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GARDENS FOR HEALTH INTERNATIONAL

GARDENS FOR HEALTH INTERNATIONAL (Massachusetts) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,897,206 to it, the largest being STEELE FOUNDATION FOR HOPE ($1,552,340). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$643k
Funders on record
28
Grants received
$3.9M
Net assets
$1.4M
20/28 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 63%
01What it does

What Gardens for Health International does

Mission

Gardens for Health International works to provide lasting agricultural solutions to chronic childhood malnutrition

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Health Center Program: Gardens for Health International works in 10 government health centers in 2 districts of Rwanda to provide targeted agricultural support and comprehensive health education to the caregivers of children suffering from malnutrition.

    $625,493 spent
    66% of program spending
  2. School Nutrition Program: Working in partnership with the World Food Program, Gardens for Health International works in 135 schools in 7 districts of Rwanda to provide agriculture and nutrition training to school leadership, teachers, parents, students, and community maternal and child health stakeholders.

    $255,883 spent
    27% of program spending
  3. Farm Program: Gardens for Health Internationals 5-acre demonstration and innovation farm serves as a center for agricultural training and innovation trials while producing agricultural inputs for programs. Gardens for Health International partnered with Regenerosity to position its farm as a center of excellence in regenerative agriculture, expand GHI research capacity and partnerships and build local knowledge and indigenous seed growing. Gardens for Health International also partnered with Mainsprings under the $5,000 grant support from Oppenheimer Foundation to improve the farms activities related to resilience, permaculture gardening, and learning.

    $66,340 spent$977 earned by the program
    7% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $947,716.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.1M) Expenses 100 ($990k) Net assets 100 ($348k)2018 Revenue 78 ($847k) Expenses 86 ($854k) Net assets 98 ($340k)2019 Revenue 76 ($819k) Expenses 89 ($877k) Net assets 81 ($283k)2020 Revenue 69 ($753k) Expenses 61 ($601k) Net assets 125 ($435k)2021 Revenue 68 ($743k) Expenses 68 ($675k) Net assets 145 ($503k)2022 Revenue 204 ($2.2M) Expenses 81 ($797k) Net assets 551 ($1.9M)2023 Revenue 107 ($1.2M) Expenses 131 ($1.3M) Net assets 511 ($1.8M)2024 Revenue 59 ($643k) Expenses 101 ($999k) Net assets 409 ($1.4M)
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Revenue (59)Expenses (101)Net assets (409)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 $554k to $2.2M (+304%).

$359k
$365k
$335k
$485k
$554k
$2.2M
$1.9M
$1.5M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of GARDENS FOR HEALTH INTERNATIONAL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,945 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$94k
’17
−$7k
’18
−$57k
’19
$152k
’20
$67k
’21
$1.4M
’22
−$140k
’23
−$356k
’24
16
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.

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Listed78775555
Joined·+3+0+1+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·2112000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $318k → $699k.

9 of 28 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 GARDENS FOR HEALTH INTERNATIONAL’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

GARDENS FOR HEALTH INTERNATIONAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

40%
largest funder
63%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 29% · 2019 31% · 2020 51% · 2021 37% · 2022 68% · 2023 75% — 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

36% of GARDENS FOR HEALTH INTERNATIONAL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

GARDENS FOR HEALTH INTERNATIONAL draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 10 states in all.

NH
NY
MA
NJ
CA
KY
DE
NC
SC
FL

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

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’22
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $342k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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

GARDENS FOR HEALTH INTERNATIONAL holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,524 international nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−55% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve16.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−7% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,524 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Government funding GARDENS FOR HEALTH INTERNATIONAL receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $25k on record.

Federal$25k
grants $25kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of State$25k

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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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 4%Fundraising 1%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

72%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 2 states

MA
CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds GARDENS FOR HEALTH INTERNATIONAL?
GARDENS FOR HEALTH INTERNATIONAL (Massachusetts) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,897,206 to it, the largest being STEELE FOUNDATION FOR HOPE ($1,552,340). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GARDENS FOR HEALTH INTERNATIONAL have?
IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $3,897,206 in grants to GARDENS FOR HEALTH INTERNATIONAL, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GARDENS FOR HEALTH INTERNATIONAL?
STEELE FOUNDATION FOR HOPE is the largest funder on record, with $1,552,340 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GARDENS FOR HEALTH INTERNATIONAL 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 28 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