Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
Heroic Gardens
Heroic Gardens (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $64,809 to it, the largest being THE EDWARD R AND ELIZABETH A KOZEL FOUNDATION ($30,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $178k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $65k
- Net assets
- $51k
What Heroic Gardens does
Mission
Heroic Gardens improves the well-being of Veterans and their families through therapeutic horticulture, nature-based wellness programming, and community engagement.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Mission: Windowsill's in person Social Horticulture Therapy Classes. Heroic Gardens executed over 100 classes for over 675 Caregivers, Veterans, and health care professionals.
$110,638 spent$5,196 earned by the program68% of program spendingLand Transformations: Heroic Gardens helped Veterans improve memorial parks, museums and historic cemeteries. We executed 3 land transformations in 2025, with hundreds of native and perennial plants installed.
$40,636 spent25% of program spendingVirtual social Horticultural Therapy Classes. Heroic Gardens executed 11 virtual programs for 298 Veterans. In addition, over 800 hands-on program kits were mailed directly to Veterans' homes.
$7,377 spent5% of program spendingHeroic Gardens opened a healing farm of sunflowers to run horticultural therapy classes for the community and to serve as a Veteran workforce development initiative. In addition, 456 zip lock bags of fresh food grown in the gardens were donated to community members in 2025.
$3,892 spent2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $162,543.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2022 to 2023, from $82k to $68k (−16%).
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.
97% of Heroic Gardens’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 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
Heidi Pelczar
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $47 → $6k.
2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 Heroic Gardens’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 9 of 10 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
Heroic Gardens leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 98% · 2023 83% — 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
Heroic Gardens draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
Heroic Gardens has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,606 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,606 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Heroic Gardens
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Heroic Gardens: 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 Heroic Gardens?
- Heroic Gardens (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $64,809 to it, the largest being THE EDWARD R AND ELIZABETH A KOZEL FOUNDATION ($30,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Heroic Gardens have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $64,809 in grants to Heroic Gardens, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Heroic Gardens?
- THE EDWARD R AND ELIZABETH A KOZEL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Heroic Gardens find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 10 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