New York · Nonprofit
MORE GARDENS FUND
MORE GARDENS FUND (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $87,531 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($45,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $92k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $88k
- Net assets
- $-84528
What More Gardens Fund does
Mission
More Gardens is a diverse coalition of community gardeners, artists, and activists committed to enhancing and preserving community gardens, farms and fallow lands in New York City and State. Rooted in earth-based art and education, we generate wellness, social justice, and abundance for low-income and immigrant communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Program 1 - UPSTATE FARMLAND & RETREAT INITIATIVE: More Gardens has acquired a ten-year lease on an 8-acres of land in the Southern Catskills and is setting up the first phase of creating a home base for our Free Nature and Farming Programs, as well as a regenerative, low-impact environmental education center for community gardeners to come to share, learn, and deepen together for the benefit of nature and social justice. As well as this bridge to the NYC urban farming, the More Gardens' Initiative aims to deliver a successful low-impact living development in New York State's Catskills, benefiting the environment and local community economy. The settlement's achievements will be utilized to multiply regenerative benefits through its use as a research and demonstration resource to promote best practices and support the development of similarly successful projects. In particular, More Gardens aims to demonstrate the viability of low-impact development as a settlement model that has the potential to rejuvenate the rural landscape and economy.
$7,250 spentof which $7,000 as grants7% of program spendingProgram 2 - EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS & INITIATIVES: ........................................................................................ A- South Bronx - Rise Up and Green the Bronx Family Programming - Mott Haven community gardeners, children, and their families. Programs create individual and group leadership skills for Bronx children and families. Upstate on Fern Dragon Farm and in Bronx Community Gardens, children and families learn organic farming techniques and increase nature awareness, nutrition, and wellness skills through art-making and games. The program grows leadership capabilities for Bronx residents, children, and young adults who want food and environmental justice for their neighborhoods. _Grant- $23,000 Expenditure- $25,000 ....................................................................................................................................................................... B - Lower East Side at Children's Magical Garden Family Programs This free camp ensures a beloved community garden serves the children who need it the most-- low-income city children who would not otherwise have access to nature. In our nature education programs, children are…
$38,000 spentof which $34,000 as grants35% of program spendingProgram 3 - ANNUAL CELEBRATIONS - More Gardens' Chaharshanbeh Suri NYC is a festival rooted in community, sharing, equity, and reverence for the earth through ritual fire jumping, art, music, food, and culture that began in the lands of West and Central Asia. This fire celebration nourishes our spirits, strengthens our connection to each other, and affirms our belonging by embracing our diverse nationalities, languages, faiths, class, genders, races, and sexual identities. We make gathering joyful through art, music, food, culture, and intergenerational sharing. We hold each other to tend the flames of love, justice, solidarity, and goodness across the planet and right here in the community green spaces of NYC.19,000 Expenses $21,000
$27,000 spentof which $26,000 as grants25% of program spending4 - ENVIRONMENTAL EARTH-BASED ARTS: Earth-based Arts. Aresh Javadi, along with help from other artists including George Hirose is working on a children's playhouse as well as educational murals. Aresh is working on willow sculptures on More Gardens farmland and in community, gardens to enhance beauty and wonder. More Gardens works with many artists to create signs, songs, and colorful pageants to increase the vibrance of community gardens and to enhance our educational programming's effectiveness.
$14,500 spentof which $12,000 as grants13% of program spending5 - THE ART & CAMPAIGNS OF NYC COMMUNITY GARDEN JUSTICE - ONLINE DATABASE: More Gardens! Is preserving, uploading, and creating historical context around pictorial and video archives to showcase the long history of the protection of community gardens to inspire the next generation of community gardeners and garden activists.
$50 spentof which $100 as grants0% of program spendingGovernors Island Defense Fund Fiscal Sponsorship
$23,000 spentof which $25,000 as grants21% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $109,800.
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 2018 to 2019, from $3k to $60k (+2171%).
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.
100% of MORE GARDENS FUND’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (92% 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.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Aresh Javadi
Executive Director
Board chair
Judith Canepa
Board President
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10 → $15k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 MORE GARDENS FUND’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
MORE GARDENS FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% 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
71% 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 MORE GARDENS FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 67% — 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.
Where its funders are
51% of MORE GARDENS FUND'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. Of the $43k that is directly attributable, 59% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $45k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
MORE GARDENS FUND has grown faster than half of the 3,152 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,152 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like MORE GARDENS FUND
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 MORE GARDENS FUND: 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 MORE GARDENS FUND?
- MORE GARDENS FUND (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $87,531 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($45,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MORE GARDENS FUND have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $87,531 in grants to MORE GARDENS FUND, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MORE GARDENS FUND?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $45,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MORE GARDENS FUND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 4 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