Florida · Nonprofit
NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC
NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC (Florida) receives grants from 249 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,308,987 to it, the largest being COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($5,574,028). 167 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $20M
- Funders on record
- 249
- Grants received
- $27M
- Net assets
- $68M
What Naples Botanical Garden Inc does
Mission
Connecting people with plants by conserving and researching biological diversity of our collections and the ecosystems of the 26 latitude, engaging our visitors in learning about and inspiring our visitors to value plants, gardens and ecosystems.
As stated on its FY2017 Form 990.
Program
Naples botanical garden creates beautiful displays highlighting rare and valuable scientific specimens, creating an environment rich with opportunities to learn. It provides formal and informal environmental education efforts for all ages, abilities and backgrounds with a goal of measurable behavior change. The entire campus is used as an outdoor classroom. Audiences include citizens, tourists, schools, community organizations, local governments, and professionals in the fields of stormwater management, land management, landscape architecture, golf course management, and homeowners' association management. Naples botanical garden develops plant-based environmental solutions for the most threatened ecosystems in florida and the tropical world. The living collection continues to grow with a focus on plan diversity, genetic diversity, known provenance (especially wild provenance), conservation status, and those that are or could be food sources. Priorities in florida include developing research-based solutions for rebuilding resilient urban forests, strenghtening beaches and landscaping for clean water.
$13,193,590 spent$3,604,445 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $13,193,590.
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 2022 to 2023, from $58M to $66M (+15%).
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 3% · 2018 2% · 2019 1% · 2021 14% · 2022 8% · 2023 5% · 2024 4% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
56% of NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Cathy Funderburg
Chair/direct
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 59 funders to 129 funders, grant income rose $1.2M → $5.2M.
23 of 249 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 NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 249 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
NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% 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
39% 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 NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 51% · 2019 20% · 2020 67% · 2021 10% · 2022 17% · 2023 43% — growing more concentrated.
“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
52% of NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC draws 66% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 33 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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
NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 210 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 210 environment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.8M on record — $249k federal, $1.5M state.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$249k
- FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE - GENERAL $765k
- STATE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE - GENERAL $750k
- INTEREST - LATE PAYMENT OF INVOICES $366
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $58
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 NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC
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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
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 NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: 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 NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC?
- NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC (Florida) receives grants from 249 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,308,987 to it, the largest being COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($5,574,028). 167 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC have?
- IRS filings report 249 organizations giving $27,308,987 in grants to NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC, 167 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC?
- COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,574,028 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC 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 249 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