Massachusetts · Nonprofit
Garden Club of the Back Bay Inc
Garden Club of the Back Bay Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $130,275 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($89,025). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2026
- $149k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $130k
- Net assets
- $147k
What Garden Club of the Back Bay Inc does
Mission
Promote Civic Beauty, improve, advance, and encourage horticultural improvements, ornament the streets and public squares of the City of Boston, especially the
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Improve,advance and encourage horticultural improvements, ornamentthe streets and public squares of the City of Boston, especiallythe Back Bay, and to educate the public in the art of gardening.
$109,000 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $109,000.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $133k to $178k (+34%).
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.
98% of Garden Club of the Back Bay Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 10 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $17k → $15k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 the Back Bay 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 the Back Bay Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
68% 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 Garden Club of the Back Bay Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 70% · 2019 100% · 2020 52% · 2021 85% · 2022 80% · 2023 52% — 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.
Where its funders are
68% of Garden Club of the Back Bay Inc'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 $41k that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $89k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 the Back Bay Inc's revenue grew 22% between 2017 and 2026.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 88 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Organizations like Garden Club of the Back Bay 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Garden Club of the Back Bay Inc?
- Garden Club of the Back Bay Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $130,275 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($89,025). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Garden Club of the Back Bay Inc have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $130,275 in grants to Garden Club of the Back Bay Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Garden Club of the Back Bay Inc?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $89,025 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Garden Club of the Back Bay Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 6 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