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HUGHSON ARBORETUM AND GARDENS

HUGHSON ARBORETUM AND GARDENS (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $312,708 to it, the largest being MARGARET MARSH STURTEVANT CHARITABLE ARBORETUM TRUST ($312,450). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$74k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$313k
Net assets
$111k
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 84%
01What it does

What Hughson Arboretum and Gardens does

Mission

Design, plant and maintain an arboretum and garden in hughson, california to the extent of practicable, sound environmental and ecologically compatible practices.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Operate the arboretum and garden in an environmentally sound manner, which is composed of native or historic trees along with other kinds of trees and plants.

    $58,437 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $58,437.

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 ($11k) Expenses 100 ($14k) Net assets 100 ($113k)2019 Revenue 493 ($52k) Expenses 468 ($66k) Net assets 85 ($96k)2020 Revenue 455 ($48k) Expenses 334 ($47k) Net assets 86 ($97k)2021 Revenue 594 ($62k) Expenses 367 ($51k) Net assets 96 ($108k)2022 Revenue 799 ($84k) Expenses 476 ($67k) Net assets 111 ($125k)2023 Revenue 561 ($59k) Expenses 461 ($65k) Net assets 106 ($119k)2024 Revenue 567 ($60k) Expenses 492 ($69k) Net assets 97 ($110k)2025 Revenue 706 ($74k) Expenses 522 ($73k) Net assets 98 ($111k)
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Revenue (706)Expenses (522)Net assets (98)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 $108k to $125k (+16%).

$113k
$96k
$97k
$108k
$125k
$120k
$110k
$111k
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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
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of HUGHSON ARBORETUM AND GARDENS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (92% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,989 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$4k
’17
−$14k
’19
$1k
’20
$11k
’21
$17k
’22
−$6k
’23
−$9k
’24
$995
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $40k → $40k.

Funder
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'22
'23
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total
funders
1
2
2
2
2
1
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 HUGHSON ARBORETUM AND GARDENS’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

HUGHSON ARBORETUM AND GARDENS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

100%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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

HUGHSON ARBORETUM AND GARDENS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.

GA

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

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’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $258 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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

HUGHSON ARBORETUM AND GARDENS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,195 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)28% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,195 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

27%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds HUGHSON ARBORETUM AND GARDENS?
HUGHSON ARBORETUM AND GARDENS (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $312,708 to it, the largest being MARGARET MARSH STURTEVANT CHARITABLE ARBORETUM TRUST ($312,450). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HUGHSON ARBORETUM AND GARDENS have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $312,708 in grants to HUGHSON ARBORETUM AND GARDENS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HUGHSON ARBORETUM AND GARDENS?
MARGARET MARSH STURTEVANT CHARITABLE ARBORETUM TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $312,450 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HUGHSON ARBORETUM AND GARDENS find more funders?
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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 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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