Washington · Nonprofit
Island County Master Gardeners
Island County Master Gardeners (Washington) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $24 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($24). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $28k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $24
- Net assets
- $62k
What Island County Master Gardeners does
Mission
The Island County Master Gardener Foundations main goal is to support the WSU Master Gardener program in Island County. Volunteers conduct outreach programs sharing research-based details on sustainable gardening and environmental stewardship. Foundation funds support volunteers and ensure free programs for the public.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Island County Master Gardeners develops and maintains the Master Gardener Education Garden at Greenbank Farm. The garden promotes sustainable gardening practices through seasonal classes and themed areas showcasing various gardening techniques. Volunteers oversee the garden offering insights to visitors and maintaining features like raised beds with self-irrigation systems. Free classes during spring and summer aim to educate the public on eco-friendly gardening environmental stewardship and plant care fostering a culture of sustainability and inspiring a deeper connection with nature.
$5,731 spent82% of program spendingOur outreach program is multi-facetted. Master Gardener volunteers educate individuals on growing their own food through workshops and on-site gardening at community food gardens. For example The Lords Garden in Oak Harbor yields hundreds of pounds annually for donation to local food banks. The Coupeville Community Garden has evolved into a hub of activity offering classes and contributing its produce to the community. Master Gardener volunteers operate plant clinics at various locations including the Extension Office nurseries garden centers farmers markets and hardware stores throughout Island County. This service is provided at no cost offering science-based solutions to gardening queries. Plant clinics are typically available from spring through early fall on Whidbey and Camano Islands. In the Childrens Gardening initiative volunteers introduce young gardeners to the joys of cultivating their own food. Childrens gardens at Crescent Harbor and Olympic View Elementary School educate students on the advantages of growing food. The Junior Master Gardener program educates children in grades 3 to 5 on plants and establishing successful gardens with classes offered free of charge. In…
$679 spentof which $1,800 as grants10% of program spendingIsland County Master Gardeners supports numerous activities of the WSU Extension office. We closely collaborate with the WSU Program Coordinator prioritize initiatives and to identify and address Island Countys community needs. Our successful collaboration focuses and amplifies the positive impact that Island County Master Gardeners delivers to the countys inhabitants.
$570 spentof which $8,186 as grants8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $6,980.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $60k to $62k (+4%).
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.
76% of Island County Master Gardeners’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (92% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Island County Master Gardeners’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.
Where its funders are
100% of Island County Master Gardeners'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $24 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.
Against its field
Island County Master Gardeners runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,195 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,195 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Island County Master Gardeners
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Island County Master Gardeners: 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 Island County Master Gardeners?
- Island County Master Gardeners (Washington) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $24 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($24). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Island County Master Gardeners have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $24 in grants to Island County Master Gardeners.
- Who is the largest funder of Island County Master Gardeners?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $24 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Island County Master Gardeners find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 1 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