Florida · Nonprofit
KEY WEST BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY
KEY WEST BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY (Florida) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,027,993 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE FLORIDA KEYS INC ($440,334). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $495k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Key West Botanical Garden Society does
Mission
The purpose of this organization is to preserve, develop and expand the Key West Tropical Forest and Botanical Garden as an arboretum, botanical garden, museum, wildlife refuge, habitat and educational center for threatened, endangered and endemic species of flora and fauna, both resident and migratory, of the Florida Keys, Cuba, and the Caribbean Basin; and it shall serve as a center for the study of and research into such flora and fauna so as to encourage the conservation and promote the benefits of native plants and wildlife.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Preservation: The Society preserves, develops and expands the Key West Tropical Forest and Botanical Garden as an arboretum, botanical garden, museum, wildlife refuge, habitat.
$140,137 spent42% of program spendingPublic Awareness: The Society educates the public about the threatened, endangered and endemic flora and fauna of the Florida Keys, Cuba, and the Caribbean Basin through trips to ecological destinations, a speaker series, garden tours, electronic tour guides, guide books, newsletters, and community family oriented environmental events.The Society had approximately 150 volunteers during the year who logged approximately 4,000 hours of work for the Society in many different capacities.
$130,669 spent39% of program spendingEducation: The Society educates children about the threatened, endangered and endemic flora and fauna of the Florida Keys, Cuba, and the Caribbean Basin. This education includes the importance of conservation, natural sciences, and the benefits of native plants and wildlife.
$66,287 spent20% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $337,093.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $1.1M to $1.4M (+24%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 6% · 2019 5% · 2020 7% · 2021 10% · 2022 28% · 2023 12% · 2024 15% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
57% of KEY WEST BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $106k → $95k.
4 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 KEY WEST BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY’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
KEY WEST BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
51% 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 KEY WEST BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 88% · 2019 37% · 2020 34% · 2021 40% · 2022 53% · 2023 32% — 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.
How long its funders stay
56% of KEY WEST BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
65% of KEY WEST BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $510k 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.
Against its field
KEY WEST BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY's revenue fell 53% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,606 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding KEY WEST BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $50k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$50k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like KEY WEST BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY
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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds KEY WEST BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY?
- KEY WEST BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY (Florida) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,027,993 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE FLORIDA KEYS INC ($440,334). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KEY WEST BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $1,027,993 in grants to KEY WEST BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KEY WEST BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE FLORIDA KEYS INC is the largest funder on record, with $440,334 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KEY WEST BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 15 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