Oregon · Nonprofit
Lan Su Chinese Garden
Lan Su Chinese Garden (Oregon) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,161,751 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($207,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.9M
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Lan Su Chinese Garden does
Mission
The mission of Lan Su Chinese Garden is to cultivate an oasis of tranquil beauty and harmony to inspire, engage, and educate our global community in the appreciation of a richly authentic chinese culture.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Membership & programming lan su garden offers cultural programs for our visitors and members. These programs are free to visitors and members with a few special ticketed events. Lan su partners with local and regional individuals and organizations that provide over 800 free programs in the garden each year. Lan su produces several ticketed events each year. These events include cultural performances, summer concerts, and event receptions.the benefits of membership provide unlimited daytime admission for 12 months, numerous programming activities throughout the year, monthly morning and evening hours in the garden for members only, discounts at the teahouse and garden shop and a subscription to our quarterly newsletter. Members also receive advanced pre-sale access for ticketed events.
$758,533 spent37% of program spendingGarden operations lan su is primarily a visitor attraction/destination, so the physical aspect of the garden itself is paramount to our success. Known for our beautiful architecture, carefully tended landscapes of rare and culturally significant plants, and our mission of cultural education for all ages, lan su requires the dedicated resources of both staff and budget allocations to maintain the garden and structures. Additionally, to provide the more than 100,000 annual visitors with the deep cultural knowledge that lan su embodies, our 100 volunteers are led by a volunteer director and provide daily docent led tours and welcome visitors and members alike at our front entrance.
$709,330 spent$1,358,126 earned by the program35% of program spendingRetail and admissions expenses for the retail & admissions department encompass wholesale and operational costs associated with running the garden shop and all admissions and event ticketing for the garden daily. These expenses include staffing costs plus all the necessary equipment and supplies to run two pos stations as well as online and mobile ticketing platform costs. A bulk of the expenses are attributed to the purchase of wholesale merchandise for retail sale and the payment of consignment fees to artists selling through our rotating exhibition program.
$582,225 spent$271,691 earned by the program28% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,050,088.
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 2021 to 2022, from $2.8M to $3.8M (+34%).
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: 2021 13% · 2022 15% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
36% of Lan Su Chinese Garden’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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 7 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $87k → $198k.
7 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 Lan Su Chinese Garden’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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
Lan Su Chinese Garden has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% 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
47% 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 Lan Su Chinese Garden.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 54% · 2019 60% · 2020 38% · 2021 40% · 2022 18% · 2023 19% — 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
43% of Lan Su Chinese Garden's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
60% of Lan Su Chinese Garden's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $430k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
Lan Su Chinese Garden's funding base is broadening — from 7 funders to 17 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding Lan Su Chinese Garden receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $50k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$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 Lan Su Chinese Garden
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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
60% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 Lan Su Chinese Garden: 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 Lan Su Chinese Garden?
- Lan Su Chinese Garden (Oregon) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,161,751 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($207,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Lan Su Chinese Garden have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $1,161,751 in grants to Lan Su Chinese Garden, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Lan Su Chinese Garden?
- THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $207,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Lan Su Chinese Garden find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 33 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