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Texas · Nonprofit
Houston Botanic Garden (Texas) is funded by 117 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $19,651,331 in grants to it, the largest being MELBERN G & SUSANNE M GLASSCOCK FOUNDATION ($3,435,000). 80 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Houston Botanic Garden's revenue fell 49% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,995 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
The funding model — what share of revenue comes from contributions, programs, investments and other sources — and whether it's shifting.
61% of Houston Botanic Garden’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
$13k from 3 funders in 2025, up from $469k and 14 in 2017.
10 of 117 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 Houston Botanic Garden’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 117 funders by total. Association, not causation.
Houston Botanic Garden has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 30% · 2019 23% · 2020 20% · 2021 23% · 2022 27% · 2023 17% · 2024 20% · 2025 78% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
42% of Houston Botanic Garden's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% give in more than one year at all.
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.
Houston Botanic Garden is locally rooted: 96% of its grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 117 funders put you well-backed among the 400 organizations that share them.
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
80% of spending goes to programs.
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Part of a family of 2 related entities
Every figure is 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 117funders 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. view filing