery Ward Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Grant Hospital of Chicago D/B/A Grant Healthcare Foundationshared funders
- Russell and Josephine Kott Memorial Charitable Trustportfolio match
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.
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 38% · 2018 37% · 2019 37% · 2020 44% · 2021 55% · 2022 47% · 2023 50% · 2024 53% · 2025 52%. 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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $30k → $35k.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 GARDEN CENTER SERVICES’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
GARDEN CENTER SERVICES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 96% · 2019 100% · 2020 48% · 2021 55% · 2022 42% · 2023 60% — 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
57% of GARDEN CENTER SERVICES'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
98% of GARDEN CENTER SERVICES's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 9 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The a Montgomery Ward Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchTX · backs 49 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Grant Hospital of Chicago D/B/A Grant Healthcare Foundationshared fundersIL · backs 28 organizations that share your funders
- Russell and Josephine Kott Memorial Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pajeau Children's Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Edmond and Alice Opler Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Marvin and Kay Lichtman Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Herbert C Wenske Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Carl R Hendrickson Family Fdnportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Shayle and Deanna Fox Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Impact Grants Chicagoportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sueske W & C Charitable Tr 21580portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Inclusa Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like GARDEN CENTER SERVICES
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Garden Apartments LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GARDEN CENTER SERVICES: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds GARDEN CENTER SERVICES?
- GARDEN CENTER SERVICES (Illinois) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $435,537 to it, the largest being The Coleman Foundation Inc ($192,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GARDEN CENTER SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $435,537 in grants to GARDEN CENTER SERVICES, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GARDEN CENTER SERVICES?
- The Coleman Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $192,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GARDEN CENTER SERVICES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 9funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing