Oregon · Nonprofit
LEACH GARDEN FRIENDS
LEACH GARDEN FRIENDS (Oregon) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $865,357 to it, the largest being M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST ($337,500). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $865k
- Net assets
- $852k
What Leach Garden Friends does
Mission
Leach botanical garden offers immersive, restorative, and educational experiences in a unique landscape of native plants and horticultural collections for the purpose of building community, celebrating nature, and inspiring environmental stewardship.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Botany & horticulture - this year brought many changes to the horticulture department. With the departure of head gardener scott hoelscher after 20 years of dedicated service, a major restructuring of the department was set into action. The role of head gardener was dissolved to refocus efforts in areas that have been sitting on the back burner due to lack of capacity. We now have a team of 3 year round gardeners, each with a dedicated maintenance zone. Continued on schedule o.additionally, one of these positions works as the propagator for the garden, a position that was put on hold after the previous propagator retired. After years of deferred maintenance in the nursery and greenhouse, the team is now working in earnest to make the necessary repairs and improvements to get production levels at or above where they were prior to 2021. In 2026, we hope to be growing large quantities of native plants for the garden's collections, the back 5 restoration site, as well as the gift shop. Of course, we will still offer many of the ornamental plants that people have come to associate with leach, such as jack-in-the-pulpits and trilliums. While navigating these changes, the team continued…
$464,790 spentof which $176,885 as grants$177,755 earned by the program55% of program spendingEducation - major community events by the numbers: spring equinox fair (635 guests) juneteenth community free day (1,002 guests) summer nature fair (534 guests) winter solstice (391 guests) sip & picnic (191 guests) moment (277 guests) oregon adventure theatre's "the winter's tale" (650 guests at multiple performances) renegade opera's bird songs of opera (200 guests) 105 attended an art class (drawing, watercolor, printmaking) continued on schedule o.the programs team began work on the far meadow with the first berm planting of sunflowers and other colorful pollinators, restored the play cottage with a beautiful new mural, added seating made by portland youth builders, and selected local artist rose covert to create a moongate sculptural installation. The team also hired katharine grace j. Flores as our new back 5 education & ecology manager, thanks to grant funding support from m. J. Murdock charitable trust.
$248,909 spent$33,479 earned by the program29% of program spendingVisitor services - as the garden's front door, visitor services creates the first and often most memorable connection between guests and leach botanical garden. Our team welcomes visitors from all walks of life, ensuring that everyone feels at home and that cost is never a barrier to enjoying nature, beauty and community. In fy25, the garden welcomed 33,471 total garden guests.now in its third year, garden for all remains a cornerstone of leach's mission to ensure equitable access. In fy25 alone, 1,485 guests enjoyed complimentary admission. Continued on schedule o.when combined with other free entry days, a total of around 3,600 visitors received free entry. Of all garden for all visitors to date, 75% are oregon residents, and 36% live in our neighboring southeast portland zip codes (97206, 97266, 97236). Volunteers - we currently have over 75 volunteers whose contributions are essential to having a thriving, welcoming, well maintained garden. Volunteers assist with numerous tasks, including garden maintenance, habitat restoration, event and fundraising support, gift shop sales, garden tours, serving on the leach garden friend's board, and more. We are incredibly fortunate to…
$135,614 spent16% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $849,313.
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 $555k to $2.3M (+313%).
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 16% · 2018 0% · 2019 67% · 2020 43% · 2021 47% · 2022 76% · 2023 31% · 2024 33% · 2025 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
74% of LEACH GARDEN FRIENDS’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 9 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 held at 7 funders, grant income rose $95k → $121k.
4 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 LEACH GARDEN FRIENDS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 21 of 22 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
LEACH GARDEN FRIENDS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 28% · 2019 53% · 2020 98% · 2021 55% · 2022 68% · 2023 39% — 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
15% of LEACH GARDEN FRIENDS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
LEACH GARDEN FRIENDS draws 79% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $111k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
LEACH GARDEN FRIENDS is better cushioned than half of the 1,209 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,209 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like LEACH GARDEN FRIENDS
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
59% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LEACH GARDEN FRIENDS?
- LEACH GARDEN FRIENDS (Oregon) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $865,357 to it, the largest being M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST ($337,500). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEACH GARDEN FRIENDS have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $865,357 in grants to LEACH GARDEN FRIENDS, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEACH GARDEN FRIENDS?
- M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $337,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEACH GARDEN FRIENDS 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.
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 22 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