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Garden Time Inc

Garden Time Inc (Rhode Island) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $732,105 to it, the largest being THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($256,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$659k
Funders on record
15
Grants received
$732k
Net assets
$228k
8/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 76%
01What it does

What Garden Time Inc does

Mission

Garden Time provides prison-based educational programs that teach incarcerated men and women how to cultivate gardens and grow food for their own economic and personal well-being, integrating job readiness skills and reentry support. Additionally, we provide community-based green industry job training for formerly incarcerated men and women. Our programs foster education, inspitation, and empowerment, and help trainees translate new skills into opportunities that enable their sucessful and permanent reentry into society.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Garden Time prepares incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals for the workforce, equipping traditionally underserved populations with the skills, self-confidence and support they need to successfully transition to long-term employment and a productive life in the community. Garden Time implements a three-pronged training approach; we provide prison-based educational programs that teach incarcerated men and women to cultivate gardens and grow food, integrating job readiness skills and reentry support. We provide community-based green industry job training for formerly incarcerated Rhode Islanders through the Green Reentry Job Training Program twice annually. In addition, we employ graduates in our "Canopy Crew" to maintain young street trees in low-canopy Providence neighborhoods. Our programs foster education, inspiration, and empowerment, and help trainees translate new skills into opportunities that enable their successful and permanent reentry into society.

    $526,910 spent$261,188 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $526,910.

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 ($69k) Expenses 100 ($58k) Net assets 100 ($40k)2021 Revenue 145 ($100k) Expenses 180 ($104k) Net assets 89 ($36k)2022 Revenue 375 ($257k) Expenses 334 ($193k) Net assets 247 ($100k)2023 Revenue 554 ($380k) Expenses 613 ($354k) Net assets 310 ($125k)2024 Revenue 840 ($576k) Expenses 922 ($533k) Net assets 416 ($167k)2025 Revenue 962 ($659k) Expenses 1036 ($599k) Net assets 565 ($228k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (962)Expenses (1036)Net assets (565)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 2021 to 2022, from $36k to $100k (+178%).

$40k
$36k
$100k
$125k
$167k
$228k
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.

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2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 1% · 2023 54% · 2024 43% · 2025 27%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

60% of Garden Time Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,802 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$11k
’20
−$4k
’21
$64k
’22
$25k
’23
$43k
’24
$60k
’25
3.8
months of
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

Katharine Lacouture

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2022202320242025
Listed5545
Joined·+0+0+1
No longer listed·010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $25k → $164k.

3 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 Time 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 Time Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

74% 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 Time Inc.

35%
largest funder
66%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 60% · 2020 41% · 2021 53% · 2022 45% · 2023 46% — 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

100% of Garden Time Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

Garden Time Inc draws 80% of its grant income from funders outside Rhode Island, across 9 states in all.

ME
NY
MA
OH
PA
RI
CA
NE
DC

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

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’23
Rhode Island out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $264k 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

Garden Time Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,661 crime & legal nonprofits its size.

Operating margin9% · above the median
Months of reserve3.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)57% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,661 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding Garden Time Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6k on record.

State$6k
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Top programs
  • Furniture & Fixtures$3k
  • Other Equipment$2k
  • Other Purchased Services$900
  • Agric, Hort, Wildlife$585

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.

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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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 8%Fundraising 4%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

91%

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 Time Inc?
Garden Time Inc (Rhode Island) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $732,105 to it, the largest being THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($256,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Garden Time Inc have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $732,105 in grants to Garden Time Inc, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Garden Time Inc?
THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $256,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Garden Time Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Rhode Island. 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 15 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