South Carolina · Nonprofit
MOORE FARMS BOTANICAL GARDEN FOUNDATION
MOORE FARMS BOTANICAL GARDEN FOUNDATION (South Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,240,182 to it, the largest being DARLA MOORE AND RICHARD RAINWATER FOUNDATION ($33,590,182). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $19M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $35M
- Net assets
- $27M
What Moore Farms Botanical Garden Foundation does
Programs
Mfbg furthers educational and scientific purposes by collecting, documenting, preserving, and displaying a wide variety of plants. In total, moore farms botanical garden has 5,551 unique living taxa on display. In addition to acting as a living, outdoor classroom for visitors, the garden functions essentially as a plant library, with the plants organized in collections, with are curated, maintained, and cataloged by a professional staff of horticulturists. Included in these individualized collections are magnolia, taxodium (bald cypress), sarracenia (pitcher plants), southern heritage plants, and species native to the state of south carolina. The magnolia collection is part of a nationally accredited, multi-site collection of 16 gardens in the plant collections network of the american public garden association, and contains 125 unique living taxa. It is one of the largest collection of magnolias in the world.
$3,530,037 spentMfbg provides a robust selection of year-round education programs and events. In first-rate educational facilities. These programs support of the organization's mission and broader horticultural interests. Programs include adult classes, professional workshops, lectures, demonstrations, tours, school field trips, family programs, youth programs, college internship and outreach. They serve thousands of visitors from all over the southeast. Mfbg's collegiate internship program provides an outstanding opportunity for qualified students to enrich their education with real world experience in the public garden sector.
$247,249 spentMfbg has an extensive public outreach program through garden tours, special events, landscaping of public spaces, off-site lectures, web page/social media, plant sales, booths at trade shows/symposia, media appearances and plant promotions. Public involvement and visitation continue to grow. Mfbg is a member of the american public garden association, south carolina landscape and nursery association, south carolina native plant society, garden club of south carolina, international rose society, south carolina beekeepers association, national wildlife federation, botanic gardens conservation international (bgci), plant collections network, international plant propagators society, american conifer society, south carolina agritourism association, arbnet, international plant propagators society, north american association of environmental educators, and the sentinel plant network. Many of staff also hold individual memberships of a number of groups and organizations as well.
$249,403 spentMfbg continues to be committed to scientific and educational research. Mfbg evaluates horticulture methods and practices for the southeast, with a particular focus on the study and evaluation of plant material suitable for southeastern us gardens, specifically those located on the coastal plain in usda zone 8, with emphasis on different varieties and cultivars of existing species and new ornamental introductions. Information is shared with other gardens, the general public, and others in the field of horticulture.
$16,585 spent
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $13M to $28M (+120%).
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 1 funder, grant income rose $1.6M → $6.0M.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 MOORE FARMS BOTANICAL GARDEN FOUNDATION’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
MOORE FARMS BOTANICAL GARDEN FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 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
100% of MOORE FARMS BOTANICAL GARDEN FOUNDATION's grant income comes from South Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M 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
MOORE FARMS BOTANICAL GARDEN FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 828 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 828 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MOORE FARMS BOTANICAL GARDEN FOUNDATION?
- MOORE FARMS BOTANICAL GARDEN FOUNDATION (South Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,240,182 to it, the largest being DARLA MOORE AND RICHARD RAINWATER FOUNDATION ($33,590,182). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MOORE FARMS BOTANICAL GARDEN FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $35,240,182 in grants to MOORE FARMS BOTANICAL GARDEN FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MOORE FARMS BOTANICAL GARDEN FOUNDATION?
- DARLA MOORE AND RICHARD RAINWATER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $33,590,182 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MOORE FARMS BOTANICAL GARDEN FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 2020–2024), 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