Kentucky · Nonprofit
GARDEN CLUB OF LEXINGTON INC
GARDEN CLUB OF LEXINGTON INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $109,022 to it, the largest being WILLIAM T YOUNG FOUNDATION INC ($50,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $144k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $109k
- Net assets
- $816k
What Garden Club of Lexington Inc does
Mission
The purpose of the garden club of lexington is to stimulate the knowledge and love of gardening, to share the advantages of association by means of educational meetings, conferences, correspondence and publications, and to restore, improve, and protect the quality of the environment through educational programs and action in the fields of conservation and civic improvement.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Maintain garden at local historical home and provide funds for its upkeep. Provide public free access to the garden. Stimulate knowledge of gardening, aid in protection of trees, plants and birds, and encourage civic planting.
$37,337 spentof which $1,000 as grants$2,434 earned by the program100% of program spendingCoffee tree project - the garden club delivers seedlings to fourth graders in public and private schools. The coffee tree is a native kentucky tree, and the mission of educating students about the history of the plant, growing and propogating it is engaged in by the members of the garden club. The members gather coffee tree pods and plant them to grow into seedlings.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $37,337.
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 2023 to 2024, from $724k to $816k (+13%).
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.
30% of GARDEN CLUB OF LEXINGTON INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $1k → $55k.
2 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 CLUB OF LEXINGTON INC’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 CLUB OF LEXINGTON INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 78%; 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 78% · 2018 56% · 2019 70% · 2020 42% · 2021 41% · 2022 32% · 2023 91% — growing more concentrated.
“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
33% of GARDEN CLUB OF LEXINGTON INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
88% of GARDEN CLUB OF LEXINGTON INC's grant income comes from Kentucky funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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
GARDEN CLUB OF LEXINGTON INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like GARDEN CLUB OF LEXINGTON 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 Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
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 GARDEN CLUB OF LEXINGTON INC: 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 GARDEN CLUB OF LEXINGTON INC?
- GARDEN CLUB OF LEXINGTON INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $109,022 to it, the largest being WILLIAM T YOUNG FOUNDATION INC ($50,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GARDEN CLUB OF LEXINGTON INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $109,022 in grants to GARDEN CLUB OF LEXINGTON INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GARDEN CLUB OF LEXINGTON INC?
- WILLIAM T YOUNG FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GARDEN CLUB OF LEXINGTON INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 13 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