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GIO'S GARDEN INC

GIO'S GARDEN INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,607,973 to it, the largest being THE LEOLA CULVER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($1,130,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$544k
Funders on record
26
Grants received
$1.6M
Net assets
$2.4M
11/26 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 73%
01What it does

What Gio's Garden Inc does

Mission

Gio's garden's mission as a non-profit organization is to nurture and strengthen families with children with special needs (birth through 6 years) by increasing their access to needed services.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Respite care - gio's garden, inc. Is a respite program that provides care to children birth through six years old with special needs. While the child is at gio's garden, inc., the focus is on doing activities that work on developmental goals. The parents receive information and resources to help find other needed programs.

    $325,378 spent$202,414 earned by the program
    95% of program spending
  2. Therapy - gio's garden, inc. Offers various therapy services utilizing art and recreation for children and families.

    $17,313 spent$7,350 earned by the program
    5% of program spending
  3. Family support - gio's garden, inc.'s family support program is a broad range of activities that focus on supporting parents, siblings, and caregivers. We host parent and caregiver support groups and we host quarterly family activities and social events in the community. We also facilitate parent and caregiver art therapy programs when there is a demand for those services. Additionally, we can provide one-to-one family and caregiver consulting to offer advice and training to better facilitate their children's success with daily living skills at home and in the community. Due to staffing shortages, this progam was not offered in 2024.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $342,691.

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 ($761k) Expenses 100 ($456k) Net assets 100 ($779k)2018 Revenue 63 ($481k) Expenses 97 ($442k) Net assets 104 ($808k)2019 Revenue 76 ($580k) Expenses 106 ($483k) Net assets 118 ($923k)2020 Revenue 73 ($558k) Expenses 96 ($437k) Net assets 136 ($1.1M)2021 Revenue 66 ($503k) Expenses 88 ($402k) Net assets 151 ($1.2M)2022 Revenue 187 ($1.4M) Expenses 97 ($444k) Net assets 273 ($2.1M)2023 Revenue 77 ($587k) Expenses 113 ($514k) Net assets 284 ($2.2M)2024 Revenue 72 ($544k) Expenses 113 ($513k) Net assets 303 ($2.4M)
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Revenue (72)Expenses (113)Net assets (303)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 $1.2M to $2.2M (+80%).

$814k
$838k
$964k
$1.1M
$1.2M
$2.2M
$2.2M
$2.4M
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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: 2019 2% · 2020 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

35% of GIO'S GARDEN INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,940 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$305k
’17
$39k
’18
$97k
’19
$120k
’20
$101k
’21
$981k
’22
$72k
’23
$31k
’24
10
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

Geoffrey Brown

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1620181510111111
Joined·+4+2+1+0+1+2+0
No longer listed·0445020
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $57k → $19k.

6 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 GIO'S GARDEN INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 25 of 26 funders by total. 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

GIO'S GARDEN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

70%
largest funder
91%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 78% · 2019 69% · 2020 61% · 2021 36% · 2022 96% · 2023 53% — 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

22% of GIO'S GARDEN INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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

GIO'S GARDEN INC draws 80% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 8 states in all.

IL
WI
NY
IA
PA
CO
AZ
FL

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

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Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $82k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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

GIO'S GARDEN INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 21,648 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin6% · above the median
Months of reserve10.1mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−5% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,648 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like GIO'S GARDEN INC

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

67% of spending goes to programs.

Program 67%Management 29%Fundraising 4%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

51%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WI

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Questions and answers

Who funds GIO'S GARDEN INC?
GIO'S GARDEN INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,607,973 to it, the largest being THE LEOLA CULVER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($1,130,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GIO'S GARDEN INC have?
IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $1,607,973 in grants to GIO'S GARDEN INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GIO'S GARDEN INC?
THE LEOLA CULVER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,130,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GIO'S GARDEN INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 26 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