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Giving Gardens of Indiana Inc

Giving Gardens of Indiana Inc (Indiana) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $248,015 to it, the largest being WHITLEY COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($135,709). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$308k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$248k
Net assets
$194k
4/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 40%
01What it does

What Giving Gardens of Indiana Inc does

Mission

Giving Gardens of Indiana provides gardens to the community to help them better connect to their food and then share any excess to those in need. Every year in May there is a plant giveaway. They give out organic garden starts to the community free of charge. They bring students to the garden to begin their gardening journey and expand their knowledge.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Giving Gardens of Indiana provided gardens to the communtiy to help them connect to their food and shared excess food to those in need. Giving Gardens had many educational opportunities for children, teens and adults.

    $234,049 spent$140,196 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $234,049.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($82k) Expenses 100 ($77k) Net assets 100 ($5k)2023 Revenue 200 ($164k) Expenses 198 ($152k) Net assets 795 ($41k)2024 Revenue 300 ($246k) Expenses 260 ($199k) Net assets 1701 ($87k)2025 Revenue 376 ($308k) Expenses 312 ($240k) Net assets 3793 ($194k)
2021202320242025
Revenue (376)Expenses (312)Net assets (3793)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 2024 to 2025, from $90k to $198k (+121%).

$5k
$64k
$90k
$198k
2021202320242025
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.

2021
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

54% of Giving Gardens of Indiana Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,373 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$5k
’21
$12k
’23
$46k
’24
$68k
’25
0.9
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

Rachel Alexander

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20242025
Listed59
Joined·+5
No longer listed·1
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $8k → $13k.

4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 Giving Gardens of Indiana 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

Giving Gardens of Indiana Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

64% 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 Giving Gardens of Indiana Inc.

55%
largest funder
89%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 49% · 2022 63% · 2023 89% — 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

64% of Giving Gardens of Indiana 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 $90k that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from Indiana funders.

IN
PA

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

’21
’22
’23
Indiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $158k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

Giving Gardens of Indiana Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.

Operating margin22% · above the median
Months of reserve0.9mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)39% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IN

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Giving Gardens of Indiana Inc: 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 Giving Gardens of Indiana Inc?
Giving Gardens of Indiana Inc (Indiana) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $248,015 to it, the largest being WHITLEY COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($135,709). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Giving Gardens of Indiana Inc have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $248,015 in grants to Giving Gardens of Indiana Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Giving Gardens of Indiana Inc?
WHITLEY COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $135,709 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Giving Gardens of Indiana Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 7 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