California · Nonprofit
GILROY GARDENS FAMILY THEME PARK
GILROY GARDENS FAMILY THEME PARK (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,451 to it, the largest being CHANGEX UNITED STATES INC ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $20M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $13k
- Net assets
- $5.1M
What Gilroy Gardens Family Theme Park does
Mission
To operate an educational institution whose mission is to educate and inspire families, especially children, to appreciate horticulture and the importance of trees in our lives by providing fun and memories in a beautiful garden setting.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The operation of an educational and recreational park. Visitation of 469,459 with operating days of 172. The objective is to serve as a learning center where families, especially those with pre-teen children, can experience the natural surroundings. The park was built with: six gardens (conifer, flower, tropical, camellia, holly and historical), four learning sheds (geology, weather & environment, pacific redwood and circus trees), two seasonal exhibits (monarch butterflies and honey bees), educational tour programs (self guided, audio and docent led), educational signs and an educational show product.
$19,189,449 spent$17,609,377 earned by the program95% of program spendingThe school promotional educational tickets program. The objective is to allow bay area educator's, both public and private, use of the facilities during the regular operating season. Students can come and learn at their own leisure.
$599,697 spent$550,318 earned by the program3% of program spendingOvernight camping program. The objective is to use excess land and ball fields as a location for educational organizations (girl scouts, boy scouts, ymca) and families to experience a safe overnight camping experience combined with the educational and entertainment opportunities listed under general operations. Students and children continue their learning and experiences with nature.
$334,097 spent$306,587 earned by the program2% of program spendingNature science days and educational discovery tours. The objective is to use gilroy gardens as a living laboratory for students k-5 to enhance learning in the life sciences. Specific educational days have been created to target grades 3-5 and k-2 based on california department of education standards to enhance learning in the life scienses. The natural science program ran for 8 specific non-operating days and the educational discovery tours were available on all operating days.
$94,883 spent$87,071 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $20,218,126.
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 2020 to 2021, from $2.9M to $8.7M (+198%).
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: 2020 81% · 2021 7% · 2023 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of GILROY GARDENS FAMILY THEME PARK’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Dan Harney
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $300 → $452.
From the IRS filings of GILROY GARDENS FAMILY THEME PARK’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
GILROY GARDENS FAMILY THEME PARK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% 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
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 GILROY GARDENS FAMILY THEME PARK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2022 87% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
GILROY GARDENS FAMILY THEME PARK draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
GILROY GARDENS FAMILY THEME PARK's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 329 environment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like GILROY GARDENS FAMILY THEME PARK
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GILROY GARDENS FAMILY THEME PARK: 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 GILROY GARDENS FAMILY THEME PARK?
- GILROY GARDENS FAMILY THEME PARK (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,451 to it, the largest being CHANGEX UNITED STATES INC ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GILROY GARDENS FAMILY THEME PARK have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $13,451 in grants to GILROY GARDENS FAMILY THEME PARK, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GILROY GARDENS FAMILY THEME PARK?
- CHANGEX UNITED STATES INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GILROY GARDENS FAMILY THEME PARK find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 5 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